Students practice reading with expression. After discussing how reading with feeling and expression can enhance the text, students listen as their partner reads a story with expression. Individual students read selected passages with...

Fourth graders create their own stories with a life instructional activity and illustrate them.

Students explore language arts by participating in a word construction activity. In this prefix lesson, students discuss what a prefix is, how they are most commonly used and what they mean. Students answer vocabulary questions about the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart shows the difference between the naming part of a sentence and the telling part of a sentence.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps with the naming part and telling part of sentences. Pull the dragon and magnifying glass over areas to reveal answers.

This tutorial on writing topic sentences includes 2 videos, 2 slide shows, and an audio clip. The first YouTube video explains the 4 parts of a topic sentence and tells where topic sentences belong. The 2 slide shows focus on the MAP...

Great exercise for practicing the preterite and imperfect tenses. Choose the correct form of a verb to complete sentences that tell the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Immediate feedback corrects the answer and gives the reason...

What do you know about Eric Carle, the author? This Carol Hurst site highlights some interesting facts about this author's life and refers to some of his books.

Students will improve their understanding of verbs that tell what action someone or something is performing by adding the correct action verbs to the sentences.