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Theater: Create a Script
Figurative language is the focus in the book Teach Us, Amelia Bedelia. After reading Peggy Parish's book, class members dramatize idioms from the text, using dramatic strategies such as characterization, exaggeration, and...
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Phonics Monster Game Suggestion: Change It
Pupils play the game "Change It" and practice making words from phonic monster cards. In this "Change It" lesson, students read words and phrases that are used as functional print with visual cues. Pupils respond to icons, pictures, and...
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Survivor Vs. Canterbury Tales
Eleventh graders participate in activities that compare and contrast The Canterbury Tales with the television show, Survivor. They write a compare and contrast essay, and create a festival table and PowerPoint presentation.
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Benefits Of Medical Insurance
High schoolers compare and contrast the cost of medical care with or without insurance. Students differntiate between public and private clinics. They write a description of an ache or pain to share with a medical professional. This...
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Vehicles
High schoolers develop appropriate vocabulary for identifying types of vehicles. After viewing pictures of automobiles, students work to create a brief, accurate description of the vehicle using proper vocabulary and grammar. High...
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Creating Characters: Voice
Pupils participate in a drama character building activity. They view and discuss a video segment, discuss the differences between the two girls in the video, and compare the two characters by saying the same phrases while pretending to...
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Finding Common Ground
Fifth graders write at least three descriptive qualities about themselves on a note card. The teacher then reads the qualities to the class, and the class members try to determine which student is being presented. They use the cards to...
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We Can Read It Together!
Students practice various skills in order to help children to learn the skill of reading. The lesson emphasizes the importance of reading to young children on a regular basis. The skills of repetition of key words and phrases are...
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Sculptures of the Seven Ages
Learners simulate sculptors and clay to help them explain abstract phrases in a soliloquy.
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ESOL Competencies: Consumer Education
It is so important for your adult English language learners to know how to maintain their household and find the appropriate service providers when needed. Instead of using a phone book (which is rare these days), reference the internet...
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Sarah, Plain and Tall - Intro to Literature Circle jobs
Young scholars read a book with each student having a specific job for the class. In this literature lesson, students read Sarah, Plain and Tall over 10 days, dividing up responsibilities for each student to make sure everyone...
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The Perfect Pet
Students take on role of an associate in a pet shop and help imaginary customers compare pets for sale.
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Dramatic Outlines
Students write about main characters. In this dramatic writing lesson, students brainstorm character ideas. Students create actions and give the character a voice. Students act out the scene in groups and create a final draft.
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Au Marche Sandaga a Dakar
A 3-day French lesson targeting food shopping vocabulary. It is designed for elementary French learners pretending to communicate with merchants in a small village outside of Dakar. The plan follows a class reading of the picture book,...
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Give Into Chance
High schoolers experience choreography that originated from the Postmodern movement. They utilize a chance method by rolling a dice to change the order of a dance sequence. Then they compare this method to traditional methods.
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Basic Feature Interviewing
Students act as reporters to develop interview skills. In this interview lessons, students develop the skills needed to use anecdotes and quotes to make an interview interesting. They practice asking questions over and above the 5 W's so...
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Creative Writing Poem
Fifth graders write poetry using imagery and practice poetry presentation. In this poetry lesson, 5th graders listen as the teacher reads a humorous poem using different voice modulations and presentation techniques. They discuss the...
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More Than Anything Else
Second graders investigate the life of Booker T. Washington by reading a biography. In this biographical instructional activity, 2nd graders read the story More Than Anything Else, and examine the geographical locations Washington...
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A Tongue-Twisting Language Arts Lesson
Students discover enunciation and alliteration by reading tongue twisters in class. In this language arts lesson plan, students listen and repeat some of the classic childhood tongue twisters along with their teacher....
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Life on the Trails
Fourth graders explore U.S. Geography by completing a worksheet. For this west coast geography lesson, 4th graders discuss the Santa Fe and Oregon-California trails and the people who traveled them in the 1800's. Students define...
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Jail House Rock
Students with disabilities are provided with a dance experience. This could be done as an inclusion activity. They dance to Jail House Rock by Elvis Presley.
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Supreme Court Confirmation Lesson Plan
Students consider the responsibilities of Senate Judiciary Committee members. In this judicial hearings instructional activity, students participate in a mock Supreme Court Confirmation and discuss the outcome.
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Theatre: Meaningful Monologues
Students perform dramatic monologues. In this drama lesson, students write their own monologue and perform it in front of their peers.
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Flowers Growing Through Music, Rhymes & Movement
First graders experience the growing process of a seed becoming a flower as it is exposed to the sun, rain, wind, day and night, and -tickling- bees as they move creatively to music.
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