Students create a persuasive case calling for the adoption of a particular young adult literature title into their schools language arts curriculum by writing letters or speeches.
Connect home and school, literature and life, as students take a storybook character home with them and take turns writing stories about his visit.
Students explore The Great GatsbyŐs allusion to art and its use of visual imagery and conclude their study by designing their own cover for the novel.
A great lesson for students to explore commercial advertising using Cass-Clay Museum Ads and ice cream. Great resource for teachers to get lesson plans about advertising.
Like Junie B. Jones, students will be saying "Wait till you hear this" after listening to a Junie B. story and creating mystery boxes to help retell the story.
This tool allows students to create an online K-W-L chart. Saving capability makes it easy for them to start the chart before reading and then return to it to reflect on what they learned.
Students work in small groups to examine Margaret AtwoodŐs use of and observations about language in The HandmaidŐs Tale. Through this activity, students discover and articulate overarching thematic trends in the book and then can extend their observations about official or political language to examples from their own world.
In this lesson, students use blogs to hold discussions about the effect of the factors of culture, history, and environment on Latino poetry.
This lesson introduces Family Message Journals - a teacher-tested tool for encouraging family involvement and supporting writing to reflect and to learn.
We all know that the most effective way to teach reading is to start with reading. This lesson uses that approach with writing story leads.
Students examine great leads in children's literature before writing or revising a lead in their own writing.
Students examine leads in existing texts and create alternative leads for them before revising leads in their own writing.
Students across the board will get a kick out of researching a historical figure from the American Revolution to create an acrostic poem.
Using text from Doreen CroninŐs Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type as shared readings, first-grade students learn word families and how to decode new words in a word family.
Students participate in learning clubs, select content area topics, and draw on texts - including websites, printed material, video, and music - to investigate their topics, and share their learning using similar media.
Students sing a popular childrenŐs song, follow along with a picture book that contains the lyrics and illustrations, and then participate in activities to reinforce learning of the vocabulary words.
Contains plans for six lessons that teach students Dolch high-frequency sight words using songs and activities. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection activities.
Modeled on the activities in ŇMiss Alaineus: A Vocabulary DisasterÓ, a picture book, students combine vocabulary exploration with word play by planning their own vocabulary parade.
This lesson introduces students to the concept of reading through common items from the community. Through examining these items (environmental print), students will practice their reading skills and begin to see themselves as competent readers.
An online lesson for middle school students concerning learning reading fluency through oral interpretation. Students read poetry aloud in presentation-form and work together at interpreting the poem, increasing understanding of meaning and reading fluency.