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Language Arts

Lesson Plans 3-5

Resources | Professional
Lesson Plans: PreK-2 | 3 - 5 | 6 - 8 | 9 - 12

Lesson Plans

  • A Day in the Life: Students will use knowledge and experience to tell about events.

  • Alien Story: Students will use correct punctuation when writing a conversation.

  • Animated Cartoons: Students will create an animated iMovie out of pictures created in art class.

  • Autograph Story: Students will write a narrative essay.

  • Camera for a Day: Students will observe appropriate behavior in their classmates.

  • Classmate Grid: Students will use a coordinate grid using information about their classmates.

  • Classmate Pictograph: Students will make a pictograph using information about their classmates.

  • Daily Journals: Students will develop their writing skills by writing in their daily journals.

  • Ecosystem: Students will create an expository response in which ideas and details follow an organizational pattern and are relevant to the purpose by writing a report based on their observations and data.

  • FCAT Survival Make a presentation to assist students with taking the FCAT test.

  • Food Chain: Students will use technology to enhance the effectiveness of communication by writing a paragraph describing their food chain using key vocabulary.

  • Geometric Figures: Students will create an expository response in which ideas and details follow an organizational pattern and are relevant to the purpose by explaining why the item from their environment forms the requested geometric figure and creating a book to share their pictures and information.

  • Gettysburg Movie: Students will know the causes and important events of the Civil War by reading and depicting the Gettysburg Address.

  • Interactive Journeys: Students will use technology to enhance their field trip.

  • Making Books: Students will make their own personal books using iPhoto.

  • Making Words : Students will develop a definition of transitions by watching a movie and making their own.

  • Morning News Show Make a morning news show to be aired live to the student body.

  • Nike Transitions : Students view a Nike commercial for examples of transitions as used in movies and writing.

  • Personal Timeline: Students will create a timeline of their own lives.

  • Poem Movies: Students will develop a sense of imagery by choosing appropriate pictures to go with the poem.

  • Prior Knowledge: Students will use knowledge of appropriate level vocabulary in reading by building background knowledge of a book through the use of pictures on the web.

  • Procedure Movies: Students will use details to describe classroom procedures.

  • Reading Portfolio: Students will identify words and construct meaning from text, illustrations, graphics, and charts using the strategies of phonics, word structure, and context clues.

  • Roger Recycle Make a movie which highlights the benefits of recycling aluminum.

  • Summary Movie: Students will summarize a reading selection by creating an iMovie.

  • Weather: Students will watch the weather each day of the school year and compare weather from each season using Appleworks Spreadsheet.

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    Internet Lesson Plans

  • Academy Curriculum Exchange
    http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/lang/elem.html

    Lesson plans for Language Arts for K-5 grade levels with emphasis on language arts. Each lesson is clearly marked for grade level appropriateness.

  • Baltimore Public School Curriculum Project
    http://www.cstone.net/~bcp/BCPIntro2.htm
    These lessons generally follow the grade-by-grade topics in the Core Knowledge® Sequence, but they have been developed independent of the Core Knowledge Foundation.

  • Language Art Lesson Plans
    http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang.html

    Language Arts activities with step-by-step instructions for all grade levels.

  • Lesson Plan Page
    http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LA.htm
    The Lesson Plan Page: Lesson plans created by teachers for teachers. Includes a search feature and educators forum.

  • Thinkfinity
    http://www.marcopolo-education.org/
    Thinkfinity provides quality, standards-based Internet content and lesson plans for K-12 teachers and students.

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Last Updated
April 15, 2005

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