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The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 15 multiple choice questions about Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Transportation Unit
Students maintain a journal and write about various types of transportation. In this transportation lesson, students write using flash cards to describe vehicles. Students listen to stories and sing a song about transportation.
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TV Talks, We Listen?
Students recognize and analyze the link between advertisements and commercial programs as well as their influence on the audience. In this television and advertisement analysis lesson plan, students watch television to research the...
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Free Verse Poems
The opening slide in this presentation defines free verse poems. The three subsequent slides demonstrate how personal experience can be used as the basis for a free verse poem.
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Lift and Drag: Principles of Flight and the Soaring Imagination
Students construct models of early gas balloons and gliders. In this balloon and glider lesson, students create models of early gas balloons and gliders, discover how the forces of lift and drag effect aircraft in flight, and put on...
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Helicopters
Using this reading passage relating to helicopters, students can practice comprehension and vocabulary skills. Because of the novel aspect of the topic, learners should enjoy reading the story and answering the 10 questions that follow.
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Pilots
Students read books, learn about the letter p, and have 'p' snacks all to learn about pilots. Students also pretend to fly and draw what they would see if they were flying up in the air.
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Transportation
Students explore basic transportation vehicles, specifically air, land, and water vehicles, name six different modes of transportation, identify four different kinds of train cars, and three differences between two different modes of...
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Fly Away Into Reading
Students complete repeated readings of the same passage in order to increase their reading fluency and comprehension. They listen as the teacher reads both with and without fluency to hear the difference. Working in small groups, they...
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What if Amelia Earhart had Turned Around?
Students discuss an article in USA Today in which Gregg Zoroya proposes his theory about what happened to Amelia Earhart. In this reading comprehension and Amelia Earhart lesson, students read an article in USA Today that proposes a...
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Actions in Progress
For this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a passage about an airport and answer short answer, matching, and multiple choice questions. Students complete 3 activities.
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The Letter Aa
Students explore letter Aa. In this letter recognition lesson, students participate in country, state, food, literature, physical education, colors, careers, music, and game activities that are linked to the main lesson page....
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Transportation
Students learn all about how people and products get from place to place.
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Meet Louis Prima!
Students discover the difference in major and minor tonality after a brief introduction to Louis Prima. They discuss swing dancing and Louis Prima's role in the "Jungle Book" as the character King Louis. Students listen to the song...
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Understanding Folklife and Folklore
Student examine the basic characteristics of folklore. In this folklore lesson, students complete activities to identify two kinds of folk, folk groups, and folklife. Students list daily activities in their home, identify folk groups...
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Faulty Powers?
Students explore the White House response to Richard A. Clarke's testimony and apology to the commission investigating the events of September 11, 2001.
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Pictographic Poetry of Current Events
Students discuss recent currents events as a class. Using one of the events, they write a poem about how they feel about the event in question. They choose specific symbols that relate to event and write a poem about it as well. They...
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Mrs. Baig is Missing
Young scholars help create a story with illustrations using GarageBand, Kidspiration, Keynote, and the book Miss Nelson is Missing as a basis. This four-day project culminates with the presentation of the final product to the class.
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Following Directions
Pupils identify and descibe how to follow directions in detail. Then, they create and construct something requiring them to read directions. Students explain what they would do if they were driving to a particular place, but did not have...
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Museum World War II Crossword Puzzle
In this historical worksheet, students will solve a very difficult crossword puzzle. All information pertains to the Airborne and Special Operations Museum.
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Prepositions of Place, Position, or Direction
In this grammar instructional activity, students identify the correct preposition in parentheses in twenty sentences that makes each one grammatically correct.
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Correct Prepositions: Place or Position or Direction
In this prepositions worksheet, students read 20 sentences that have multiple choices of prepositions. Students select the correct preposition for each sentence.
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That's Not a Noun!
In this nouns and verbs worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 12 sentences with a word from the word bank that is commonly used as a verb, but may also be a noun.
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Adjective Clause and Comma Practice
In this adjective clause and comma learning exercise, students review the basic rules of adjective clauses and comma usage. They apply the rules as they underline the adjective clauses, circle the nouns that the clauses describe, and add...