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Large Collections of
Language Arts Lesson Plans
The Educator's Reference
Desk
Formerly Ask ERIC, this
is a great site for reading, literature,
writing, etc. lesson plans.
Language Arts Lesson
Plans
Good site listing many
K-12 language arts
lesson plans.
The Lesson Plans
Page - Language Arts Lesson Plans
A large number of lesson plans organized by grade level.
Web English Teacher
Many lesson plans and resources.
Teacher's Desk Lesson
Plans
Over 250 5th and 6th-grade
language arts lesson
plans.
Read, Write, Think
Lesson plans, standards, web-based resources, and
student materials from from the
National Council of Teachers
of English
and Thinkfinity.
English/Language Arts
Units for a variety of grade levels written by teachers in
Saskatchewan.
Education World - Lesson PLanning Channel: Language Arts
Many high quality lesson plans unique to EW.
English and Language
Arts Lesson Plans
Links to many secondary
language arts lesson plan sites.
Kevin's Language Arts
Lessons
Over 30 lesson plans, mostly
for middle and high school.
Outta' Ray's Head: Literature
and Writing lesson Plans
Excellent source for secondary
lesson plans.
Mrs. G's English Lessons
and Links
Good source for secondary English lesson plans.
Spelling Lesson Plans
Mrs. Brook's Spelling
Lesson Plans
Spelling lessons using
constructivism!
The Educator's Reference
Desk Spelling Lesson Plans
Five lesson plans.
Spice Up Your Spelling Lessons
Lesson ideas from Education World.
Spelling Lesson Plans and Resources
Many lesson plans and activities from Lesson Plan
Central.
Spelling Lessons
Six sample lesson plans from SpellingRules.com.
Spellmell
An interactive spelling and vocabulary game.
Spelling Battleship
An activity for grades 3-12.
Spelling
and Vocabulary Lesson Plans
A large collection of spelling and vocabulary lessons.
Promote Spelling with Partner Quizzes
Activities for grades 2-6 from Scholastic.
Spelling Handouts
In pdf format from
Richard Gentry.
Vocabulary Lesson Plans
The Educator's Reference
Desk Vocabulary Lesson Plans
Many lesson plans.
Spelling and Vocabulary Lesson Plans
A large collection of spelling and vocabulary lessons.
Titanic Vocabulary Lesson
Plan
A lesson plan on vocabulary related to the Titanic.
Click here
to access the vocabulary
worksheet to be used with this lesson.
Vocabulary Building
A lesson plan for the primary grades.
Using Word Families
A 1st-grade lesson using rhyming words to build vocabulary
and spelling skills.
Vocabulary: Unfolding
Meaning
A lesson plan for grades 6-7.
The Dictionary Game
A lesson plan for grades 4+.
The Einstein Game
An activity for grade 6 designed to help students learn vocabulary
that corresponds with core curriculum.
RSVP Vocabulary
Root-specific word games for middle through high school.
Synonyms/Antonyms/Homonyms Lesson Plans
Common Words
A card game designed to teach students synonyms for common
words.
Juggling Words
Another synonym card game.
Euphemisms
A junior high school lesson plan in which students learn to
choose appropriate synonyms for writing and
speaking.
Matching with Synonyms and Antonyms
A 4th-grade lesson plan.
Learning Synonyms and
Antonyms in Pairs
A 6th-grade lesson plan from The Educator's reference Desk.
In Other Words: Using a Thesaurus
A lesson plan from
Education World
that is adaptable for use in grades 3-8.
Homophones
A lesson plan for grades 3-4.
Homophone Bingo
A grade 4 lesson plan from The Educator's Reference Desk.
Horrid Homophones
Another Reference Desk lesson plan, this one is for grades
6-8.
A Horse is a Hoarse,
Of Course, Of Coarse
An intermediate-grade lesson plan using cooperative learning
to teach about homonyms/homophones.
See also
Homonyms Worksheet,
The Write
Way
(an online quiz), and
Feast of Homonyms
(an online game).
Fairy Tale Homophones
An activity suitable for the intermediate grades in which
students must correct about familiar fairy tales
in which homophones are used incorrectly.
Reading Lesson Plans
(For additional reading lesson plans, check the
sites listed under
Large Collections of Language
Arts Lesson Plans)
The Educator's Reference
Desk Reading Lesson Plans
More than 30 lesson plans, mostly for the primary grades.
