In this consumer math challenge instructional activity, students solve problems using the titles and prices of books at a book fair. Students solve 4 problems.

Students create the basis for a fantasy story. They discuss what makes a story "fantasy" and identify which stories include something that could not happen in the real world. They determine what these fantasy stories have in common.

For this crossword puzzle worksheet, students solve a crossword puzzle by choosing the correct homophone. For example, "Mark threw/through the ball to his friend."

In these homonym worksheets, students discover that some words sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings. Students complete 4 sentences, choosing from the word bank. There are 20 worksheets available here...

Students explore the importance of toads and the need for toad habitats in the environment. For this animal habitats lesson, students create an adobe habitat for toads by using a clay pot. Students paint their pots and place them in...

Students become familiar with the style of architecture of medieval times.  In this architecture lesson, students design a model of a medieval castle including its cornerstone. Students understand scale in their representation.

In this alliteration worksheet, 4th graders write alliterations with their first names, find rhyming patterns in poems, and more. Students complete 4 activities.

Pupils study castles of Japan while comparing and contrasting them with those of in Europe from the feudal era. They complete a unit of studies that includes reading, writing, Internet research, and critical thinking. They examine how...

This worksheet explains to ELL learners how to alphabetize in the English language and then gives learners an opportunity to practice this skill by putting 5 different lists in alphabetical order. This could be used as a practice...

In this reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 9 short answer and essay questions based on Lewis Carroll's Alice’s Adventures Through the Looking Glass.

In this homonyms worksheets, learners are given word cards for 14 sets of words that sound the same but are spelled differently. Students can use these cards to play matching games.

In this fantasy word puzzle worksheet, students examine the 28 fantasy-related terms in the word bank and locate them in the word search puzzle.

In this rhyming words worksheet, 4th graders complete activities such as circling rhyming words, writing rhyming words, and more. Students complete 6 activities.

In this similes worksheet, 4th graders complete the similes and highlight similes in a poem. Students complete 4 activities on this worksheet.

In this metaphor worksheet, learners make a "word card" with the word metaphor for their vocabulary bank, then determine whether statement from The Dragonslayer are similes or metaphors, 

Fourth graders respond to six sayings that are introduced in this lesson. They brainstorm, justify, explain, describe, create and relate as they respond.

Read and search Chaucer's famous work, "The Canterbury Tales." Text is provided in untranslated Middle English.

This is a 27-page PDF of GAWAYNE AND THE GREEN KNIGHT: A Fairy Tale by Charlton Miner Lewis; a modern-language retelling of Sir Gawain and the Green Night.

At this website, read the the full text of John Dryden's long poem, "Tales from Chaucer."

Note on the jousting tournament and its cultural meaning and literary representation (such as in Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale").

In this lesson plan, students will consider Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. This lesson plan explores symmetry in the structure and themes...

Have your students ever read any of Geoffrey Chaucer's work? Check out this comprehensive site featuring links to several sites focused on his life and "The Canterbury Tales."

Read and learn more about this fascinating tale in this comprehensive site about The Wife of Bath's Tale.

A scanned copy of the 1899 publication of The Courteous Knight and Other Tales by E. Edwardson, a book of stories for children.