Your learners will be eager to delve into the writing process when their journals are adorned with these beautifully designed covers and blank pages.

Looking for interesting journal prompts? How about a series of photos? Or are you making up a story about a stranger encountered on the street? Or making up the story behind a song? This assignment sheet details five fresh ideas for...

Integrate journal writing into your curriculum. Introduce your young writers to the process with a 45-minute activity that explains the techniques, the various types, and the typical routines for journaling. The detailed plan includes a...

The Indian in the Cupboard is a beloved book for third, fourth, or fifth graders. These worksheets provide pertinent questions and important vocabulary for chapter one to chapter six. These literary investigations will help readers dive...

Upper elementary schoolers investigate philanthropy and selflessness by reading a children's book. In this ethics lesson, they read The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, and research Mahatma Gandhi's troublesome, yet inspiring, life....

Keeping a journal can be one of the most enjoyable writing tasks that children engage in. They get to write about what they want to write about - not what the teacher tells them to write about! Here, young writers pretend they are a...

Students create an online "community journal". In this communities lesson plan, students use a writing template to send e-mail to various people to learn more about their community. The journal is passed from person to person.

A reading of Gail Gibbons’ Deadline! leads to a discussion of the differences between newspapers and newsletters. Class members then choose a favorite topic and create the front page for their own newsletter.

Students gather information from reading excerpts of journals and seeing how they relate to the same time span and experience as written by students or women, who made the trip. They write equipment lists, daily entries to reflect life...

An an introduction to The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton's story of teenage rebellion and angst, eighth graders are asked to write a bell work journal in which they define loyalty. Groups are then assigned a word (patience, unity, appreciation,...

In this journal writing worksheet, students brainstorm about violence they have seen on TV and in video games. Students write about the harmful effects this violence can have on society.

Discuss and generate blogs in this technology lesson. Middle and high schoolers explore examples of blogs and create their own blogs. Use this lesson throughout the year to reinforce concepts from your language arts class (or any class)....

A great resource that can be used every year during the month of April. This handout includes over 30 writing prompts, one or two for every day in the month of April. Each writing prompt is tailored to its specific day, as they are...

Begin writing personal narratives in this writing activity. Junior high writers start by writing a journal about their favorite holiday. They read a book at their skill level and use graphic organizers to record their ideas for writing....

A great source of nonfiction reading material, this resource consists of a series of five short reading passages about modern music, composition principles, and various composers. Accompanying each reading is a different activity for...

An introductory lesson plan shows learners how pervasive and influential advertising is in our culture; particularly, how teenagers are actively targeted by advertisers. As teenagers, your students already have all the information they...

Need some possible writing topics for your class? Look no further, this resource consists of a list of 24 writing prompts. Perfect for journal writing or quick writes, all 24 prompts ask about pupils' personal experiences and thus elicit...

Students brainstorm a list of potential uses for micro-video technologies. After reading an article, they analyze the development of a new pill-sized camera. In groups, they create a children's book that shows them the various systems of...

A cross-curricular lesson for middle schoolers that covers language arts, social studies, geography, and math, this is a great extension activity if your class is reading The Diary of Anne Frank or learning about the Holocaust. Using...

Students write their thoughts about political cartoons, photographs, and articles in their journal and then discuss them in class.

Discuss nonfiction books, and the benefits of reading nonfiction literature, with your student. They read the book, Creatures of the Night over a two day span and answer questions from their reading. Students also write in their journal...

Develop knowledge of traveling the Solomon Islands through maps, readings, pictures and photographs. In a fictional trip through literature, students learn about life on a South Seas Island and how the trip and people they encounter...

Learners examine the Lewis and Clark Expedition and discover the historical impact the journey had on the US. In this Lewis/Clark expedition lesson, students read the book Lewis and Clark on the Trail of Discovery: The Journey that...

Students answer discussion question about Hamlet. In this Hamlet lesson plan, students engage in class discussions throughout the reading of Hamlet. Students also answer these questions as journal entries.