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Mini Me Society Economy Those Doggone Resumes
Third graders practice writing resumes. In this resume lesson, 3rd graders discover the attributes of resumes, complete an activity that exhibits their likes, and write their own resume as they follow the model provided in a PowerPoint...
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Endangered Animals
Introduce young learners to endangered animals. They write a report of an endangered animal and create an illustration for their report. They create a poster for their report as well and present it to the class.
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Watch What You Say!
Explore how to use appropriate language for a variety of real-world settings. Here, middle schoolers determine the audience for various types of magazines, and identify words that are appropriate for various friends and family members....
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My Favorite Book
Class members select a favorite book and write and present a book review. They view and discuss a sample PowerPoint presentation, then write a rough draft for their own slide show book review. They create a six-slide presentation to...
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Hooks
Students examine how a hook grabs the readers attention. They read an example of a hook from the book "Charlotte's Web," and discuss the process of writing a hook. Students listen to the story "Hey Al," identify the hooks in the story,...
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Taxed Tempers Toss Tea To Tides
Engage learners in persuasive writing, research, and creative thinking. They research the series of events that led to the Boston Tea Party and create brochures that include propaganda intended to rally Patriot support or dissuade...
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Growing Poems
Students write garden inspired poetry. In this poetry lesson plan, students go out into the garden and write poems about how they feel, what they see, and what is going on in the garden.
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Women
A close study of two works of art provides the introduction to this cross-curricular writing assignment. After comparing the clothing, facial expressions, body language, setting, and color in the two 19th century paintings Tissout’s...
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Classifying Information About a Main Idea
Elementary learners explore language arts by completing a text identification activity. They discuss the importance of a main idea in a story or paper and how to present it properly. Then they practice identifying the main idea in sample...
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A Wanderer's Point of View
High schoolers write an imaginative story using a specific point of view. Students imagine what life along the Mississippi River is like and pretend they are there. High schoolers may use the scenario provided, or create their own for...
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Civil Rights: Rosa Parks Centers
Research the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Rosa Parks. Set up different centers and have learners rotate through the activities aimed at researching Rosa Parks. They read The Bus Ride that Changed History: The Story of Rosa Parks, write a...
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Biomes Newsletter Report
If your class will be studying biomes and you also want to address some technology standards, check this out! Each class member becomes an expert on 1 biome through online research, and writes a 4-page report that covers climate,...
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Self Biography
Get to know your students with this project. Each individual writes an autobiography that is at least seven pages long with major facts, visual facts, focal stories, and chronology. The lesson includes a point breakdown for the...
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Let Me Give You a Little Advice
Students use proper writing conventions to write two friendly letters. They use the steps of the writing process to draft, revise, and peer edit. Students publish their letters. They write the first letter to a person who is going to...
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Developing Editing & Style Through Sentence Combining
Students demonstrate increased awareness of and ability to edit their sentence errors. They demonstrate a wider range of writing style strategies thereby increasing their sentence variety and length.
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Brochure Writing
Young scholars identify the attributes of informative brochures. In this written communication lesson, students examine sample brochures to investigate the layout and the information presented. Young scholars then select topics to create...
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Writing a Masterpiece
Students analyze art and write about it to improve their writing skills. In this art and writing lesson, students analyze the Degas painting and discuss it. Students review how to write a quality sentence and then write about the...
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Dear Future Writing Assignment
Young scholars write a letter to future residents of their town to complete a time capsule activity. In this letter writing activity, students discuss the ideas of past, present, and future and review writing conventions. Young scholars...
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Writing a Short Story
Students do further research on a time period they have studied. In this history research lesson plan, students choose a time period to write about. Students gather information about the weather, environment, food and activities that...
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Persuasive Writing - The Hobbit
Students explore persuasive writing. For this writing lesson, students review the concepts of persuasive writing. Students read The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Students write a persuasive scene in which one characters attempt to persuade...
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Writing a Short Story
Learners complete a short story writing activity using the text of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of Baskervilles. In this short story lesson, students write a short story from the perspective of the assistant from the text. Learners...
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Persuasive Writing - The Fellowship of the Ring
Pupils explore persuasive writing. In this writing lesson, students read The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien and take notes on Gandalf and Bilbo. Pupils write a persuasive scene between Gandalf and Bilbo and present them to the...
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Technical Writing - The Hobbit
Young scholars explore The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. In this literature lesson, students review technical writing. Young scholars read The Hobbit and write down the steps that take place in the book in a list.
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Exercise for Writing a Summary Paragraph
Young scholars examine how to write article summaries of abstracts. In this writing skills lesson plan, students edit the noted sections of an abstract that is already written on the Old Testament Abstracts.
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