In order to assess their mastery of the concepts taught in a 12-lesson plan unit study of Christopher Paul Curtis' Bud, Not Buddy, individuals read excerpts from President Barack Obama's 2009 Back-to-School Speech and use the strategies...

Study the characteristics of real-life heroes in your history or language arts lesson. After reading about the soldiers of World War I, kids write autobiographies from their future elderly selves, and reflect on their acts of heroism yet...

Students demonstrate the use of rhythm in interior design. They create a sample page showing five different elements of rhythm as it is used in visual art. These elements include: repetition, gradation, transition, opposition, and...

In this language arts worksheet, students create new words with the appointed suffixes and filling in the new one with magnetic or written letters.

In this language arts activity, students use a word wheel to write down the correct words to correlate with the pictures on the wheel.

In this language arts worksheet, students discover 9 Greek gods, goddesses and heroes by reading paragraphs about them. Students then complete a crossword puzzle.

In this language arts worksheet, students are provided a template for which to write a newspaper article. Students complete their own article and provide a picture/illustration to accompany what they have written.

In this language arts activity, students use their current spelling word list to create a word search. They list their word list and place words into the ten by ten grid on the activity.

In this language arts worksheet, students learn to form both upper and lower case DeNelian letters A-Z. Students trace the dotted examples of each letter and words that begin with that letter. Students then form their own examples on the...

Verbs are the focus of this language arts activity. Students underline the verbs, or verb phrases, in 7 sentences, then make 2 original sentences with verbs in them. A good activity!

Students differentiate between metallic and non-metallic sounds. In this music lesson, students listen to the audio clip of "March" and march in time with the music. Students identify the metallic sounds in the music piece. Students...

Students look in a mirror and draw a self portrait of themselves. In this art lesson plan, students will create a stained glass effect using glue sticks and oil pastels to create a very unique styled portrait

In this language arts worksheet, learners practice sentence completion. Students are given two passages with missing words and they are to place words from the word bank in the blanks. There are thirty-six in all.

Twelfth graders identify satire in various fictional texts.  In this language arts lesson, 12th graders will learn to define satire, parody, and caricature. Students will identify different forms of satire in historical and...

Pizza is the inspiration for the cross-curricular instructional activity detailed here. Start out with a poem about pizza and move into a discussion about balanced eating. To close the language arts portion of the instructional activity,...

Students make bookmarks by cutting cardboard into strips about 5 inches long by 1 1/2-2 inces wide. In this art lesson, students then glue their pictures on the strip.

Students create a paper chain link out of the red, green and white strips of paper. In this art lesson, students staple or tape the rings. Students also staple a square on each link with the numbers 1-24 written on the squares. Students...

Students color a picture with bright crayons. In this art lesson, students brush a thin coat of water color paint over the picture with the paint only sticking to the uncolored areas.

Students create an Easter Basket stuffer. In this holiday art lesson, students melt crayons together over a small cooking pot and pour the melted crayons into a candy mold. Students let them dry and are able to color with the...

Second graders practice their creative writing by using descriptive words.  In this language arts lesson, 2nd graders utilize their best descriptive writing to elaborate on one of 20 different bean bag characters.  Students...

In this language arts learning exercise, learners review Irish tower houses. After reading a book about these towers (title not included), students complete 5 short answer questions, illustrate a tower, and have the option of researching...

Students explore engineering by building a simple design in class. In this pencil creation lesson, students discuss their likes and dislikes with current writing utensils and design a new type of pencil. Students utilize arts and crafts...

Students explore language arts by participating in a class word identification game. In this phonics lesson, students read several words in class and identify the different sounds between short and long vowel words. Students complete a...

This little instructional activity plan provides an outline of how to teach homophones to your elementary language arts class. A set of multiple choice questions is included on the webpage that you could use to create a practice...