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Homophones and Vivid Verbs

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students define and practice using synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, and homophones in complete sentences, paragraphs and essays. They include "vivid verbs" in their writing with the aid of a dictionary or thesaurus.
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Keeping verb tense consistent (Middle, Reading/Writing)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students improve their personal and academic writing by use of one consistent verb tense.
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COUNTERACTING MEDIA STEREOTYPING

For Teachers K - 6th
Students explore the effects of gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination.
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English Exercises: Idioms Exercise

For Students 5th - 10th
For this online interactive English worksheet, students respond to 8 fill in the blank questions about idioms. Students may submit their answers to be scored
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Reading...Try It, You Might Like It!

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Learners demonstrate through a choice of assessments, their understanding and enjoyment of materials they select to read.
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The Three Dimensions: Health, Wealth, and Wisdom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine seven lifestyle factors. In this personal health lesson, students will examine healthy lifestyles and create a personal health, wealth, and wisdom calendar.
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Sequencing

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders retell a story focusing on sequence. in this sequence lesson, 2nd graders read the story Carry Go Bring Come by Vyanne Samuels. They retell parts of the story and put them in the correct order. 
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Synthesizing Content on a Continuum: Developing Effective Communication

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students take a short quiz on what they already know about HIV/AIDS. In groups, they read an article on the disease and place the information from it on a timeline. They role-play different scenerios in which they have written the...
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Additions Incorporated

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students fill out a graphic organizer to prewrite about additions they would make to a school building. In this writing lesson plan, students do this as a start to a persuasive paper.
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Write, Read and Play

For Teachers K - 5th
Students integrate writing, reading and movement skills. They draw from a hat a movement skill (e.g., throwing, catching, kicking, etc.), sport, or related word (e. g., heart, muscle, etc.) and create a book written on the first or...
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Muscles for Locomotion

For Students 5th - 12th
In this muscles worksheet, students review the characteristics of the 3 types of muscles: smooth, skeletal, and cardiac. This worksheet has 7 matching and 4 short answer questions.
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Hometown Heroes

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students identify the factors of starting a business. In this business lesson, students interview a local entrepreneur and discuss the factors that influenced their decision to start a business. Students create a composition based upon...
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Every Dog Has Its Day

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the use of imagery in writing. In this writing lesson, students create a writing piece that features sensory images without resorting to the use of clichés.
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Interview! Magazine

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers interview a subject and write a biographical sketch for a fictional magazine. In this interview lesson, students choose a person to interview and create two sets of questions. Middle schoolers conduct the interview....
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I, Spy

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders utilize the library in order to find the answers to three questions about The Revolutionary War. For this writing and library skills lesson, 5th graders pretend they are a Spy, and write the answers in a fictional letter to...
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Career Stories

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders write and solve word problems related to career stories.
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Themes of Geography in the News Contest

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners discuss current events in the world today. After choosing one to focus on, they identify the themes of Geography present in them and practice using new vocabulary. They use the internet to find all of the themes present in...
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Emotive language

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students examine emotion-based language. Students read a news story to discover examples of emotive words. They develop a class list of examples of emotive language. As a class project, students select a news story and change it into...
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders engage in Layered Curriculum that is essentially, an opportunity for self-made choice in the process of evaluation. While reading this novel students get to choose the projects that best help apply what is read.
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Writing with Writers

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students identify unique characteristics of different writing genres such as biography, folktales and mysteries. They create original piece of writing using the writing process and then post their original writing online. They think...
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Today We Encountered the White Man

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze and interpret artifacts and a timeline to get specific information.  In this timeline lesson plan students work in groups to research an Indian tribe and write an information piece of their research. 
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Picture This

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create a descriptive paragraph about their past or their heritage and provide a picture to go along with it. In this past and heritage lesson plan, students share their paragraph with the class.
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Local Retreats

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils consider how their favorite local places might be interesting spots for visitors. They investigate and write articles on these locations to examine what their community has to offer and to create an Unlikely Tourist's Guide to...
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Eloquent Speech

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discover that oral and written communication can be improved, and made to sound more eloquent, when the following questions are addressed; Who? What? Where? When? Why? students use word processing to copy a poem using clip...

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