Missouri Department of Elementary
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: A Basic Skill
Imagine seventh graders developing a school wide plan to promote respect in their school. That's the vision behind the second lesson in the R-E-S-P-E-C-T series. In preparation for designing a school-wide media campaign, class members...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Story Writing With Arthur
This series of 12 downloadable activities teach students some basics of story writing, using books or videos from the PBS "Arthur" series as a springboard. Activities include creating story maps, asking questions about characters and...
Other
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant: Occasions for Thesis/support Essays
The basic thesis/support pattern promotes clear, systematic thinking on a single subject and can, therefore, be helpful whenever you want to set forth ideas and facts in an efficient, orderly way.
Other
Zut!: Interactive French Activities
This site provides activities for teaching and learning French organized by level. Basic lessons include learning to talk about oneself and numbers; more advanced lessons cover contemporary France, immigration, the distribution of wealth...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Fiction Writing Basics
This resource discusses some terms and techniques that are useful to the beginning and intermediate fiction writer, and to instructors who are teaching fiction at these levels. W.11-12.3a Narratives
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Write a Program to Do Piecewise Functions
A fun activity to help students learn how to graph a piecewise function and learn how to write a BASIC program. Gives a sense of Accomplishment.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Success Skills: Writing in College
Although this lesson focuses on college writing, it fits perfectly into the high school curriculum without being too difficult to understand. It provides types of essay writing assignments and how to handle each, strategies for writing...
Joe Landsberger
Study Guides & Strategies: Writing Basics
This site by University of St. Thomas focuses on the basics for writing any paragraph. It is developed in outline fashion and is very easy to follow. This site provides a basic overview of the process of writing without going into a...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Draw a Math Story From the Concrete to the Symbolic
Contains plans for four cross-curricular lessons that ask young scholars to write simple addition and subtraction stories after reading a number of models. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links...
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Fragments and Run Ons
What are sentence fragments and run-on sentences? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Provides techniques for avoiding fragments and run-ons in writing assignments.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Learning Vocabulary Down by the Bay
Contains plans for six lessons that teach students Dolch high-frequency sight words using songs and activities. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Defining and Exploring an Author's Stylistic Choices
Contains plans for two lessons that teach students how to recognize an author's use of style in literature. These plans use "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston as an example, but the basic ideas can be adapted to other...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Whole to Parts Phonics Instruction: Letter Sound Correspondences
Contains plans for two lessons that use the whole-to-parts phonics approach to beginning reading. It uses onset and rime to group word families and spelling patterns to show sounds in context. In addition to objectives and standards,...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Grammar: Voice
This lesson focuses on active and passive voice including how to identify each, how to change passive to active voice, and when passive voice is appropriate.
NumberNut
Number Nut: Numbers and Counting: Writing 0 9
Learn how to write the numbers 0 to 9. Then play the two interactive number recognition games.
NumberNut
Number Nut: Writing 0 9
A simple lesson giving instructions on how to write numbers from zero to nine. Writing examples provided as well as links to related counting and number identification games. Both games are interactive and easy to grasp. Activities best...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Couch Potato or Inertia Victim?
Students design a simple behavioral survey, and learn basic protocol for primary research, survey design and report writing. Note: The literacy activities for the Mechanics unit are based on physical themes that have broad application to...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Thinking Skills
In this self-guided course, you will be looking at several pieces of literature in many different forms. This unit will teach you some principles of thinking and learning and how to use basic literary terms in the analysis of literature....
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Ntcm: Math Challenge: Perplexing Percentages
Test your bargin shopping skills by figuring out which discount offers the greatest savings. A one page activity from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families series that focuses on understanding and calculating percentages. Connections...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Growing Readers and Writers With Help From Mother Goose
Contains plans for short, daily minilessons that use nursery rhymes to teach basic reading skills. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and...
ACT360 Media
Writing Den: Parts of a Sentence
Explore the world of "Parts of a Sentence." Find out about adjectives, nouns, prepositions and more. This site features an overview of each part of speech.
PBS
Pbs: Misunderstood Minds
A wonderful spotlight on scientific explanations behind learning differences and strategies to aid success in school. Includes profiles of the students in the documentary as well as interactive activities designed to give site visitors a...
Other
National Council of Teachers of English: Teaching With Blogs
Reading and writing texts online are basic skills that students need to be literate citizens in today's world. Teaching with blogs provides the opportunity to engage students in both of these literacy activities, and the strategy has the...
Other
Amnesty International Kids
Delve into the world of Amnesty International Kids in English or Spanish. This site introduces you to "the basics" of Amnesty International. It gives you a letter writing guide and some other activities to hook into.