Students define and give examples of five senses, compiling a list of sensory words to be used in a written descriptive paragraph.

Instruct your readers to scrounge through the pages of Maniac Magee in search for descriptive passages or words they may use to write poetry. As they look for meaningful, sensory descriptors in Jerry Spinelli's novel, readers...

A world without adjectives would be a sad place indeed! Make sure adjectives stay around by teaching your class about what they are and how using them can make a boring story truly interesting. Learners put this idea into practice by...

Third graders demonstrate knowledge of adjectives, and use this knowledge to color-code parts of speech of a sentence.

As part of a study of narrative writing, young story tellers are asked to revise 20 telling sentences and create showing ones.

Young scholars explore the wonders of bugs. In this bug lesson, students examine various types of bugs. Young scholars make crafts, sing songs, discuss nutrition, and investigate different types of insects.

After reading an informational text detailing the ins and outs of snowflakes, scholars draw their own special design then work cooperatively to role play a snowman building scenario. 

Why wouldn't the chickens cross the brook? Find out in a short reading passage about a mother hen and her babies' daily walk. Second graders answer four comprehension questions after they finish reading the story.

There's no love like a mother's adoration for her children. Second graders read a short story about a little girl's discovery of baby birds and their mother before answering four comprehension questions.

Learners act out stories. For this pantomime lesson, students sit on the ground with a partner and act out a story as the teacher reads it. They discuss what they learned from the activity. 

Students view a PowerPoint presentation about Character sketches, and write a four paragraph character sketch. Emphasis is placed on topic sentences having one main idea per paragraph and elaborating. They study and discuss ways to write...