How can you tell if a text is descriptive, informative, instructional or persuasive? This BBC Skillswise tutorial teaches you how with a factsheet, worksheet, quiz, and game.

At the most basic level a cinquain is a five line poem or stanza. Here are two variations. Lesson plan indicated for 1st grade and above.

This activity and discussion guide uses the book "Picture Day Perfect" to teach multiple common core state standards for language arts. Included in this lesson are discussion questions, a craft project, printable worksheets, and an...

Students will use words acquired through reading to describe images (with adjectives) that demonstrate an understanding of characters in a story. The teacher will read Miss Nelson is Back which has great descriptors and will hold a class...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This fairy tale resource features activities, bar graphs, word searches, crossword puzzles and more. Teachers can print out many of these materials quickly and easily.

Here is a collection of our common core aligned worksheets for core standard L.2.1.F. A brief description of the worksheets is on each of the worksheet widgets. Click on the images to view, download, or print them. All worksheets are...

An online book entitled Who We Are by kindergarten students at the College School in St. Louis, Missouri. The book contains an autobiographical description and illustration of each student as well as a photograph of a sculpture of the...

Third grade students at World of Inquiry, School #58 created this set of cards as part of an expedition on natural disasters. To create their card, each student researched and wrote a descriptive summary on a specific natural event; each...

This is a child's guide or manual designed for Riverhill Farm. These 3rd and 4th grade students were studying about watersheds and farming; they visited the farm several times and learned various aspects of farming. The guide includes an...

Here is a collection of our common core aligned worksheets for core standard L.K.2.C. A brief description of the worksheets is on each of the worksheet widgets. Click on the images to view, download, or print them. All worksheets are...

Excellent classroom activities for building learners' character. This activity encourages students to use their knowledge and experiences, mathematical skills, and higher-order thinking skills.

Students will make a photo story book using Flickr pictures.

This guide to the animals at the Forest Park Zoo was created by 1st grade students at the Alice B. Beal Magnet School in Springfield, Massachusetts, and was part of a Learning expedition on animals. Students, through fieldwork...

This instruction manual for a GH Monoscope was created by 4th grade students. Students created this manual as a way to introduce other students in the school to this new piece of equipment. Although the equipment did come with...

Writing a computer program involves planning what you're going to do, "coding" the instructions, testing them, tracking down any bugs, and changing the program to that it works correctly. In these activities students explore a simple...

Choose from several activities to teach the Common Core Standard of describing familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, providing additional detail. Includes ideas for conversation starters for...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to reinforce the common core standard of describing people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.

This video segment from Wild TV takes a closer look at backyard bugs, their habitat and characteristics. [2:48]

Choose from a variety of worksheets aligned to the core standard W.K.8. A brief description is provided for each worksheet. Click on the image to view, download, or print them. All worksheets are free.

Discover more about the Caldecott Medal book Owl Moon by Jane Yolen. This online resource provides a description, a discussion guide, a writing prompt, a teaching plan and more.

This resource provides information about the Caldecott Medal book Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey. Includes a description, a writing prompt and an extension activity.

Type, write, or draw a description of a job that would be interesting to do.

Children can make a great family collage by cutting out pictures of family members and gluing them to poster board. Older kids can write descriptions to accompany their collage.