Invite your kindergarteners to explore sound and hearing. Using film canisters, or containers, filled with items from the story "Are You My Mother?" they will predict what the objects were from the story. Tip: you could create a...

Students identify unknown sounds using their sense of hearing. They predict what objects were for the "Mother" game.

In this comprehension skills worksheet, students read the book A Chair For My Mother and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including making inferences, cause and effect, and plot.

Students examine all of the jobs a mother does. In this Mother's Day instructional activity, the teacher read the book Five Minutes' Peace, then students brainstorm a list of things their mother does. Students role play the job of a...

Students read the book The Best Worst Sleepover Party and discuss their feelings about bullying. In this bullying lesson, students discuss anxiety bullying, and what qualities a friend should have. Students design classroom expectations...

First graders, after having "Are You My Mother?" by P.D. Eastman read to them, participate in group discussions or independentally work to analyze a spreadsheet to identify essential elements in the story and graph their data. In...

Students practice recognizing the capital and lowercase M when practice writing with M&M's. They listen to and view the book, "Are You My Mother?," by P.D. Eastman with Random House, Inc. Each student interacts with a tongue twister...

In this holiday instructional activity, learners color in a bouquet of flowers and illustrate a poem about Mother's Day. The poem begins with, "You fill my days with rainbow light..."

In this Mother's Day worksheet, students read a poem about mothers, color a bouquet of flowers and sign the card to give to their mothers.

Fifth graders read "My Side of the Mountain." They create a pantomime using vocabulary words from the story. Students create three questions about the reading. They discuss the passage they read and act out words to help them better...

In this holiday learning exercise, students print out a Mother's Day poem and draw an original illustration below it. They sign the card on the elementary line below the illustration.

For this holiday worksheet, learners color in a bouquet of flowers and illustrate a poem about Mother's Day. The poem begins with, "You fill my days with rainbow lights..."

Students complete a variety of activities related to the /m/ letter sound. They participate in a class "I Spy" game and identify objects in the room that contain the "m" sound, then as a class recite a tongue twister. Students then...

Which do you use: that or this? Which or where? Me or I? Practice pronoun use with a series of activities that focus on personal and demonstrative pronouns.

Books can help teens understand complex global issues. A helpful educator's guide introduces readers to what it's like to be a refugee. Lesson components for the novel Shades of Gray include an anticipation guide and writing and...

In this is/are worksheet, learners select either the verb is or are to complete a set of 22 sentences. Students may click on a check answer question.

First graders create predictions for the story, Just Me and My Mom. In this language arts instructional activity, 1st graders read and discuss the story. Additionally, students draw pictures of the events of the story to show who, what,...

The most pesky of homophones: to, too and two! Here's a worksheet to help you review and discuss what homophones are and how to correctly use them in sentences. Learners choose the correct word for 20 sentences. This can serve as an...

You could use this resource with your young native English speakers or your English language learners. They practice using possessive adjectives like my, your, his, her, its, our, and their. First they study a chart that compares...

In this first lines instructional activity, students participate in matching fifteen book titles written by Roald Dahl to their fifteen opening lines by drawing a line from one to the other.

There's nothing like a provocative image to inspire a creative writing session. In the language arts lesson plan presented here, middle schoolers bring in digital photos of scary objects, such as a big spider, or a hornet's nest. The...

First graders use action spelling. In this high frequency words lesson students are read the book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. Students add words to the classroom wall that are in the book. Students act out words from the...

Are your pupils caught in the lie/lay confusion? Give them extra practice with a worksheet that defines the difference in meaning, conjugates the words, and gives examples of how the two verbs are used. Learners then practice with 10...

As part of a study of narrative writing, young story tellers are asked to revise 20 telling sentences and create showing ones.