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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, learners respond to 13 multiple choice questions based on The Things They Carried. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Parallelism
Students use writing to show their understanding of parallel writing structures. For this ESL grammar lesson, students view PowerPoints, listen to short lectures and audio presentations. Students categorize phrases, write stories...
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Jazzing Up Journal Writing
Journal writing lessons can become a whole new experience when students start to learn about the variety of options available.
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3D Houses
Students construct 3-dimensional structures from 2-dimensional paper. They design and compile their structures to resemble a neighborhood community.
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"A Pig is Big"
Students explore the concept of big, bigger, and biggest. They examine and classify items by size, listen to and discuss the book "A Pig is Big," complete a fill in the blank activity, and create a tri-fold that illustrates two items...
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"Mr. Betts and Mr. Potts"
First graders listen to the book "Mr. Betts and Mr. Potts" and examine the career of being a veterinarian. They categorize animals based on whether they could be house pets or not, develop a class pet graph, and list the various...
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Kindergarten Class Favorites
Students discuss their favorite foods, a list of four favorite food are compiled on the board or a chart. They each vote for their favorite food and the data is entered onto a spread sheet and a graph is created while the students watch...
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The Designed World
Students study the classification system used in a library. In this sorting and classification instructional activity, students visit their library and define the classification system in place. Students discuss the sorting method and...
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Traveling as an Ancient American
What would you bring on a trip...if you had to carry it all through freezing temperatures for 3 months? Historians consider this question, faced with their family's need to move south for warmer temperatures in the ancient world....
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Not An Ordinary Quiz on Superstitions!
Superstitions are always interesting. Use this activity as a pre-quiz before studying superstitions or use it as a time-filler when you have a few extra minutes.
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Phonemic Awareness: Isolation
Teacher and class work together to build strong phonemic awareness. They say a series of words, isolate the initial phoneme, and say its sound. This instructional activity is super short but does have a decent extension activity suggestion.
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Apostrophes
Apostrophes as used in plurals, contractions, and possessives are the subject of a short PowerPoint that includes explanations as well as examples of correct and incorrect usage. Consider augmenting the presentation with practice...
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Where the Red Fern Grows: A 4th Grade Literary Focus Unit
Fourth graders explore the human and animal connection along with the idea that death is a part of the life cycle. They read "Where the Red Fern Grows." Students examine the feelings and emotions surrounding death and they discover the...
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Related Problems: Challenge
In this related problems learning exercise, students read a word problem, then solve a series of questions relating to it. Students then write a word problem and an equation to solve.
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The Bones of the Story
Pupils describe the five elements of a story--setting, characters, problem, events, and resolution. They use the Clifford series of books, and a worksheet imbedded in this lesson to help them explain the five elements of a story.
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Write a Number Sentence: Problem Solving
In this number sentence worksheet, students use the problem solving strategy of understand, plan, solve, and look back to help them write number sentences to solve the word problem.
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Hey Diddle Diddle: Play-script
In this "Hey Diddle Diddle" instructional activity, students practice reading expressively as they take parts in this play and practice the script.
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Have and Have got Exercise
In this have and have got worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with either the word have or have got. Students fill in 12 sentences and write 4 on their own.
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Problem Solving- Basic Operations
In this math instructional activity, students solve 10 word problems in which all 4 basic operations are used. The story problems are spaced so students have ample room to calculate their answers.
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Calendar Activity
In this calendar worksheet, students look at a calendar page of the month of May and answer short answer questions about it. Students complete 5 questions total.
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DESCRIPTIVE WORDS
Learners examine descriptive language. In a worksheet activity, they practice writing a one-page description of an event, trying to use descriptive words. They also describe a noun, e.g. rabbit, using descriptive language.
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Proofreading
In this language arts worksheet, students read 5 incomplete sentences with four choices of words or phrases. Students select the correct group of words with the proper spelling, capitalization, grammar and punctuation which will complete...
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Hands On: Act it Out
In this addition practice worksheet, students act out 6 problems with math counters as they solve 6 math problems by writing addition number sentences.
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Another, Other, and Others
In this English grammar worksheet, students differentiate between the usage of the words "another," "other," and "others." Students complete 20 fill in the blank and 3 short answer questions using the correct word...