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Language Arts Lesson Plans
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Genres are introduced through a library-based language arts lesson that will be used throughout the year. These are organized according to poetic and prose genres. 5th graders begin by creating a spreadsheet to track the different genres of books they read throughout the school year. By using their spreadsheet, they will be able to determine their progress of reading through the required expectations.
After listening to the story, "Oh the Places You'll Go," by Dr. Seuss, and discussing the multiple meanings of the vocabulary words, 3rd graders wil participate in a language arts unit, consisting of 11 (45 minute) lessons. Learners will write in their journals, create hot air balloons, and study a map. Additionally, they will study vocabulary and rhyming words, create a brochure, and make kazoo style instruments. Adaptation: Any grade level
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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, then create a product and classify the resources used in production as natural resources, capital resources, or human resources. Mathematics and language arts are integrated as learners graph the lemonade sales and create an advertisement for lemonade. Note: The ideas presented could be applied to another "like" topic.
After reading, "It Looked Like Spilt Milk," by Charles G. Shaw, primary students will paticipate 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.
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8th graders engage in an interdisciplinary lesson 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.
This lesson has students participate in language arts, visual arts, and performance arts activities based on the book Doo-Wop Pop. In this Doo-Wop Pop lesson plan, students do many activities after reading the book. Language arts activities include phonics, music, writing about dreams, poetry, and writing a letter. Performance and visual arts activities include listening to songs, moving to songs, create their own songs, drawing, and performing their own
In this lesson 8th graders define specific terminology related to the Holocaust. In this language arts lesson, 8th graders write a speech using the new learned vocabulary words. They write poetry as they practice the correct form and technique while using their vocabulary correctly.
In this engaging language arts lesson, 5th graders play a class game which teaches how to use a thesaurus, and reinforces the concept of synonyms. A student comes up and faces the class while the teacher writes a word on the board. This lesson has 5th graders use their thesauruses in order to find synonyms to the word on the board. They give the student clues to see is he/she can guess what word is written on the board behind them. A good game!
In this lesson students investigate language arts by reading poetry. In this creative writing lesson, students read the famous poem "Casey at the Bat" and view a video of the poem being read. In this lesson students analyze the poem and create their own video presentation to share with the class.
In this engaging language arts lesson, 5th graders focus on prepositions and prepositional phrases. 5th graders play a game of charades. The clues are based on maps that they have drawn out of a hat, and describe how to get to a certain location in a town. Fun lesson!
