Students visit a pumpkin farm and discuss the characteristics of a pumpkin and how they grow. They create a class story about the trip to the farm with each student supplying a sequence for the story.

Make works of art using a vintage yet effective etching strategy. The surface of a semiconductor chip has specific patterns formed through a process called etching. Through a lab investigation, young scholars recreate that process...

Three apples—green, red, and rotten—exemplify character traits, negative and positive. Following a discussion about the classroom community, scholars complete an apple-themed worksheet that challenges them to read each trait, color it...

Celebrate the arrival of spring with this fun primary grade science unit. Engaging young scientists with a variety of hands-on activities and inquiry-based investigations, these lessons are a great way to teach children about...

Examine the weather of the four seasons, look at seasonal activities, and tell which months are part of each season with this lesson. Your class will play a game, sing a song, and write additional stanzas to seasonal poetry.

Reinforce vocabulary and context clues with this Cloze activity. After reading a short passage about skateboarding, second graders fill in ten missing words. This worksheet contains an answer key. 

Young scholars analyze the archetype of 'the fall' in Shakespeare's Macbeth. In this literary analysis lesson, students work in tiered learning groups to analyze the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Young scholars use the book of...

In this Humpty Dumpty worksheet, students complete a poem, word search, and maze revolving around the poem Humpty Dumpty. Students complete 3 activities.

Help your pupils track the plot of a short story with this SMART Board activity. Using the short story "The Dinner Party" by Mona Gardner (though the lesson would work with any other short story), they define the exposition, rising...

Three short puzzles emphasize Latin roots grad, mot, and cad in English spelling and vocabulary. Learners choose words from a list and complete spellings in boxes with definitions for clues. A reading passage using the words is included....

It's time to write! First, lead your emerging writers in a power writing activity. It takes six minutes and focuses on creative brainstorming. The class is given two words (duck and apple are suggested, but alter the words for different...

Students collect financial statements from the district and find out what, if anything,is cut from athletics. Students investigate how many hope to use athletic scholarships next fall. Students interview students, their parents and...

Test your pupils' vocabulary skills with this somewhat unconventional activity. Using context clues and word roots, leaners must decide whether a word is used correctly in a sentence or if it is not. This is a true/false activity; if the...

An overview of the history and tradition of Ash Wednesday in 2 paragraphs is accompanied by an array of language activities: cloze exercise, phrase matching, word jumble, multiple choice, sequencing, interview, group presentation,...

Students practice subject predicate agreement through the activities of this instructional activity. Selecting the correct verb to agree with the subject of the sentence is used in the preparation of documents, resumes, memos, letters,...

Students examine the use of dialogue while writing stories. They decide what two different characters would say to each other based on their character traits of being nasty and nice. They complete an activity page.

A word bank of intermediate-level words with the Latin roots grad/gress, mot, and cad/cas/cid helps learners fill in the blanks on this interactive online quiz. I'd assign it for review to maximize instructional minutes between whole...

Using context clues and learning root words are two great ways to improve vocabulary. This resource taps into both of those strategies, offering up 12 fill-in-the-blank sentences, a word bank, and information on Latin roots. You might go...

Learners complete various activities using their spelling words, which are not provided on the worksheet. Activities include using spelling words alliteratively, finding synonyms, using words in sentences with specified parts of speech,...

Help your class brush up on their spelling words and review lots of other English skills in the process. They are given 10 activities to complete to review parts of speech, compound words, synonyms, and alliteration. Creative writing is...

In this vocabulary activity worksheet, students read the statements about South America and complete them with 10 words from the word bank.

Your can use this spelling and high frequency word daily activity worksheet as part of your regular morning schedule. Learners ay the name of the pictures, write sentences, fill in the blanks, and read a story. There are 4 activities to...

Students can review the concept of count and non count nouns in this activity. Using this resource with an overview of the use of count and non count nouns and a short activity, learners can practice this concept.

Provided here are ten example sentences for reviewing and practicing when to use an instead of a. There is no explanation of the rules about when and how to use a and/or an included in the resource. You may want to use this learning...