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ESL Holiday Lessons: Malaria Awareness Day
For this ESL reading comprehension worksheet, students read a passage about World Malaria Awareness Day. Students answer 100 varied questions about the text. There are links provided for online exercises and MP3 listening as well.
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The Tell - Tale Heart
Students read The Tell Tale Heart and practice critical analysis while reflecting on its underlying meanings. In this reading lesson plan, students make predictions, monitor their own comprehension and adjust their reading accordingly....
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Imagery Instruction
Students study how imagery affects their comprehension of stories. They participate in a guided journey of The Magic School Bus: Inside the Human Body. They compare the information from the book and their guided journey.
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Numbered Heads Together
Fifth graders demonstrate reading and active listening by examining story elements. Working in teams, each student will develop and demonstrate an understanding of story elements by answering questions related to a given story.
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Just the Facts, Ma'am
Elementary learners identify the main elements of story structure and form questions to summarize their reading. They listen as the teacher reads a story and then write questions to determine (1) main characters, (2) setting, (3)...
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Walt Disney World
Fifth graders increase their reading, speaking, and listening comprehension skills on the basis of cultural practices.
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Speech Therapy Students Interact Between Schools
Students use technology to improve their communication skills and have the ability to interact with other speech students attending other elementary schools. Through riddles, games, and other activities, students attain their speech...
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Lionel Messi
In this famous person activity, learners read a passage about Lionel Messi and then complete worksheets such as spelling, a listening gap fill, synonym matching, scrambled sentences, and more.
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Life of a Dollar Bill
Learners examine the basic need for money and the circular flow of resources between households, businesses, government, and financial institutions. They discover how money gets into circulation and how it facilitates the production of...
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Dino Hunt
Students use the Internet to gather information about dinosaurs. They practice navagating through the different websites. They also practice listening to directions and also explore how to fill out a KWL chart.
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What Does This Song Really Say?
Students investigate communication by analyzing lyrics from a song. In this music arts lesson, students discuss slavery, the Underground Railroad and African American traditions while listening to a song called "This Train." Students...
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The Social Effects of the Great Depression
Students explore U.S. history by listening to an economics lecture. In this Great Depression lesson plan, students read a letter written to the President during the worst economical disaster in U.S. history. Students answer study...
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The Fish's Wish
Students complete the fable, "The Fish and the Fisherman" using a tree graph as a brainstorming exercise. The main goal of the lesson is to convince the fisherman to release the fish that he caught.
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What Kind of Smart?
Students participate in a lesson in order to discover the type of intelligence they have for learning. This is done by taking a Multiple Intelligences Survey. The focus of the lesson is a question posed to students. The homework is an...
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Transforming Anansi Folktales Into Storyboards
Students work in small groups to illustrate a story board of a folktale. They develop the meaning of a trickster as a humor device in folktales by listening to several about Leprechauns and the Coyote of Native American tales. They then...
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Jump on the Expression Express
Students read for comprehension and practice reading fluently with expression. After a reading demonstration, and discussing how to recognize punctuation, students read given stories to a partner. Students rate their partner's...
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Wizard Vision
Learners participate in a visualization exercise. Then listen to an excerpt from 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' and discuss what they 'see.' Independently, they read the second chapter and draw a picture of what they visualized...
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Breaking News English: New 3D Pictures of Titanic Released
In this ESL comprehension worksheet, students read or listen to a passage, complete warm-up activities, then a wide variety of before, during, after and homework activities. Answers are included.
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Pizzeria (reading Encouragement)
Students create a pizzeria atmosphere in the classroom with Italian music, pizza menus and checkered table cloths. They compare their different tastes in pizza toppings to different tastes in reading. Then they use a reading menu to...
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Book Week Celebration
Learners discover the importance of reading. They participate in a school wide book celebration. They participate in activities to get them interested in reading.
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Look for Patterns: Quilts in Two Faith Ringgold Stories
Author Faith Ringgold uses quilts to illustrate her books Tar Beach and Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad. In this integrated trio of activities, young scholars read stories, identify and create patterns, and design quilt squares of...
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-How Dogs Really Work!
Students read How Dogs Really Work! by Alan Snow. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the study of dogs as pets. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social studies, and library connections.
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Evaluating Media Materials
Students demonstrate the ability to select and evaluate media materials. They demonstrate comprehension when listening and reading for literary experience, to be informed, and to perform a task. Students evaluate a fiction book based on...
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Pen Pals
Students discuss the sounds that different animals make. Then they play a listening game, using the animal sounds they've discussed.