Ashoka
A Toolkit for Promoting Empathy in Schools
Instill kindness with a unit all about empathy. Lessons and activities follow a prepare, engage, reflect, and action sequence. Learning experiences include making the classroom a safe environment, peer-invented handshakes, discussions...
Anti-Defamation League
Teens, Tech, Connect: How Technology Impacts Teenagers' Friendships
To understand their time spent online, class members chart their use of technology during early morning hours, during school, after school, in the evenings, and on weekends. They then read several reports about how social media...
Curated OER
Back to School Writing
Learners compile a daily journal to improve their writing skills. In this writing skills lesson, students use a picture to help them write on a daily basis. Learners write reflectively each day to improve their writing skills.
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Dive In Journal Writing Activity
In this journal writing worksheet, students pretend they are on vacation exploring a Coral Reef. They describe what they would see on the journal pages, using as many as they need. They make a cover, draw a picture that goes with their...
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Long u With Silent e Writing Activities
In this long u with silent e writing instructional activity, 1st graders look at 5 pictures, say their names, write them or make sentences with the words. They draw 2 pictures of items that are named using the spelling pattern.
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ESL Vocabulary and Writing: Family
In these English Language vocabulary and writing worksheets, students use the pictures to help identify the family words and then write a sentence for each word.
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ESL Vocabulary and Writing: School
In these English Language vocabulary and writing worksheets, learners identify the school related vocabulary words for each picture and then write a sentence for each word.
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ESL Vocabulary and Writing: Food
In these English Language vocabulary and writing worksheets, students use the pictures to identify the food vocabulary words and then write a sentence for each word.
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ESL Vocabulary and Writing: Animals
In these English Language vocabulary and writing worksheets, students identify the animal vocabulary word using the pictures and write a sentence for each word.
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ESL Vocabulary and Writing: Numbers
In these English Language worksheets, students use the number pictures to help them identify the number words and then write a sentence for each word.
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How to Write A+ Essays!
This instructional activity, which promises to improve the essays of your middle schoolers, contains a list of characteristics an essay should include. It breaks it down into the introduction, thesis statement, body, etc. There's also a...
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Writing Limericks
Eighth graders compose or create works of communication for specific audiences and purposes. They locate, access, and select relevant information from a variety of sources. They revise and edit their work to improve content, organization...
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Lesson Plan 12: Writing With All Your Senses
What does an ice cream sundae sound like? Challenge young writers to move beyond visual descriptions and craft details that appeal to all five senses. The examples provided by the script in this resource show pupils how to create rich...
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Think About Fun Activities
Are your young writers beginning to write full sentences? Have them use this spacing sheet to help make letter size and spacing easier. They get to write about their favorite activities!
Classroom Jr.
George Washington Story Starter
Imagine traveling back in time and having the opportunity to meet the very first president of the United States, what would you do? Challenge the imagination and creative writing skills of young learners with this fun writing prompt.
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Writing a News Story
Students practice using their target language by writing a news article. In this foreign language writing lesson, students create a fictional "hero" in their city which they write a fictional news article about in their new...
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Washington Writing Worksheet
In this Washington activity learning exercise, learners draw a picture of something state-related and then write about the picture that they drew on the lines provided.
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Georgia Alphabet Activity
For this alphabet activity worksheet, learners read the words related to the state of Georgia. Students then write the 10 words in alphabetical order.
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Developing Your Writing Voice
Developing a distinctive voice is a challenge all writers face. Here’s a presentation that defines the parts of voice (attitude, syntax, diction) and then asks viewers to engage in a series of activities designed to model how to develop...
Teacher’s Pet Publications
A Common Core Approach to Teaching Of Mice and Men
Whether or not your school/state has adopted the Common Core standards, you will want to add this resource to your Of Mice and Men curriculum materials. The chapter-by-chapter activities ask readers to provide evidence from the novella...
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"I" Witness to History
Young journalists write diary entries from the point of view of a person involved in a historical event. They focus on including facts, clear narration, and accurate description of the individual's feelings.
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Become a Journalist
Explore the newspaper as a unique entity with a detailed and extended unit. The unit requires learners to consider the newspaper's role in democracy, think about ethics, practice writing and interviewing, and examine advertising and news...
Film English
Mixtape
A short film about music is the inspiration for a well-sequenced lesson that includes discussion, group work, and writing. After the whole class converses about music, small groups write narratives about a still from the film. Pupils...
Santa Ana Unified School District
Getting to the Core: Early American Poets
How do poets convey emotion and represent their views of life? Pupils learn more about Whitman and Dickinson through the unit and analyze their bold reinvention of craft and style for poets to come. Looking at classic pieces such as...
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