Language Arts Lesson Plans

Examine the phenomenon of El Niño and its impact on the environment. Using social studies, language arts, and science, learners will develop a news story on past occurrences of El Nino, its global effect on weather patterns, predictions for the current El Niño, and precautions to take at the national and local level. This is an interactive problem solving activity that incorporates multiple subjects with technology. Links, handouts, and resources are included.

Lead your language arts class in a discussion about rewriting a historical fact. Reading an article, they discover how some deny the Holocaust ever occured. They research claims, events and organizations associated with dening the Holocaust, as well as summarizing the informaiton that they find. They write letters to the editor sharing their reactions.

I love lessons that cross the curicullum! Here is a terrific lesson on the wetland environments found in Louisiana that incorporates environmental studies with math, visual art, and language arts. Students create pieces of work that include an acrostic poem, a graph, some hand-drawn pictures, and a written essay explaining why the wetlands of Louisiana should be protected. An excellent lesson!

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.

The US mint has created this fabulous lesson plan, which practices language arts and mathematics skills. Learners will use the provided worksheets and step-by-step instructions to experiment with different sentence structures, use various parts of speech to write sentences, as well as use their addition and multiplication skills to compute sentence values. What a lesson plan packet!

Using technology skills and software from Microsoft, middle schoolers can make a variety of videos and presentations from this thorough list of topics. Mathematics, geography, language arts, history, and science lessons prompt young filmmakers to employ their talents in various projects.

After reading, It Looked Like Spilt Milk, by Charles G. Shaw, primary students will participate in a multimedia approach for a hands-on science lesson which develops an awareness of weather, clouds, and the sky above. Math, language arts and science objectives are addressed throughout the lesson. Tip: The recommended book could be replaced with a similar story.

8th graders engage in an interdisciplinary instructional activity about advertising through integration with music, science, mathematics, visual art, drama-theater, and language arts. They write advertising jingle lyrics in English language arts or music class and compose the music for their jingles in music class to market original products that they create in science class. Tip: This concept can be adapted to a variety of scenarios.

Doo-Wop Pop, by Roni Schotter is story that focuses on music and performing arts. Language arts activities include phonics, music, writing about dreams, poetry, and writing a letter are included in this literature guide. Furthermore there are suggestions for performance and visual arts activities including listening to songs, moving to songs, creating songs, drawing, and performing their own talent show!

Explore figurative language with your secondary students. Extending a language arts unit, the lesson plan prompts middle schoolers to examine how an author's word choice establishes a story's tone, possibly using metaphors, similes, onomatopoeia, alliteration, and personification. They can then develop their own plots using sensory language.