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Help, I'm a Prisoner in the Library
Fourth graders complete activities with the book Help, I'm a Prisoner in the Library by Eth. In this reading ideas lesson, 4th graders are broken into tiers based on their reading ability and complete different activities. These...
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Story Wheels
Students use a Story Wheel to summarize a novel, practice sequencing skills, visualize story elements and recognize story structure. In groups, they each complete a piece of the story wheel and put it all together. They complete the...
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Intermediate Level: Clauses and Sentence Structure
In this grammar worksheet, students underline each independent clause and circle each dependent clause in 5 sentences. They then determine whether 10 sentences are grammatically correct or not.
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For Thy Sweet Love Remembered Such Wealth Brings
Students read sonnets and choose one which contains words or phrases that create an emotional reaction to study the Shakespearean language. For this Shakespearean sonnet lesson, students read Shakespeare sonnets and circle words that...
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Proper Nouns in Sentences
In this proper nouns instructional activity, students circle the proper nouns in the sentences given to them. Students circle proper nouns in 10 sentences total.
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Capitalization Practice
In this capitalization worksheet, students circle capitalization errors and add end marks to sentences, capitalize proper nouns, and edit sentences to correct.
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Homophones in Sentences
In this language arts worksheet, students read the definition of a homophone. They read 20 sentences and circle the homophones in each one.
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Language - Simple Sentence Structure
In this sentence structure worksheet, students read a selection about sentence structure and draw a red circle around the noun phrase and a blue circle around the verb phrases in 5 sentences. Students also construct 6 simple sentences.
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Letter Recognition: The Letter R
In this letter R worksheet, students identify the R words from a word bank and circle them. Students then circle and color the pictures that start with the letter R.
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School-Home Links: Vowel Sounds
In this vowel sounds learning exercise, learners first name the picture and then circle the word that matches. Students say the word aloud and listen for the vowel sound.
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Capitalization
In this capitalization instructional activity, students read a passage and circle all the words that should be capitalized. Students circle many words in this 8 paragraph passage.
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Big Rigs: high frequency and spelling words
In this language arts worksheet, students read the story Big Rigs and then complete language arts activities. Students write spelling and high frequency words, fill in the blanks to sentences, answer short answer questions, and circle...
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Grammar Test: Lesson 21
In this verbs worksheet, learners circle verbs in sentences, fill in the blanks to sentences with verbs, add s or es to verbs, and more. Students complete 19 problems.
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Play With Clay-'ay' Word Family
For this 'ay' word family worksheet, students color a picture, read a sentence and circle correct answers to questions about it and trace and write the word clay.
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Pi Day (March 14)
Fourth graders determine the value of ? by measuring the circumference and diameter of circular objects such as soup cans, Oreo cookies, etc..
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Congruent Figures
Learners read and analyze "Congruent Figures," by Takahashi Takako. They participate in a literary circle discussion, complete reading log handouts, complete a pre- and post-reading survey, and conduct a debate.
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Very Hungry Caterpillar
Students read "the Very Hungry Caerpiller" by Eric Carle and create their own caterpillers using the same art techniques found in the book in this excellent early elementary lesson plan. Included with the lesson plan is a vocabulary list...
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Mapping Out A Summary
Students summarize a selected piece of fiction text. After reviewing the correct way to read silently, students read a chapter in the novel they are currently reading. They write a chapter summary using a story map and the process...
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Fun with Summarizing
Students practice summarization by creating a story map. After reading Freckle Juice, students working in groups, create a story map of the main events of the story. Groups use their story maps to summarize a chapter of the story and...
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Summarization Mapping
Students observe and demonstrate the strategy of summarizing the main idea. They discuss six rules of summarizing, and observe the teacher summarizing the first chapter of the novel "The Incredible Journey." Students then read chapter...
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Letter from San Diego - Proofreading for Missing Commas and Capital Letters
In this language arts instructional activity, students read a letter that is missing commas and capital letters. They write in the missing commas, and circle all of the letters that should be capitalized. They see graphics on the page...
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QUIZZES 3A and 3B: Adjectives + Noun
In this grammar quiz worksheet, students read 10 sentences and identify all of the nouns by circling them and all of the adjectives by underlining them.
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Letter Recognition - o
In this letter recognition learning exercise, 1st graders examine 15 words in a box at the top of the page. They circle the words that begin with o. They read about the sounds that o makes, and examine 5 black line pictures before...
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Sentence Structure Worksheet-Subjects
In this worksheet on subjects of sentences, learners circle subjects and insert correct punctuation in sentences. Students then write a list of nouns in "their notebook" to practice spelling them and to build an English dictionary.