ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring Art Through Descriptive Writing
Contains plans for two lessons that use the book "Anna's Art Adventure" by Bjorn Sortland to teach students to write about art descriptively. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Additional Webs
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of graphic organizers. Students will be able to plan the writing of summaries, paragraphs, and literary responses.
Utah Education Network
Uen: 2nd Grade Act. 11: Character Sketch
This lesson engages students in describing the main character from Patricia Palacco's book, My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother. Students will analyze a picture of the main character and the teacher will write all of the students'...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Introducing Text Structures in Writing 5th Grade
This lesson engages students in learning about text structures. Graphic organizers are provided to assist students in planning writings that have the following text structures: problem and solution; sequence; cause and effect; and...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Rock Hounds at Heart
This instructional activity engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to William Steig's book, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. Students will discuss this book and then will investigate different rocks and their...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Poverty
Poverty shows children in unclean conditions and asks your student to write a description of what they think life is like for these children.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Describing a Memory
Students will be able to use a combination of drawing, dictating, or writing to narrate a single event and provide a reaction to what happened. This lesson centers around the book "The Song and Dance Man", a great Grandparents Day activity!
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Descriptive Writing
This is a comprehensive article about what descriptive writing including what it is, why to teach it and strategies to teach it. It also features two videos Five Senses Graphic Organizer and Writing Poems as well as an annotated list of...
University of Kansas Medical Center
University of Kansas Medical Center: Respiratory System
What do you know about the respiratory system? Check out this site to learn more about this fascinating body system. This resource features slides of the different parts of this system.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Describing Fall Leaves Through Words and Music
Students collect, describe, and sort leaves found outside. As a cross-curricular component, they will improvise on musical instruments in a way that they feel describes a dominant leaf characteristic.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Show What Your Mind Sees
This writing activity asks writers to make use of both showing and telling as they create a well-organized paragraph of description. After reviewing showing versus telling by building a writer's notebook page, each writer will show what...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Childhood Artifacts to Inspire a Narrative
This site contains a book review of Knots in My Yo-yo String: the Autobiography of a Kid, which is a memoir by Jerry Spinelli. A suggested activity is included that asks students to bring in important mementos that the students will...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Emotions and Colorful Days
In this lesson students will learn to write descriptively.
Harold D. Underdown
Write Descriptive Passages to Die For
Provides excellent examples of descriptive writing for one needing inspiration. Site is written for those who write literature for children, but can also be applicable to other genres.
ACT360 Media
Writing Den: Paragraphs
How do you write a paragraph? Use this site to learn more about the different parts of a paragraph.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Modifier
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a modifier in the context of a sentence.
Friesian School
Fresian.com: Stereotypes
This site gives an essay regarding various prejudices. Very informative and easy to understand.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Plant Inspector
Students will provide a verbal and visual description of plants that are close their homes. The pictures can be published online.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Map Animal Habitats
In this Plum Landing activity, students will write or draw descriptions of where animals live in their neighborhoods. Students can publish their descriptions online.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Pure Gold
Students will learn about golden eagles through reading and viewing an episode of Plum Landing. Then students will illustrate what they have learned about the golden eagle's environment.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Double Rainbow
After viewing the "Double Rainbow" episode of Plum Landing, students will discuss what they have learned about rainbow parrotfish. Then students will design and post their own illustrations of a school of these rainbow parrotfish.
Other
Introductory Anatomy: Respiratory System
Here, you will find an introduction to the parts and functions of the respiratory system. In addition to learning about how the respiratory system works to keep you healthy, you will also read about problems that impede the breathing...
Other
Introductory Anatomy: Bones
In addition to providing information on the function of bones in our body, this website includes tips for classifying and identifying specific bones of the skeletal system.