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- Lesson Plans
- Ramona's World Activity Guide
K-2, 3-5
Find great activities to extend your class's reading of Ramona's World.
- All About Light
3-5,
An educational program for grades 3–5 that encourages students to practice reading and writing while learning about the science of light.
- Autumn Scene
K-2, 3-5
Ask students to describe and draw what autumn means to them. (PDF)
- Fairy Tale 'Zines
K-2, 3-5, 6-8
Using fairy tales as inspiration and subject, kids can write and illustrate their own popular-style magazines.
- Help Chris and Croc Solve Problems
K-2
After reading Chris & Croc, students create their own solutions to the characters' problems.
- I Have a Dream
6-8
After listening to Dr. King's famous speech, children will discuss what his dream was and how he it was different that life currently was like.
- If Dinosaurs Were Alive Today
3-5
What would it be like if dinosaurs still roamed the earth?
- Look to the Skies!
Early Childhood
Encourage children to look up, down, and all around them.
- Make Kids' Writing Shine: Using Beginnings and Endings to Teach Craft
3-5, 6-8
This article describes how to support students' writing by focusing on beginnings and endings.
- Moment in History
3-5, 6-8
Put yourself into the shoes of famous women with this writing exercise.
- Olden Days
K-2, 3-5
Hands-on activities immerse students in life long ago.
- Presidential Best Friends
3-5
Check your comprehension of a story by answering key questions from the book, First Pets: Presidential Best Friends.
- Rain Forest: Online Theme Unit
3-5, 6-8
See how rainfall varies in different ecosystems and parts of the world.
- Riddles by the Bagful!
Early Childhood
Make a book that’s bigger than a lunch bag but smaller than a breadbox.
- Small Poems
3-5
Writing little poems offers kids a way to practice writing descriptive short poems that’s enormous fun. (PDF) Source: Kids' Poems: Teaching Third and Fourth Graders to Love Writing Poetry
- The American Dream: Exploring the Possibilities
6-8
Practice writing, explore American history, and reflect on your own family's stories and dreams.
- The Answer to Better Writing? Better Questions!
K-2, 3-5
Support children by looking for questions as they work -- questions that encourage more thinking and, ultimately, writing.
- The Possibilities of Words
6-8
A free-writing exercise draws on children's own life experiences and relates them to the American dream.
- Unit Plan: Drama: It's time to Play!
6-8
Students will learn how to identify previously learned literary elements in a play or drama. They will also be able to add script writing to their repertoire of writing applications.
- Unit plan: Exploration — Widening Our Horizons
3-5
Discover the difficulties of exploration and some of the motivations for exploration.
- Unit Plan: Giving
3-5
The winter season is a good time to emphasize those gifts that are not purchased, but rather come from the heart.
- Unit Plan: Let's Brush Our Teeth!
K-2
First grade students learn about teeth and how to take care of them.
- Unit Plan: Let's Learn About Fire Safety!
K-2
First graders learn about firefighters and fire safety by reading books, using technology, creating a fun, shape book, and experiencing a field trip to the fire station.
- Unit Plan: Let's Learn About Weather
K-2
Primary students learn about weather and how it affects people.
- Unit Plan: Let's Plant!
K-2
First-grade students learn about plants and how they grow.
- Unit Plan: Let's Travel to Mexico!
K-2
First grade students learn about Mexico, its people, and some of their customs.
- Unit Plan: Persuasion Through Advertising
6-8
Learn about visual and written persuasive techniques, and apply these techniques to create an advertisement.
- Unit Plan: Poetry Slam
6-8
Begin a very exciting journey into the world of poems by learning the basic elements of poetry and holding a poetry slam.
- Unit Plan: Point of View
3-5
Find out what it's like to "step into someone else's shoes" and see how people's perception of the world affects how they act and feel.
- Unit Plan: Rhythm, Rhymes, and Reasons
3-5
Read and write haiku, cinquain, couplets, limericks, form poems, shape poems, and free verse.
- Unit Plan: Teaching Imagery with Gary Paulsen
6-8
Excerpts from memoirs written by Paulsen show how to write a narrative piece.
- Unit Plan: We Are History: Family Stories
3-5
Children begin to get to know one another through family histories and stories.
- Unit Plan: Welcome to Success
3-5
This literature-rich unit will ignite a discussion about the necessary traits for a year of success. Members of a learning community demonstrate many traits of success while fostering those traits in others.
