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A Turkey for Thanksgiving - Lesson #2
Second graders investigate realistic fiction, holiday celebrations, making tally charts. In this multi-disciplinary lesson, 2nd graders listen to a story about Thanksgiving and one about the Chinese New Year to develop an understanding...
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The Tell - Tale Heart
Students read The Tell Tale Heart and practice critical analysis while reflecting on its underlying meanings. In this reading lesson, students make predictions, monitor their own comprehension and adjust their reading accordingly....
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Getting Dressed For Success
Students in an ESL classroom describe and identify different clothing items. In groups, they compare and contrast the various clothing tradtions found in each home country. They discuss the importance of clothing and how they should...
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The Emperor's New Clothes
In this comprehension worksheet, learners answer short answer and discussion questions for the story The Emperor's New Clothes. Students complete 14 questions.
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Awesome Outlines to Organize Writing
Fourth graders practice writing outlines. Using worksheets imbedded students get lots of practice enhancing their skills writing outlines
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Stop, Look, and Listen
Second graders participate in a class discussion and view a traffic safety video dealing with crossing the street safely. They discuss the steps taken in order to cross the street safely and then analyze the benefits of walking and...
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Parts of a Story
Students read a short fiction book and demostrate comprehension by identifying the main characters, setting, conflict, theme, and summarizing the main points. They organize the information in Inspiration and create a powerpoint to show...
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Refining Your Public Speaking Skills
Students use the rubric created in the Explore Lesson to help them craft an effective oral presentation worthy of a formal governmental hearing. They polish their oral presentations that are based on their position papers through guided...
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Working for Water
Learners examine the ways that government works to help improve aquatic habitats. In this water habitats instructional activity students view a video and plan a school restoration project.
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Oral Directions: Practice for the Slam
Learners practice their poetry presentations. In this poetry slam lesson, students use the provided practice feedback form to prepare for presenting their poems prior to participating in their own poetry slam competition.
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Making a Case for Beginning Wigh Suprasegmental Features in Pronunciation
Pupils explore the ways in which voice quality and intonation can convey meaning.
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A Seed for All Needs
Students identify uses for plants. In this agricultural lesson, students read the book Spring Gardening and distinguish between food plants and flowers. Students plant flower in cups as a follow-up activity.
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Speech Therapy Students Interact Between Schools
Students use technology to improve their communication skills and have the ability to interact with other speech students attending other elementary schools. Through riddles, games, and other activities, students attain their speech...
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Ready, Set, Read!
Students practice reading fluency and reading with expression. They develop reading fluency using timed reading. Students read "Arthur's Reading Race" and record how far they read in one minute. They repeat the reading in order to see...
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Picture This
Students examine how to create mental images to help them comprehend what they read. They discuss what it means to visualize and they draw a mental picture of what they read. Students draw a picture of what they see in their minds while...
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New York State Language Arts Test Grade 6
In this New York state language arts test worksheet, 6th graders complete activities such as reading passages, answering comprehension questions, writing, and more. Students complete 34 questions.
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Listen, Look, and Move!
First graders are introduced to the movement and singing game "Skip to My Lou". They identify several locomotor activities to perform with the song.
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To Go Where No Student Has Gone Before
Eighth graders participate in interactive video teleconference with employees of NASA Johnson Space Center. Students visit inside of space station module, take video tour of Russian-built Service Module by Astronaut Bill Shepherd, visit...
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Watch the Sky for Lightning
Students identify lightning in pictures from the provided Internet site. They study a definition of lightning as a form of heat energy that can be dangerous. They state and illustrate a minimum of three lightning safety rules.
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Creating a Literacy-Rich Learning Environment
Students in a teacher education program use a jigsaw method to identify the six areas of language arts to be taught in an early childhood classroom. They describe their vision of a literacy rich environment and practices uses a KWL...
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A Course in Basic Skills
Tenth graders complete a course in basic skills in order to meet the standards for sophomore year. Using one of their classmates papers, they identify the main idea, topic sentence and theme. They also identify the transitional words...
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Grade 6 Language Arts Book 3
In this grade 6 language arts book 3 worksheet, 6th graders read 2 passages and write 4 paragraphs using details from the passages.
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Accountability System for Academics
Students explore, analyze and study the culture of Costa Rica and create a travel brochure, by hand or utilizing a computer, about Costa Rica. They complete their brochures and present them to their classmates and then turn them in for...
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Selecting Trees for Urban Environments
High schoolers consider the best place to plant a tree. In this environment activity, students identify urban locations that are compatible with particular tree types. High schoolers decide what trees would go where and why they would...