Literacy Design Collaborative
The Lottery
Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" provides middle schoolers with an opportunity to hone their close reading and literary analysis skills. After annotating their copy of the story, writer's craft an essay in which they analyze...
College Board
Evaluating Sources: How Credible Are They?
How can learners evaluate research sources for authority, accuracy, and credibility? By completing readings, discussions, and graphic organizers, scholars learn how to properly evaluate sources to find credible information. Additionally,...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Fun Language Arts Games
This article discusses reasons and suggestions for teaching the language arts curriculum through playing games including dictionary races and alphabetical order races, Mad Libs, punctuation games, crossword puzzle, word searches and...
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Language Arts Professional Books
Resources for teachers in children's literature can be found in this bibliography--whole language philosophy, reading/writing techniques, spelling, and assessment.
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: Art and Language Lesson Plans
Find two dozen lesson plans developed by California teachers that use pieces from the Getty's collection as source material for interdisciplinary approaches to arts and language arts learning.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Teaching Art With Picture Books
Lesson where students learn about Eric Carle, create an online Project Poster about him, and create a collage using his style of illustrations. Students will discuss their art in small groups using vocabulary learned during the lesson.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Professional Development Workshops and Courses
Annenberg Media offers over 50 workshops and courses for teachers which can be used for graduate credit (through Colorado State University), for Continuing Education Units (CEUs), or for enrichment. The courses cover subjects in The...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Masks and Aesop's Fables
This multi-media visual and language arts lesson offers intellectual, creative, and interpretive opportunities through use of books, music, and the internet. It offers complete grade-leveled lesson plans for grades k-4 which include...
TES Global
Tes: Daily Dazzle D
[Free Registration/Login Required] A daily language arts daily warm-up activity is provided on this resource. This resource assesses 17 critical language arts skills.
Arizona State University
Asu: Lesson Two: Art for Protest or Persuasion (Printmaking Option)
Site for teachers who are seeking to integrate art and printmaking with language, communication and social studies. It is based on Chicano and Mexican use of the print to make social statements.
Big Learners
Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.l.1.6 : First Grade English Language Arts
Here is a collection of our common core aligned worksheets for core standard L.1.6. A brief description of the worksheets is on each of the worksheet widgets. Click on the images to view, download, or print them. All worksheets are free...
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Little House in the Valley
Students will explore nineteenth-century life in the White Mountains of New Hampshire through a tale of a family who lived there by analyzing a painting by Thomas Cole and reading a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Story Starting Participles
In this lesson, Roni Schotter's picture book entitled The Boy Who Loved Words is used as the mentor text. This Language Arts Common Core Standards-aligned lesson pre-writing task engages students in writing a collection of ideas of story...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Marshmallow and Pretzel Sensory Writing
This language arts lesson applies hands-on materials to help middle schoolers apply the sensory details need for writing. It also incorporates writing skills for comparing and contrasting. In addition, students will utilize Thinkfinity...
Other
Utah Valley State College: Anglo Saxon Art and Architecture
Illustrated notes on Anglo-Saxon art and architecture, particularly jewelry, prepared for a university-level course on Anglo-Saxon language, literature, and culture.
Other
Shutterfly: Ell Resources: Videos: K 1
An annotated list of Youtube educational videos designed as teacher resources for a variety of English language learner topics. Science, social studies, language arts and math are the featured subjects.
Other
Programming Art: Director Card Game Tutorial
This tutorial will show you how to get started making a card game in Director using the Lingo programming language. You will also get some experience with objects, behaviors, and other Director basics by downloading the free source code...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of African Art: Activity Room
Come discover Madagascar--its geography, animals, music and language. Test your current knowledge and learn new things too.
Other
Denver Art Museum: Northwest Coast Indian Carving
Explore in detail two examples of the carving and painting style of the Native Americans of the Northwest Coast: an ocean-going canoe and a bentwood box, which was used for storage. Read about materials that Native craftspeople used and...
PBS
Art21: Jenny Holzer
This look at art in the 21st century focuses on artist Jenny Holzer. Her combination of language, poetry, and projection creates unique installations.
PBS
Pbs: Improvise a Short Story
This lesson incorporates the art of improvisation with writing a collaborative short story. Young scholars will learn the relationships music has with other disciplines outside of the arts.
Other
China Daily: China Culture
Broad access to up-to-date cultural news about China, from the Chinese publisher of a national English-language daily newspaper. Includes a wealth of information about Chinese history, politics, and the economy along with news and...
Other
University of Central Florida: English Classroom Uses for the Digital Camera
This site has nine great lesson plans involving the use of a digital camera in a language arts class. There are suggested activities for students in every grade level.
Other
Story Arts: Storytelling Activities & Plot Structure Scenarios
This collection of storytelling activities-developed by storyteller/author Heather Forest for her storytelling workshops with students, teachers, and librarians-can be expanded by educators into language arts lesson plans to support...
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