Students will learn how to use better word choices by completing a cloze activity, listening to A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle, and completing a word web.

In this lesson, students create a unique character and develop a descriptive paragraph utilizing strong word choice.

In this lesson plan students learn how to paint a setting with their descriptive choice of words.

This lesson plan uses the mentor text by Wendy Cheyette Lewison entitled Raindrop, Plop! This lesson, which has a focus on word choice, engages young scholars in brainstorming descriptive words and phrases about raindrops. At the end of...

This resource explains six ways authors use context clues that might help readers understand unfamiliar words. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.4, 8.2.B

For this lesson plan, the book If You Give a Moose a Muffin, written by Laura Numeroff, is used as a mentor text for word choice. The content focus of the lesson is to teach the students to take ownership of scientific and descriptive...

Links to 4 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.3c: Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events.

This is a fun lesson to demonstrate the power of words to describe a simple chocolate treat prior to writing a five-paragraph descriptive essay.

This language arts lesson 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 picture...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this close reading instructional activity, the young scholars will analyze the poem "It Fell in the City" by Eve Merriam. They will read the poem, identify words or phrases that show feelings or...

Check out this interdisciplinary lesson plan. Students 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.

In this lesson the writer will imagine and compose a descriptive paragraph that focuses on a gigantic object moving through a specific setting and leaving destruction in its wake, modeled after the book James and the Giant Peach by Roald...

Students use descriptive words to create imagery of the many varieties of objects found in our universe.

This lesson focuses on recognizing and demonstrating the use of commas as separators including with transition words, descriptive phrases, and adjacent items. It also provides a practice activity.

This tutorial explores the difference between adjectives and adverbs so you can use them properly.

This upper elementary lesson focuses on the use of vivid adjectives to enhance student writing. Learners will explore vivid adjectives in a variety of activities including thesaurus use and story development software.

This is the eleventh article in a series that is designed to help the new novel author. This article focuses on how to eliminate needless information in your novel. The key is to not explain too much about the action.

Students will brainstorm adjectives to describe the American Flag and will write two descriptive sentences for homework. Students will also create star art to accompany their writing to show the relationship between words and pictures...

To use this writing prompt generator, click on the button until you find an adjective that inspires a description or a poem in your mind. Sometimes just one good word can put a whole story idea in your head! The object of every Start...

In this lesson, Jane Yolen's Welcome to the Greenhouse is used as a mentor text. Students will record their favorite verbs from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use interactive...