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Large Collections of Language Arts Lesson Plans,
Language Arts Resources,
Spelling, Vocabulary,
Synonyms/Antonyms/Homonyms,
Reading,
Children's Literature,
English/Shakespearean Literature,
Mythology, Writing/Composition,
Rubrics, Grammar, Punctuation, Parts of Speech,
Drama/Theater/Story Telling,
Poetry,
Mysteries,
Journalism/Media/Communication,
Speech/Debate,
Adolescent/Young Adult Literature, Return to
Educational Resources and Lesson Plans;
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Large Collections of Language
Arts Lesson Plans
Read, Write, Think
Many high-quality
lesson plans
as well as standards, web-based resources, and student materials.
EDSITEment:
Literature and Language Arts
High-quality lesson plans from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Literature Lesson
Plans
"Custom lesson plans designed to spark critical reading and writing
skills."
Lesson Plan Library - Language Arts
From MCREL.
Scholastic
Many free lesson plans.
Smithsonian - English and Language Arts Teacher Resources
Another site with many high-quality lesson plans.
Kennedy Center Digital Resources Library
Many reources including lesson plans and activities.
Varsity
Tutors
Many lesson plans and resources. Formerly Web English
Teacher.
Education World Language Arts
Many
FREE high quality lesson plans unique to Education World.
English Language Arts
Standards-aligned ELA resources
including 134 lessons for all grade levels from PBS..
Outta' Ray's Head lesson Plans
Excellent source for secondary
lesson plans for literature, writing, and poetry.
Language Arts - Reading, Writing, Grammar
Many lesson plans and links from Mr. Donn.
Mrs. G's English
Lessons and Links
Good source for secondary English lesson plans.
Language Arts Resources
National Council for Teachers of English
This link goes to their home page. See also the
NCTE/IRA Standards for the English
Language Arts and their Resources.
Pearson Language Arts
Resources for both students and teachers.
The Ultimate Guide to English Idiomatic Expressions
Explanations of 100+ idioms fro LOI English.
Oxford Dictionaries
See also
Longman Dictionary.
Thesaurus.com
See also
Roget's Thesaurus.
Guide to Grammar and Writing
See also
Grammar
- Purdue Online Writing Lab.
The Punctuation Guide
See also
Purdue
Online Writing Lab Punctuation.
MLA Formatting and
Style Guide
From Purdue University. See also
APA Formatting and
Style Guide.
Spelling Lesson Plans
Scripps National Spelling Bee
Information for teachers.
Spice Up Your Spelling Lessons
Lesson ideas from
Education World. See also
Spell, Shoot, Score.
Spelling
Sample Lessons
Download lesson samples from All About Learning Press.
Dr. Seuss’s Sound Words: Playing with Phonics and Spelling
A K-2 lesson plan.
Spelling Cheerleading: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations
A K-5 lesson plan.
Promote
Smart Spelling with Partner Quizzes
Activities for grades 2-6 from Scholastic.
Third
Grade Lesson Plans for Spelling
Two lesson plans from
Spelling
Words Well.
Sort, Hunt, Write: A Weekly Spelling Program
For grades 3-5 from Read-Write-Think.
Spelling in Parts: Learning to Spell, Write, and Read Polysyllabic Words
A lesson plan for grades 3-5 from
Read-Write-Think. For more lesson plans from this source, see
,
The Two Voices of the
ow Spelling Pattern,
and
Spelling Patterns "Go Fish" Card Game.
Vocabulary Lesson
Plans
Teaching Vocabulary: Lesson Plans and Activities From Scholastic Professional
Books
For grades 3-8.
Vocabulary
Lesson Plans
Many lessons for all grade levels from
Better Lesson.
Vocabulary Lesson Plans
From One Stop English.
MyVocabulary.com
A bunch of free lessons.
Vocabulary in Context
A long list of lesson plans for a variety of grade levels from
ReadWoks.org.
Titanic Vocabulary
Lesson Plan
A lesson plan on vocabulary related to the Titanic.
See
tthe vocabulary
worksheet to be used with this lesson.
Action ABC's: Learning Vocabulary With Verbs
A K-2 lesson plan. See also
"America the Beautiful": Using Music and Art to Develop Vocabulary and
Blast Off! Vocabulary Instruction Using a Virtual Moon Trip for another K-2
lesson plans.
Mystery
Vocabulary Lesson Plan
For grades 4 and above.
Internalization of Vocabulary Through the Use of a Word Map
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from
Read-Write-Think. See also
Acquiring New Vocabulary Through Book Discussion Groups,
ABC Bookmaking Builds Vocabulary in the Content Areas,
3-2-1 Vocabulary: Learning Filmmaking Vocabulary by Making Films, and
Building Vocabulary: Making Multigenre Glossaries Based on Student Inquiry
for some of the other vocabulary lesson plans from
Read-Write-Think.
Vocabulary Lesson Plan
A high school lesson plan.
Synonyms/Antonyms/Homonyms Lesson Plans
Euphemisms
A lesson plan for grades 7-9.
