Learners gain insight into the unusual, solitary world of Beatrix Potter's Victorian childhood and can compare/contrast it with their own world to explain why Potter wrote such simple stories and why she wrote about animals rather than...

Students identify and interpret what tall tales, urban legends, and cyberlore are and to find them in their own lives. They practice telling and listening to these types of tales and explore why people tell them. Students also identify...

Fifth graders think of idioms related to laundry as they create a laundry list of idioms.

Students study selected poetry to gain an understanding of influences on values and personal identity. They explore language terms such as personification, imagery metaphors and allusion. After reading a poem and discussing it,...

In this chronological order activity, students put story events in order that they are given. Students put 7 events in chronological order.

Students prewrite a story using graphic organizers. In this prewriting lesson plan, students create a story map before they start their writing.

Students investigate writing techniques by analyzing a chart. For this figurative language lesson, students define similes, metaphors and identify the difference between them and personification. Students demonstrate their understanding...

Students study how political movements involve students as well as adults. They discover that students of all ages have the power to make a difference in the world.

Work through links to activities, assessments, websites, and videos to learn about connotation and denotation.

This learning module contains three nonfiction reading lessons that will assist student understand how to apply context clues when they encounter new vocabulary words.

Students will analyze a word in several different sentences. Students will determine the meaning of the same word in several different contexts. Students will also write their own sentences with the same word in several different contexts.

This is a research-based article concerning how to best teach academic vocabulary. Research finds that most teachers assign and mention vocabulary, but to be effective, instruction must be direct and meaningful. Recommendations for...

Learn about figurative language and how to determine the figurative, denotative, and connotative meanings of words.