Students complete multiple lessons to study various literature including poetry, fiction, tall tales, and phrases. In this literature lesson, students complete six lessons about poetry, fiction, and idioms.

Students listen to tapes of animal sounds while they hold up a puppet of the correct animal. They perform different sounds to their classmates in which they have a chance to guess. Using a Venn Diagram, they compare and contrast the...

Fourth graders read Hesse's "Out of the Dust". They respond to questions about the novel and write a free-verse poem modeled after the author's.

Students explore the natural history of arctic Alaska through lecture and discussion. They write poems and complete research papers about Arctic animals.

Students examine different portrayals of African American women in poems and plays. Individually, they identify the character they want to play and reject the others. After acting out the scene, they hopefully realize that their...

Students explore ethical systems. Students read fairy tales and Bible stories to identify examples of ethical systems. Students brainstorm and discuss movies, songs and poems that exemplify ethical system.

Learners explore the major systems and functions of the human body. In this anatomy lesson, students make life-size outlines of bodies, diagram body systems, and present their work to their classmates.

Second graders write a dinosaur poem using information from a research activity. In this dinosaur poetry and music lesson, 2nd graders listen to the book Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp in music class. They work in small groups to...

First graders practice oral and silent reading using beginning  comprehension and decoding strategies. For this guided reading lesson, 1st graders take a picture walk and make plot predictions prior to reading the book Rain by...

Students explore how poems represent the social, historical, and cultural times that they were written in. In this poetry lesson plan, students compare and contrast poems with music of the time and explore implications of writing poems...

Learn more about the work of Gwendolyn Brooks with a language arts lesson. Young learners read an informational passage about the acclaimed poet before attempting a shape poem of their own.

Students read the book Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars about space. In this space lesson plan, students make their own poetry book about space.

In these language arts worksheets, learners will analyze the poem "Trees" by Sara Coleridge. Students will then read about and color nine different types of trees.

Students count money using only coins.  In this money lesson, students read Bennies Pennies, practice counting the pennies in the story and are then introduces to the different coins, penny, nickel, dime and quarter.  Students...

Young scholars explore their feeling on love. They write down their feelings and talk about love and infatuation and what the differences are. Students study the Ladder of Love and write a love poem of their own. They identify the...

In this music activity, students locate twelve terms about folk music in a word puzzle. They also investigate and list local folk songs.

Students become fluent readers by assessing the strategy of visualization to visualize each event in a story. They use imagery to visualize all types of literature. Each student receives a copy of "Sideways Stories from Wayside School,"...

For this star clusters worksheet, students use the library and Internet to complete information about the Pleiades star cluster. They use a given photograph to answer questions about the number of stars in the cluster, the distance...

Students orally tell different types of stories using the assistance of props. For more advanced students, stories may be told according to a specific genre, or the story may have to include a given condition, setting, situation or theme.

Sixth graders participate in a brainstorming activity in which they identify the types of decisions they make everyday. Individually, they complete a worksheet on making decisions effectively. After reading a poem, they identify the...

Twelfth graders examine  local, state, and/or national animal welfare organization.  For this Social Studies lesson, 12th graders research their identified organization.  Students develop a planned intervention...

Students discover the importance of seeds in relationship to nature.  In this plant growth lesson plan, students create a collection of seeds and discover the best type of environment to plant them.  Students plant their own...

Eighth graders write a poem that introduces them to their class. In this poetry writing instructional activity, 8th graders use the format for the 'All About Me Poem" to write a poem about themselves and use it as get-to-know-you activity.

Students identify different types of literary terms in poems. They read different poems and create a packet summarizing them. They write a poem of their own and a biography of one of their favorite poets.