Students read about the life of Jim Thorpe and answer focus lessons about the book.  In this Jim Thorpe lesson, students celebrate the American Indian culture and learn of the hardships Jim Thorpe overcame.  Students find...

Learners explore language arts by reading Dr. Seuss stories in class. In this word play lesson, students identify the rhymes in both Dr. Seuss and Nursery Rhyme stories. Learners utilize flash cards with rhymes written on them to play a...

Young scholars determine which animal best represents them write reasons why. This is a nice culminating lesson for students who have been working on descriptive writing.

Students view a picture of Roman soldiers in battle and listen to a brief description of the picture in Latin. They participate in a question and answer session about the picture, listen to a mini-grammar lesson plan, retell the...

A visit to the local zoo launches an integrated life science/ language arts research project into the habitat, feeding habits, offspring, lifespan, and other interesting facts about animals. Each group selects two animals to photograph...

Hobbits, dwarfs, wizards, trolls, and goblins. Readers track these fantastic creatures through J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit noting passages of character description and habitats. Using specific passages from the novel, class...

Hobbits, dwarfs, wizards, trolls, and goblins. Readers track these fantastic creatures through J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit noting passages of character description and habitats. Using specific passages from the novel, class...

Covering a unit of surnames, linguistics or the history of the English language? Then this might be a great pre-test or sponge activity for you. Test learners' knowledge of how and where certain surnames originated. As with all Fun...

Students practice appropriate etiquette and language when finding an apartment. In this finding an apartment lesson, students role-play examples of manners associated with the task of looking for a place to live. Students work with a...

For this descriptive writing worksheet, learners learn to add words that describe and make their writing better. Students find words that better describe an apple and write a descriptive sentence about it. Parents or guardians must sign...

In this descriptive writing worksheet, learners read five descriptive sentences and draw a picture of each of the people as they are described. Next students draw five more people, and write their own description of each one.

In this descriptive writing worksheet, students review the process of descriptive writing. Students choose a topic from the given list and then complete the brainstorming checklist. Parents or guardians must sign the worksheet.

Students explore And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.  In this characterization activity, students locate passages that contain character descriptions and settings. Students write a descriptive essay on the characters in And...

Young scholars explore descriptive words. In this writing lesson, students practice using descriptive words that show instead of tell. Young scholars complete a worksheet that requires them to rewrite the sentences using more descriptive...

In this writing learning exercise, students choose descriptive words from various categories to write expressive and descriptive sentences. Categories include: age, color, origin, material, adjectives, and nouns.

For this descriptive words worksheet, students identify each picture. Students then write three descriptive words that describe the toys in each picture.

In these English Language grammar worksheets, students learn to write descriptions using adjectives and forms of be. Students complete

In these job descriptions worksheets, match the jobs and descriptions, complete the crossword puzzle about jobs, and then rewrite the sentences using he or she for the various jobs.

Seventh graders write figurative descriptions of common objects using complete sentences. They read and interpret the figurative language of a poem.

In this Cake Descriptions instructional activity, students finish four sentences about four different cakes. Students may also color in a picture of each cake.

Students visualize a character or event and personalize it through drawings.

Students create a detailed self portrait, and then write about their appearance.

Students listen to the story "No Blue Food" in this lesson. They then discuss Allegra, the main character, and her hesitation to try new foods. They participate in a matching game in which they match cards to determine a fruit topping...

First graders word process a topic sentence, two detail sentences and a concluding sentence about an image. They import a picture and change the font color of their writing.