Whether preparing for the SAT or just interested in increasing your vocabulary, here's an app that will provide succor to learners desirous of obviating the anxiety associated with the study of esoteric language.

It's just a figure of speech, but this app is, in a nutshell, bursting at the seams with idioms. In just two shakes of a lamb's tail, learners can study, search for, and test their knowledge of the included expressions.

Allow the residents of this grammar-packed city to teach your pupils the parts of speech with songs, videos, quizzes, and more. Kids can get to know each part of speech and sing along with the catchy tunes!

Travel through space as you learn about the galaxy, solar system, planets, and much more. An extensive resource for studying astronomy in upper-elementary and middle school classrooms.

Prepare high school seniors for the job search process with a lesson that teaches them how to craft four different types of business letters: the cover letter, the informational interview request, a reference request, and a thank you...

Learning how to use prepositions has never been so much fun! With this interactive grammar resource children create illustrated scenes and write sentences that describe where different objects are located in the pictures.

Young scholars evaluate information they are given and identify the quality of the information as fact, fiction, and point of view. In this information quality lesson plan, students also discuss how they can pick out good information...

This worksheet that accompanies a reading of A Beautiful Mind includes over 20 questions that address theme, fact and opinion, supporting details, characterization, and quote comprehension.

Students describe biology by identifying different plants in class. In this seed activity, students discuss the process of how a plant grows from seed to leaves. Students attend a field trip to their garden or another park and collect a...

Students write a poem. In this language arts lesson, students discuss what they hear and see in a garden. Students write a poem about the sights, sounds and smells of the garden.

Learners examine nature by participating in an environmental art activity. In this imaginary creature activity, students discuss the importance of a habitat when pertaining to wild animals or bugs. Learners utilize tree parts which they...

Students discover ways to use fresh fruits in a healthy snack. For this cooking lesson, students are given recipes to make smoothies using different types of fruits.

Students engage in a instructional activity that investigates the elements that are necessary in a short story. Each element is covered separately while they take notes for each part. Then the teacher points out each element while...

For a basic overview of phrases (prepositional, absolute, appositive, and participial), use this presentation in your grammar unit. Each slide contains a short explanation and an example, concluding with a slide about relative clauses....

Third graders explore PowerPoint.  In this technology lesson, 3rd graders select a topic of interest and follow a guided lesson researching their topic.  Students complete storyboards, introductions, table of contents and...

Students explore participial adjectives. In this social studies lesson, students select the participial adjectives within a passage. Students write about an event using participial adjectives.

Students learn initial sound recognition by walking through the school and its grounds looking for items that begin with the same sound as their first name.

In this English worksheet, students read "We Spend Half Our Time Daydreaming," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.

In this lesson, learners will use figurative language, digital tools, and illustrations to write a story. The teacher will model how to use an app that has onomatopoeia to create a story with a good beginning, middle, and end. A video...

This slideshow lesson focuses on divided (split) quotations and how to punctuate them. It presents four uses of the divided quote, explains how to punctuate each, and provides examples.

This slideshow focuses on the use of dystopia, dysfunctional societies, in literature. It defines dystopia, explains common characteristics, tells how and why dystopia is created it literature, and provides examples in novels and in movies.

This slideshow tutorial focuses on editing techniques for grammar and mechanical errors; it states three ways that grammar should be reviewed in papers: Microsoft Word's grammar check, review each sentence backwards, and have peer or...

This slideshow lesson focuses on writing a reverse outline as a post writing strategy for assessing your paper for weak or missing aspects. It explains how to create the outline using a rubric if available and provides a skeletal example...

This video lesson focuses on the uses of the slash mark; it explains the purposes of the slash mark and when not to use it. It also discusses when to use the slash and how to write it between words, in poetry, and in URL addresses.