If you're unsure of your homonyms, then this worksheet is for you. So much better than some, there are two columns of exercises, and they're fun too.

Who was Walt Whitman, and what link does he have to president Abraham Lincoln?  After Lincoln's assassination, Whitman wrote "O Captain! My Captain!" This poem and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" are the focus of...

Narrative essay writing is the focus of a series of exercises that model for learners how to not only read a narrative, but how to also examine the techniques fiction writers use to create a setting, develop their characters, represent...

Cross-comparison, the technique of focusing on two different texts with the same themes, motifs, events, etc., is employed in an exercise that asks groups to examine two different translations of “The Ruin,” a poem, written in Old...

Some smells are better than others! Explore your sense of smell with a series of activities based on the Peruvian folktale, The Stolen Smell. With exercises about phonics, counting, cooking, art, and drama, the lesson is a...

Ribbit ribbit! Hop through a series of activities based on A Tale of Two Frogs. Kids read the Russian folktale and answer reading comprehension questions before working on phonics exercises, tracing dotting lines to make a path...

Turn your youngsters into little editors with an exercise that focuses on some of the most basic and important writing conventions: capitalization and punctuation. Learners fix five sentences and then rewrite a sentence using...

Readers of The Call of the Wild engage in a four- corners activity that fosters discussion and encourages readers to make connections between their lives and the text. Individuals respond to a series of discussion prompts and justify...

Considering an examination of point of view? Use visual arts to engage learners in of this element of art and literature. Class members select a portrait from the Renaissance Connection and, guided by a series of brainstorming...

Review adjectives and nouns! You could use this simple exercise with learners who know basic Spanish and want to brush up on their adjective and noun use. First, they read the short paragraph. Then, they use the words in parentheses to...

The Spanish words por and para are very similar, can you learners distinguish between the two? Use this short, 10-question exercise to find out! This is the fourth activity in a series to develop an understanding between the two target...

Study verb conjugations to learn Spanish! Beginning Spanish readers complete this short exercise to build verb awareness. There are 15 blanks to fill, and learners must conjugate the -ir, -er, and -ar verbs in parentheses. 

Now that your class has mastered the preterite tense, introduce the imperfect tense. Give them a verb conjugation chart to help them complete this short exercise. There are -ar, -ir, and common verbs to conjugate. 

Careful, that light bulb is hot! Compare heat and light energy using a simple light bulb. The exercise addresses energy conservation and presents actual calculations to determine the most cost-effective light bulb.

Some things are hard to resist. Small collaborative groups build circuits and calculate the voltage using Ohm's Law. Budding engineers explore the connection between the voltage across different resistors and linear...

The era after the Civil War saw a flourishing of African Americans exercising their rights. Using graphic organizers and Internet research, pupils consider the legacy of Benjamin Sterling Turner, who sat in Congress. Afterward, they...

Why is Birmingham known as the magic city? A comprehensive lesson plan provides hands-on activities, group discussion, and writing exercises to teach young historians about the importance of the city of Birmingham. Scholars learn the...

Create an open environment of discussion and collaboration with several exercises in a thought-provoking resource. Pupils conduct a gallery walk and lead a discussion before filling out a question sheet and chart during the learning...

Review some of the challenging vocabulary as your class begins The Hobbit. Twenty vocabulary words are introduced in two exercises. In the first, learners answer questions using some of the target vocabulary. Then, in part two, they use...

The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien’s well-known fantasy, provides the words for two vocabulary exercises. Readers craft sentences using words from the text and fill in the blanks to make meaning out of a second series of sentences.

Play it cool, real cool, with a vocabulary exercise based on words drawn from West Side Story. Do not deprive young choreographers or your ensemble a chance to prove they are not juvenile delinquents.

The chapter-by-chapter questions on a Catcher in the Rye study guide would serve well as a group work exercise in preparation for a whole class discussion of Salinger’s novel. The resource includes a nice mix of fact-based,...

Learn about life in the Arctic while practicing how to graph and interpret data with this interdisciplinary lesson. Starting with a whole group data-gathering exercise, young scholars are then given a worksheet on which they analyze and...

Fourth and fifth graders define the term media literacy, then come up with examples that they share with the class. The types of media studied are auditory, visual, and written. Learners get together in pairs and perform a media...