For this Rebus reading comprehension worksheet, students are given a one-paragraph story about school. They are asked to change the illustrations into words. A "key" is given with the correct spelling of each word. A short quiz...

Students explore fictional characters. For this fictional characters lesson, students hear information about a character then ask and answer questions. Students also answer true/false questions about the character and make a mini book...

Students work in groups making drawing of monsters and then given written instructions to students in another class about how to draw the same monster. After the drawings are complete, they share with other students using an iSight...

Learners practice capitalizing proper nouns with a straightforward activity. As they circle the proper nouns that need to be capitalized from each sentence, they write them correctly from the paragraph.

Scholars creatively respond to writing prompts. They respond to writing prompts that reveal clues regarding their personalities and then use the prompts written in class to guess the prompts that belong to their classmates.

Young mathematicians gather data on a topic, graph it in various forms, interpret the information, and write a summary of the data. They present their data and graphs to the class.

Students write a story about robots. In this creative writing lesson, students read a story about robots, make their own robot, and write a story about their robot. In addition, the lesson plan suggests taking photos of the robots to add...

Students create a brief report summarizing their experience on a field trip or community based instruction trip. After returning from their experience, they jot down several points of interest. Students draw a picture that focuses on...

In this seasons worksheet, students use 5 words from a word bank or their own words to complete a paragraph about the seasons. They write an original sentence about their favorite season on the lines below the paragraph.

In this cloze activity worksheet, students use 10 Dolch words from a word bank at the top of the page to complete a paragraph. They complete a paragraph about the first day of school.

Students realize that a paragraph is a short piece of writing that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Every story, essay, article, or book is like a patchwork quilt made of little paragraphs stitched together

Students work together to write stories. Each one uses creative thinking skills to compose the beginning, middle, or end of a story. The writing skills help the brain to begin to think in new ways to develop the artistic parts of thinking.

In this mouth worksheet, learners draw a picture that includes a mouth and then write what they can do with their mouth. Students draw 1 picture and write 1 paragraph.

Students explore the trait of voice. In this language arts lesson, students focus on the writing trait of voice. Students view a video and practice writing.

In this sentence order worksheet, students read two sentences with a picture in a box. Students write the sentence letters (a, b) in order.

Make connections about animal characteristics and the animal's environment. In this animal characteristics lesson, students use a piece of art as a springboard for a discussion about animals and camouflage. Students choose an animal that...

Students use punctuation and capitalization. In this grammar activity students use stop signs in the place of periods. Students cut out sentences and put stop signs in appropriate places. Students indicate capitalization where needed.

Who doesn't love ice cream? Make this delicious dessert with your class while learning about food preparation in the tenth instructional activity of this series. Teach about the importance of cleanliness and proper cooking techniques in...

For this language arts activity, students write two short paragraphs: one about how they could help someone bigger than themselves and one about how someone littler could help them. A picture of a lion and mouse is on the page; this...

Students label images seen on an interactive website. In this early writing lesson, students do their best to write the name of the object seen on the screen.

Students demonstrate how to retell a story in sequential order. In this reading comprehension lesson, students listen to a suggested read aloud, such as Little Boy Blue. Additionally, students practice retelling the story by using...

Students review what author's purpose is by understanding that authors either persuade, inform, describe, or entertain with their story. In this language arts lesson, students bring in junk mail and in small groups discuss what the each...

In this spelling worksheet, students read several tips about water safety and write the water safety spelling words four times each. There are five words to practice spelling.

Students create a person using various shapes and colors and then write a story about their person using Kidspiration. This is a great lesson for practice identifying shapes and writing stories.