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Calling 9-1-1
Students analyze emergencies. In this safety lesson, students discover when and why they should dial 9-1-1. They discuss as a group various scenarios in which they would need to call 9-1-1 and then role-play those situations. This lesson...
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Past Tense Verbs
In this interactive grammar worksheet, students listen to a musical clip of the Beatles song "No Reply" and fill in the missing words in the lyrics. Each word is a past tense verb. There are 20 fill-in's to complete.
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Communication
Students identify the different modes of communication They come up with different ideas and list the ideas on the board. They discuss the definition of communication as a means of conveying an idea or message. They convey the same...
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Helping the Needy - What now?
Students become familiar with local organizations from the four sectors of the economy that help the needy. In this service project lesson, students interview people from organizations that help the needy. Students explore the needs of...
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Putting on Beowulf
Students read "Putting on Beowulf" then, in separate groups, choose a segment of Beowulf to perform. They prepare a performance either "live" or on videotape. After listening and watching each performance, Students evaluate each...
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Dangling Modifiers
Students identify misplaced and dangling modifiers and correct these errors in their writing. They create illustrations to match the misplace and dangling modifiers.
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Music With a Message
Students write a line by line analysis of a song which they feel expresses a powerful message that can change society for the better. They then present their analysis to the class in an oral report.
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Homonyms Quiz 42
In this sentence completion worksheet, students read the incomplete sentences and the multiple choices of homonyms, fill in the blanks with the 20 correct words, and click the Answer box to check.
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World Telecommunications Day
In this World Telecommunications Day worksheet, students complete activities such as complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling sequencing, scrambled...
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Spy vs. Spy?
Young scholars consider their beliefs about proper and improper surveillance and then create imaginary neighborhoods featuring surveillance technology in various public and private sites.
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Over-the-Counter Culture
Students explore the changing consumer habits of Americans of various socioeconomic classes. They examine the exact costs of products, services and interest rates mentioned in the article and reflect on their own spending habits and...
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Broadcasting the News Lesson 6
Students practice news reading at three words per second. They produce a news program while working as a team of reporters. They watch news clips of current reporters making a list of news reading tips. They play an online game that...
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Robert Frost Learning Stations
Learners, while utilizing learning stations, read and analyze Robert Frost's poems from his "Frostiana" collection. They are encouraged to experience and explore poetry through different means via small groups. Within each station they...
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Can You Hear Me Now? A Study Unit on Cell Phones
In this comprehensive reading comprehension lesson plan, students complete an indepth look at the introductions and history of cell phones. Students research, analyze and determine the answers to twenty two questions regarding what a...
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Writing Paper
For this printing paper worksheet, students are provided with lined paper for writing practice. Using the large lines and dotted lines as a guide, students will use the paper for mastery of letters and numbers.
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Parts of Speech - Pronouns
In this pronouns worksheet, students identify pronouns in sentences and create sentences using pronouns. Students answer twelve questions.
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Sense of Sound Lesson
Students listen to the book Sense of Sound and discuss the different things that they can hear. In this sound lesson plan, students listen to the book, and then close their eyes as the teacher makes different noises and the students...
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Plains Indians Pictographs
Students explore methods of written communication. For this Plains Indian lesson, students create pictographs representing everyday modern life after observing the pictographs used by the Plains Indians. Pictograph stories are written on...
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Beginning Sentence
In this completing the sentence learning exercise, students practice building sentences. Students are given a sentence with missing parts and are to pick a word or words that best completes the sentence. There are twelve sentences in all.
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Wanted- Dead or Alive
Students identify the characteristics of trickster tales. In this literary genres instructional activity, students read trickster tales from Africa and create a clay model of a trickster character. Students design a "wanted" poster...
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Civil War Letters
Young scholars put themselves in the shoes of American Civil War soldiers. In this Civil War lesson, students examine letters from the time period written by soldiers, edit the letters for grammatical errors, and then present the letters...
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Colons
Clarify colon misconceptions with this explanatory handout. Get into the nitty-gritty of grammar with multiple examples of the proper use of the colon. While this isn't an interactive handout, it could be used as a grammar guide for your...
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The Pronoun as Subject
Follow-up a lesson on nominative and predicate pronouns with a worksheet that provides practice for your young grammarians. Although the worksheet begins with definitions and examples, the explanations might confuse some of your learners...
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Internet Vocabulary
For this Internet vocabulary worksheet, 3rd graders match up twelve Internet terms to their appropriate definitions in order to enhance their English terminology.