This section is filled with Language Arts lessons from kindergarten through high school. The lessons span subtopics such as literature, reading comprehension, writing, and more. Many of the lessons are aligned to Common Core State Standards. With that said, these lessons can easily be integrated into an existing English Language Arts curriculum. The lessons you see here have been created by real teachers working in schools across the United States - teachers from our Teacher.org community. If you would like to share a lesson plan for inclusion on Teacher.org, contact us.
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Students will create analogies using randomly chosen grade-appropriate words.
Students will have the opportunity to delve into the world of "Author's Purpose" with this engaging lesson. This lesson is aligned with 2nd grade standards and expectations.
This lesson will allow students to practice both writing names and identifying beginning sounds for common item names.
Students will read a teacher selected, standards-based science or history text. Students will then develop questions based on Costa’s levels of questioning to encourage collaborative discussion of the reading.
Students will research and debate multiple topics in the topic of environmental health. The class will take sides on whether they are for or against the controversial issue.
Students work collaboratively to create the denotations and connotations of words.
Students will read an article about the sale of tropical fish. Students will analyze the information given and discuss their opinion based on facts from the article.
Students will work in groups to describe various objects based on taste, smell, look, touch, and emotional feeling.
Students will recognize idioms for their actual as well as realized meaning.
Students will read an article from a newspaper, magazine, or other similar content, identify main idea, and create a headline for the story.
In this fable lesson, students will use Internet sources, graphic organizers and group activities to analyze and discuss the characteristics and story lines of two different fables, "The Owl and The Grasshopper" and "The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse." After students read and brainstorm story elements of the folktales, they will then write a fable of their own.
This lesson is great for students who have already been introduced to the concept of "real" and "make-believe" characters. The lesson take students through the elements that make up a fairy tale.
This lesson is designed to help students explore the importance of being kind and doing good deeds for others, by understanding that “A Person’s a Person No Matter How Small.”
This lesson offers a simple introduction or refresher course in homophones, words that are pronounced the same, but spell and mean differently. Students will create a visual reminder of some of the more common homophones.
This lesson is designed to teach students how and why it is important to take care of our ocean environments.
Using Internet resources the students find definitions and examples of hyperboles and paradox, and then create their own to share with peers, and identify their use in a current reading selection.
Students will be able to name adjectives by describing their favorite characters from the teacher’s story and their own favorite stories.
This lesson is designed to help students' comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level Appropriate Text.
This lesson is designed to teach students to use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
This lesson will be used to help students understand how to read with expression by choosing an expression to read with regardless of what is written.
This lesson will allow students to practice reading out loud and determining how point of view affects the action of a story.
Students will recognize and identify basic parts of speech: preposition, noun, verb, adjective through a simple game.
Students will be able to explain clearly the rules on the present perfect tense of verbs as differentiated from the simple present and past tenses.
This lesson is designed to teach students understand the importance of being a good friend through literature and art activities.
Students will research and write a persuasive essay about the effects of plastic in every day use. They will be encouraged to send these letters to officials who could make a difference.
This lesson will introduce or reinforce word families and rhymes for young children and/or struggling readers.
A very fun and engaging rhyming lesson for kindergarten students on rhyming words. Students will have the opportunity to work as a class, with partners, and individually. This lesson comes with modifications and ongoing suggestions for students who might need further assistance.
This lesson is designed to help students ask questions and support answers by connecting prior knowledge with literal information found in, and inferred from, the text.
The students will use the art of communication to quickly persuade or convince their peers to change their minds on a variety of popular or unpopular opinions.
Following the Common Core Standards for writing a narrative the students will collaborate and write six stories.
This lesson takes students through the process of sequencing a story using the words first, then, next, and last. The lesson provides opportunities for students to write, draw, listen, act, and speak. The lesson include individual work as well as group work.
This lesson is designed to help students understand “describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.” -CCSS
This is a quick activity to allow students to work cooperatively while increasing awareness of vocabulary for a given lesson.
Based on the short story, The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson, the students will be participate in a similar mock classroom drama using a different scenario for the “choosing”, while writing answers to thought-provoking questions.
Students will write and perform a scene from the story, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Students will practice rewriting and summarizing paragraphs, paraphrasing the information, facts, and other details in a writing sample.
Students will be able to name nouns by telling about their favorite things, people, places or characters. The teacher can choose so many different areas of Grammar about nouns (e.g. Countable/ Uncountable; Proper/Common; Singular/Plural).
Students will be able to define and give examples of verbs by telling about how they celebrate their birthdays.
This lesson is designed to help student’s organization and focus their grade appropriate writing.
In this lesson, students will use a graphic organizer for narrative writing.
Students will develop a plan for a fictional story based on a picture.
Students will research and debate multiple topics in the topic of environmental health. The class will take sides on whether they are for or against the controversial issue.
Students will read an article about the sale of tropical fish. Students will analyze the information given and discuss their opinion based on facts from the article.
Students will research and debate multiple topics in the topic of environmental health. The class will take sides on whether they are for or against the controversial issue.
Students will read an article about the sale of tropical fish. Students will analyze the information given and discuss their opinion based on facts from the article.
Students will research and write a persuasive essay about the effects of plastic in every day use. They will be encouraged to send these letters to officials who could make a difference.
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