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Everyone is an Author!
Second graders research authors of 2 different writing styles and then write their own piece in the style they choose. In this writing lesson plan, 2nd graders look through many books for love of reading.
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How Worldly Are You?
Sixth graders locate and map six components to have a working knowledge of maps. In this map skills lesson, 6th graders define the six map components and work in groups to draw a map using the components. Students read a related...
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Preserving History for Illuminating Today's Values and Traditions
Students discover the value of oral history by creating their own audio recordings. In this traditions and customs lesson, students listen to a local historian discuss the idea of preserving history through oral traditions....
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Story Telling
Students practice story telling. In this story telling lesson, students work in groups to read a fable and divide it into a beginning, middle, and end. Each member takes a section and practices retelling it with vocals, gestures, and...
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Early Colonial Labor Force: Indentured Servants and Slaves
Students study the labor force used during Colonial America. In this Colonial America lesson, students discuss labor types used in the colonies. Students read about indentured servants and the use of African slaves. Students...
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English Idioms II - Money Talk
In this idioms instructional activity, students match the idioms to their meaning. Students match 12 idioms to their correct meaning on this instructional activity.
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Who's Who In America? Multicultural Achievers A to Z Past & Present
Students are introduced to important people who have made contributions to society from different cultural groups. As a class, they develop a definition for diversity and work together to make a comparison chart to discover how people...
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Who Killed the Red Baron?
Students explore, examine and analyze how to apply deductive thinking to evaluate evidence and draw conclusions. They view and critique a handout called "Who Made the Mess?"and a facts sheet on the handout. They divide up into groups and...
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Run-on Sentences, Comma Splices and Fragments
In this grammar worksheet, students identify twenty sentences as run-on sentences, fragments, has a comma splice mistake or as correct. Students defend their choices.
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Hero Highlights
Young scholars create documentaries. In this Vodcast instructional activity, students in high school interview elementary school young scholars regarding highlights of their lives. High school students create Vodcasts of the interview...
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The Differences Among Us
Students compare cultures. In this writing skills lesson, students collaborate to chart the tradition and cultural beliefs of their classmates. Students use their finding to write comparative essays regarding the similarities and...
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Modern Love
For this modern love worksheet, students, with a partner, discuss and complete a variety of activities associated with modern love, weddings and long-lasting relationships.
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Match the Derbyshire Slang Phrases
In this slang vocabulary worksheet, students match the 15 Derbyshire slang phrases to the appropriate translations in the provided answer bank.
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The Future Continuous Form
In this future continuous worksheet, students fill in blanks with given verbs, using the future continuous tense. Students then write their own examples. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Family History
Learners create photographic family histories. In this technology skills lesson, students create family trees with digital photographs that they take of the family members.
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Reading Vocabulary Definition Test
In this vocabulary worksheet, students write the words that are defined by their teacher and write sentences with words. Students identify 28 words and write 4 sentences.
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SAT Identification of Sentence Errors Practice Test
In this SAT prep test worksheet, students read the example sentences presented in an SAT prep format. Students select the answer that identifies the sentence error to complete the 15 online exercises.
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Noun, Adjective or Adverb - Kelis, Get Along with You
In this songs worksheet, students fill in the blanks to the song Get Along With You with nouns, adjectives, and adverbs, and complete a crossword. Students complete 2 activities.
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Pre Reading Strategies
Students use their journals in order to predict what will happen in a text for a prereading strategy. In this prereading lesson plan, students list the 5 strategies they learn and use them before they read.
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Luisa Diogo
In this famous person worksheet, students read a passage about Luisa Diogo and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym...
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What's for Dinner? (Using Adjectives)
Sixth graders use adjectives to describe foods listed in restaurant menus. In cooperative groups, 6th graders create menus and identify the adjectives used in the menu created by their group.
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Welcome to Venice
Young scholars read the opening scene of the play, The Merchant of Venice without receiving any background information. They analyze and discuss the relationships between the six characters, and determine the social status of the...
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The Outsiders
Eighth graders participate in the Layered Curriculum that is, essentially, an opportunity for self-made choice in the process of evaluation. While reading this novel they get to choose the projects that best help apply what is read.
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Sunny Times News: Movie Guide for Local Theaters
In this movie review worksheet, learners read through a movie guide and review. They then answer 6 questions about the information they reviewed.