- Unit Plan: Wrapping Up the School Year
3-5
Students write letters to future students and teachers and create a personal classroom yearbook of their favorite events.
- Unit Plan: Writing Autobiographies
6-8
Show children that they are the experts when it comes to the genre of autobiographical writing.
- Weather Watchers Theme Unit
Early Childhood, K-2
Find a variety of weather-related activities across the curriculum.
- Weather Words
K-2
Find creative ways to incorporate weather words into writing.
- Women's History Activities, K-6
K-2, 3-5
Find short descriptions of several cross-curricular activities for use in teaching women's history.
- Word Splash
3-5
Dive in to learning with these fun, dynamic and easy-to-use lessons that build vocabulary and writing skills.
- Writers' Workshop: Fiction
3-5, 6-8
Fiction-writing lessons from the Teachers and Writers Collaborative.
- Online Activities Teacher Guides
- Culture & Change Black History in America: Teacher's Guide
Lesson-planning suggestions for using the Culture & Change online activity in the classroom.
- Dinosaurs! Teacher's Guide
Lesson planning suggestions for use of the Dinosaur! online activity in the classroom.
- Global Trek: Teacher's Guide
Lesson-planning suggestions on how to use the "Global Trek" online activitiy in the classroom.
- Myths, Folktales and Fairytales Teacher's Guide
A great resource for learning about writing in these genres.
- Scholastic News Teacher's Guide
Lesson planning suggestions for using Scholastic News in the classroom.
- World War II Remembered: Teacher's Guide
Lesson-planning suggestions for using the "World War II Remembered" online activity in the classroom.
- Write It Teacher's Guide
Teacher's guide for the online activity that allows students to find their voice, develop their craft, and publish their writing online.
- Writing With Writers Teacher's Guide
Teacher's guide for the Writing with Writers workshops.
- Reproducibles
- Active Beginnings
3-5, 6-8
These easy reproducibles with mini-lessons help kids write wonderful dialogue, dazzling descriptions, and more. (PDF) Source: Super Story-Writing Strategies & Activities
- At the Scene of the Fire
3-5
Use this fiery story to give students practice determining the order of events.
- D Is for Dreams
K-2, 3-5
Use this lesson plan to engage students in a writing activity about dreams. Includes a dream graphic organizer. (PDF) Source: Quick & Fun Writing Activities Just for Young Learners
- Don't Say. . .
3-5, 6-8
Use these reproducibles to help students build vocabulary and avoid overused words in their writing. (PDF file) Source: 25 Quick Mini-Lessons to Teach Narrative Writing
- Fiction: Description
K-2, 3-5
Children create characters and learn to write more descriptively.
- Get Ready to Write
K-2
Work with a partner to retell a rhyme or poem in a new way.
- Ideal Hideaway
3-5, 6-8
Describe a place you'd like to escape to if you could. (PDF) Source: The Big Book of Ready-to-Go Writing Lessons
- Identifying a Target Audience
6-8
Students evaluate advertisements and practice describing target audiences. (PDF) Source: Awesome Activities to Help Reluctant Writers Succeed
- Metaphorically Speaking
6-8
Develop understanding of figurative language by asking children to interpret, extend, and create metaphors. (PDF)
- Shy
K-2, 3-5
This poem and related writing prompts are an excellent way for students to explore feelings. (PDF) Source: 50 Fantastic Poems With Wonderful Writing Prompts
- Spin-A-Story Writing Prompts Chart
K-2, 3-5
Use this chart to outline the details of your stories – character, plot, and setting. (PDF) Source: Spin-A-Story Writing Prompts Chart
- What a Character!
3-5, 6-8
Help children develop characters and allow them to assess their own writing. (PDF) Source: 40 Rubrics and Checklists to Assess Reading and Writing
- Who Am I?
3-5, 6-8
Encourage children to make lists of influences that have shaped them for use in memoir writing. (PDF) Source: Teaching Memoir Writing
- Wonder Woman!
3-5, 6-8
Choose one of three formats to write about heroes and heroines.
- Write a Poem
K-2, 3-5
Try out poetry-writing with this fun activity.
- Writing an Acrostic
3-5, 6-8
Reinforce use of the "right words" when writing poetry by using this acrostic poem lesson plan. (PDF) Source: Teaching 10 Fabulous Forms of Poetry
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