Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Developing Characters and Experiences With Sensory Language
Adding sensory languages makes your writing so good you can see, hear, smell, taste and touch it. This lesson will show you how to use descriptive sensory language in order to develop and capture the experiences and characters in a...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words: Image to Narrative
This lesson, which can be adapted to fit with any picture you choose, works for students of all levels.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Describing a Memory
Students will be able to use a combination of drawing, dictating, or writing to narrate a single event and provide a reaction to what happened. This lesson centers around the book "The Song and Dance Man", a great Grandparents Day activity!
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Descriptive Writing and the 100th Day of School
Contains plans for three lessons that teach descriptive writing skills by creating and writing about a "100th day bottle." In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Serendipitous Superheroes
In this activity, SuperHero ABC, a book written by Bob McLeod, and Meanwhile, a book by Jules Feiffer, are used as mentor texts. Students will work in groups and create lists of unique superhero powers that start with different letters...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Draw a Story: Stepping From Pictures to Writing
Help young students move from drawing pictures into writing simple stories. Good plan for having students put pictures in sequential order and teaching them about sequential order.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: More Than One Way to Create Vivid Verbs
Contains plans for three lessons to help students use vivid verbs in their writing. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection...
Utah Education Network
Uen: 2nd Grade Act. 11: Character Sketch
This lesson engages students in describing the main character from Patricia Palacco's book, My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother. Students will analyze a picture of the main character and the teacher will write all of the students'...
CPALMS
Cpalms: Understanding Key Details by Using Pancakes for Breakfast
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will be read Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie DePaola in order to understand and describe people, places, things and events in a text. They will create a book by drawing or...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Introducing Text Structures in Writing 5th Grade
This lesson engages students in learning about text structures. Graphic organizers are provided to assist students in planning writings that have the following text structures: problem and solution; sequence; cause and effect; and...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Seasonal Haiku
This site is a three-part lesson that teaches students how to write and depict seasonal imagery through haiku. Students study, listen to, and create original haiku on colored backgrounds.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Guess What's in the Bag a Language Based Activity
Contains plans for a language activity called "Guess What's in the Bag." Learners try to guess the object in a bag in order to develop descriptive language, listening, and problem solving skills. In addition to objectives and standards,...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Become a Character
For this online lesson and activity, students actually "become" a character from a novel in their analysis of characterization. The lesson uses the Scarlet Letter, but any novel can be used. RL.9-10.3 Analyzing Characters, RL.11-12.3...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Cosmic Oranges
Contains plans for four 45-minute lessons that ask students to use their senses and focus their attention while writing descriptively and observing scientifically. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...
Other
Tesol: Sensory Details Worksheet: Adding Details Add Interest
Use this worksheet to practice enhancing your writing by using sensory language. Sensory details include words that describe sights, sounds, and smells of the setting, characters, and interactions.
Other
Abrams Books: Picture Day Perfection: A Common Core State Standards Aligned
This activity and discussion guide uses the book "Picture Day Perfect" to teach multiple common core state standards for language arts. Included in this lesson are discussion questions, a craft project, printable worksheets, and an...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Animal Environment and Adaptation
In this lesson plan, students will enjoy different activities focusing on how animals adapt to their environments. They will begin by researching two animals, their environment, and the ways the animals adapt to this environment. In...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Using Language Effectively
This lesson focuses on using language effectively in your speech including using clear words and phrases, defining key terms, writing descriptively, using vivid language, considering your style and tone, and determining and addressing...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Glorious Sunflowers
In this lesson students will identify, measure and graph seeds and other characteristics of sunflowers and write descriptive and narrative paragraphs about sunflowers. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Analysis: Process Analysis
This lesson focuses on process analysis including processes by people, machines, and nature. They can be classified as descriptive and prescriptive. It also includes a practice activity.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: The Eye: Structure and Function
In this lesson, learners learn about the structure and function of the human eye and research how it compares to animal eyes. They will then choose an eye, write a description, and make an illustration of it, which other students will...
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Lets Net: Global Connection: The Language of Art
Art unit that integrates foreign languages. Students learn how to discuss and critique art in a foreign language and then write about a piece of artwork in that foreign language. Includes unit description, list of materials, and links to...