Students examine how Tennyson and Noyes use words to paint vivid pictures. They read and analyze two poems, complete an online scavenger hunt, complete a worksheet, and write examples of alliteration, personification, metaphor, simile,...

Show your class that there is more than one way to communicate an idea. Pupils note down their ideas and then brainstorm a few things they want to include in their pictures. Then, in the box provided, they sketch and describe their...

Students identify the basic freedoms of citizens in the United States.  In this Bill of Rights lesson, students act out scenarios about the Bill of Rights.  Students create a picture book describing the rights they've acted out.

Here is a really unique way to present information on the American Civil War. The slide show begins with a look at the first true photojournalist, Matthew Brady. It describes his tools and methods, then shows his pictures. Each image is...

Descriptive writing is rich in sensory appeals and paints pictures in the minds of readers. Show young writers how to use an on-line thesaurus and a cliché website to create fresh, descriptive writing. The presentation ends with an...

For this adjectives worksheet, students describe pictures of fish, a bird, balloons, a merry go round, toys, and a slide by making a list of three adjectives. In this fill in the blank worksheet, students describe six items using...

In this describing places worksheet, learners look at pictures, choose the correct sentences that describe pictures, complete sentences with prepositions, and more. Students complete 3 activities.

In this learning about adjectives learning exercise, students read a page that describes the use of adjectives as describing words. They underline the adjectives in 8 sentences, and write 2 sentences that describe the creature that is...

In this matching learning exercise, students observe pictures and identify the statements that describes each picture. Students circle 3 answers.

In this Family Picture Sentences 2 worksheet, students answer 5 questions by locating the sentence which bests describes the activity in the picture. All sentences involve families doing different activities.

In this interpreting the labeled rooms and items in a cross section picture of a house worksheet, students read statements and choose the correct word in parenthesis that describes what is happening. Students choose 13 answers.

Art in one form can inspire art in another. Use images to inspire writing in your English class. The lesson described here is not detailed; however, the idea is strong. An engaging way to get class members interested in writing, the...

A carefully crafted three-day instructional activity integrates poetry and visual art. By analyzing and comparing Langston Hughes' poem "Mother and Son" and Romare Bearden's collage "The Dove," readers explore the theme of hope. The...

Mark the mid-point in the module with the authentic assessment described and provided here—the assessment and the unit focus on inferring using pictures and text. Pupils are given an image, a graphic organizer, and an article and must...

A super lesson that integrates technology and career exploration! High schoolers use graphic organizers and brainstorming to first analyze Time Magazine covers, then they think about what they want to be doing in 10 years. They research...

In this grammar worksheet, students fill in 5 blank boxes with adjectives that describe a haunted house. They write 4 sentences that include adjectives which describe a clip art picture of a man.

Students discuss different landscapes. In this map lesson, students describe what they see when they travel between home and school. Students use a landscape picture map to locate the places or objects they see.

Students discuss differences between man made and natural features on the Earth's surface. For this natural and man made features lesson, learners brainstorm a list of features and categorize them on the board. Students study a landscape...

in this spelling worksheet, students analyze 8 words that have some (or all) the letters missing. Students write the missing letters on the lines to spell the word that describes the picture clue provided.

An excellent ESL word and picture matching worksheet awaits your students. They analyze seven pictures of body parts, and match these to the words that describe them.

Although this legislative process activity is designed to accompany a specific text, it is valuable independently. Young learners participate in a picture walk (worksheet included) through My Senator and Me:...

Entangle your life science class in learning with this collaborative food web activity. Using pictures of the plants and animals native to a particular ecosystem, young biologists work in small groups to construct visual...

Give your guided reading lesson plan a boost with a sample lesson plan designed to reinforce academic content covered in previous assessments. The sample plan describes how the story and activities were chosen and offers the...

In this body parts word and picture matching worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict parts of the body. Students match these to the words that describe the pictures.