In Other Words: Using a Thesaurus
A lesson plan from
Education World
that is adaptable for use in grades 3-8.
It's Opposite
Day
A lesson plan for grades 3-8 from
Visual Thesaurus.
What’s Another Word For...? What’s the Opposite Of...?
Teaching ideas from Scholastic.
Learning Antonyms, Synonyms and More
ESL help from
Bright Hub Education.
A Horse is a Hoarse,
Of Course, Of Coarse
An intermediate-grade lesson plan using cooperative learning to
teach about homonyms.
See also
Homonym Worksheet;
Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms,
and Homographs
(another worksheet); and A Feast of
Homonyms
(an online game). For a comprehensive homonym
list, see An English Homophone Dictionary.
Homonym
Baseball
A 6th-grade lesson plan.
Self-Study Homonym
Quizzes
More than 50m quizzes!
Mythology Lesson Plans
MythologyTeacher.com
A site "designed as an aid to teachers teaching mythology." Use the
index at the yop of the page to find
teacher
materials, webquests, videos, and other resources.
Mythweb
A site devoted to the heroes,
gods, and monsters of Greek Mythology.
THEOI Greek Mythology
A good resource that "profiles each deity on a separate page."
Myth Lesson Plans
A booklet in pdf format.
Mythology Grades 9-12
A unit from the Ewing Public Schools.
Mythology,
Folklore, and the Hero's Journey
More links to lesson plans. See also
Classical Mythology.
Ancient Greece
for Kids and Teachers
From Mr. Donn's site. Scroll down the
page to find the mythology lesson.
The Role of Myths
A 4th-grade lesson plan from
Adprima.
Learning Myths, Writing Myths
A unit for grades 6-8 from
Scholastic.
An Introduction to Greek Mythology
An upper elementary lesson plan from Mensa for Kids.
It Came from Greek Mythology
A high-quality elementary lesson plan from
EDSITEment.
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.
In Search of
Myths and Heroes
A Teacher's Guide with four lesson plans for grades 7-12 from
PBS.
The Odyssey
A high school lesson
plan from the Discovery
Education. See also
The
Odysssey by Homer for many lesson plans fro\m the NY Times.
Weaving the Old into the New: Pairing
The Odyssey with Contemporary
Works
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 from Read-Write-Think.
Homer's Odyssey
An study guide. See also
The Odyssey Teacher's Guide.
The
Iliad: A Practical Approach
Ideas for a curriculum unit.
Troy: Activities for Homer's Iliad
An assignment with 16 activity choices.e.
Roman & Greek Mythology Lesson
A lesson plan from
The Collaborative Numismatics Project.
Perseus Digital Library
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
academichelp.net
FREE English writing guides and samples.
Writing Lessons from Outta Ray's Head
Another set of wiring lesson plans.
12 Basic Lesson plans for Teachign Writing to Secondary Students
From Literacy Planet.
Super Easy Story Telling
Four lesson plans for writing stories.
Creative Writing
A lesson plans from the
NY Times. See also
10 Ways to Develop Expository Writing Skills with the NY Times,
and
10 Ways to Promote Writing for an Authentic Audience.
The Elements of a Short Story Lesson Plan
See also
Write a Short Story in One
Class!
Introducing
the Biography Genre
A lesson plan for grades 3-5 from Scholastic.
See also
The Biography Maker
for an excellent resource for helping
students write biographies.
A Step-by-Step Plan for Teaching Narrative Writing
A unit plan.
How-To Writing: Motivating Students to Write for a Real Purpose
A lesson plan for grades 3-5 from
Read-Write-Think. See also
Persuasive Writing,
Technical Reading and Writing Using Board Games, and
Get Cooking With Words! Creating a Recipe Using Procedural Writing for three other elementary lesson plans from this source.
Empowered Fiction Writers: Generating and Organizing Ideas for Story Writing
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from
Read-Write-Think. See
Cut up, Cover up, and Come Away with Ideas for Writing!
Writing Technical Instructions
A high school lesson plan from
Read-Write-Think. See
Beyond “What I Did on Vacation”: Exploring the Genre of Travel Writing and
Persuading an Audience: Writing Effective Letters to the Editor for two
other high school lesson plans from this source.
Writing to Explain: Creating How-to Scripts and Demonstrations
A lesson plan from the
NY Times.
English Writing Lesson : The Paragraph
Lesson plan complete with printables.
Essay: A Write It Activity
A lesson plan for grades 6-12 from Scholastic.
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
Guide to
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."
Free Mystery
Writing Lesson Plans and Units
A lesson plan for grade 4 and above from
Mysterynet.com.
Young Writer's Anthology
Poems, stories, and reviews
written by kids and
teens.
Rubrics for Writing
Kathy Schrock's Guide
to Everything: Assessment and Rubrics
Information and examples of various types of rubrics,
including ones
for student web projects, cooperative
learning activities, labs,
group participation, multimedia
presentations, oral presentations,
portfolio exhibits, and
research papers.
Rubric for a Well-Written Partagraph
Five
Paragraph Essay Writing Rubric
Writing to Inform
From Scholastic
Expository Essay Rubric
Also from Scholastic.
