Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: No Nonsense Grammar: Using Proper Punctuation for Titles

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
This video focuses on correctly punctuating titles. Small works (short stories, essays, magazine and newspaper articles, etc.) are indicated with the use of quotation marks. Larger works, such as books or movies, are indicated either...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Preparing to Write the Research Paper

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
This lesson introduces students to research materials in the library and electronic materials available through the Alabama Virtual Library(AVL). The instruction emphasizes "how-to-use" multi-volume encyclopedias, multi-volume reference...
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Dictionary

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a lesson in which young scholars learn to use a dictionary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The lesson utilizes the book The Mitten by Jan Brett and includes...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Showing Plots & Conflicts

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, recommendations from Ralph Fletcher's book called Live Writing will be used as a teacher reference. Students will write introductions to three different stories in their writer's notebooks, but each type of conflict must...