Reading Lesson Plans
from the Teacher's Desk
Another long list of reading lesson plans. See also
Phonics Lesson Plans.
Reading
From Teachnet, this site consists of a number of lesson plans
and ideas for activities.
McGraw-Hill Reading/Language
Arts
Activities tied to the McGraw-Hill Language Arts Series.
Zaner-Bloser Reading
Sample lesson plans.
A Model Lesson Plan for Teaching Phonics
From Teachnology. See also
Lesson Plans: Phonics
for more from this site.
Phonics Link
Resource for elementary teachers. See also
Phonics Printables and Worksheets
, and Downloadable
Read and Color Books.
Learning the letter "G"
Sound
A K-1 phonics lesson plan.
Making Words: Cardboard
Letters
A K-1 hands-on activity in which children discover sound-letter
relationships.
Phonemic Awareness Activities
Several activities for grades K-1.
Letter Slide
A primary-grade lesson plan teaching children to blend sounds
into words.
The Blending Slide
Another primary-grade phonics lesson plan similar to the one
above.
Dolch Site
Word Printables and Worsheets
From edHelper.com.
Celebrate Reading
A year-long program from
Core Knowledge
to encourage daily reading at home. It include six lesson plans to
set up the program and teach the required skills.
Conquering Comprehension
A 2nd-grade unit in pdf format from
Core Knowledge.
Out of Many One: Reading Comprehension and Writing through the Study
of Immigration
A ten-lesson unit for grade 2 from
Core Knowlededge.
The Letterbox Lesson
A lesson plan in which students analyze the phoneme sequence
in a word.
Mini-Lesson on Inferencing
A 3rd-grade lesson using The Five Chinese Brothers
in which students learn how to make inferences
from narrative text.
Reading Bingo
A 6th-grade reading activity.
Using Poetry in Teaching Reading to Special Education Students
A unit intended for middle school students with linited reading
skills.
What? You Want Me
to Read AND Enjoy It?
A middle-grade lesson plan.
Reading . . . Try It,
You Might Like It!
Another middle-grade lesson plan designed to increase enjoyment
of reading.
What You see Isn't Always
what You Get!
A middle-grade reading comprehension activity.
KWL - A Reading Comprehension
Strategy
A lesson plan in which students are taught the KWL reading
comprehension strategy.
See also
Using A KWL Chart.
What is Reciprocal Teaching?
An overview of this instructional procedure designed to enhance
students' reading comprehension.
See also
Reciprocal Teaching Model Lesson,
Reciprocal Revision: Making Peer Feedback Meaningful,
and
Holes, by Louis Sachar
(A unit plan using reciprocal Teaching).
Propaganda Techniques
A lesson plan for grades 5-12.
Whole Language lesson
Plans
A long list of lesson plans from The educator's Reference
Desk.
Introducing 'Communication
Talent' with Casey at the Bat
A whole-language lesson plan for grades 3, 4, or 5.
Mythology Lesson Plans
Mythweb
A site devoted to the heroes,
gods, and monsters of Greek Mythology. Click
on
Teachers
for lesson ideas.
Mythology
in the Classroom
Many lesson plans and resources.
Mythology
Theme Page
Lesson plans and links from Core Knowledge.
Greek
Mythology for Educators
Links to many lesson plans and resources.
Mythology
@ Web English Teacher
More links to lesson plans,
Ancient Greece
From Mr. Donn's site. Scroll
down the page to find the mythology lessons.
Greek Mythology Curriculum
Guides
Six two-week Perseus units
for the study of ancient Greek mythology, history,
and literature. You will need
Adobe Acrobat Reader to download them,
but the site provides a link to adobe.com.
Greek Mythology and Ancient
Greece
Lesson plans and activities
for thematic elementary unit.
The Role of Myths
A 4th-grade lesson plan from
Adprima.
Impact of Greek Mythology
on Modern Times
A lesson plan for grades 7-9.
It Came from Greek Mythology
A high-quality elementary lesson plan from EDSITment.
Roman and Greek Mythology
Three lesson plans.
Aztec Mythology
A unit for 4th or 5th-grade
gifted and talented students.
Mythological Soaps
An introductory mythology unit designed for ESL students in
grades 6-12. It could easily be adapted for
other student groups.
The Odyssey
A high school lesson
plan from the
Discovery Channel School
.
Homer's Odyssey
An extensive study guide.