Persuasive Letter Rubric
Six Traits Writing Rubric
From Better Lesson.
Compare
and Contrast Runric
A rubric for comparison papers.
Creative
Writing Rubric
See also
Rubric
for Creative Writing Assignment: Against the Odds.
Rubrics
for Assessing Students'
Technical Writing Skills
See also
Technical Writing and
Technical Report Evaluation Rubric.
Grammar/Parts of Speech/Punctuation
Five Grammar Activities
From Education World.
Grammar
Lesson Plans and Worksheets
Organized for topic for ESL.
Grammar Lesson Plans
From Teachnology.
Parts of Speech
Fix-Up
A 3rd-grade unit.
Parts
of Speech Song
Show the video in your class!
Describing Words: A lesson Plan on Adjectives
Six hours of lessons for elementary grades.
Analyzing Grammar Pet Peeves
A high school lesson plan from Read-Write-Think. See also
What’s My Subject? A Subject-Verb Agreement Mini-lesson
and Manipulating Sentences to Reinforce Grammar Skills for
other secondary activities from this source.
The English Tutor
On-line writing help plus quizzes for grammar, idioms, verbs, etc.
Guide to Grammar
and Writing
An excellent, interactive resource.
Crash and Contract
A 2nd-grade
lesson plan on contractions.
Topic Sentences
A 7th-grade lesson plan. See also
Catchy Topic Sentences and How to End.
Using Commas
and Semi-Colons Correctly
A high school lesson plan based on an activity I use with my college
students.
Every Punctuation Mark Matters
A mini-lesson on semi-colons using MLK Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
from Read-Write-Think. See also
The Passion of Punctuation for another lesson from
this same source.
Perfect Punctuation
An elementary lesson plan from Crayola.
Punctuation
Party
An elementary-grade lesson plan.
Inside or Outside
A mini-lesson on quotation marks and more.
Making a Successful
Punctuation Lesson
An article from the National Writing Project.
Journalism/Media/Communication Lesson Plans
School Journalism
A large number of lesson plans.
News Literacy Resource Library
Lesson plans, activities, quizzes, etc.
The Write Site
Journalism information and activities.
Media Smarts
Many lesson plans and activities for media topics.
Sports Journalism Lesson
Plan
A high school lesson plan.
Magazine Ads and
You, the Teenager
A mass media unit for grade 8.
Student Newspaper Project
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.
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.
Bias in News
Sources
A high school lesson plan.
Facing TV Violence
A lesson plan for grades 1-4. See also facing
TV Violence - Rewriting the Script.
Speech Lesson Plans
Freedom
of Speech and Automatic Language: Examining the Pledge of Allegiance
A high school lesson plan.
Giving a
Persuasive Speech
A high school lesson plan.
Persuasive Speech Unit: Martin Luther King's "I Have Dream"
Speech
A 10th-grade unit.
Analyze Famous Speeches as Arguments
A high school lesson plan from Read-Write-Think.
Presidential Speeches
A lesson plan for grades 6-12.
Address America: Your Six-Word Stump Speech
Another lesson plan for grades 6-12.
Impromptu and Extemporaneous Speeches
A high school unit with two lesson plans from Scholastic.
Speech Rubric
See also
Persuasive Speech Rubric and
Rubric for Public Speaking.
Indispensable Listening
Skills
A high school lesson plan.
Active/Reflective Listening Skills
A lesson plan from the
Utah Education Network.
Novice Lincoln
Douglas Debate Curriculum
Fourteen lesson plans from the National Forensic League.
Teacher's Guide to Introducing Debate
A free download. See also
Guide to Introducing Speech and Debate in the Classroom.
Debate Rubric
Role Play Lesson Plan: Who Should Have the Power
From the
Noisy Classroom. See their other debate
resources and lesson plans.
The Bill of Rights: Debating the Amendments
A lesson plan for grades 6-12 from the
Library of Congress.
Public Forum Debate Lesson Plans
Ten lesson plans from the National Speech & Debate Association.
Middle School Debate
Lesson plans and teaching materials.
Copyright Infringement or Not? The Debate over Downloading Music
A high school lesson plan from Read-Write-Think.
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
Theater
Lesson plans from PBS.
BYU Theater Education Data Base
Several units and lesson plans.
Magical Morphing
Theatre Lesson Plan Exchange
An excellent source for lesson plans, warm-ups, and links to other
theater sites.
Arts Toolkit: Drama
Resources from KET Education.
Creative Drama Lesson Plans
Many lesson plans from
Child Drama.
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 Menagerie
A Teacher's Study Guide from
LA Theater Works.
Understanding Set Design
Ten lesson plans from BYU Theatre Education.
Story Arts Online
Excellent story-telling resource. Click on the site below to access
a long list of lesson plans from Story Arts.
Storytelling Lesson
Plans and Activities
Activities, story telling across the curriculum, folktales themes,
and links to other story telling sites.
Storytelling Lesson
Plan
This lesson plan for grades 4-5 is from
American Folklore. See
their
folklore lesson plans and other
teacher
resources.
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