Fifth graders are introduced to the meaning of the word "goal". As a class, they identify examples of goals with their teacher's guidance. Individually, they complete a worksheet to identify their short and long term goals and complete a...

Students play "Trivia Pursuit" in order to review material in any subject area. Groups are chosen to answer a given question, they discuss the answer and orally give it together.

Here's an art lesson for pre-schoolers which focuses on communicating through words and movement. Learners explore the traditions of the samurai grip enhancers and characteristics of wasps. Photographs, embedded in the plan, of these...

Take a trip through history with a lesson on historical fiction. With instructions for games, reading activities, and literary analysis assignments, this resource would be a great addition to any reading unit with a historical fiction...

Challenge your class with this innovative method for discussing sayings. Using the rebus format, learners identify the sayings referred to in a series of slides. The examples include such things as the word hand with a smaller version of...

What a great way to get your class thinking! Learners look at a series of rebuses and identify the meaning. For example, they look at the word head written in large font (the answer is big head). It's a fun way to practice vocabulary and...

In this writing worksheet, students read the essay prompt which talks about the pros and cons of computer games. Students write an essay about their opinions of computer games.

In this icebreaker game worksheet, learners ask their classmates questions about themselves and fill in the blanks with classmates' names that match what they are asking. Students fill in 30 answers.

Fifth graders deliver story presentations that establish a setting with descriptive words, contain a plot and show, rather than tell, what happens. For this language arts lesson plan, 5th graders utilize sentences from the book, "Tuck...

Learners discover the culture, society, geography, and history of Asia through games, food, art, and literature in this multi-day lesson about China and Japan. An exciting lesson for upper-elementary or lower-middle school classrooms.

Students engage in activities to practice their speaking skills. They role play, tell stories, use puppets and props, play games and solve puzzles. They sing songs and use rhymes to practice repetition. They read and respond to articles...

Students communicate non-verbally while playing a game. They get other students in the room to sign a form, without speaking. They continue to collect signatures, until one of them who has been chosen to control the game winks at them....

In this language arts worksheet, students make each sentence that is a polite sentence and a cross out those that would be considered impolite. They match 12 sentences; one polite with one impolite.

In this language arts worksheet, students read 10 incomplete sentences and choose the most concise appropriate word or phrase to make the sentence coherent.

In this language arts and social studies instructional activity, students examine 30 scrambled words and phrases all pertaining to staying in a hotel. Students unscramble the words in this challenging puzzle. Example: heskupenieog ...

In this language arts learning exercise, students analyze 40 adjectives and generate the comparative and superlative forms to fill out this chart. Example: rough (rougher, roughest)

In this language arts worksheet, students listen to a podcast of an article about Hurling. The transcript of the podcast is included as an option. Students label 7 sentences as true or false. They answer 7 comprehension questions and...

In this language arts worksheet, learners discover that some words can be used as both nouns and verbs. Students look at 10 words and write sentences using them as both nouns and verbs. Example: smell

In this language arts worksheet, students solve anagram puzzles to determine the names of punctuation marks that are shown a the top of the page. They write the names on 10 blank lines at the bottom half of the page.

In this language arts worksheet, students change a simple present verb to the simple past, then the past participle. Example: write, wrote, written. There are 25 questions.

In this language arts worksheet, students investigate homophones, or words that sound the same but are spelled differently. Students read each word and write a homophone in the blank next to it.

In this language arts worksheet, learners discover homophones, or words that sound alike but are spelled differently. Students read 15 words and write the homonym on the line.

For this language arts worksheet, learners examine 10 word puzzles. Students work out the clues to reveal some well known words and phrases. Example: GSGE (scrambled eggs)