Students improve their reading skills by completing at home reading assignments. In this reading skills lesson, students participate in a bulletin board competition to help them track and progress with their daily reading. Students...

Fifth graders read stories about giving and poverty and discuss why it is important to give to others. In this giving lesson plan, 5th graders make quilts to give to those in need.

Students examine the story, "Charlotte's Web" in the nine lessons of this unit. As the students progress through the book, they will explore the story plot, setting, character, and the value of friendship.

Students interview senior citizens about life in the old days. Sharing research with their classmates, they create their own database. They use technology to enhance the information they gathered from the senior citizens.

Pupils make dog collages using triangles and rectangles. In this collage lesson, students use cut-out triangles and rectangles to make a dog collage after looking examples of Keith Haring's work and listening to Emma Dodd's, Dog's...

Students explore the Japanese culture and literature through various learning centers. They compare and contrast story details in two stories and complete a Venn diagram. After comparing the stories, they rotate to different centers and...

Seventh graders explore tales, stories and folklore while practicing creative illustration techniques.

Students review for a literature exam by answering knowledge question, interpretation questions and judgement questions about a novel or story they have just read.

Students read a short story about Easter. They recognize and point to pictures of the key words (egg, chicken, rabbit, basket, flower). They make an Easter basket and count how many chickens can fit inside. They also practice identifying...

Fourth graders read "Almaden" about a Korean woman living in New York. They give a brief background on Korean history and culture and discuss point of view. In groups, they work on discussions questions together.

Students identify oviparous animals. They brainstorm a list of animals that lay eggs, read "Chickens Aren't The Only Ones" by Ruth Heller and then add to the list. Students complete a booklet that shows an egg and an oviparous animal.

Second graders design and create a clay tile to represent their families. They research and discuss similarities and differences among families of different cultures, create a tile to represent their own and then compile the tiles in a...

Students make cut-out gingerbread cookies. After reading "The Gingerbread Boy", their cookies "disappear" and students must make predictions and draw conclusions about what happened to their cookies.

Young scholars present models, oral reports, and presentations on animal's characteristics. They research various animals and the characteristics that link them to specific animal groups. They answer specific questions relating to...

Students get to know the characters and events that shaped American folktales through writing, drawing and singing activities. Handouts and worksheets are included.

Students, while silently reading the book, "Mr. Pilling's Pond," by Patricia Nikolina Clark, and "One Good Turn," by Bette Anne Rieth, discuss how to summarize each book. They review the five steps to summarization and write them down.

This series of 12 downloadable activities teach students some basics of story writing, using books or videos from the PBS "Arthur" series as a springboard. Activities include creating story maps, asking questions about characters and...

The students will be able to determine the theme of a story by recalling key details that support the theme.