MyVocabulary.com features three levels of words for each root; this fill-in-the-blanks quiz contains a word bank of beginner vocabulary containing the roots cern/cer/cre, jur/jus, and leg. You can print it out, or your learners can take...

Lesson 10 in a series of human rights lessons focuses on the skills of finding evidence and summarizing. Your young readers work to compare the two texts they have read in this unit: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...

Natasha Wing's story The Night Before Thanksgiving is a great way to incorporate rhyme and literature into the Thanksgiving season. Learners make text-to-self connections, recall main events, and choose post-reading activities...

A complete resource from BBC World Service provides informational text for English or ESL classes to teach vocabulary, grammar, and reading skills. Learners participate in small group work, whole class discussions, and role-plays to...

In this Easter word and picture activity learning exercise, learners draw lines from the 6 Easter-related words to their matching pictures.

Young scholars write a letter.  In this irrigation instructional activity, students review how humans and the environment can interact with each other, learn new vocabulary words having to do with Mesopotamia, learn about irrigation...

In this Saint Patrick's Day activity, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling sequencing, scrambled sentences, asking questions, take a...

Sail with Christopher Columbus on a biographical reading adventure. Young explorers learn about the life of Sir Columbus as they hone their comprehension skills through guiding questions, shared reading, and fluency practice. Included in...

Make connections between Esperanza Rising and human rights with the activities outlined here. The instructional activity starts out with a brief quiz and review of the novel. After that, pupils circulate and share quote strips that you...

Here is a good way for children to identify ways to handle conflict. They discuss the connection between feelings and conflict. Everyone listens to a story about a conflict between two friends and they discuss what they could have done...

Students blend phonemes. In this guided reading lesson, students create words by blending isolated phonemes. Students read a book discussing families.

Make origami ducks with your class to reinforce geometry concepts and vocabulary; develop fine motor and visual translation skills; and enrich study of Japanese culture, the pond habitat, or migration. Create a whole group "worksheet"...

In this geography worksheet, students match vocabulary words to their definitions having to do with bodies of land and water. Students complete 10 problems.

Students articulate a direction about prejudice through text and images via a CD album cover. In this prejudice lesson, students view images for prejudice from various sources. Students brainstorm words that contribute to the meaning of...

In this atlas terms and definitions online interactive worksheet, students read the definitions and match them with Atlas vocabulary words. Students match 49 answers.

Fourth graders study the Civil War and the Underground Railroad. In groups, they create coded quilts like those used in the Underground Railroad. They review secret codes used, plan a phrase they would like to use, and paint quilt...

In this identifying geographic terms and their definitions online interactive worksheet, learners match the vocabulary words with their definitions. Students match 24 answers.

Students read the short story House Opposite to help them differentiate between the terms "religion" and "spirituality." Students make connections to situations of people who struggle between the two in the real world by creating a...

First graders read The Magic Apple and complete interdisciplinary activities related to the book.  For this folktale lesson, 1st graders answer comprehension questions, recognize and record short /i/  sound words and...

Students work cooperatively in small groups to identify the purposes of local government. They review the five broad purposes of local government and match the services of government to the appropriate purpose.

Numerous people from China immigrated to the US during the era of industrialization and expansion. Provide your class with a glimpse into the life of a Chinese immigrant through the poetry they left behind. They then compose a poem of...

In this geography worksheet, students identify who a cartographer is and what they do specifically. They study an outline map of a fictitious island and then, respond to the three questions that follow. Finally, students add three more...

In this presidential cabinet worksheet, students read the 15 descriptions of Cabinet positions and match them to the appropriate titles.

In this famous person activity, students read a passage about Dmitry Medvedev and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym...