In this lesson, students meet in small groups to reflect on and share their thoughts after reading a short story, poem, or chapter in a novel.

In this lesson, students will learn about brainstorming and how to effectively use this prewriting tool for four different writing tasks - persuasive writing, expository writing, character development, and the development of vivid and precise details for any subject.

In this lesson, students will apply their understanding of the elements of plot structure and conflict to cooperatively create storyboards and speak effectively as they present their products.

In this activity, students will make observations and understand that the sky looks different during the day than it does at night.

In this interactive web lesson, students are introduced to the economic concepts of producers and consumers. Students choose multiple choice answers or type in short responses tp questions about earning money, goods and services, and producers and consumers. New vocabulary is defined for students and appears in bold print.

This is an interesting lesson about the concept of living things. Students will be introduced to a pretend boy named C.M. Beg. The initials of the boy will be a mnemonic device to help students understand the basic characteristics of living things. C stands for change. M stands for move. B stands for breath. E stands for eat. G stands for grow.

In this lesson, student use figurative language techniques to create and comprehend meaning; for example, similes, metaphors, analogies, anecdotes, and sensory language.

In this lesson, students will explain steps to guide another student to reproduce a drawing. Students will also do peer evaluations critiquing articulation abilities.

In this lesson, students draw pictures to illustrate the meaning of the word and improve vocabulary skills.

In this lesson, students will participate in a class activity to observe their similarities and differences using the common theme of birthday celebrations. Students and their families will fill out a brief homework questionnaire about their family birthday traditions to be shared with the class. A reproducible copy of the questionnaire is included in the lesson. Students will also create a class graph of birthday months and write/draw a page for a class book about birthday celebrations.

This lesson plan contains reading, writing, and science integration. Students will view onion cells under the microscope, read and answer questions from a selection about cells, learn a note-taking strategy, and create a writing piece from their outline notes. A rubric is provided for assessment of student work.

How do cells keep us alive? Through reading and hands-on activities, students learn about parts of a cell, and their functions in carrying out processes for life. Study skills are taught and modeled as students make entries in science notebooks.

Students select a theme-related essay topic from Night, by Elie Wiesel, or The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, and develop an essay that relates the theme to modern day personal experiences. The essay follows a preset rubric.

This three week lesson provides instruction in the basic elements of literature by reading Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Students are also provided the opportunity to understand how their choices can change their attitudes and behavior through a reading of the novel and a series of writing assignments.

Students are introduced to character, plot development, point of view, and tone through the use of comic strips. Students will identify these four attributes in comic strips and present their findings to the class.

In this activity, students match baby and adult animals and identify similar characteristics shared by parents and their offspring.

In this lesson, students read a designated chapter of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". In small groups, students discuss chapter summary and answer specific questions related to the chapter. Groups will present summaries, addressing answers to specific questions, thereby chunking information.

In this lesson, students compare and contrast two versions of the same fairy tale. Students use a Venn diagram to graphically illustrate the similarities and differences in the two stories.