For this weather worksheet, students participate in 8 general weather-related activities. Students also answer 5 yes/no questions about weather.

Students listen to poem, Where Oh Where On the Playground, Do I Love to Be?, and practice reading, interpreting, and making maps, charts, and graphs in surveying classmates and discussing their favorite places to play in school playground.

In this short story worksheet, students read a short story, answer eight questions about summer, match key pictures with their literal words, complete six sentences with correct words and then draw a picture of what they like to do in...

In this language arts instructional activity, students read the story and use the vocabulary words in order to solve the word search. The answers are found on page 3.

In this environment worksheet, students look for the facts of how to conserve water and help the environment. They complete the activities as part of the unit.

Students learn to prepare a play dough recipe in order to enhance their measurement, reading, and creative-thinking skills. In this lesson on making play dough, students measure and add the different ingredients, while simultaneously...

In this shape worksheet, students color squares orange, circles blue, and count and write the numbers of each shape present. A clown is shown juggling the shapes.

Students create a book of sayings. In this oral language lesson, students record common sayings or idioms into a book. Students discover the meaning behind each saying.

Students experience The Fish Counting Rhyme. In this counting lesson plan, students practice counting while listening to The Fish Counting Rhyme.

In this reading and writing worksheet, 1st graders identify the words, print them on the lines, and then read 3 sentences that include pictures to help with each sentence.

Students examine how Chinese and Japanese artists used different kinds of birds as representations of ideas that were important in both cultures and create their own birds using the technique of origami.

In this shape recognition worksheet, students color the circles blue, the rectangles yellow, and the triangles red. Students then write the total number for each shape in the boxes.

Students identify the American language, how it has changed and effected culture, and become familiar with idioms. In this American language lesson, students study the eight parts of speech, identify literal and figurative speech, study...

Fourth graders interview older citizens to discover earlier educational history. They write essays based on their interviews.

This article focuses on children solving rebus puzzles, puzzles that are a combination of images and letters. It explains the benefits and history of the rebus puzzle and provides examples.

This article discusses the use of rebus (combination of pictures and words) puzzles and stories in the classroom; it also supplies a list of online sources for rebus puzzles and stories.

An excellent resource for teachers who are interested in teaching innovative poetry techniques to their elementary students. Uses proven and well-documented methods to teach poetic elements in reading and writing.

This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Our Mother Goose by S. N., a picture book of the ABC's and nursery rhymes with rebuses.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Hieroglyphic Bible Published by Field & Tuer (1888). This is a Bible partially in rebus form (some words replaced by pictures); it includes a selection of...

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Spring-Time Stories for Language Lessons by L. N. Fredericks (1883), short stories with blanks and pictures to help students learn the language.

This article offers a list of words that 8th graders should know by sight and links to several online resources for teachers including Internet4Classrooms, Puzzlemaker, Tools for Educators, and Fun With Words.

This e-text for And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel also features links to other fairy tales and nursery rhymes.

A combination of words and pictures creates a story about a little girl who takes a walk and ends up making friends with a little bird.

A combination of pictures and words creates a story about a family that goes on a picnic together.