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Creating a Landscape Through Art, Music, Dance, and Poetry

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
A brightly-colored David Hockney landscape painting inspires poetry, dance, music, and paper sculpture in this multi-faceted activity. After brainstorming words inspired by the painting, the whole class collaborates on a cinquain poem,...
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The Art of Nouns: Common or Proper Nouns?

For Teachers 1st - 4th
While short, this presentation would provide a interesting and creative way to discuss common and proper nouns. This is a concept that students have difficulty understanding. In order to be able to write properly, students need to master...
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Language Arts Ice Breakers

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Activities that build rapport and help students demonstrate their skills can be a great way to begin the school year.
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Creating Tiered Lesson Plans for Language Arts

For Teachers 5th - 12th
By using tiered lesson plans you can meet each student's individual learning needs.
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Fairy Tale Lessons Can Spice Up Language Arts Activities

For Teachers K - 4th
Fairy tales can be a motivating way to introduce students to a variety of topics, including literary analysis.
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I Have a Metaphor

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Learners locate the literary devices used in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. In this figurative language lesson plan, students first distinguish between similes, metaphors, analogies, personification, etc. Learners...
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A Story on a Vase

For Teachers K - 5th
Students associate a hydria with Greek myths. In this Greek art and mythology lesson plan, students examine a scene on a hydria, then choose a Greek myth to illustrate on their own painting.
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Our Illuminated Alphabet

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine artwork and create their own.  In this writing and illustrating instructional activity, students view illuminated letters from the Getty Museum's collection and discuss art vocabulary.  Students examine the...
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The Amazing Maud Lewis

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students investigate cultural art from Canada by reading about Maud Lewis.  In this Canadian history instructional activity, students identify the work of Lewis by visiting her magazine website.  Students identify other heroes...
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Creating a Story that "Stacks" on Itself and Repeats a Catch Phrase

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners explore language arts by reading a classic children's story in class. In this story structure activity, students read the Judith Viorst book, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Learners discuss the...
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Descriptive Writing Assessment

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore language arts by undergoing a writing assignment. In this descriptive writing lesson plan, 1st graders identify the skills necessary to write in depth about a subject which they must do based upon a specific topic....
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Metaphors

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify metaphors.  In this figurative language lesson, students learn about metaphors and listen to various examples.  Students read a story and identify the metaphors present.  Students complete a worksheet...
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Dog

For Students K - 1st
For this dog language arts worksheet, the student will look at 4 different pictures of dogs, with 4 corresponding action words under them. Students complete 4 sentences using this word bank of dog verbs.
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Configuration Station #3

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this language arts worksheet, students study 6 words in a provided word bank. Students generate sentences, fill in missing words, write rhyming words and illustrate to show meaning.
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Suffix City

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this language arts worksheet, students create new words with the appointed suffixes and filling in the new one with magnetic or written letters.
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Aa Word Wheel

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this language arts worksheet, students use a word wheel to write down the correct words to correlate with the pictures on the wheel.
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Trees

For Students 1st - 3rd
In these language arts worksheets, students will analyze the poem "Trees" by Sara Coleridge. Students will then respond to 16 sentences correcting the misspelled words and rewriting the sentences on the lines provided.
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Greek Myths

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students discover 9 Greek gods, goddesses and heroes by reading paragraphs about them. Students then complete a crossword puzzle.
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How To Interpret a Newspaper Article

For Students 4th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students are asked to interpret a newspaper article. Students will decipher what phrases or catch words are used to capture the reader's attention.
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Common Idioms-- Body Parts 2

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts instructional activity, students read 20 names of body parts in a word bank. Students fill in the missing words in common idioms. Example: Riding the roller coaster was quite a ------- raising experience! (hair)
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Can You Read And Spell These Words?

For Students K - 1st
In this language arts activity, students learn to build words by combining beginning, middle and ending sounds. Students cut out 20 letter cards. There are no directions about what to do with these cards.
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Test Your Vocabulary Skills: More Common Idioms 2

For Students 5th - 6th
For this language arts worksheet, students discover that idioms are spoken or written sentences where the meaning is not obvious from the individual words used. Students read 10 idioms and match them to their meanings.
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Really Motivational Page of Encouraging Thoughts

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students discover motivational idioms by matching the first half of each saying with the second half. Students then discuss the meaning of each. Example: "You can't make an omelette without.....breaking...
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Made Up Words: Parts of Speech

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students find and underline 21 made-up words in the 10 sentences shown. Students identify what part of speech that word is and place each in the parts of speech chart. Finally students write the sentences...

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