Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Producing Multimedia Products in Grades 3 5
In this lesson, students, working individually or in groups, will combine two or more media elements to produce projects or presentations. Various elements the teacher and students will consider using are text, digital cameras, scanners,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Telling It the Digital Way
During this lesson students design, develop, produce, and present a five-minute biographical video highlighting the life of a famous sports spectacular stand-out such as baseball's great Babe Ruth. Downloadable rubrics are provided.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Give That Character a Voice With Voki!
This instructional activity fuses fictional literature with technology through a project-based experience. Students will use the free online resource Voki to bring a fictional character to "life" and deepen their understanding of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Story Elements
During this lesson, students will analyze what distinguishes the stories they love. Reading and reviewing their favorite books will help students begin to identify elements of a story. Students have the opportunity to navigate the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Let's Eat: An Expository Slideshow Presentation
Young scholars will write a three-paragraph essay explaining the steps necessary to follow a recipe and then present and serve the recipe to their classmates.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Because of Winn Dixie: A New Point of View
This is a language arts activity concentrating on point of view and narrative writing. Using the novel Because of Winn-Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo, learners practice retelling part of a story from another point of view.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Create Reading Accountability
Engaged, accountable reading requires students to interpret, and respond, often creatively. This article suggests several personalized ways to hold students accountable for their reading.
Towson University
Towson University: Commonly Confused Words: Then and Than
This entry explains the difference in meaning and usage of the words "then" and "than," gives examples of each, and provides a link to a page of practice exercises.
ACT360 Media
Writing Den: Classification Paragraphs
These tips and phrases can help you create a classification paragraph.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources Worksheets: Conjunctions Words That Join Sentences
A quiz that asks students to join two complete sentences using conjunctions. Valuable for beginning grammar.
Quia
Quia: Greek & Latin Roots Skills
In this matching game, students match Greek and Latin roots with their meanings.
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Formatting Titles: Rules for Formatting Titles [Pdf]
A worksheet in which students decide which formatting rules apply to each sentence containing a title.
Other
Writing Den: Essay Builder: Definition Essay
General information and guidelines about writing definition essays. Be sure to look over the entire site for lots of information about writing.
Other
Oakland Writes: Student Exemplars: Sixth Grade: Expository Essay [Pdf]
An expository essay written by a sixth-grader with notes calling attention to important writing concepts evident in the essay including a well-written title, opening sentence, thesis, main ideas, supporting details, and more.
Other
Fiction teachers.com: How to Write a Mini Mystery
Use the ideas on this page to help your students create mini-mysteries.
Quia
Quia: Roots & Prefixes
Tests knowledge of Greek and Latin roots and prefixes, using matching, concentration, and word search formats.
Quia
Quia: Synonym Sticks I
Matching, concentration, and flashcard activities for practicing synonym skills. Word search reviews the vocabulary but does not connect to the synonym concept.
Quia
Quia: Synonym Sticks Ii
This site has a matching game that stands up to multiple plays. This site is helpful practice for upper elementary vocabulary.
Quia
Quia: Homographs (Multiple Meaning Words)
This site is an interactive game for one or two players. Gives two definitions that fit the same word. Players have to guess and spell the target word for points.
Quia
Quia: Crct Practice: Main Idea
An interactive quiz with seven multiple choice questions over four short reading passages. Questions focus on identifying the main ideas and supporting details and choosing an appropriate summary. When finished, students can submit...
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Commas With Introductory Phrases [Pdf]
Practice placing commas after introductory elements in ten sentences.
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Correlative Conjunctions: Recognizing Conjunctions
Use this worksheet to practice identifying coordinating and correlative conjunctions within sentences.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Analyzing Point of View
A resource for students in analyzing the point of view for a given piece of literature. Provides a short worksheet and important questions.
Quia
Quia: Inferences and Drawing Conclusion
Read a short text and then choose the correct inference or conclusion in this Rags to Riches style game.