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- 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.
- Word bank
- The Word Bank provides students with a classroom resource for "researching" the correct spelling of words that students want or need to use in their writing on a daily basis.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Newspaper words
- Students will use newspapers to find the letters for certain words, such as spelling words, or words with certain beginnings or endings, and then create those particular words by cutting and pasting.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
- By Emily Goodson.
- Rainbow spelling: A kinesthetic approach to encoding
- The following lesson requires the students to spell words containing learned phonemes using a visual and kinesthetic learning approach.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts)
- By Wendy Parton.
- Word closet
- Word Closets give students an additional classroom resource for “researching” the correct spelling of words to use in their daily writing. Word Closets are particularly focused toward concept words, season words, and favorite words that students like to use in their writing but may need help with spelling.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Pets
- Students will categorize their family pets and indicate a pet they would like to have. Students will then write sentences about their pets.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
- By Kathy Beck.
- I spy nouns
- This lesson will introduce students to nouns. The lesson will begin with a game of "I Spy." This game will help students to understand that nouns are things that can be seen and touched. Then the students will make lists of people, places, and things.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Beth Edmonds.
- Lesson plans for teaching conventions
- A collection of LEARN NC's lesson plans for teaching conventions, the fifth of the five features of effective writing.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Plants and animals: Introduction to the unknown
- This is an introductory lesson to assist students in understanding where their food comes from and what is available in this area. It is also a wonderful way to continue with inventive spelling.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Science)
- By Sheila Moody.
- 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.
- Stamp it here, stamp it there, stamp it where?
- Using a drawing program (Kid Pix), students will integrate English Language Arts and Technology Skills as they work with Geometry skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By Mary Rizzo.
- Writing a resumé
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 1.2
- In this lesson plan, students practice writing resumés and editing them with peers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Andrea Fedon, Gail Frank, and Cindy Neininger.
- Digging up discoveries
- The students will study archaeology, practicing their knowledge of spelling patterns and capitalization and punctuation skills along the way. The students will go to a teacher-created excavation and discover a surprise in a “rock” from the excavation. The students will then write about their experience.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Alyssa Slater.
- Guest of honor: A presidential banquet
- In Rethinking Reports, page 1.3
- A research assignment in which students plan a banquet in honor of a president.
- By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.
- Painting the alphabet
- After working on numerous letter names and sounds, the children will use a paint program to draw a picture and write the word to name the picture. The pictures will be printed out to make a class book or alphabet page.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
- By Jackie White, Kathy Moore, Kelley Turner, and Mike Christopher.
- Spring cinquain poems
- Students will review parts of speech by learning what a cinquain poem is and then writing and typing a Spring cinquain.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
- By Jennifer Williams.
- Congruent figures
- This is a fun, hands-on activity to help students identify congruent figures.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
- By Jennifer Robinson.
- "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.
- Mud feels good!
- Students will listen to Mud Walk by Joy Cowley. Students will experience and describe mud using a bubble map to record their responses. Students will create a class book using chocolate pudding to imitate mud.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Science)
- By Amanda Mcalpine, Carol Elliott, and Ginny Devine.
- Composing snowman stories
- Students will compose sequential, descriptive instructions about how to build a snowman.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Sandra Weavil.
