Students observe and demonstrate the process of summarizing text. As a class, they silently read an article about panda bears from "Ranger Rick" magazine and answer comprehension questions. They answer the five "W" questions, and write...

Pupils participate in visualization exercises as a reading comprehension strategy. As the teacher reads a poem, the students visualize the setting, then read the poem "Daddy's Making Dinner" and create a drawing of what they visualize...

Fourth graders pretend as if they're a whooping crane flying north for its migration. They write questions and predictions about what they are doing and what happen.

Students, through teacher modeling and guided practice, explore the concept of visualization and how it works to help them comprehend what they read. They read a story, visualize what has happened in the story, and then draw a picture...

Students answer questions about robin's eggs. They read about robins, then mark up text for unfamiliar words.

Students become playwrights. In this Shakespeare lesson plan, students paraphrase familiar Shakespearian scenes that they perform for their classmates in 60 seconds.

Students explore creative writing. Students select pictures from old magazines. In groups, students receive a folder containing pictures. They create a story based upon the pictures given.

For this picture writing worksheet, students practice writing a short story on their own after being given a picture prompt of island kids. Students choose a few of their words from a word bank generated by the teacher.

In this picture prompt worksheet, students practice writing their own short story by viewing the picture prompt of a skunk in a mailbox. Students choose some of their words from a word list generated by the teacher.

Students observe and demonstrate the process of summarizing text. They discuss the importance of summarizing, then listen to the teacher read a chapter from the book "Sarah Plain and Tall." Students observe the teacher write a summary...

Pupils explore writing sequential information by composing the simple recipe of peanut buttera and jelly sandwiches.

Students rehearse scripts by recording themselves on audiotape and then playing it back to self-assess strengths and weaknesses.

Students review adjectives and play a game where students compete to see who can write the most adjectives for a given noun. They write a story about one topic and try to use a variety of adjectives in sequence tto describe a noun.

Fourth graders read a Cherokee myth about the origin of strawberries. After reading the story, they add another chapter to it and read their additions to the class. Or, as a group activity, they each write a few sentences and then pass...

Young scholars explore Chicago in the fur-trading era. In this Chicago lesson plan, students discover what life what like during this time. Young scholars read an historical fiction story about life in the fur-trade era. Students...

Fourth graders participate in a shared reading of The Giving Tree. They discuss the relationship between trees and people in the story. Students contribute to a class KWL chart. They create their own KWL chart with at least four things...

Students read Punctuation Takes a Vacation.  In this punctuation lesson, students discuss punctuation marks and how they are used.  Students write postcards using a punctuation mark and students guess which punctuation mark it...

Students read creation myths to learn various cultural explanations for natural phenomena. They select sharks and write myths to explain physical structures, behaviors or roles in ecosystems. They research the animals to provide...

Young scholars list all the ways humans use trees and tree by products. In this lesson students watch a video, discuss the impact trees have on humans, and research common products made from trees. The young scholars use their findings...

Students develop an idea about what happened at the Lost Colony of Roanoke. In this Roanoke Colony lesson, students examine associated vocabulary before listening to Roanoke The Lost Colony, An Unsolved Mystery from History by Jane...

Students research current events and simulate a newscast of a current news story. They watch the evening news and write a summary of a story of interest, conduct Internet research and complete a worksheet on a current event, and...

Learners analyze artifacts to become familiar with the Great Migration.  In this migration lesson plan, students read an article and answer comprehension questions. Learners role play a migration scenario using an artifact to help...

Students discover the meaning of philanthropy and ways in which it occurs in the home, at school, and in the community. Each student chooses one need in their own community, list opportunities to fulfill the need, then predict what might...

Students read The House of Dies Drear and understand how he filled a need and helped people. In this philanthropy lesson plan students understand how the people who helped on the "Underground Railroad" filled a need and helped others....