Curated OER
Poetry in Weather
Students observe and identify the various types of clouds. They compare clouds to clouds on a chart, and in small groups compose and present a group poem about clouds and weather.
Curated OER
School News
Learners create a video of school news to improve writing skills, speaking skills, questioning skills, and to help build self esteem.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Spelling Patterns "Go Fish" Card Game
Contains plans for four lessons that ask students to make spelling cards grouped by spelling patterns. These cards are then used in a "Go Fish" style card game. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Sort, Hunt, Write a Weekly Spelling Program
Contains plans for five lessons that provide a spelling program where students categorize spelling words before using them in context. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: The Two Voices of the Ow Spelling Pattern
Variable vowels are the focus of this lesson; students use nursery rhymes and ow to study how vowels can change their sounds according to different spelling patterns.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Variant Correspondences: The Write Word [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students play a game moving around the game board by identifying the spelling pattern of words. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Syllable Patterns: Syllable Game [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students play a game moving around the game board by counting syllables in words. Materials are included.
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Dictionary
[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a instructional activity in which students learn to use a dictionary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The instructional activity utilizes the book The Mitten by Jan...
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Word Wall Madness
This lesson plan for grades 3-5 uses a team activity to focus on locating misspelled words on the Word Wall and spelling them correctly.
InterLink Language Centers
Interlink Language Centers: Self Test Quiz: Spelling
Students read each sentence and then click the arrow to hear the word that should be used to complete it. Once they have heard the word, they should type it into the box using the correct spelling. Each answer can be checked to see if it...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Hot and Cold Summer
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is based on the 5th grade Harcourt Reading Series. The lessons focus on spelling, grammar and vocabulary. Many items are linked to activities. The students will be engaged!
Other
My Schoolhouse Interactive Learning
Math and reading lessons, with automatic online correction, allow you to set your own pace.
Other
Dandi Palmer: Sorcerer's Apprentice
Click through the pages of this beautifully illustrated story book to read about a young sorcerer's apprentice who thinks she can cast spells like the sorcerer in order to get her work done more quickly, but she learns a lesson and the...