Curated OER
Dealing With Taxes
Students study counting and non-counting vocabulary, change singular to plural nouns, and determine the importance of completing tax returns. They use flashcards and vocabulary drill sheets. They watch a video.
Curated OER
Superhero Comic Strip Using Greek and Latin Roots
Students create comic strips in groups and explain to the class the Latin and Greek roots of their superhero names. In this Latin and Greek root lesson plan, students get into groups and come up with superhero characters to integrate...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Poets and Puppets: Learning English
Use these how-toos to help English Language Learners with speaking and writing. Using poetry and role playing with puppets unleashes creativity.
Starfall
Starfall: Three Little Plays
This interactive features an introduction and short three plays: Dog and Cat, Guess Guess, and Cookies. It also provides a words activity for each play.
TESL Journal
Internet Tesl Journal: Talking Cards Game
This conversation activity uses 1-2 decks of playing cards to prompt discussion: each card represents a specific question. The site provides instructions and a suggested list of questions to match each card.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Zoom Playhouse
This PBS kids site features dozens of short plays that have been performed on the children's television series "Zoom." Includes short scripts for skits which students can perform together, and lists of props to include in the performance.
Starfall
Starfall: Guess, Guess
This interactive is a little ebook play with dialogue between Boy and Girl. Click on Words to complete an activity.
Starfall
Starfall: Dog and Cat
This interactive is a little ebook play with dialogue between Dog and Cat. Click on Words to complete an activity.
Starfall
Starfall: Cookies
This interactive is a little ebook play with dialogue among Mother, Girl, and Boy. Click on Words to complete an activity.
Can Teach
Can Teach : Drama Ideas
In this lesson plan use dramatic games and improvisations to liven up the classroom and help students communicate better. These lesson plans can be adapted to a number of curricular subjects. Suited for elementary students.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Intrapersonal Communication
Wikipedia entry defines intrapersonal communication and the role that internal dialogue plays in the communication process.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Religious Liberalism
Religious liberalism has played a major role in America's religious dialogue in the last century. This National Humanities Center site explains the movement and its impact.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: This Land Is My Land, This Land Is Your Land [Pdf]
For this lesson, 3rd graders take on the roles of characters in a drama centered on preserving the environment. Students will play different living things that inhabit a forest. They will improvise dialogue and analyze environmental...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Revolutionary Dinner Party
Students play the role of colonists from the Revolutionary War period. Each group has decided to host a dinner party for some "famous faces" of the American Revolution. There are FOUR parts to this project: research, seating chart, music...