Curated OER
Bible Readings: Supernatural, Cosmic, Angelic, Meteorological
Students create and present a short science fiction story. In this Bible studies lesson students work in small groups and are assigned characters and a scenario to develop a play about.
Curated OER
Moral Dilemmas
In this moral dilemmas worksheet, students will cut apart 16 question cards. Then they will take turns reading scenarios about situations involving using one's morals and discuss how they would handle these situations.
Curated OER
Produce a Nonfiction Text
In this language arts learning exercise, students look for the facts and create several nonfiction texts while including useful information for the reader.
Curated OER
Food Descriptions
In this health worksheet, students look for the right descriptions to describe the food items in the pictures and answer the questions for each one.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Story Writing With Arthur
This series of 12 downloadable activities teach students some basics of story writing, using books or videos from the PBS "Arthur" series as a springboard. Activities include creating story maps, asking questions about characters and...
Can Teach
Can Teach: How to Write a 5 W Poem
This site describes how a 5W poem is a good way to teach children to identify and focus on the five W's of a story or an event. Lesson plan indicated for 1st grade and above.
Education Development Center
Education Development Center: Tv411: Reading Structure of a News Story
Interactive lesson explains the content and organization of newspaper articles. Includes self-scoring exercises for practicing identifying the five W's (who, what, when, where, and why) in a series of brief news articles and a...
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Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: 5 Ws Chart [Pdf]
This site from Houghton Mifflin Company provides a simple, reproducible chart to help students gather details of Who, What, When, Where, and Why. This could be used as a reading comprehension tool, or as prewriting for expository writing.
Other
Writing Effective Leads
Do you know your news elements? Can you spot the most important one? This site helps you spot different kinds of leads, and which news element they emphasize. Includes an exercise for use in your own classroom.