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Calendar Clues Worksheet
In this birthday calendar worksheet, students look closely at a classroom birthday calendar and use the graphic organizer on the worksheet to analyze the data. Then students use the data to write a newspaper story, poem , or story.
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Popcorn Economics
Students examine the concept of scarcity. In this economics lesson, students define scarcity and take part in an activity that illustrates the concept as it relates to goods and services.
Starfall
Fun with Describing Words - Adjectives
For this grammar worksheet, students complete sentences by describing words from a picture/word bank.
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Intermediate Paragraph Correction
In this intermediate paragraph correction worksheet, students answer questions about errors in sentences. In this multiple choice worksheet, students answer eight questions.
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Concrete and Abstract Nouns Coloring
Use a noun coloring worksheet to have your students read 60 nouns, each in their own rectangle. They will then color rectangles with concrete nouns yellow and the rectangles with abstract nouns blue. Note: This does not include an answer...
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Pronouns
Students play a game. In this pronouns instructional activity, students watch a video and read a book about pronouns. Students review types of pronouns, fill in missing pronouns in sentences, read a newspaper article and find as many...
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The Great China Chase: Adjectives
Stories are created, by students, using a variety of adjectives. 3-5th graders will learn about adjectives and use their new knowledge to create ad-lib stories to share with the class demonstrating their mastery of adjectives, indefinite...
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Pendemonium - The Ink on the Sphinx
Students define and identify nouns. For this nouns lesson, students watch a video and review proper and common nouns before constructing a noun pyramid. They present their noun pyramids to the class and add them to a bulletin board.
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Finding Subjects and Verbs Quiz
In this finding subjects and verbs on-line worksheet, students find the correct subjects and verbs in 11 examples. They click on the correct choice in each example and receive their grade by clicking on the button at the bottom of the page.
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Present Simple and Plural Activities - Things We Do At School...
In this present simple verb tense online activity, students enter the proper verb tense of the underlined words in 13 sentences. They fill in the verbs from a word bank in the next 10 sentences, enter either don't or doesn't in the next...
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Technological/Technical Streams 2004/2005 Practice: Vocabulary 2
In this grammar online interactive worksheet, students fill in 8 blanks within a passage with one of the words from the word bank provided. Kids fill in each blank in 6 sentences with one of the words from the given word bank. Students...
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Subject - Verb Agreement Worksheet
In this grammar worksheet, students read 21 sentences for subject-verb agreement mistakes. Students correct the subject-verb agreement mistake in each sentence.
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Human Rights in the News
Students, in groups, review recent newspapers and news media. They construct a poster using items from the newspaper grouped under four categories: rights being practiced or enjoyed, rights being denied, rights being protected, and...
Core Knowledge Foundation
Isn’t It Exciting? (The American Industrial Revolution and Urbanization)
America was built on the ingenuity, work ethic, and foresight of our ancestors. Sixth graders learn about the complex Gilded Age in American history, including the prominent inventors and captains of industry, and how they all connect...
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War in the News
Learners consider the portrayal of war in the news. In this lesson plan on Journalistic perspectives, students will work in groups to critically examine news articles written during war times throughout history.
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Help Wanted
In this factual text worksheet, 6th graders read through several want ads and then answer the detailed questions that follow to check their reading comprehension skills.
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Understanding the News
Students work in small groups to identify the following categories of news articles: hard news, features, announcements, and opinion/personal reflection.
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If Hornets Could Talk
Fifth graders create a school newspaper. In this journalism lesson plan students write articles for a school newspaper. They also create an informational website. the projects are both on-going.
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Building a Journalism Team
Students play a granola bar relay to learn about the importance of teamwork in a journalism team. In this journalism team lesson plan, students use granola bars to participate in a relay activity to improve their communication as well as...
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Art Smart
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the expression of art that is popular in modern times. They read articles from the New York Times and write reflectively about the featured art exhibits. Students use the newspaper to...
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Cartoons for the Classroom: 9/11 Revisited
Political cartoons about the September 11 terrorist attacks provide an opportunity for class members to analyze the inferences embedded in the drawings.
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Picture Me with Words
Students search in newspapers for words that describe them or what they like. They gather the words and use them to create a self-portrait. They read "boring" sentences and rewrite them using more descriptive words. They write 10 word...
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CTBS Usage Practice #6
For this CTBS usage practice worksheet, students identify simply subjects, topic sentences, sentences off topic, and combine multiple sentences. There are seventeen multiple choice questions.
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QUIZ 5A: Using The / A / An
In this articles quiz learning exercise, students respond to 4 fill in the blank questions using the appropriate articles (a/an/the).