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Charles Dickens Activity Worksheets Chapters 1-12
In these Charles Dickens worksheets, students complete several different activities that cover chapters one through twelve of the text.
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My Brother Sam is Dead: A study of the Revolutionary War
Fifth graders complete an analysis of the Revolutionary War through literature. After "My Brother Sam Is Dead," students create a time capsule containing items that would be relevant during the Revolutionary War. They identify key...
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What Did You Say?
Second graders role-play various situations in which they use verbal and non-verbal communication.
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Sorting Out Homophones in Roald Dahl's
Students explore the concept of homophones. In this homophone lesson, students use a selection from the book Matilda to review homophones. Students use a web to identify homophones.
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Mark Twain Lesson Plans
Celebrate the birthday of Mark Twain and learn about American life and literature along the great Mississippi River.
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Communicating Feelings
In this literacy worksheet, learners work in groups about the concepts of feelings and communication. They write the types of communication in the graphic organizer.
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Management of Grief and Loss
Fifth graders learn of coping behaviors related to grief and loss. They recognize the tasks associated with the grief and loss process. They also have an opportunity to identify common ways literary characters cope with loss.
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Acting Out as we Go
Fourth graders use motor imaging to remember the definitions of words. In this vocabulary activity, 4th graders work in groups to make a pantomime to help them remember a word. Students document the experience in their notebooks.
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"Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
Students use estimation skills to calculate distance traveled and then calculate walking rate traveled in MPH.
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Global Peace Lesson Plan
Fifth graders recognize the characteristics of poetry. In this poetry lesson, 5th graders listen to poetry by Dionne Brand and discuss the meaning of the poems. Students construct their own poems and present them as an assessment.
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Author Study
Students focus their attention on the study of one author's works - not just one book, but a variety of works written by the same author - to discover what themes and/or other commonalities might run throughout the body of one person's...
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Principal Parts of Verbs
In this parts of verbs worksheet, students review the principal parts of verbs: present, present participle, past, and past participle. Students then underline the main verb in each sentence and write present, present participle, past,...
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Present Tense Exercise 20
In this present progressive tense worksheet, students fill in each blank with the correct form of the verb in the present progressive tense. Students complete 12 sentences.
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Characters' Coming of Age
Students develop older versions of child or adolescent characters from favorite works of literature, adapting them for teenage or adult sequels. They each outline a sequel and write its first chapter.
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Potter and US English
Pupils examine the difference between US English and UK English by using Harry Potter as an example. Students analyze the two dialects by trying to think of word equivalents on an included worksheet.
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Animals of Madagascar
Students are each assigned an animal from Madagascar. They research their animal and design a picture book about their animal. Students design a cover page, back page, bibliography page and the title page. Their book will contain...
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Stand Uo If....
Students participate in an activity that allows them to better get to know each other. In this inquiry lesson students use a psychomotor activity to better know their classmates.