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- Adjectives: Hero versus Villain
- Students will compare and contrast a hero and a villain through a variety of oral and written activities.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages)
- By Rebecca Watkins.
- "Luscious lollipops" and other adjectives
- The students will become familiar with adjectives by reading Ruth Heller's book Many Luscious Lollipops: A Book About Adjectives. They will also be able to use adjectives to describe an object in their own writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
- By Pat DeMello.
- Pattern writing using nouns and adjectives
- In this lesson plan, students will think and write creatively using nouns and adjectives. They will experience all phases of the writing process.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts)
- By Susan S. Craver.
- "I Spy": Using adjectives and descriptive phrases
- Students will review definitions for adjectives, learn and practice sensory adjectives and imagery, and use adjectives and descriptive phrases in writing a paragraph and/or story.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By Elizabeth Hutchens.
- Jazzy sentences
- This is an interesting activity to help students jazz up or make their sentences more interesting by adding adjectives, adverbs, more vibrant verbs, and descriptive nouns.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By Helen Potts.
- Creating community in the classroom: Part 1 (setting goals )
- This series of lessons is designed to help develop a sense of classroom community. Group goal-setting, brainstorming, peer feedback, group decision-making, positive reinforcement, and positive peer pressure are used to create a safe, supportive environment for learning in the classroom.
In Part 1, students are introduced to the goal-setting process. They will practice the first step of the process as they set individual and class behavioral goals. - Format: lesson plan (grade 1–8 Guidance)
- By Pat Nystrom.
- Los adjetivos con el verbo “estar”
- Students will learn adjectives of emotion with the verb estar and make a booklet illustrating the new vocabulary.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages)
- By Karen Hayworth.
- First draft/final draft
- Students will compare paragraphs with and without elaboration and descriptive details. They will learn how to revise their own writing by adding descriptive details such as adjectives, adverbs, concrete nouns, and precise verbs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Sentence carousel
- Adjectives, adverbs, and precise language help construct descriptive sentences. In this lesson, students will learn to construct more elaborate sentences that will enliven their writing
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Animal adjectives
- Students will describe animals as they review nouns and verbs associated with these animals. They will learn to use adjectives as they describe the animals. They will use this knowledge to write their stories about animals.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Anita Baldwin, Ann Loftis, and Genevieve Kiser.
- Let's hunt for vivid vocabulary!
- This activity will be used to encourage students to focus on using an enriched vocabulary. During an oral reading of the book A Bad Case of Stripes, the students will search and identify various nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, dialogue tags, and transition words.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By Susan Byrd.
- Creating community in the classroom: Part 4 (rewarding improvement)
- The fourth lesson in a series on improving classroom learning climate, this lesson provides an opportunity to evaluate student progress and to provide positive reinforcement for improvements in behavior. Using a one to ten continuum, students will subjectively evaluate class progress on the ten adjectives listed as class climate goals. After this process, students will publicly recognize those classmates who have helped the class improve or who have personally improved.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–8 Guidance)
- By Pat Nystrom.
- Creating community in the classroom: Part 2 (cooperative planning)
- This series of lessons is designed to help develop a sense of classroom community through use of group goal-setting, decision-making, brainstorming, peer feedback, positive reinforcement, and positive peer pressure. The lessons will help students create and maintain a supportive environment for learning. Part 1 focused on goal-setting process and practice. In Part 2, students will apply knowledge of the goal-setting process by cooperatively creating a plan to work on group goals.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–8 Guidance)
- By Pat Nystrom.
- Be the sentence: An interactive language arts activity
- Students take on the roles of different words and punctuation and work collaboratively to create a complete sentence using correct parts of speech, word order, and punctuation. Students progress from simple sentences to more complex sentences.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Diction in Maya Angelou's poem "Remembering"
- The class will annotate and discuss Angelou's poem. Then they will select specific words and complete a webbing that asks them to explore the connotations of the word as well as consider the author's purpose in using it.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Vickie Smith.
- Analyzing author style using sentence combining
- This activity should be completed before reading the essay “Beach People, Mountain People” by Suzanne Britt. Students will combine three sets of kernel sentences based on the first paragraph of Britt's writing. They will then compare their sentences to Britt's. The class will discuss what sentence combining strategy or strategies they used and observe how Britt varies her sentences.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Vickie Smith.
- Discovering just the right word
- Precise word choice helps show the reader a story and not just tell a story. The purpose of this series of lessons is to help students improve their writing style by strengthening word choice at the word and sentence level by adding adverbs, precise verbs, and specific nouns.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Haiku and photography: A natural connection
- This lesson will allow students to combine photographing nature with creating a Haiku poem to express what they see in the photograph.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)
- By steven sather.
- Making a video critique of an information source
- After finishing their social issues research paper for their English class (or any other type of research paper), students will write and present orally a critique of one information source used in their research papers. Students will work in pairs to videotape each other, and they must also design appropriate backdrops for their oral presentations. Students will watch and evaluate all critiques.
This interdisciplinary assignment combines information skills and language arts skills, and requires collaboration between the media specialist and the English teacher. - Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Bonnie Snyder.
- Here comes the circus
- Boys and girls of all ages love the Circus. This is a lesson from an integrated unit. In this lesson, students will be introduced to the Kindergarten level words from the Dolch Word List.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
- By Penny Stafford.
