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Review of Personification and Alliteration
Students study personification and alliteration in various fiction texts. In this literary devices lesson plan, students use various texts to identify the literary devices of personification and alliteration. Students use examples of...
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"Quack Said the Billy-goat"
Second graders read the poem together, "Quack Said the Billy-goat" and discuss what makes the poem funny and which words rhyme. They observe the teacher writing a new first verse, changing some of the text, but leaving the original rhyme...
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Understanding Idioms
Students explore figurative language. In this idioms activity, students research the origin of instructor-selected idioms. Students literally interpret the idioms. Interpretations are photographed and then presented to the class.
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"Trails, Rails, and Roads" Lesson 1: "Language and Transportation"
Students, in groups, identify the origins of a number of transportation idioms. They search for current transportation idioms to have a partner explain.
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Poetry
Fifth graders read several poems by famous poets and identify what about their style makes them unique. They then analyze and compare poetic style, use of forms and themes. Next, 5th graders investigate and collect different examples of...
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Reading: Games
For this games worksheet, students read the names of 5 common games. Students then read 5 paragraphs that describe the origin of a game. Students guess the name of each game and write it in the blank space.
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Creating Poetic Devices
In this creating poetic devices instructional activity, 9th graders create 5 original examples of poetic techniques by listing and defining each term, then illustrating that example; a list of terms and an example are shown; ...
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April Fool's Day
Students research how April Fool's Day began. They identify and discuss various theories, interview family members, write original myths about the first April Fool's Day and design a wild goose chase for another class.
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Beginning Analogies 5
In this analogies worksheet, students read the pairs of words and choose the answer that best expresses a relationship similar to the original pair. Students complete 12 examples.
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Beginning Analogies 4
In this analogies worksheet, students study the pairs of words and choose the answer that best expresses a relationship similar to the original pair. Students complete 12 problems.
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Creating Your Own Ad
Students analyze the effective advertisements in print and Internet ads. In this advertisements lesson, students create a collage of original and repurposed words, graphics, and images of advertisements. Students create a poster for the...
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Onomatopoeia
Fifth graders investigate onomatopoeia. In this reading lesson, 5th graders create a list of onomatopoeic words from books read and brainstorm words of their own in small groups.
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Getway to More Descriptive Writing
Students use more precise descriptive words in their writing.
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Connecting Poetry with Philanthropy
Students use their knowledge of philanthropy and poetic conventions to write original poetry about philanthropic giving. In this philanthropy instructional activity, students write poetry based on philanthropy using poetic conventions....
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Christmas Complete The Paragraph Puzzle
In this Christmas complete the paragraph puzzle worksheet, students write in six missing words from the word list at the bottom of the page to complete the paragraph, with more puzzles and answers available online.
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Greek Music Video Project
In this Greek gods and goddesses worksheet, students choose and Greek god or goddess and dress up as that character. Students write a song or use music to preform a skit to illustrate their origins, the country, and characters from...
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Defining Moments
Seventh graders use context clues to define words. In this language arts lesson plan, 7th graders engage in a class discussion regarding how we determine the meaning of words that we aren't familiar with. Then, students complete a very...
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Now, Unto Thy Bones, Goodnight.
Students read Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing to learn about epitaphs. In this Shakespeare lesson, students read sections from the play and piece together Shakespeare's epitaph using index cards. Students create a 4 line...
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What's So Nice About Fairy Tales?
Seventh graders modernize a fairy tale, then compare their version with he original version and determine whether or not they've changed the author's original intent.
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Introduction to American Literature
Pupils discuss the topic of freedom and what the National Anthem means to them and to our country. They create a new and original verse for the National Anthem.
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Using Descriptive Language
Students explore the technique of descriptive writing. As a class, they observe a poster and describe it using adjectives. They discuss how descriptive words can be used literally and figuratively in the world of advertising. After...
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Changing Statements to Question - The Verb "Do"
In this sentence to questions worksheet, students change 12 statements to questions which include the proper form of the verb "do." They focus on maintaining the time in the original sentence.
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Using Pronoun With the Verb "To Be"
In this pronoun usage worksheet, students write 8 original sentences using the given pronoun and the proper form of the verb, "to be." They write the corresponding pronoun for each of 10 given nouns.