Third graders write descriptions of food items in order to create a restaurant menu. They use adjectives to describe mouth-watering and vivid food and compare it to a boring adjective-lacking menu. They design and share their menus with...

Students listen to the story Toad, then the story is reread without any adjectives. The class discusses the importance of details in a story. Then the class creates a collaborative book following the same story pattern.

Third graders compare boring and vivid words: adjectives, adverbs, and verbs. They list them and come up with 10 vivid words on cards. They shuffle all the cards and use 10 to write "vivid" poetry.

Students analyze song lyrics (by listening to the song) to pick-out descriptive vocabulary. They use this descriptive vocabulary to create a drawing of the images they "see" in the song. They compare their drawings to find similarities...

Students use newspapers or magazines to create an acrostic poem where words are divided into parts of speech.

Learners study and explore the portrayal and development of a major character in a novel from the novel, "A Christmas Carol," by Charles Dickens. They identify words and phrases that effectively describe the main character in this novel....

Young scholars investigate global warming through discussion of the growing season caused by warmer temperatures. In this greenhouse effect lesson plan, students define 'global warming' and work in groups to research the causes, effects,...

This is probably my students' favorite writing assignment. They obviously tell their friends about it, because every year my ne

Third graders complete worksheets and participate in interactive activities to classify plural words based on their singular form.

Seventh graders explore persuasive writing using the city life and the country life as focus topics. In this persuasion lesson, 7th graders read "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" in an attempt to determine the pros and cons of both...

Students choose two poems they like and share them with the class. Then they write their own poems using various forms.