Make sure your writers have the buns and the meat in their paragraph burgers with paragraph exercises. The resource gradually leads up to individuals writing their own paragraphs, starting with identification exercises, moving on to...

Human fingerprint patterns are the result of layers of skin growing at different paces, thus causing the layers to pull on each other forming ridges. Here, groups of learners see how patterns and fingerprints assist scientists in a...

Study some of the most prominent poets and works of poetry in history with a language arts poetry unit. From Virgil to Shakespeare to Dickinson to Angelou, the resources present biographies and examples of poetic elements to...

We are bombarded with media images expressly designed to influence viewers. Learning how to analyze the intended effects of these images is essential and the focus of an activity that asks viewers to use the provided questions to guide...

Surrealistic painters like Marc Chagall and Wendy Rouse show viewers an expansive world in a small area. Young artists have a opportunity to create their own surrealistic paintings in response to a study of works by Chagall and Rouse.

The perfect plan can easily backfire. Jack, in The Janitor's Boy, thinks he has the perfect plan to get back at his father. Little did he know he would end up being sentenced to help his father. Scholars read about Jack and his...

A reading of Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss and a nonfiction book of your choice begins a reading adventure pack comprised of three hands-on activities. Following the reading, scholars craft a food mobile made of colorful fruit and...

Begin your states of matter lessons with a demonstration designed to introduce the concept that all matter has properties. Reinforce this concept through vocabulary exploration, and the creation of atom models; salt, water, and carbon...

Students identify different feelings. They develop a list of the types of consequences they face when doing a certain task. They discuss what they gained from the different events.

Students explore dramatization. In this literacy fluency and drama instructional activity, students listen to the story Mop Top by Don Freeman and add related sounds at the appropriate times. Students role play, pantomime, and add sounds...

Students write a variety of space travel poems that will be used to compile a class book and draw their own rocket and half fill it with words associated with space travel and add design and color.

Students create a pen and ink drawing using words to determine values choosing a work with high emotional content and incorporating words that describe the picture's content placing words together tighter, made bolder, etc. to achieve...

In this opera movie soundtrack worksheet, students read a 1 paragraph description of opera seria and then use the dialogue from the film Speed to help them determine what music is appropriate to add to the film based on the style of the...

In this seasons worksheet, students use 5 words from a word bank or their own words to complete a paragraph about the seasons. They write an original sentence about their favorite season on the lines below the paragraph.

Students identify positive and negative ways of dealing with stress. The lesson helps each child recognize how stress affects his or her feelings.

Students examine how to distinguish between different uses of language. They explore the difference between the cognitive meaning and the emotional meanings of a word. Each student evaluates the effects of euphemism in altering the...

Students are read Dandelion, by Don Freeman. In this vocabulary focused lesson, students discover the definitions of at least three Tier Two words. They discuss the meanings of the words, as a group, both before and after the story is...

Students are read Into the A, B, Sea, by Deborah Lee Rose. In this vocabulary focused lesson, students discover the definitions of at least three Tier Two words. They discuss the meanings of the words, as a group, both before and after...

Students identify new vocabulary words in the story Miss Spider's Tea Party. In this vocabulary lesson, students raise their hand each time pre-identified words are heard as the story is read and use words in various contexts throughout...

Students participate in a unique version of the game Mother, May I. They play the game to explore how to positively communicate their needs, wants and feelings, and to demonstrate how to react to problems.

Learners establish a list of correct words to use in a variety of situations. Students speculate on different forms of poetry. Learners encounter different types of poetic techniques. Students write an anti-bullying poem.

In this ELL worksheet, students read a passage, adding a prefix or suffix to italicized words, then write prefixes and suffixes and work with a partner to create words using them. Students then write a short guide on "Things in life that...

Students are read Gregory the Terrible Eater, by Mitchell Sharmat. In this vocabulary focused lesson, students discover the meaning of four new words. They discuss the meanings of the words, as a group, both before and after the story is...

Learners are read I Love You the Purplest, by Barbara Joosse. For this vocabulary focused lesson, students discover the definitions of at least three "Tier Two" words. As a group, they discuss the meanings of the words both before and...