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Elementary School English Language Support English Language Arts Lesson Plans : Page 2

Encourage your students to translate their understanding of theme to poetry. In this lesson, students will evaluate the theme of poems by sketching pictures and citing text evidence.

poetry themes

Poetry Themes

It's time to learn about time. In this hands-on lesson, students manipulate clock hands and jump across timelines in order to calculate the "distance" between different times and events.

elapseable

Elapseable

Students will have a blast turning a reading passage into a Reader's Theater skit. This lesson teaches them to use dialogue to help readers understand the experiences of different characters.

action students create readers theater

Action! Students Create Reader's Theater

In this lesson, students will learn how to add a one-digit number to a two-digit number. This will help students build upon the skills needed for regrouping larger numbers.

adding it all up

Adding it All Up

In this hands-on lesson, students will learn and use two methods of dividing whole numbers. They will roll dice to create their own unique equations for solving!

dicey division

Dicey Division

Your kids will love learning about setting, characters and events as they listen to a classic tale and play a simple game. This lesson helps students improve their reading comprehension skills while they have fun.

setting characters and events in goldilocks and the three bears

Setting, Characters, and Events in Goldilocks and the Three Bears

By fourth grade, most students are familiar with story elements such as setting, characters, and plot. In this lesson, students will compare and contrast the elements in two stories with similar themes.

compare and contrast short stories

Compare and Contrast Short Stories

Step into the shoes of an explorer. Students will learn more about the lives and accomplishments of important explorers, and they'll demonstrate their knowledge through a creative writing assignment.

explorer letters

Explorer Letters

This fun combination of scavenger hunt and bingo is sure to please young learners. Not only will your students increase their knowledge of text features, they'll also enjoy a selection of engaging games.

searching for text features

Searching for Text Features

Have students “cook” the right blends to make a fantastic word dish with beginning, middle, and ending letter sounds. In this lesson, your students will practice recognizing common CVC words.

cooking up blends

Cooking Up Blends

Take your students to a magical place by having them read stories such as "The Ugly Duckling" and "Rumpelstiltskin." They can read these magical stories and figure out the main idea and details in them!

main ideas and details

Main Ideas and Details

Arts and crafts, Venn diagrams, and literature all come together as students compare and contrast stories. Opportunities for student creativity are endless! 

venn diagram collage

Venn Diagram Collage

This lesson will provide students with an opportunity to become more comfortable with identifying and defining academic vocabulary words in a nonfiction text about a chicken's life cycle to support comprehension.

understanding academic vocabulary in a nonfiction text

Understanding Academic Vocabulary in a Nonfiction Text

Change is inevitable, even for story characters! In this lesson, your students will determine how a character changes throughout a story by focusing on the character’s dialogue and actions.

characters change just like we do

Characters Change Just Like We Do

This literature-based lesson teaches students about answering key questions and understanding a character's point of view. It'll have young readers roaring, thumping, and having tons of fun as they imitate story characters.

put me in the zoo

Put Me in the Zoo

This lesson will help your students use sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text. Students will enjoy learning about maps and figuring out tricky words along the way!

using context clues to understand word meanings

Using Context Clues to Understand Word Meanings

Cats are the best! Pizza is better! My teacher rules! In Fact or Opinion: Part 1, your students will combine reading and writing to learn about the differences between facts and opinions and how those differences are communicated.

fact or opinion part 1

Fact or Opinion: Part 1

Teach your students to ask and differentiate between recall questions and inferential questions. This lesson will help build a classroom culture around asking deep, inferential questions.

red light green light questions

Red Light, Green Light Questions

Nonfiction texts offer a great lens into cause and effect relationships. Use this lesson plan to teach your class to compare cause-and-effect relationships across texts that share a topic.

analyzing cause and effect in nonfiction articles

Analyzing Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Articles

The proof is in the pudding! Use this lesson to teach your students how to use text evidence as proof when answering questions after reading. They will use evidence-based terms as they answer basic comprehension questions.

reading comprehension and evidencebased terms

Reading Comprehension and Evidence-Based Terms

Help your students flex their vocabulary muscles with this lesson on using context clues. By deciphering the meanings of different nonsense words, young readers will greatly improve their comprehension skills.

dive into context clues

Dive Into Context Clues

This lesson provides students with the opportunity to compare and contrast two athletes who have been instrumental in changing the world of women's sports.

lets compare and contrast nonfiction texts

Let's Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Texts!

Make history come alive with this interactive lesson! Students will have a blast presenting a "living timeline" to help their classmates understand the events of the Revolutionary War.

a living timeline the american revolution

A Living Timeline: The American Revolution

Knock, knock! It’s the U.S. Census Bureau! In this lesson plan, students analyze primary sources in the form of census data to do research that helps them answer questions about famous people and the time period during which they lived.

researching the past using primary sources

Researching the Past Using Primary Sources

In this lesson, students will practice listening comprehension skills after reading “The Paper Bag Princess” together as a class. Afterward, students will role-play, make inferences, and use summarization to strengthen literacy skills.

the paper bag princess

The Paper Bag Princess

Students will learn about three nonfiction text features: charts, graphs, and diagrams. They will analyze and interpret the information represented in these visual forms and discover how they aid in the comprehension of nonfiction texts. 

charts and graphs and diagrams oh my

Charts and Graphs and Diagrams, Oh My!

This lesson introduces students to a variety of resources that they can use when doing research. It will also help them differentiate between print and digital sources and how to use each.

research where to find the answers

Research: Where to Find the Answers

It’s time to make an educated guess! In this lesson, your students will practice using their background knowledge and evidence from the text to make inferences in nonfiction pieces about Martin Luther King, Jr., and Cesar Chavez.

inference detectives

Inference Detectives

Teach your second graders how to write a prediction and summarize book chapters in this exciting lesson!

summaries and predictions

Summaries and Predictions

Story elements help to bring beloved fairy tales to life in this literacy lesson. Your students will learn to identify the title, author, setting, characters, problem, and solution in a fiction text.

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