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Elementary Language Arts Lesson Plans
Find teacher approved Elementary Language Arts lesson plan ideas and activities
Students read a newspaper, then draw a picture.
Students recognize the difference between fact and opinion. Using a Venn Diagram, students compare and contrast two stories. In groups, students create a character and write a part for a play. They share their creation with others by performing the play.
After a pre-reading activity, students read a novel about violence prevention. After reading, students divide into groups and discuss the novel's content. They then create a powerpoint slideshow outlining the novel using graphics, audio effects and text excerpts.
In this lesson students explore stereotyping and discrimination by create a 3 dimensional piece of artwork. In this literacy/stereotyping lesson, students listen to the book Dragon of Brog, in which mythical characters experience discrimination. In this lesson students sculpt a magical character out of plasticene and write a related description of this character.
The goals of the unit will be that the students will apply critical thinking skills to make links between wide selections of reading to their personal lives. This will establish a new enthusiasm in the spirit of the students to search for their cultural identity through reading. Next, the students will respond to literary pieces from different times and places, and observe major cultural influences.
This lesson has learners incorporate writing into their physical education class. In groups, they unscramble a list of words related to exercise and use them in their journal writings. Using their name, they write one word related to physical activity that begins with each letter of their name. To end the lesson, they are given the setting, theme or characters of a story and are to identify the novel and jump through the hula hoop.
This lesson has learners calculate the area of a circle. In this geometry lesson, learners identify the radius and diameter of a circle. They measure frisbees and find their circumference and area.
Students study biology. In this plant comparison lesson, students explore the characteristics of various plants. They work as a class to compare and contrast samples of plants. This lesson includes printable note-taking guides and worksheets.
