Language Arts Lesson Plans

Explore language arts by reading two similar stories in class in order to compare and contrast. Young readers will read two Aunt Isabel books by Kate Duke and discuss the main characters, plot, and setting. They complete a graphic organizer about the stories and illustrate their own depictions of the story. In the end, they will understand the construction behind a good tale.

Use this language arts and math activity to practice writing across the curriculum. Working independently to create math problems based on the novel Brian's Winter, young readers create a five-problem math worksheet that will be shared with their classmates with Microsoft Word. The activity addresses several research standards, including evaluating validity of information and identifying conflicting information.

Bring multi-cultural experiences and literature into your language arts class with this lesson plan. Here, young readers explore the points of view of first and second-generation Asian immigrants with a list of various fiction and nonfiction novels. They comapre the similarities or differences to American literature that deals with the issue of coming to age. A reading chart and several online resources could be helpful in the lesson plan.

Students discover the art of poetry by reading a book with their classmates.   In this language arts lesson, students read the book Just Around the Corner, and write a poem based on a canine character from the book.  Students identify several tips and tricks to enhance their poetry writing abilities before they share their work with the class.

Students examine animal adaptations in this hands-on, technology-based Science lesson for upper elementary classes. The lesson includes adaptations for use in Language Arts and Art classrooms and an animal adaptation observation form.

Students investigate language arts by completing a postcard activity. In this oral storytelling lesson, students discuss one of their grandparent's famous stories and contrast their own life with an elder by utilizing a Venn diagram. Students create a scrapbook using images and mementos related to their grandparents and write them an electronic postcard.

First graders incorporate many language arts and writing skills in odrer to write a story about what they have learned in First Grade. They write a rough draft, make corrections, and create a final copy which has correct spelling and punctuatuion.

Twelfth graders identify satire in various fictional texts.  In this language arts lesson plan, 12th graders will learn to define satire, parody, and caricature. Students will identify different forms of satire in historical and modern-day texts, analyze the meaning of various satires, and complete a worksheet on the use of satire to convey meaning.

Students investigate writing that we read daily by analyzing advertisements and articles.  In this language arts lesson, students discuss the images and writing they see daily, where it comes from, and what it represents.  Students explore games that can enhance their reading abilities such as reading bumper stickers or playing "I Spy."

Students explore language arts by participating in a newspaper analysis activity. For this journalism lesson, students identify how newspapers present stories, who is writing them and how they can obtain information from them. Students use a list to find items in the newspaper such as comics, weather and sports and circle them after they are located.