A 55-page unit examines the novel, The BFG, by Roald Dahl. Six lessons pay close attention to friendship, dreams, and believing themes while analyzing interesting characters, writing creative vocabulary, smilies, metaphors, an exciting...

This lesson plan provides a descriptive writing prompt for kindergarten students about a single event or about several events. Students will use a combination of dictating, drawing, and writing to narrate their stories.

Third graders will invent a gadget using one or more simple machines and write about it.

In this lesson students will write an informative sentence in response to listening to the story; "Mice squeak, We speak". Included in this lesson are examples of student work, videos of oral presentations, and puzzle pieces for new...

Young scholars will engage in discussions about story details and write an informational piece about the events in the story "Come Along Daisy".

Students will write an informative sentence in response to listening to the story "Does A Kangaroo Have a Mother Too?". Included in this lesson plan are videos of mother and baby animals, pictures of the lesson plan in action, and a...

Students will be able to write and illustrate a personal narrative after listening to the story "Mary Wore a Red Dress". Samples of student work are included.

This lesson engages students in writing lyrics to songs. Students will use free musical software to aid students as they put their lyrics to a tune and tempo.

Explore the world of journal writing with this valuable lesson plan filled with suggestions.

Students will learn to identify the author and illustrator on the cover of the book and orally define their role. Pictures and video of the lesson in action are included.

Students will discover that names are made up of letters and will be able to identify their name and write it in a sentence. This lesson includes links to an Alphafriends video, pictures of student work, and videos of the lesson in action.

Students love the magic of the metamorphosis that produces a butterfly. We will listen to the story and write about our favorite part and include a picture. Examples of the student's work are included.

Using complex language, including rich descriptors, is necessary for mastery of the CCSS Standards. This lesson plan is a great lesson plan in using adjectives to enrich speaking and writing. Included are a video demonstration and...

Lesson teaches the judicial philosophies of activism and restraint and also explores criteria through which students can evaluate news-related opinion pieces and practice judging the value of a Supreme Court-related opinion piece of choice.

In this lesson, students will listen to nonfiction books about items that sink and float. Students will participate in filling in words to fill in a teacher-created chart that is connected to the information. Students will then write a...

Use this lesson plan to teach descriptive writing. A checklist is provided so students can self-monitor their writing.

For this lesson, Brooke Bessesen's picture book, Look Who Lives in the Desert!: Bouncing and Pouncing, Hiding and Gliding, Sleeping and Creeping, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After several exposures to the...

In this instructional activity, Eileen Christelow's picture book, Five Little Monkeys Go Shopping, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After several exposures to the mentor text, learners will use click the...

In this lesson, Hooway for Wodney Watby, written by Helen Lester, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After several exposures to the mentor text, students will use click the buttons with the words "Who", "What",...

In this lesson, Hoops, written by Robert Burleigh, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After several exposures to the mentor text, students will use click the buttons with the words "Who", "What", "When", and...

In this lesson, Dr. Seuss' book, If I Ran the Zoo, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After reading the mentor text, young scholars will use click the buttons with the words "Who", "What", "When", and "Where"...

This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage students in writing up and down poems. An example of an up and down poem is provided.

This lesson plan asks learners grades 3-5 to use wordless picture books as a springboard to write an original story based on the pictures.

This interactive lesson engages students in determining "why" each word grouping is a sentence fragment. The lesson involves moving a computer's mouse from each fragment to the reason the word grouping is an incomplete thought.