Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Christina's Candies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Help Christina figure out how many chocolate and lemon candies she has with a lesson on decomposing numbers. When presenting this context to the class, the teacher chooses the total number of candies and the number that are chocolate,...
PPT
Alabama Learning Exchange

Don't Get Lost in Story Writing: Story Maps

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Ease young writers into the process of writing a story with a colorful presentation on story maps. Viewers use the provided sentence frames to craft a sample story as guided practice. They then draft their own stories to share with the...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Essay Outline Template

For Students 7th - 9th
The strength of this essay outline template is its specificity. By the time your young writers fill in the requested information, they are well on their way to compiling their multi-paragraph essay. Learners craft topic sentences,...
Lesson Plan
Virginina Department of Education

Combining Ideas into an Effective Sentence

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Here is a lesson that is best utilized as reinforcement in identifying sentences that combine independent/dependent clauses, and phrases that are awkward, fragmented or complete. Learners use the red, yellow, and green light method...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Personal Narrative Paragraphs: Class Quilt

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Begin this activity by asking third graders to bring from home pieces of cloth that represent something important to them. (Have extras for students who need them.) They reflect on important events in their lives, compose narrative...
Handout
Anchorage School District

“Dressing Up” an Introduction

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Are your pupils ready to move beyond a thesis statement by adding additional detail to their introductory paragraphs? Provide this handout to give your class some ideas for spiffing up their work. The page includes a sample paragraph...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Little Rabbit's Tale: 19

For Students 1st - 3rd
This set of daily spelling activities is intended for use with the story, Little Rabbit's Tale. Learners use the high frequency and spelling words found in the story to complete 4 different activities. They write the long e...
Website
University of North Carolina

Should I Use “I”?

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Despite the formal nature of academic writing, personal pronouns frequently appear in high school and college papers. While your first instinct may be to cross them out, sometimes it's okay to use them, an idea covered in a handout that...
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University of North Carolina

Conditionals: Verb Tense in “If” Clauses

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
"If you give a mouse a cookie, then he's going to ask for a glass of milk." These iconic words from Laura Numeroff's classic tale offer a great example of conditionals, a topic covered in the handout as part of a larger writing series...
Printables
Twisty Noodle

Who Is in the Tree? Book

For Teachers K - 2nd
Practice the word who with your class by asking them to complete the sentences here and put together the pages into a little book. Kids can also color the pictures to add a little extra something to their books.
Worksheet
Curated OER

The Big Full Stop Tidy Up

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Young readers consider four illustrated sentences about a zebra and put a "full stop" (period) at the end of each. They write a sentence about the zebra, and read it to a partner. A simple, and sweet activity!
Lesson Plan
Jordan School District

Who is Worth More Than Gold?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Young writers compose an opinion piece that details who they feel is worth more than gold.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dangerous Road: A Letter of Complaint

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Engage your English learners with this resource. To begin, learners describe a map to a partner. After a vocabulary exercise and a jumbled letter activity, pupils are asked to write their own letter. The letter reading and writing...
Organizer
Curated OER

Energy Transformations

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this energy worksheet, students write a paragraph about the order of energy transformation by putting the chain words into the correct order. Students write 1 paragraph.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Communicating about Our World through Informal Writing

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders review their writing for repetition of words at the beginning of the sentence.  In this informal writing lesson, 5th graders share examples of sentence beginnings.  Students use a thesaurus to find antonyms and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing Mythological Narratives

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students compose a creative writing piece based on a painting of a mythological scene. In this creative writing lesson plan,  students write about the scene in the painting and tie in  their original stories into tales from the...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Printing: These

For Students K - 2nd
In this printing worksheet, students practice writing the word "these" into sentences containing questions and answers. Students write 6 sentences.
Worksheet
Curated OER

What do you usually do?

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
In this "usually" worksheet, students write sentences that answer questions about what they usually do at certain times of the day. Students write 10 sentences.
Worksheet
Curated OER

What did you do yesterday?

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this writing worksheet, students write sentences answering questions about things they did yesterday. Students practice writing 10 sentences where they answer questions about the past tense.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Asking Questions About a Picture 1

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this writing interrogative sentences worksheet, students view a picture and write questions about it. Students write 3 questions.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss the importance of using adjectives in writing. They separate into five groups, each group is given a bag with an object inside to describe using just one sense. They write a description of a Hershey's Kiss using adjectives.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Letter Pronunciation -- /N/ Sound

For Students 2nd - 3rd
This writing worksheet has learners look at 7 pictures, circle the multiple choice word involving the /n/ sound that best describes each picture, then use that circled word in a complete sentence. A good resource for early-elementary...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Forming Questions "Who"

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this intermediate forming questions instructional activity, students unscramble words to form interrogative sentences using who. In this short answer instructional activity, students write eight sentences.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Intermediate Forming Questions "Why"

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this intermediate forming questions worksheet, students rearrange words to form interrogative sentences using why. Students write eight sentences.

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