Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Sounds: What We Hear!
Students will create a descriptive writing about the sounds they hear in a favorite place. This is a good follow-up to a science unit on sound.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Spotting Sounds All Around
This is both a hands-on and technology based lesson where young scholars can apply their knowledge of letter/sound relationships while incorporating the use of classroom technology. This Language Arts activity will allow for the students...
Other
The Responsive Counselor: Body Language and Tone of Voice Lesson Plan
This blog post from shares several activities that will help students understand how to interpret voice tone and body language.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Idea Game for Kids
How can using your five senses help you tell a better story? Young writers brainstorm three sensory details about a personal topic before writing a story about it. If they need help with ideas, they can click the magic button for story...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools:more Graphic Organizers for Teaching Literature and Reading
This Daily Teaching Tools collection provides graphic organizers for teaching reading and literature. Elaborate graphic organizers are provided for the following: story maps, character study charts, making text connection maps, conflict...
TES Global
Blendspace: Sensory Details
A five-part learning module with links to images and videos about sensory details and using sensory language.
Other
Anglomaniacy: Feelings Match Game
In this concentration-style, students match facial expressions with the corresponding feelings.
Other
Anglomaniacy: Feelings Picture Test
In this feelings test, students are shown frog pictures with different facial expressions; they select the feeling that matches the facial expression.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Picture Prompts and Story Starters
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains a collection of 55 picture prompts and story starters. Also includes other writing aids, including a rubric, graphic organizers, the writing process, etc. Questions provided by...
Tom Richey
Slideshare: Creative Brainstorming
This slide presentation provides a background of why the process of brainstorming is important as well as elements and tools you can use to get your creative juices flowing.
Literacy Head
Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: School
A collection of images of school to use as writing prompts. Students can make text-to-self connections, write creative stories, or just write about how the students in the images might feel.
Literacy Head
Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: List
These writing prompt images are from children's book illustrator Todd Parr. Let his whimsical art inspire your young writers, as they connect to his universal themes of childhood.
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
Ncrel Anticipation: Reaction Guide
A model of a quick survey to give students to help them activate their prior knowledge of subject matter. Alter this survey to suit your particular subject.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Concept Question Board
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a one-page flipchart that has a template for Concept and Question set up as a divided board.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Teaching Kids About Reflective Writing
This site offers ideas to encourage children to practice reflective writing and tips for teachers to teach it.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Academic Tips to Help Kids Learn to Be Effective Students
A teaching resource with information and downloadable handouts on various study skills including the following: Coming to Class Prepared, Student Planers, Good Listening in Class, Taking Notes in Class, Using Acronyms to Remember...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Academic Tips to Help Kids Learn to Be Effective Students
A teaching resource with information and downloadable handouts on various study skills including the following: Coming to Class Prepared, Student Planers, Good Listening in Class, Taking Notes in Class, Using Acronyms to Remember...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: More Free Graphic Organizers for Studying and Analyzing
A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Time Organizers, Learning Maps, Project Internet, Concepts and Characteristics, Vocabulary Charts, Project Author Study, Decisions and Goals, and more.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: More Free Graphic Organizers for Studying and Analyzing
A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Time Organizers, Learning Maps, Project Internet, Concepts and Characteristics, Vocabulary Charts, Project Author Study, Decisions and Goals, and more.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: More Free Graphic Organizers for Studying and Analyzing
A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Time Organizers, Learning Maps, Project Internet, Concepts and Characteristics, Vocabulary Charts, Project Author Study, Decisions and Goals, and more.
Other
Internet4 Classrooms: ccss.ela literacy.sl.k.4 Describe Familiar People, Places
Choose from several activities to teach the Common Core Standard of describing familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, providing additional detail. Includes ideas for conversation starters for...
Literacy Head
Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Rhyme
These images and writing prompts are to spark writing ideas in your young writers.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Lesson Plans: Using Personal Connections to Understand Emotions
A lesson plan in which younger students draw on prior experiences that made them happy or sad, build two-sided masks, work with Venn diagrams, and connect personally with the emotions conveyed by poems in The Way I Feel by Janan Cain...
Education.com
Education.com: Sl.1.4 Worksheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to reinforce the common core standard of describing people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.