"How can a few good words save a pig's life?" Posed with this question, your ELD students explore E.B. White's Charlotte's Web in a meaningful, valuable way. By analyzing specific word choice from the book, especially the excerpts...

Designed to encourage readers to consider both sides of of the question of whether Ender is responsible for the death of all the buggers, individuals search for examples from Orson Scott Card's popular science fiction novel, Ender's Game...

Students analyze the text in Charlotte's Web. For this language arts lesson, students dissect the passages from Charlotte's Web, specifically the adjectives Charlotte used to describe Wilbur. Finally, students play a game using "word...

The options are vast with this Ancient Greece and Olympics research project! Using Scholastic online resources, historians have interactive and educational supports to guide them through researching and writing about the 2004 Olympics in...

A must-have resource for classes that engage in debate, this packet contains 20 detailed plans for debate games and activities. Everything from how to select evidence to support a position, to structuring a debate on which candy bar is...

Helen Lester's wonderfully wacky, Tacky and the Winter Games, is the core text featured in a resource packet that includes a prediction exercise, an activity menu, vocabulary flash cards, and book review worksheet. A great way to cheer...

Students identify and define new words as they are introduced to specific trees, leaves, animals and animal habitats, engage in literacy-related play by playing games that focus on animals and trees mentioned in book, A Tree for Me, and...

Youngsters explore visual arts by participating in a geometry identification activity. They read the book The Very Busy Spider and identify the techniques spiders use to create webs. Have you ever noticed that their webs are geometric...

Students explain the role of soil in the food web. In this agriculture lesson, students create a food web identifying how all items relate to soil, students play a game showing how interconnected the food web is, and they explain how...

Students play the game "Change It" and practice making words from phonic monster cards. In this "Change It" lesson plan, students read words and phrases that are used as functional print with visual cues. Students respond to icons,...

ESL students practice saying and spelling consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words. In this spelling lesson, students play a board game that requires them to look at a picture and say then spell the word pictured. The first student to the...

Students practice saying and spelling long vowel "bossy E" words. In this spelling lesson, students play a board game that requires them to look at a picture, say and spell the word. The first person to the end wins.

Learners say and spell vowel digraphs by playing a board game. In this vowel digraphs lesson plan, students make a single sound with 2 vowels.

Who knew determining author's purpose could be turned into a game? Four teams compete to correctly identify the author's purpose for writing a series of passages.

Know that feeling when walking into a spider's web? Feel it from the other end! Scholars learn about the body parts of a spider and the specific spiders known as orb-weavers. Groups play a game to figure out how a spider finds its food...

Young scholars investigate the food chain by researching the Internet.  For this ecosystem lesson, students view the video "Competitor and Predator" and read a book from the series "The Magic School Bus."  Young scholars...

Students download from a website to learn about digraphs. In this digraphs lesson, students download a digraphs game to practice digraphs. 

Students write an article or an editorial about the situation of Cleveland-area schools instituting policies to restrict seating at night football games. Students research their own school policy, as well as other school policies.

In this research skills instructional activity, students match web address extensions with the country represented by researching on the Internet.

Students complete reading Because of Winn-Dixie individually or as a class. As students reunite Opal and Winn-Dixie in this timed reading comprehension maze game, they demonstrate their understanding of the novel's plot, theme, and...

Students explore how interactive Web sites support live sports programming, and then design Internet sites that provide interactive support for a favorite television program. They present their mock ups to the class.

Practice r-controlled vowel sounds and words with a series of phonics activities. Ranging from straightforward instruction sheets to a fun rhyming story about video games, the exercises will interest all of your learners, regardless of...

Students practice their listening comprehension by playing the "telephone" game.  In this foreign language lesson, students listen to a story read by a teacher in their target language and try to remember the details by writing 5...

Students practice discovering a target language by playing a game of Jeopardy.  In this foreign language lesson plan, students utilize their target language vocabulary to answer Jeopardy style questions they prepared the day before....