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- Spell check: What a tool!
- Students, through guided practice, become familiar with how a spell check program works and learn to use it effectively. They will then be able to use it independently as they word process on their own.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–5 Computer/Technology Skills)
- By Mary Rizzo.
- Phonics fun
- Kid Pix Deluxe software is needed for this lesson. Using this program, students will decode and blend one syllable short vowel words and words ending with silent "e" to match pictures with words as well as spell names of pictures.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Jo Voigt.
- Literature lamps: The Weirdo
- Literature is tied to an integrated curriculum for student success. Emphasis is on reading and communication.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Wendy Sirias.
- Read it backwards
- One editing technique that writers can use to help them catch their own spelling errors is "Read It Backwards." In this lesson, students will learn a procedure for identifying and correcting the spelling of misspelled words.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Geometry and art: Art museum post-visit
- This is the third lesson in a three-part unit integrating math, writing and visual arts. In this integrated lesson, students apply their knowledge of geometry by organizing and displaying information in graphs with correct labeling. Students then compare and analyze graphs. Finally, with this information students create a geometric design.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Visual Arts Education and Mathematics)
- By Loretta Hopper.
- "We the People"
- Students will gain a better understanding of the U.S. Constitution by exploring the language of the Constitution.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Karen Creech, Terri Hodges, Megan Lawson, and Mary Ostwalt.
- Persuasive writing: A classroom model
- In Arts of persuasion, page 4
- A plan for modeling persuasive writing with middle school students, using homework as the topic.
- By Pamela Myrick and Sharon Pearson.
- Dear Tootsie Roll company
- The students will measure the surface area and wrapper area of five pieces of candy. Using appropriate formulas and measuring techniques, they will complete information needed for a spreadsheet and database. Students wrap up the lesson by writing a letter to the company with the most wasted paper to explain how the waste affects them as consumers and a suggestion for correcting the problem.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Tonya Thompson.
- Leapin' leprechauns
- This lesson will allow first graders to use their imagination while practicing newly learned writing skills. The end product will be wonderfully creative leprechaun stories.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By JoAnn Lazaro.
- Valentine geometry
- Combine geometry construction skills with language arts and artistic ability.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)
- By Tanis Schick.
- Conventions
- In The five features of effective writing, page 6
- Conventions — grammar, spelling, and the like — are important to good writing, but should be taught only after the other Features of Effective Writing.
- By Kathleen Cali.
- Get real!
- When teaching computer proficiency to at-risk students, make classroom lessons relevant to their lives and take account of different learning styles.
- By Skip Thibault.
- Super sportswriters' camp
- Students will identify the parts of a newspaper sports article in order to plan and write their own sports article.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts)
- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom: Learning letters and sounds at a zoom!
- This lesson introduces, reviews, and reinforces letter recognition and letter sounds using the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault. Kindergarten children will enjoy this activity! It is appropriate for all academic levels.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
- By Shanna Buckner.
- Learning to Read
- Young children love to be read to and look forward to reading themselves. This sampling of resources provide activities that are fun and stimulate interest in reading.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Graphs galore
- This lesson will allow students to conduct surveys from a selected number of people. Then the students will be able to use this data to create various kinds of graphs. After completion of the graphs, they will analyze their data and then draw conclusions from this data.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Computer/Technology Skills and Mathematics)
- By Alta Allen.
- Water cycle word study
- Students will look at the written similarities in the words used to describe the water cycle (ex., evaporation, transpiration, precipitation, accumulation, condensation), focusing on suffixes and prefixes as a way to gain understanding of those terms. Students will group words by meaning and label a blank water cycle chart based on the categories for the groupings they create. This lesson is designed in conjunction with “More than just a rainy day—the water cycle.”
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Science)
- By Kelly This and Leigh Thrower.
- Life cycle of painted lady butterflies
- Students will make a chart of the life cycle of the painted lady butterflies that the class observes over a period of several days.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Science)
- By Anne Allen.
- Reading primary sources: An introduction for students
- A step-by-step guide for students examining primary sources, with specific questions divided into five layers of questioning.
- Format: article/learner's guide
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Computer literacy in the ESL classroom: An introduction to formatting
- Word processing software is used to create and print documents. English as a second language middle school students (with an intermediate level of English proficiency) will be introduced to the advantages of word processing with emphasis on text formatting features in Microsoft Works. Both independent and group work is included in the activities.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Computer/Technology Skills)
- By Milena Dolezel.
