Everyone loves the tales involving King Arthur and his knights. After reading Knights of the Round Table by Gwen Gross, learners draw inferences and conclusions, analyze story elements, and discuss figurative language, including...

Focus on vocabulary, comprehension, and analysis while reading A Weave of Woods, a colorful picture book by Robert D. San Souci. Young learners use worksheets to preview, predict, practice paraphrasing, and make comparisons. The...

Kenzuke's Kingdom is a wonderful adventure about a boy sailing around the world, it's also the focus of this lesson. Students read the novel as a class then use the Comic Life website to create a two-page comic based on the story. This...

Students explore science of taxonomy and the Five Kingdoms of life, categorize organisms into Kingdoms, and create multi-media presentations illustrating knowledge of a Kingdom. They collect data and related pictures on the Internet,...

How do fruits relate to flowers and seeds? Identify the seeds and their purpose with a coloring activity for kindergartners. Once they color the seeds of apples, bananas, and peas (among others), kids get hands-on experience with bean...

In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 9 short answer and essay questions about Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees. Students may check some of their answers online.

In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 8 short answer and essay questions about Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas. Students may check some of their answers online.

Students write a poem. In this historical figures lesson, students learn about Mary Ann Camp, read an interview, read vignettes about life in her host countries and read her poem "Oh, Kingdom in the Sky." Students answer questions about...

What was life like during the Victorian era? Images of crowded factories and lavish palaces may come to mind—and both would be accurate. Learn more about Britain during the 64-year reign of Queen Victoria with a series of informational...

Lovers, madmen, and readers of A Midsummer Night's Dream will need seething brains to complete a crossword puzzle designed for Shakespeare's engaging comedy.

Students view pictures of Amelia Earhart and discuss the social and historical context of her life. They read excerpts of Earhart's autobiography "The Fun of It" and analyze her purpose in writing it.

He to you? She to they? Are your young writers starting their sentences with one type of pronoun and then shifting to another? Provide them with a instructional activity that lets them practice maintaining a consistent point of view. The...

In this online interactive literature instructional activity, students respond to 9 short answer and essay questions about Yann Martel's Life of Pi. Students may check some of their answers online.

In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Yann Martel's Life of Pi. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

In this The Autobiography of Malcolm X instructional activity, students determine the answers to a series of questions pertaining to the life of Malcolm X as presented in the work by Malcolm X and Alex Haley.

In this sponge instructional activity, students read about the different parts of a sponge and answer 20 short answer questions that follow. They color and label different sponge drawing.

Young scholars investigate a city in England by analyzing images on the web. In this listening comprehension instructional activity, students practice remembering details after hearing an audio tape about a city in England called Dorset....

Students listen to someone from the Black Country in the United Kingdom discuss where they live. In this listening lesson plan, students also reflect on where they live.

As part of a study of poetic devices, kids are asked to identify the assonance, consonance, and alliteration found in a series of lines of poetry, and then identify the rhyme scheme and the types of rhyme found in Poe's "Annabel Lee,"...

Students are introduced to the concept of cultural diffusion. In groups, they identify the culture of Mali, Nigeria and Ethiopia and work together to research how cultural diffusion has changed the country. To end the lesson, they...

Use a handy concept analysis guide as you begin your unit on William Shakespeare's The Tempest. With character descriptions, literary themes, and anticipated affective issues, the guide can help those new to using The Tempest craft...