Analyze magazines as a class, looking carefully for the target audience, advertisements, and topics presented. Small groups then work as a publication team and receive a magazine that they have to "sell." Each individual has a different...

Discuss the correct use of certain phrases such as "managed" and "could" in this English lesson. Middle schoolers listen to interviews on work customs in different countries and compare them. They make inferences after reading given...

Are you planning to have a guest speaker talk to your class? Prepare in advance and help your class transform into an engaged and thoughtful audience. Before the visit, young writers work cooperatively to brainstorm what they want to...

Here is an effective way to have your charges practice and model important listening skills. After a short review of effective active listening concepts, such as using body language, summarizing what the other person said, and asking...

Make origami ducks with your class to reinforce geometry concepts and vocabulary; develop fine motor and visual translation skills; and enrich study of Japanese culture, the pond habitat, or migration. Create a whole group "worksheet"...

High schoolers, who may soon be entering the workplace, read and discuss a case study in which a business service representative has an unpleasant confrontation with a customer that results in a lost sale. Groups review three questions...

Use fables as a fun way for English Language Learners to gain confidence and fluency in their reading and speaking skills. After reading a fable in class, they retell their story to a group of their peers. When this jigsaw activity is...

Students develop listening and reading skills with the oral reading of a story. The students demonstrate good listening skills using appropriate body language and answering assessment questions. They discuss the story looking for main...

Eleventh graders participate in a variety of listening, speaking and reading activities. Here, they research the lives and achievements of different famous people. They prepare a creative presentation on a chosen topic. 

In this English worksheet, students discuss walking. Students conduct a survey about walking, write a short piece on walking, listen to and read an article about walking.

Young scholars explore the concept of respectful listening.  In this listening skills lesson, students discuss and demonstrate good and bad listening skills.  Young scholars work in groups to decide what is easy and hard about...

Students discover ways to learn about the past. In this writing activity students use a writing web to organize their ideas about how we learn about the past. The students then start a time capsule about their lives....

Students listen to the book Mouse Shapes and identify the shapes in the book as it is being read. In this shapes lesson plan, students identify the shapes in the book, and then play with cut out shapes that they can hold in their hands.

Students practice identifying different sounds. In this auditory skills lesson, students listen to items that make different sounds. Students discuss the sounds of different items and try to identify the sounds they hear.

Students talk with a partner. In this listening lesson, students play a favorite colors listening games, review a checklist for active listening and practice active listening with a partner.

Students recognize and spell sets of words with/shun/suffixes. They become familiar with common t-i-o-n, s-i-o-n, s-s-i-o-n, and c-i-a-n words. Students listen as the teacher say, "I'm going to say several different words that all have...

Students discuss the importance of good listening skills. In groups, they participate in various scenerios in which they practice reflective and active listening. To end the lesson, they complete a listening quiz and compare it to one...

Students listen to native speakers using natural fast speech. They encounter techniques to listening more attentive. Students practice the art of listening. They are presented with a really difficult piece of 'authentic' listening via a...

Students examine the emotions behind different facial expressions. They explain how it feels when someone smiles at them and practice smiling and speaking to someone with eye contact. They also demonstrate the characteristics of active...

Students make decisions to untangle themselves from a Group Knot. They examine how organization, perseverance, and following directions relate to computer science.

Students demonstrate understanding of main points of the Deseret News article, and identify the verb(s) of each phrase to aid in listening comprehension.

Third graders observe a variety of sights within their schoolyard habitat and sitting quietly back-to-back with a partner describe what they see. The partner sketches the observations, 3rd graders compare drawings with the object described.

Students practice and model good listening skills, become aware of the effects of cultural and other biases that affect communication.

Students listen to a book about Kwanzaa and discuss the holiday and its importance. In this Kwanzaa lesson, students make crafts after they read and discuss the story.