Which of these pictures begins with this sound? Learners focus on letters g and h in this alphabet practice instructional activity. They trace and print each letter and add them to an incomplete alphabet. Then, they...

Pair printing practice with initial sound recognition using a matching worksheet. Learners focus on lowercase letters m and n as they match each to words that begin with the same sound. There is space for printing...

Did you know that modern Chinese literature “grew from the psychoanalytical theory of Sigmund Freud”? Designed for a world literature class, seniors are introduced to “One Evening in the Rainy Season,” Shi Zhecun’s stream of...

From the Purdue Online Writing Lab, an editing practice exercise that focuses on the correct spelling of words that end in -ible or -able. Young authors proofread a paragraph about a date gone awry (high interest content). Onscreen it...

Charles Dickens offers an excellent example of sensory writing in this reading comprehension activity. Learners read excerpts from the novel Hard Times in which he describes the New England industrial city of Coketown. They...

Students cooperate in small groups to create an audio tour of a zoo exhibit during a field trip. They record personal reactions, zoo sounds and information learned about the exhibit. They then edit the audio recording and add music to...

You don't have to slay the dragon in this activity. Young writers review poetic devices with a set of worksheets about alliteration and similes. Once they finish waxing poetic about their dragon friends, they craft a final...

This is a nicely designed jeopardy game with the categories animals, space, rocks, simple machines, and weather available for 5 values. There are some non-essential sound effects included.  The links work and you can return to the...

Similes are a great way to get your writers thinking about descriptive details. They read a brief explanation which covers clichés and the general wording of a simile. Then, learners try a few on their own. First, they complete nine...

Falling wages. Rising unemployment. Falling prices. Sound familiar? Young economists look at the role the US banking system had in causing the Great Depression.

Students view a multimedia presentation to identify beginning sounds.  In this phonics instructional activity, students recognize beginning sounds.  Students navigate a website for addition phonics sounds.

Students practice spelling words with the long e sounds using ee or ea. In this ee or ea lesson plan, students complete words using the ee or ea pattern, identify rhyming words, and write a rhyming poem using ee words. Using word and...

Do you hear a k in the word Christmas? It sounds like it, but it's really a ch that creates the same sound! Teach young learners this fun song, "There is No K in Christmas," and show them words that use ch to make the same /k/ sound. 

Class members listen as the instructor reads pairs of sentences that contain the simple present and simple past tense of the same verbs.

Start out your alphabet practice right using this phonics and printing learning exercise. Pre-readers begin by tracing and printing lowercase letters a and b and adding them to an incomplete alphabet at the bottom. They...

Three different groups work simultaneously in this lesson. One group works on sight word review by holding up common words on flashcards and passing them around in a circle. Another group reviews word blending by pulling graphemes out of...

It’s poetry T.I.M.E! Individuals use the T.I.M.E. format (T = Title, thought, and theme;  I = Imagery and figurative language; M = music and sound; E = emotion) to study a poet, collect poems that have a similar theme, and create a...

Teacher and class work together to build strong phonemic awareness. They say a series of words, isolate the initial phoneme, and say its sound. This lesson is super short but does have a decent extension activity suggestion.

First graders practice their language art capabilities by rhyming words.  In this vocabulary lesson, 1st graders examine words that rhyme with rice and create rhyming sentences using the same sound.  Students complete a quick...

Pupils in groups present their research as a group and each student delivers a shoe box of their total work. They assess the process of how to research a topic and present it in a meaningful multimedia presentation. Each group chooses...

Walking in nature is the theme of a unit designed to support English language development lessons. Scholars look, write, speak, and move to explore topics such as camping, woodland animals, instruments,...

Students study the /u/ phoneme by determining its sound, reciting a tongue twister, and writing the lower 'u.' Next, they listen to Sue Dickson's, The Umbrella Book, while raising a paper umbrella each time they hear the /u/ sound....

Students study the /a/ phoneme by determining how the mouth move when it makes the sound by imitating a sneeze. They recite a tongue twister, practice writing the lowercase "a" and listen to a story while identifying the letter sound....

In this creative writing worksheet, students utilize a variety of strategies to creatively write alliterations, tongue twisters, similes and finally an acrostic poem.