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Musical Alphabet - Skipping Down
Students review the Musical Alphabet from A to G then review stepping up, skipping up, and stepping down. They discover that a skip down goes from one letter to the next lower letter with one in between.
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Alphabetizing Animals
Students explore alphabetization. In this alphabetical order lesson, students complete a worksheet which lists an animal name for each of the first 7 letters of the alphabet.
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Profiles of Maine Civil War Soliders
Eighth graders read letters of soldiers in the Civil War from the state of Maine. They create a soldier profile from the letters and draw what they believe the soldier looked like.
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Observing Capitalization Rules
In this capitalization worksheet, students complete three activities that help them follow the rules for capitalization in their writing.
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Publishing a Group Book
Students examine various alphabet books. They write several sentences for their assigned letter of the alphabet, type them onto a word processing program, and create an illustration for a class alphabet book.
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Sammy the Slimy Snake
Students engage in a emergent literacy lesson with the intention of improving reading comprehension. The goals of the lesson include recognizing both upper and lower case S, to create an awareness of the mouth movement and the phoneme...
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Overcome Writer's Block
Students review methods for overcoming writer's block. They are asked if they have ever experienced writer's block, what the experience feels like, and discuss some strategies that they use to deal with writer's block. They are given a...
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3 Holiday Projects
Young scholars explore the concept of reusing and recycling everyday materials and make holiday-oriented decorations and gift wrapping. Letters containing environmental issues are composed and sent to political and corporate...
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Rainforest Problem
Third graders use a hypothetical story in order to create a context for the lesson. The story presents a problem that needs to be solved. They write a letter to a government official as part of the lesson.
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Spelling Words Puzzle II
Learners receive instruction using examples to find missing letters in their spelling words. They fill in the blanks of each spelling word choosing from a list of animal names provided.
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Read To Feed
Students read to accumulate pledge money to purchase a heifer for a needy family. In this reading for the needy lesson, students solicit pledges from family and friends for each book they read. They use the money from the pledges to...
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Alphabetizing Words with E and F
Students listen to explanation of how to put words in alphabetical order, this case, words that begin with "E" and" and observe examples. They then use the worksheet provided and complete putting the words in alphabetical order sorted by...
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The Flat Stanley Project
Students read the book Flat Stanley. In this environmental stewardship lesson, students participate in earth-friendly activities based upon the book. This lesson includes ideas such as using recycled paper to make a "paper pal."
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Spelling Words Puzzle I
Students observe examples on the board to show them what to do in this activity. They then receive a worksheet and completely spell the words that have letters missing to help them study their spelling words.
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School-Home Links: Using Punctuation Correctly
In this punctuation usage worksheet, students review the rules to make a complete sentence including capital letters and punctuation marks. Students then write several sentences about their friends at school. Parents or guardians must...
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I Grow
Students describe factors that influence relationships with family and friends. They write a book about themselves using personal knowledge.
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Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People
Fifth graders explore poems of African Americans. They research a famous African American, write a report, create a timeline of events in African American history, create a map of the New World, and research Molly Walsh. After...
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My Favorite Thing to Do
Students complete the questions to detail their favorite after school activities. In this after school activity lesson, students fill in the blanks using the word bank to detail information about their favorite after school activities....
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Look and See Books
Students photograph appropriate subject matter for the content, write the text, use transferable letters to design their very own book.
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The Big Lie
Fifth graders create poems and other forms of writing.Then working in groups they share writing with each other. The opinions would be gathered and students would revise writing according to the comments.
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Loves and Hates
In this verb activity worksheet, students match the definitions and the words in the first exercise. Students then match the verbs with the words. Students write any other words that go with the verbs. Students then divide the activities...
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Grade 1 Language Review
In this grade 1 language review worksheet, 1st graders fix sentences, write capital letters, and make words. A web site reference for additional activities is given.
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Preposition Review
In this preposition review worksheet, students write the correct preposition on each of 20 lines in 11 questions. They work with on, in, with, for, and at.
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Sentence Structure Subject Noun Worksheet
In this nouns learning exercise, students use the nouns from the list to complete the chart. Students write the words into person, place, or thing chart sections.