The Odyssey
Teacher CyberGuide with four activities.
Even Gods Have Bad Hair
Days...
A middle-grade lesson plan.
E School Ancient Greece
Resource Page
Six Internet-based lessons.
Exploring Greek Heroes:
A Technology Lesson Plan
A 9th-grade lesson plan.
The Hero's Journey
Cool resource for helping students create their own stories
using mythical heroes.
Season Myths
A lesson plan complete with an activity sheet that
uses a Native American myth explaining how seasons were made.
Perseus Project
A digital library of resources for the study of the ancient
world and beyond.
Greek Mythology Link
An excellent resource featuring biographies, places and people,
images, and indices of mythical
characters and names, as well as a new collection
of the Greek myths written on line.
Encyclopedia Mythica
An encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and legend.
Teaching Writing
Ideas for Teaching Writing
Geared toward the middle school level, this site offers lesson
ideas for all aspects of the writing
process as well as information on the
Six
Trait Analytic Writing Model.
See also
Developmental Stages of Writing.
Writing Lesson Plans
from the Educator's Reference Desk
An excellent source featuring
many lesson plans to teach writing.
Writing Lesson Plans
A large collection of lesson plans from the Teacher's Desk.
Writing Lesson Plans
from Outta Ray's Head
Another set of wiring lesson plans.
Biography Unit: An Essay
Evaluating a Notable Person
A 10th-grade unit in which students read and write biographies.
Technical Writing -
Unit Plan
An introduction to a unit on technical writing for high school
juniors and seniors.
To access the lesson plans, go to the
Lesson Plans Page - Language Arts,
then scroll about half-way down the page until
you see this unit listed under Writing -
Technical.
Click here
to see Lesson One: Correspondence.
Friendly Letters
A 7th or 8th-grade lesson plan requiring students to compose,
type, edit, and print a friendly letter with
a proper heading, salutation, body,
closing, and signature.
Successful Paragraphs
A lesson plan for grades 4-6.
Paragraph Unity
A lesson plan for grades 7-9.
Zaner-Bloser Writing
Writing activities for grades 3-9.
Writing About Feelings
A 4th-grade lesson plan complete with a worksheet.
Space Science and Fiction
A middle grade or high school unit in which students access
the Franklin Institute's web
site and then compose science fiction stories
about imaginary planets.
Using Comparison in Writing
A 6th-grade lesson plan complete with a worksheet.
Writing Opinions
An 8th-grade lesson requiring students to write a persuasive
essay.
Persuasive Argument
A lesson plan for grades 7-12 in which students discuss and
then write about an idea for persuasion.
Essay Unit
An elaborate 8th-grade unit including lessons on essay components,
editing, research, and writing persuasive and
personal essays.
Essay Exchange Unit
A unit for grades 10-12 in which students write position papers,
then transmit them via e-mail to other schools
and educators who, in turn, will provide
criticisms, comments, and additional sources
of information for further research.
The Personal Touch: A
Lesson in Expository Writing
A lesson plan for middle and high school
Grammar Journals
A lesson plan on proofreading and editing.
Writing a Basic Essay
On-line tutorial for essay
writing.
Lear, Limericks, and
Literature: Creative Writing Lesson Plans
Lesson plans for grades 5 and up designed to help "introduce
reading and creative writing activities in
a fun way."
Creative Writing Resource Place
The Biography Maker
Excellent resource for
helping students write biographies.
Young Writer's Anthology
Poems, stories, and reviews
written by kids and
teens.
Young Writer's Clubhouse
Information for prospective
young writers.
Rubrics
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Assessment
Rubrics
Information and sample rubrics for web-based assignments,
oral presentations,
group participation, cooperative learning activities,
portfolio exhibits, research papers,
etc.
Writing to Inform
A rubric for the 8th-grade using "kid language."
Writing to Persuade
Another 8th-grade rubric from the same site as the one immediately
above.
Writing for Personal
Expression
One more 8th-grade rubric from the same site.
Six Trait Analytical
Writing Rubric
A well-designed rubric using the 6-trait model.
Comparison Rubric
A rubric for comparison papers.
Technical Writing Rubric
Grammar/Parts of Speech/Punctuation
Grammar: A Review of the 8 Parts of Speech
A lesson plan for the 7th grade.
Colorful Parts of Speech
A lesson plan requiring students to classify words in context.
Parts of Speech Quickie
A quick review. See also
Parts of Speech Song.
