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Practice With Multiple-Meaning Words
Second graders work with multiple meaning words. They participate in a teacher led lesson about words with have more than one meaning. Everyone completes a skill building worksheet in which sentences using words with more than one...
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Puzzle Fun with Long /O/ and Long /I/ Words
Search this crossword puzzle for words with long /o/ and /i/ sounds. Some of the clues are challenging, so consider completing the most difficult clues together. As an extension, it is suggested that your learners find the homophones in...
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Compound Words
What's a compound word? Help your class understand the meaning of a compound word, and then give them the included worksheet to practice. To complete it, they write the two parts of a compound word and the new word formed in the spaces...
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Here's an Instant Activity for November 19, 2007
An instant spelling activity, that's what it's called. Learners practice their spelling skills with consonant and vowel -y ending words. They use a word bank to help them sort the words into consonant and vowel-y ending words.
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Past Tense Irregular Verbs
With this worksheet, youngsters review past tense irregular words and predict the spelling of these words. They complete a worksheet where they fill in the missing letters of irregular verbs. The sheet provides the exact number of spaces...
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Word Wake
Put your common writing errors to rest with this resource, which prompts high schoolers to create eulogies and tombstones for overused and incorrect words. They work on correcting common errors in spelling and usage mistakes in their own...
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Flipping Butterflies: Triadic Colors and Symmetry
Second graders create symmetrical butterfly wings. In this symmetry instructional activity, 2nd graders observe butterfly wings and create their own. They make both sides symmetrical and mix primary colors to make secondary colors.
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Using a Dictionary
When do we use dictionaries? Provide this dictionary scavenger hunt for your youngsters. Third and fourth graders search for words, recording the number of syllables or definition for a variety of words. Get your class using dictionaries...
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Planning A Vacation Online
If you could travel anywhere in the United States, where would you go? Use this question to interest your fourth, fifth, and sixth graders as they experiment with Mapquest or other direction-based resources. They choose where they'd like...
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A New Candidate for Animal Farm
Students create an advertising campaign in which a candidate from Animal Farm will run for an upcoming election. For this follow-up activity to George Orwell's Animal Farm lesson, students explore propaganda, rhetoric, and satire as they...
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Book Cover Design
Students design book covers. For this graphic design lesson, students are introduced to designing book covers. Students develop skills on how to promote their designs to clients. Students then create their own book covers.
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Crash Test Physics
Learners design and test balsa cars. In this crash tet instructional activity, students design and build their own cars to specifications. They explore the physics of motion and vehicle crash safety.
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Writing an Effective Resume
Rating prospective teacher candidates based on sample resumes opens this discussion of effective business communication. After generating a list of interview candidates based on their resumes, pupils justify their choices. A study of...
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Gateway to the Arts
Students redesign a dead space in the school to create an interesting and stimulating visual environment. In this art design instructional activity, students look at how to redesign architectural space and research ways to enhance a...
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High School Bag Design
Young scholars design a bag that they would personally use to carry needed items to school. For this bag design lesson, students observe real bags and assess needs and wants for a new bag. Young scholars brainstorm design solutions and...
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Spelling with /ou/ Sound
Fourth graders recognize spelling words with ou and ow sounds. In this spelling lesson, 4th graders begin with ground and town and build lists of words with similar spelling. Students complete a worksheet with antonyms and synonyms for...
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CVC Words
Students create CVC words with picture identification. In this phonics lesson, students look at pictures and come up the correct CVC word that matches. Students will work with their teacher and their peers.
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Identifying an Earthworm
Learners navigate the Internet to learn to identify Earthworms. In this taxonomy lesson, students explore species of earthworms finding their characteristics and using photographs to identify the species. Learners research information to...
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Play with Words: Rhymes & Verse
Students listen to poems and rhymes, clap out syllables, and sing along with familiar tunes. They use puppets and crafts to help recall and retell favorite poems, and craft their own poems.
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Reading Help Wanted Ads
Students explore employment by analyzing the newspaper. In this wanted ads lesson, students identify the importance of job selection and job growth while reading entries in the wanted ads for employment opportunities. Students answer...
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Here's an Instant Activity for March 3, 2008
Here are some good spelling activities for 'ou' words. First and second graders complete an oral spelling activity with their teacher and then an Instant Activity worksheet. and spell 'ou' words.
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Antonym Review
Second graders improve their spelling skills by reviewing antonyms for specific words. They work aloud with words and find their antonyms. They complete their own crossword puzzle and an activity crossword puzzle.
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Using Pictures to Promote Conversation
Students initiate and sustain a conversation of three or more exchanges on a topic while exploring a collection of large photographs pertaining to that topic. The teacher creates a comfortable setting and provide a variety of books...
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A Never-Before-Seen Creature
Students construct a never-before-seen creature in part of an analysis of societal injustices and discrimination. In this societal issues lesson, students create a creature called a Man-Droid as a study about the differences among...
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