This lesson will help students identify the various uses of language and understand their appropriateness within context. Students participate in journal writing as well as writing literacy narratives describing multiple uses of language. The lesson is designed to accompany a ready of "Mother Tongue"; however, the lesson may be used in conjunction with a study of other writings in English by authors who write or speak English as a second language.

This lesson capitalizes on a student's love of jokes to understand how word context and inference are used in everyday language to create humor.

This activity introduces students to instrumental and environmental sounds. Students can choose to change to environmental objects that have similar sounds. This can aid students into choosing a variety of sound sources to create music.

In this lesson, students use manipulatives to explore addition and subtraction situations.  Math centers and center materials are also provided with this lesson.  

In this lesson, students will represent and solve a subtraction problem using a variety of representations and methods.  This lesson engages students through real-life, exciting pictures of children.

Students will be the definition of vocabulary experts as they use the skills they learn in this lesson to track, define, and ultimately master unfamiliar words.

In this lesson from The New York Times Learning Network, students learn about different types of religious art; they then select representative works from different faiths to create their own exhibit.