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- Arctic animals
- This is a whole language lesson for Speech Language Pathologists incorporating listening comprehension, categorizing, following verbal directions, and basic vocabulary and language concepts for First grade students.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Susan Ayers.
- Prepositional phrases showing location
- Students will learn the Spanish words for several prepositional phrases that show location. This lesson also reviews previous vocabulary.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Second Languages)
- By Stephanie Watson.
- Snowflake Bentley: The book and more!
- By using the picture book, Snowflake Bentley, students are introduced to the Caldecott Award and exposed to an interesting biography.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Cherl Hollada, Libby Morrison, and Susan Pope.
- Molly's Pilgrim Activity
- Using the book by Barbara Cohen, students will respond to the social and historical significance of this portrayal of the Thanksgiving holiday. Students will also participate in constructing a Venn diagram and completing a cloze activity.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Susan Milholland, Kathy Vaden, and Rita Wilson.
- Letter recognition with Alphabet Band and Express
- This activity will reinforce letter recognition along with letter order. Students will watch a video, listen to stories and play CD games on the computer to aid in recognition of alphabet letters, sounds and order.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
- By Levrah Hall.
- Thanksgiving story: Stone Soup
- This lesson is for K–5 Exceptional Children who are mild to moderately disabled. This lesson will incorporate listening, daily living, fine motor, and augmentive communication skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
- By Christina Pond and Sarah Boling.
- Storytelling with Cherokee folktales
- This is a two day lesson pertaining to telling Cherokee folktales. This lesson can be modified and used with any folktale.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Ricky Hamilton.
- Description as mind control: Using details to help readers visualize your story
- Good writers help their readers visualize their stories by including vivid details. Students will listen to passages from Gary Paulsen's novel Hatchet, draw one of the images from the passage, and identify which details Paulsen uses to create these images.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Whole language reading: Pumpkin pie baking activity
- A whole language literature-based reading lesson that culminates in a cooking extension activity.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Amy Durso.
- Preparing English language learners for reading comprehension
- In Reading comprehension and English language learners, page 1
- Use KWL charts, circle maps and brainstorming webs, and concept maps to prepare English language learners, content-area learners, and all students for reading comprehension.
- By Ellen Douglas.
- Bugs, bugs, bugs
- This lesson integrates writing and the study of insects by creating an innovation to the text of the book How Many Bugs in a Box? by David A. Carter
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Computer/Technology Skills, English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science)
- By Vicki Rivenbark.
- The Sneetches and teaching diversity
- This lesson uses The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss as an introduction to diversity and tolerance. Its kinesthetic element makes it doubly appealing to students.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Information Skills)
- By Robin Boltz.
- Who Moved My Cheese? for Teens
- Students read, discuss, and write about Who Moved My Cheese? for Teens by Spencer Johnson, M.D., a parable about life's changes, and how best to benefit from them. By reading the parable, students will learn ways to react positively to inevitable change, and gain insight into their personal decision-making processes regarding changes in their lives, now and in the future. This lesson plan is modified for Advanced English Language Learners in the 9th and 10th grades. It is written for 45 minute class periods, but can be modified for 90 minute block classes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Ann Gerber.
- The American Dream
- In conjunction with a unit on Puritanism, students will define and illustrate their personal definition of the American Dream or their concept of the dream in general.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Becky Ackert and Deborah Belknap.
- Reindeer boots
- Children will use problem-solving techniques to answer the question, “How many boots will Santa need for his reindeer?”
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By Vanette Hann.
- Oh, the places I will go!
- Students will listen to the story by Dr. Seuss Oh, the Places You'll Go! The students will brainstorm a list of places they would like to go. Places such as nouns and proper nouns will be separated during the listing process. The students will write a response to: "Oh, the places I will go! I will go____________." and illustrate their responses. Each student response will be collected for a class book entitled "Oh, the Places We Will Go!"
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- Navigating the Subway: Indicateur des métros
- Traveling in a foreign country often requires knowledge of how to use the subway to visit various points of interest in a particular city. The activity is in the form of a role-play in which one student serves as an employee at a government Tourist Office. The other plays the role of a tourist who wants to go to a particular location within the city. He must convey this information to the employee in the target language. The employee then inputs the information into the program and orally gives the directions to the tourist.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages)
- By Bobby Hobgood.
- Poetry through music: "Smooth"
- This lesson draws students into a study of poetry, using Carlos Santana and Rob Thomas' "Smooth" as an entry point.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Andrea Belletti.
- Seasons change
- This lesson introduces students to the characteristics of the changing seasons and allows students to see how plants, animals, and people adapt to the changes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
- By Beth Herron.
- Greeting your limited English proficient students in their own language
- Even a simple "Hello" or "How are you today?" can help to integrate a student into a new environment. This article offers strategies and tools for teachers wishing to learn a few words of a new language.
- By Bobby Hobgood.
