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Unit Plan
Core Knowledge Foundation

Unit 7: Poetry

For Teachers 5th Standards
Over the course of a 12-lesson language arts unit, young scholars analyze a variety of poems taking a close look at figurative language and tone. They learn to compare and contrast, improve comprehension, and identify settings. To...
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Unit Plan
Core Knowledge Foundation

Unit 5: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders analyze William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, paying close attention to character development, plot, and dialogue. With daily reading and thoughtful discussion, scholars take pen to paper to respond to journal...
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Unit Plan
Core Knowledge Foundation

Unit 2: Early American Civilizations

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders explore early American civilizations in a four-week ELA unit. Every lesson offers an opportunity to read and discuss a selected passage followed by word work that covers vocabulary, grammar, and morphology. Learners write...
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Unit Plan
Core Knowledge Foundation

Unit 1: Contemporary Fiction - They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid’s Poems by David Bowles

For Teachers 5th Standards
They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems by David Bowles is the focus of a five-week language arts unit unit. Fifth graders listen to various poems and participate in thoughtful discussions, examining vocabulary and learning new words in...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Creating a Graphic Novelette and Peer Critique: Sections 2, 3, and 4

For Teachers 5th Standards
Let's get creative! With the fun resource, pupils continue working on their graphic novelettes about an invention, adding text and images to each section. When finished, they engage in a peer critique process, giving and receiving...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Final Performance Task: Presenting Graphic Novelettes

For Teachers 5th Standards
Let's get graphic. Serving as the final performance task of the unit, scholars complete their graphic novelettes and design covers based on their sketches. Finally, they present their hard work to classmates. 
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Our Group Readers Theater: Revision, Conclusion, and First Rehearsal

For Teachers 5th Standards
Revision is the key to great writing. Individuals revise their readers theater scripts and write a group conclusion. Scholars then perform their scripts for another group and receive feedback.
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Lesson Plan
National Woman's History Museum

Seneca Falls and Suffrage: Teaching Women's History with Comics

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
As part of the study of women's history, young scholars examine Chester Comix's strips about the Seneca Falls Convention and four 19th century leaders in the struggle for equal rights. After researching other elements of the Suffrage...
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Unit Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

For Teachers 5th Standards
Compare and contrast popular works of fantasy literature with an in-depth reading comprehension unit. Language arts learners study the theme of good versus evil, fantastical characters and symbols, and the value of a visual...
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Lesson Plan
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Learning to Give

Why Volunteer?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Inspire scholars to volunteer their time to make a positive change in their community. With help from research, a public speaker, and reflection, learners define and asses what it takes to be a volunteer in a business, non-profit,...
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Handout
Anchorage School District

Hints for Writing a Conclusion

For Teachers 4th - 10th Standards
Writing the conclusion of an essay can often seem like a superfluous or daunting task. Support your young writers in understanding the various types and purposes of a conclusion paragraph, such as summarizing key points of a paper or...
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Writing
John F. Kennedy Center

Writing a Myth

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Tap into the imaginative minds of young learners with a creative writing activity. After reading the myth Giants and Mosquitoes, this student guide supports young writers as they brainstorm and develop their very own creation myths....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lesson Plan 6: Introducing the Elements of Plot-Part Two

For Teachers 5th - 9th Standards
November is National Novel Writing Month, so if your young authors are embarking on this journey, be sure they understand plot elements. This collaborative lesson fits into the context of the larger NaNoWriMo project; however, the ideas...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Think of an Ending

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
Good endings are hard to find. And write. This, the final lesson in a six-part series devoted to study of the ingredients of a good story, focuses on crafting endings. Class members draft ideas about what should happen to each of their...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Newscast on the Battles of the Ironclad Ships

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders create multi-media newscasts based on their knowledge of Civil War battles of the ironclad ships.
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Lesson Plan
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: The Bouba Kiki Effect

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
It may be possible for certain symbolic characteristics, like sharpness and roundedness, to cross language barriers. For this experiment you will investigate the Bouba-Kiki Effect to find out if abstract visual properties can be linked...
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Lesson Plan
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: What Caused It?: Student Web Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Students are asked to be detectives while they read and to look for the cause/effect sentences in the paragraphs. In this lesson, students read paragraphs and answer questions about it by either typing in their responses or selecting...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Leading to Great Places in the Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
We all know that the most effective way to teach reading is to start with reading. This lesson uses that approach with writing story leads.
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing With Scientists

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
After students investigate a topic through research, hypothesizing, observing, and experimentating, teachers can use this lesson to help their students prepare short science reports and publish them online. The Writing with Scientists...
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Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Cause and Effect

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section helps students identify cause and effect in literature.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Is That Legal? A Case of Acid Rain

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
The goal of this activity is to understand how techniques of persuasion (including background, supporting evidence, storytelling and the call to action) are used to develop an argument for or against a topic. Students develop an...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Metamorphosis Stories of Change

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
The goal of this activity is for students to learn how to tell a story in order to make a complex topic (such as global warming or ozone holes) easier for a reader to grasp. Students realize that the narrative impulse underlies even...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Descriptive Sensory Writing

For Teachers 5th Standards
In this lesson, 5th graders will engage in descriptive writing. Students will improve a piece of writing by using precise word choices that are full of sensory word choices.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on writing conclusions; it lists and defines the parts of a conclusion: thesis recap, blueprint recap, and clincher and provides a sample of an effective conclusion with the parts labeled. It also offers a slideshow...