National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Lesson Plan: Arabic Poetry
This online lesson plan introduces information about the Arabic poetic art form known as the ghazal. It includes Educational Objectives, classroom activities and projects, examples, and a list of the relevant national educational standards.
Crayola
Crayola: Big as Life Book Report (Lesson Plan)
This is a fun idea to display your students' book reports, and encourage reading at the same time! In this online lesson, children use special markers to actually draw their book report on the windows of the library or classroom. Also...
Crayola
Crayola: Coming Attractions Theater (Lesson Plan)
A fun twist on the standard book report! At this learners work on their sequencing skills, while creating a "Theatre," to display their book report. Also provides resources and adaptations. (To access this lesson plan, you must register...
Crayola
Crayola: Birth of Bits and Bytes (Lesson Plan)
This lesson plan incorporates many subjects! Learners create a flow chart after studying the "Evolution," of computers. Also provides adaptations and references to use. (To access this lesson plan, you must register with Crayola.com....
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Figurative Language
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach young scholars to identify and explain the meaning of figurative language including personification and idiom. Lessons are based on the books Once in a...
Read Works
Read Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Poetry
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use two provided poems to learn to identify and understand the use of similes and metaphors in poetry. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...
SEDL
Southwest Educational Development Laboratory: Spiders
This detailed lesson, designed to integrate mathematics, science and language arts, explores the world of the spider. Through a variety of learning activities, students will learn about spider characteristics, their life cycle, their...
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Huntington Library
Huntington Library: The Development of Writing and Books: Part Ii [Pdf]
In this lesson, young scholars examine early civilizations and the evolution of written language, at different early methods used to record information in writing, how these methods evolved, and at the impact of books on societies.
BBC
Bbc World Service: Learning English Grammar
The Grammar and Vocabulary area of the BBC World Service site has a section on common grammar problems and a section on idioms and expressions. There are also links to pages that provide English language learning opportunities that...
Read Works
Readworks: Figurative Language 1st Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students learn to identify and interpret the meaning of hyperbole in a fictional text. The lesson uses the book My Dad by Anthony Browne. Example charts and handouts for this lesson are...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson Plan: Future Possible Selves
In this lesson, students create future-self plans. When presented with the idea of future possible selves, students have the opportunity to identify who they want to be.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Intermediate Level
Improve English language proficiency at this comprehensive ELL (English Language Learner) site for Spanish-speaking students. It is subdivided into eight areas of language development: vocabulary, grammar, listening comprehension,...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Beginning Level
Improve English language proficiency at this comprehensive ELL (English Language Learner) site for Spanish speaking students. This section is subdivided into eight areas of language development: vocabulary, grammar, listening...
Read Works
Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Figurative Language
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan in which students use the book Once in a Blue Moon by Nicola Morgan to learn to identify and interpret the meaning of figurative language in a fiction text. Lesson includes direct...
Read Works
Read Works: Figurative Language 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this three-lesson unit, students use the book If You Hopped Like a Frog by David Schwartz and some additional short texts to learn to identify and understand the use of simile and metaphor in fiction...
Read Works
Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Personification
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learners will use the book The Runaway Tortilla by Eric A. Kimmel to learn to identify and understand the use of personification in a fiction text. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice, and...
Read Works
Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Idioms
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students use the book More Parts by Tedd Arnold to learn to identify and understand the use of idiom in a fiction text. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...
Read Works
Read Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Metaphors
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book If You Hopped Like a Frog by David M. Schwartz and an additional short text to learn to identify and understand the use of metaphor in fiction. Lesson includes...
Read Works
Read Works: 4th Grade Lesson: Puns
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Rhyme & PUNishment Adventures in Wordplay by Brian P. Cleary to learn to identify and understand the use of puns. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided...
TESL Journal
The Internet Tesl Journal: For Teachers of English as a Second Language
Articles, research papers, lessons plans, classroom handouts, teaching ideas and links for teachers of English as a second language students.
PBS
Pbs Lesson Plan: Chances Are Talking Probability (Pdf) [Pdf]
An introductory lesson in probability for students in grades three to five. The concepts presented in this lesson are interwoven, over time, into a current unit of study. Students examine closely the "language" of probability as used in...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Web Resources for 3 5 Reading and Language Intervention
Tons of online resources for reading and language skills compiled nicely into a student-friendly SMART Notebook file.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: The Development of Writing and Books [Pdf]
In this lesson, students examine early civilizations and the evolution of written language, the role of the Renaissance in developing the printing process and in distributing information, and the human desire to record information.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 6: Out of the Dust
Focused on the Dust Bowl and how families fought for a meaningful existence and survival, this unit will offer students different perspectives on how people respond to adversity, the lessons that can be learned from hardship and failure,...