Adjective? What's an
Adjective?
A lesson plan for grades 5-12.
One Describes Both
Another 2nd-grade lesson plan on adjectives.
A Shower of Adjectives
A lesson plan for grades 2-4.
Adjective/Adverb "Taboo"
A high school lesson plan using a version of the popular game
"Taboo."
Grammar Wheels
An activity designed to give students practice writing sentences
containing particular grammatical elements.
The Misplaced Modifier
A high school lesson plan in which students assess and correct
the placement of modifiers in sentences.
The English Tutor
On-line writing help plus quizzes for grammar, idioms, verbs,
etc.
Guide to Grammar and
Writing
Perhaps the best grammar and writing resource on the Web,
this interactive site
covers virtually every aspect of writing conventions
and composition.
Crash and Contract
A 2nd-grade
lesson plan on contractions.
Using Commas and Semi-Colons
Correctly
A high school lesson plan based on an activity I use with
my college students.
Using Poetry to Teach
the Subordinate Clause
An interesting 9th-grade lesson plan.
Sentence Rummy
A lesson plan that makes a game out of writing complete sentences.
Kaboom!
A game designed to help students learn about types of sentences.
High Rollers
Another lesson plan on sentence types.
Journalism/Media/Communication Lesson Plans
Language Arts: Journalism
About 15 lesson plans from The Educator's Reference Desk.
The Write Site
Journalism information and activities.
Magazine Ads and You,
the Teenager
A mass media unit for grades 6-8.
Creating a Classroom
Newspaper
Ten lesson plans for grades 4-6. See also
Newspapers for Classrooms.
Scroll
down the page to find ideas for creating classroom
newspapers and using newspapers in the
classroom.
Delivering a Persuasive
Speech
A lesson plan for grades
7-12.
Speech Unit
Several lesson ideas
for grades 9-12.
Creating a School-Based
Newsletter
A unit for grades 9--12.
School Newspaper Unit
A unit for intermediate to high school grades in which
students research and write articles
that will be published in an electronic
newspaper.
Television and Violence
Secondary lesson plan on television violence.
Which Clip Should We
Use?
Secondary lesson plan examining the decision-making process
involved with television news stories.
Junk Mail Explosion
A high school mass media lesson plan.
Indispensable Listening
Skills
A high school lesson plan.
Listening Comprehension
Lesson Plans
Four lesson plans for a variety of grade levels.
Way Out Communication
Communication history, lesson plans, and forms of communication.
Cool Jobs - A Debate
Lesson Plan
A lesson plan appropriate for pre-intermediate and intermediate
ESL/EFL students. It would
be a suitable activity for using with career
vocabulary or with comparative adjectives
and nouns.
The Three Rival Brothers
Debate Lesson Plan
An elementary lesson plan involving a debate based on the
story, "The Three Rival Brothers" from the
book African Myths by Carter
Godwin Woodson.
Drama/Storytelling/Theater Lesson Plans
Drama Curriculum Guide
Lesson plans and model units for grades 6-8 from Saskatchewan
Education.
Magical Morphing Theatre
Lesson Plan Exchange
An excellent source for lesson plans, warm-ups, and links
to other theater sites.
Scribbling Women
A project of The Public Media Foundation, this wonderful site
dramatizes stories
by American women writers for
national radio broadcast. It provides
lesson plans and other classroom resources for
teaching and learning about the radio plays written
by these women authors. You have to register in
order to access the lesson ideas.
Sociology Through Five
Plays
A high school unit examining the sociological aspects of five
plays: “A Raisin in the Sun,” “The Blood Knot,”
“Death of a Salesman,” “The Glass
Menagerie,” and “The Oxcart.”
Drama for Those Who
Don't Like Drama
A high school unit including plays such as Death of Salesman
and The Land Beyond the
River.
The Glass Managerie
A Teacher Cyberguide with lessons and activities using the
Internet.
Set Design
A high school unit.
Handbook for Story Tellers
Excellent resource for teaching about and telling stories.
Story Starters
A lesson plan adaptable to a variety of grade levels.
Story Arts Online
Excellent story-telling resource. Click on the site below
to access a long list of lesson plans from Story
Arts.
Story Arts Lesson Plans
and Activities
Activities, story telling across the curriculum, folktales
themes, and links to other story telling sites.
Story Telling Lesson
Plans
Ten lesson plans, mostly for the primary grades.
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