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Expression Direction: Growing Independence and Fluency
Looking to move children away from monotone reading? That's what they will practice here. In a guided learning lesson, the class reviews punctuation marks and practices what type of intonation should accompany each. They then listen as...
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Alphabet Organizer
Learners practice organizing their vocabulary words in an online organizer tool. In this vocabulary instructional activity, students read a text and take notes. Additionally, learners organize their vocabulary words into an online...
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I Am Special and You Are Special Too #6
We are All Alike…We Are All Different is the springboard for the creation of an illustrated book in which young writers record their impression of themselves, their families, and their interests. Sharing the completed books in circle...
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The Mythology of Munich
Students listen to a story read by their teacher and identify the pictures inside it to be real or make believe. For this fiction and non fiction lesson plan, students also write a real or make believe story of their own.
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In The Mountains
First graders read a book entitled "In the Mountains." While looking at pictures, 1st graders predict what may happen in the story. Students review rhyming words and the meaning of punctuation marks. They brainstorm where children may go...
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Heroism in Hispanic Countries
Students investigate foreign newspapers written in Spanish. They pick an article to be read and summarized in English. This lesson develops the skill of word recognition and sentence structure.
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Possessive Apostrophes
In this grammar worksheet, students decide if there is one owner or more than one owner in 3 different situations. Then they rewrite each of 14 sentences applying the correct punctuation. Finally, students use possessive apostrophes to...
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Direct Quotations
In this quotation worksheet, students use quotation marks as a form of punctuation. Students complete 22 short answer questions filling in the correct punctuation wherever necessary and completing 4 multiple choice questions choosing...
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Learning To Use Quotation Marks
Young scholars explore the use of quotation marks. In this grammar lesson, students read dialogue and explore the rules of quotation mark use as they practice using the marks on a worksheet assignment.
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Apostrophes
In this apostrophes worksheet, students complete the correct version of contractions with the apostrophe in the appropriate spot to complete the sentences. Students complete 7 problems.
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The Belonging Apostrophe
In this apostrophe worksheet, students shorten a phrase by putting an apostrophe showing ownership into that phrase. Students shorten 15 phrases and put 10 words with apostrophes into their own sentences.
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The Belonging Apostrophe
In this possessive nouns worksheet, students review 10 words and 14 sentences Students add apostrophes where they are needed.
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Diamondback Rattlesnake
In this proof reading instructional activity, learners read and correct five sentences about the diamondback rattlesnake. There are ten errors total.
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Self Biography
Get to know your learners with this project. Each individual writes an autobiography that is at least seven pages long with major facts, visual facts, focal stories, and chronology. The lesson includes a point breakdown for the...
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It’s Your Birthday! – Conventions: Revision and Proofreading
Happy birthday! Celebrate everyone's birthday with this writing activity, which prompts seventh graders to research historical events in a country at the time of their birth to create an essay. Working in pairs, they proofread each...
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My Three Wishes
Students write/type a three wish paragraph into Microsoft Word. They include specific items and ideas, that are listed in this lesson plan, in their paragraph. They participate in printing their paragraphs and sharing them with the class.
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"Painting" More Expressive Language
Students listen to the book Papa, Please Get The Moon For Me, by Eric Carle. They create an illustration using a computer paint program. Learners type one sentence describing their picture into a text box in the paint program to explain...
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Long Vowel Phoneme - y
The long vowel phoneme /y/ is the star of this language arts lesson. Kindergarteners share the book, I Spy a Little Fly then brainstorm more words that end in /y/. Since so many of our words end in /y/, this would be a very useful lesson...
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Symbols and the Choices we Make
Upper elementary and middle schoolers recognize symbols that influence the choices that we make consciously or unconsciously in everyday life. They look at the symbols and choices that others make. They identify and apply knowledge of...
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Expression!
Students organize ways of reading expressively as well as fluently. They encounter books by Dr. Seuss within this lesson plan. Practice, practice and more practice makes perfect. Punctuation marks are reviewed for accuracy.
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Worksheet 6/7 on Subject and Predicate
For this subject and predicate agreements worksheet, students match the noun with the verb to complete and write sentences. Students write 12 answers.
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Descriptive Writing
Students discuss the importance of using adjectives in writing. They separate into five groups, each group is given a bag with an object inside to describe using just one sense. They write a description of a Hershey's Kiss using adjectives.
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Secret Message: Worksheet #1
In this following directions worksheet, students will have to follow 12 directions in order to decipher a secret message. The message is "Solar energy is renewable."
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Collage Technique
First graders listen to the story The Hungry Caterpillar, then sequentially organize their own re-writing and re-creating of the story. They construct illustrations for their book using the collage technique Eric Carle used in his...