Scholars learn about the Hero's Journey as they read Ray Bradbury's "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh." They analyze the story's structure and narrative techniques. Finally, they write summaries of the text's central idea and use their...

A list of language arts lesson plans with corresponding books for young learners with special needs. Click on the links in the right-hand column to access the complete lesson plan.

Following a reading of the epic poem Beowulf and the contemporary text inspired by it, Grendel, students create their own monster. Lesson plans provide assessment criteria, extension ideas, and a list of resources.

Here's a creative lesson for students to examine various haikus, and Japanese culture, then write their own haiku poem, and illustrate it using watercolors! Provides plenty of links to more information, a thorough explanation of the...

Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing the 8 parts of speech straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own learning experiences as you take part in this interactive lesson, including a...

How do metaphors help us better understand the world? What makes a good metaphor? Explore these questions in this video with writers like Langston Hughes and Carl Sandburg, who have mastered the art of bringing a scene or emotion to...

This word bank lesson plan offers the individual student the opportunity to increase their vocabulary.

Choose from the poems, then complete the reading, discussion, and writing activities. A good wrap-up to a poetry unit.

This interactive Language Arts skill-building site provides links to interactive activities that focus on finding the main idea of a reading selection. Online lessons, games and quizzes challenges students understanding of main idea.

Your learners will enjoy making their own rainstick while learning about poetry and expressing their feelings about rain. This three-part instructional activity gives step-by-step instructions, as well as an assessment rubric.

Students will really be writing to sources with this instructional activity. They will write about cause and effects in a multi-flow map and then write sentences to explain the cause and effect relationships in this story.

Discussion of a landscape painting by George Inness will introduce young scholars to the impact of the railroad on the countryside in mid-nineteenth-century America. They will depict this same scenery as they envision it in the past and...

With Vuillard's painting of a park in Paris as a backdrop, students will explore the social concepts of parks both in this painting and their own life.

In this instructional activity, students will develop a definition of jazz. Through biographies and interviews of jazz musicians, students will learn what jazz music is about.

This language arts activity uses technology to assess students' understanding of nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Each student will use a digital camera to take a picture at school. He will then write a descriptive sentence about the...

For this interdisciplinary unit addressing science and language arts standards, English Language Learners will learn the life cycle of insects. They will also use the writing of a renowned children's author, Eric Carle, as a model for...

What are advertisers really selling? Are there hidden messages in ads? For this lesson, young scholars explore the concept of persuasive advertising and evaluate ads directed at young consumers. A timely lesson that would generate...

Check out this interdisciplinary lesson plan. Young scholars have an opportunity to draw a card with an adjective word and another card with a noun word and then make a drawing of the object.

For this lesson, students will create a design based on a poem found online and use that design for screenprinting.

An article about the US and Canadian zoos using apps to teach apes is a springboard for this creative activity. Pre-reading questions, the article from Reuters, and follow-up summary in addition to grammar exercises make up a complete...

At this site young scholars can improve their handwriting skills. It provides printable worksheets, lesson ideas, and interactive activities.

What do you know about Eric Carle, the author? This Carol Hurst site highlights some interesting facts about this author's life and refers to some of his books.

An effective use of rubrics that encourages the student storyteller how to determine if his/her audience is listening. Learn about the different listening skill rubrics, storytelling rubrics and a self-assessment guide that asks the...

Want to be president for a day? This online lesson plan will have students exploring the role of our presidents past and present. Through art connections the learners will be led through a series of fun activities on their way to...