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2nd - 6th Grade English Language Arts Lesson Plans : Page 12

This lesson plan integrates art and reading to create a character by personifying a pumpkin. Your students will enjoy writing a story about a character that they have created!

pumpkin creatures

Pumpkin Creatures

Use this lesson to teach your students to describe the characters' actions using the basic sentence structure of subject + verb + object. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the *How Do You Solve a Problem?* lesson. 

describe character actions in order

Describe Character Actions in Order

This lesson will help your students summarize short stories and describe how characters respond to challenges using a story map. Use this lesson as a stand-alone activity or a support lesson for the Story Mapping Group Work lesson plan.

map a story

Map a Story

Your students will turn into crazy Halloween sentence making machines with this fun lesson on constructing complete sentences. Students will practice making and mixing subjects and predicates - and the results will have you all ROTFL. 


constructing crazy halloween sentences

Constructing Crazy Halloween Sentences

This lesson focuses on how punctuation affects reading fluency and comprehension using graphic organizers and sentence stems.  Use this lesson as a stand-alone activity or a support for the Punctuation and Prosody lesson plan.

building fluency with punctuation

Building Fluency with Punctuation

Once students have selected a topic related to a piece of literature they have read and mapped out their argument, this lesson will help them turn their prewriting into an essay. 

literary argument drafting your essay

Literary Argument: Drafting Your Essay

Your class' prewriting skills will burst with style as they state opinion and supporting reason sentences with descriptive adjectives.

stylish opinion topic sentences

Stylish Opinion Topic Sentences

Use this lesson to teach your students to describe the similarities between stories with words that signal comparison. This lesson can stand-alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the *The Same or Different? You Decide!* lesson.

focus on the similarities

Focus on the Similarities

Help ELs learn how to compare and contrast multiple nonfiction resources, using transition words to support their understanding. It can be a stand-alone lesson or support for the lesson Compare and Contrast Information Across Sources.

comparing with transition words

Comparing with Transition Words

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

Teaching your students about root words is a great way to strengthen their vocabulary and comprehension. Use this lesson to introduce the root words *tele* and *sign.*

root words tele and sign

Root Words: "Tele" and "Sign"

This lesson provides students with the opportunity to critically think about data. Use this lesson alongside Line Plots: Representing the Length of Classroom Items or as a stand alone lesson.

understanding line plots

Understanding Line Plots

In this lesson, your students will practice their reading comprehension and vocabulary with the Pledge of Allegiance. They will reflect on the meaning of the pledge.

all about the pledge of allegiance

All About the Pledge of Allegiance

Students put their knowledge of animal adaptations to the test when they create a new creature with its own unique set of adaptations!

amazing animals adaptations

Amazing Animals Adaptations!

In this great grammar lesson, your students will practice using the eight parts of speech to complete sentences.

parts of speech sticky note adlibs

Parts of Speech: Sticky Note Ad-Libs

Your students will be introduced to the concept of a main idea in this fun lesson using props to support their thinking.

main ideas please

Main Ideas, Please!

Foots or feet? In this lesson, students will identify irregular plural nouns. They will learn that some plural nouns don't follow any spelling rules.

more than one irregular plural nouns

More Than One: Irregular Plural Nouns

Use this lesson to help your ELs learn common English sound words. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the lesson Onomatopoeia Practice.

an introduction to onomatopoeia

An Introduction to Onomatopoeia

Help your ELs learn about alliteration and practice identifying the descriptive adjectives and nouns that make up alliterative sentences. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support to the lesson Analyzing Alliteration.

making alliteration accessible

Making Alliteration Accessible

This lesson provides teachers with an opportunity to teach students about reading stamina and assess student comprehension during independent reading.

increasing reading stamina and comprehension

Increasing Reading Stamina and Comprehension

Holy cow! Did President George W. Bush really have a longhorn named Ofelia as a pet? Students learn about wacky White House pets in this fun research activity that includes “president interviews” and a pet choice writing page.

presidential pets

Presidential Pets

This lesson will help students explore using a dictionary to figure out tricky words with suffixes. Use as a stand-alone activity or a support for the Understanding Academic Vocabulary in a Nonfiction Text lesson.

using a dictionary to clarify the meaning of unknown words

Using a Dictionary to Clarify the Meaning of Unknown Words

Making flash cards is something done by students of all ages. Help your kids develop good study habits with this lesson plan, which will teach them how to use flash cards and a dictionary to learn new vocabulary.

vocabulary flash cards

Vocabulary Flash Cards

Help your ELs learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a nonfiction text by using nouns and pronouns as guide words. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support to the lesson Explorer Letters.

main idea and supporting details

Main Idea and Supporting Details

Make it move! In this lesson, students will learn about energy and make connections between force and energy. Through a hands-on approach, students will work in teams to construct and report on their experiments.

make it move force and energy in action

Make it Move: Force and Energy in Action

Your students will learn academic vocabulary and use a graphic organizer to compare and contrast two short stories. Use this as a stand-alone lesson or as an introduction to the Comparing and Contrasting Short Stories lesson plan.

learn to compare and contrast

Learn to Compare and Contrast

Smaller dictionaries that are totally relevant to the material being read? In this lesson, students will learn that these miraculously really do exist and go by the name of glossaries! 

mini dictionaries

Mini Dictionaries!

It’s time to get those magnifying glasses out! In this lesson, students will act as detectives, searching for clues about idioms. Who can find the clues that lead to the meanings of various idioms?

capturing the clues

Capturing the Clues

In this activity, students will make a step book with the definitions and examples for nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs. This information will be solidified with a fun hands-on game!

parts of speech book

Parts of Speech Book

Have you ever wished that books, like movies, would state their conflict and genres on the cover? With the help of an Education.com workbook, students will learn to find the clues and read like a writer.

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