With Kara Dioguardi's, help Elmo learns about pasta. He identifies fettuccine, fusilli, and rigatoni as pasta. It's a tantalizing exploration.

Fourth graders put elbow macaroni where commas and quotation marks are supposed to be in sentences. In this punctuation lesson plan, 4th graders use the pasta to define where punctuation is missing in sentence strips.

For this customized handwriting:  pasta worksheet, 1st graders change style, text and font, then print the worksheet to practice printing and color the picture of pasta.

Students are exposed to a part of Italian little "c": Cuisine. They learn the different kinds of pasta and some ingredients to make the sauce.

Third graders read the story STREGA NONA together as a class and discuss what they know about pasta. They each receive pieces of pasta to glue down on construction paper and write beneath each one what they think it looks like.