Magazine Lesson Plans

Learners read Ladybug magazine and develop reading skills. In this teacher's guide from the March 2006 issue, students complete pre-, during, and post-reading activities to increase fluency, vocabulary development, and comprehension.

Students participate in read-alouds, shared reading, guided reading, listening activities, vocabulary and word recognition to aid comprehension. In this reading strategies lesson plan, students use graphic organizers, paragraph writing and act out parts of poems to build a better understanding of the text.

Young scholars explore the topic of winter. In this teacher's guide for Ladybug, students brainstorm, visualize winter, read stories, and identify vocabulary from the magazine. Young scholars increase text-to-text, text-to-world, and text-to-self connections.

Students cut up magazines and newspapers to create an American flag collage -- a visual essay of their thoughts about "What America Means to Me."

Students participate in activities based on readings in Appleseeds magazine.  In this making predictions instructional activity, students read articles about the future and complete a KWL on the future.  Students discuss vocabulary from the articles and make predictions about the future.

Seventh graders examine the components and structure of magazines. In groups they develop a magazine based on the novel of their choice. Comic strips and promotional advertisements about the novels are included in the magazine. Students design and give an oral presentation about their magazine.

Third graders complete activities in which they discover powder magazines and the history of South Carolina. They practice using new vocabulary and complete a worksheet after visiting the museum. They examine how families and communities worked together in the past.

Seventh graders explore print-type literature through magazines. They locate various articles using magazines or the internet. Students read and analyze a variety of magazine articles and they write an article.

Students construct questions about a topic in order to focus research and collect specific information to answer the questions. They also survey the front cover of his or her magazine to generate and record questions that he or she thinks might be answered in the magazine article and take their magazines to comfortable locations in the room.

Students use various reading strategies to enhance comprehension. In this jobs lesson plan, students read the article from Ladybug Magazine and use before reading, during reading and after reading comprehension strategies.