You can add a phonemic awareness activity to your phonics lessons each day and it will only add a few extra minutes to your lessons. You also don't need to buy expensive manipulatives for your students to use. There are lots of low-cost ways to make phonemic awareness manipulatives you can use in your classroom. This is one such activity. In this lesson, students will be able to point at different squares and actually isolate the different phonemes within the word.

Students will be able to describe familiar items and with prompting and support provide additional details by making Flubber. Making Flubber encourages students to engage in descriptive dialogue which helps develop the ability to provide precise details when recording observations and experiences.

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to identify and create diagrams associated with informational text. Included is a link to an eSpark video on diagrams, rules for group work, multiple examples of diagrams, and a cooperative learning assessment rubric.

Teachers will engage young learners to understand how one story can be shared more than one way. This lesson demonstrates an historical interpretation of the story about Pocahontas and John Smith with the Disney movie. Several resources for instruction are included.

Students will compare the characteristics of the butterbee. Then they will engage in informative writing to share the information.

Students will get exposure to a folktale and work to understand the moral. This lesson uses two fables "The Fox and the Grapes" and "The Fox and the Hen". The lesson involves guided practice where the students write notes on the left side of a piece of paper after they read the text. Then after discussion students come up with a message or moral.

Students will compare and contrast parts of two stories, "The Gingerbread Boy" and "The Gingerbread Girl" with the aid of graphic organizers.

In this lesson, students will explain the meaning of a text and its genre, summarize it, and draw conclusions. They work with a book called The Leprechaun Companion which is a cross between informational and literary text.

Students will have the opportunity to work collaboratively by using the Think-Pair-Share technique to ask questions about a story. Included are examples of student's questions, and a Think-Pair-Share poster and document.

In this lesson, students analyze two nonfiction passages on Christopher Columbus to determine facts and author's bias and its influence on the readers.

In this lesson, students will talk about two characters from The Big Yellow Bus. Students will compare and contrast these characters. Then students write about what is similar and different.

Students will synthesize information from multiple historical fiction books to find common themes and support them with evidence from the text. Working with a partner who has read a different book, they will share their theme from their book along with supporting details. Then the other students tries to match their book with the theme. Examples of student work are provided.

Read, write, and present a digital narrative with transition words to help us put the events in order! After modeling the lesson, groups of students will write narratives to recount a short sequence of events, they will include details and using temporal words to signal event order and provide a sense of closure. They will use digital tools to produce and publish writing. Materials, links, and examples of student's work are included.

In this lesson, students will choose their favorite from an assortment of Dr. Seuss books and state a reason why for their choice. Examples of student work are included. Students will also have fun dressing up as their favorite Dr. Seuss character for a culminating activity.

Comparing the treatment of setting in "The Most Dangerous Game" and a movie clip. RL.9-10.7 analyze 2 media

In this lesson, students learn how to analyze figurative language in the poem, "Casey At The Bat."

This site provides 17 English language arts lessons for 7th grade. Grade-level standards are provided.

Students identify text features in nonfiction, as they continue to study cells' function as building blocks of organisms, and summarize the requirements for cells to live.

Students will use text evidence to make inferences about word and word phrase meanings in a text. Word and picture clues will be used to help students form inferences.

In this lesson, students read and discuss an article about video games and violence, then participate in a debate. They are divided into groups and each group prepares an argument and their evidence, then one person from each group presents their position to the class.