Elementary Language Arts Lesson Plans

Young scholars 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.

2-3rd graders listen to the story, Lemonade for Sale, by Stuart J. Murphy. In the story, children produce and sell lemonade to raise money for their clubhouse, create a product, classify the resources used in production as natural resources, capital resources, or human resources.  Mathematics and language arts are integrated as they graph the lemonade sales and create an advertisement for lemonade. Note: The ideas presented could be applied to another "like" topic.

Students explore language arts by participating in an interactive computer activity. In this vowel lesson plan, students identify what a vowel is, how they are used in the English language and where they can be found in the story Iggy Piggy's Lid. Students collaborate in groups and create a vowel flip book using educational software.

Have your 4th graders evaluate language arts by writing a biographical piece. Using this famous American lesson, 4th graders will utilize the web and encyclopedias to investigate a famous American and his or her contributions to the United States. They will also create a biographical essay regarding their person and a poster which illustrates their man or woman.

Bring out the inner artist with this Abraham Lincoln lesson. Elementary students work on a home project creating a hat similar to Abraham Lincoln's hat. They will use geometry and measurement to create the scale of the hat, then construct it. This fascinating lesson covers many areas of the curriculum; art, history, mathematics and language arts. Great for all ages.

Students explore language arts by creating a booklet in class. In this word sounds lesson, students discuss the properties of phonetics and how individual letters complete a larger sound. Students utilize Kidspiration software to create images which are used in a booklet which demonstrates sounds in spoken words.

Kindergartners explore language arts by analyzing a told story in class. They listen as the teacher reads the story Boomer, later they identify the characters, settings, and conflict. In the end, they identify the key events in the story by creating visual references using educational software.

Students explore language arts by utilizing computers with Internet access. In this poetry analysis lesson, students utilize the program Dropbox to view a list of different poems in which they analyze the form and techniques of the poets. Students write their own poetry and share it with the class.

Students participate in a cross-age reading program. In this language arts lesson, students choose a class of younger children and read them the book The Legend of the Bluebonnet. Students reflect upon their service project in a journal.