An introduction to biographies. Students will be engaged in reading (through read aloud, literature circles and partner reading) of biographies as... ByElizabeth Quinn
This is the states of matter that I use along with a delta science kit, but all of the materials are readily available if you do not have access to... ByElizabeth Quinn
An introduction to double bar graphs. This lesson does assume that students are familiar with reading and constructing single bar graphs.... ByElizabeth Quinn
Students analysis characters. They make inferences based on the five senses. Students practice recording information from both text and film. St... ByElizabeth Quinn
Want to start reader's workshop? Want your students to read independently? Want your students to be engaged in what they read? This is just less... ByElizabeth Quinn
These are a set of handout and resources that can be used for any non-fiction text (I use it with our Social Studies textbook) as a way to teach sk... ByElizabeth Quinn
This project is designed to meet a variety of educational needs and abilities. Students are given "choice" in the topic of their research project.... ByElizabeth Quinn
A genre study for tall tales. A variety of tall tales are read, tall tales are written by students. It is excellent to use if you are going to be... ByElizabeth Quinn
I use a reciprocal teaching approach in my language arts class. I teach the students reading strategies and then they "play teacher" and use the s... ByElizabeth Quinn
These are the lesson plans and handouts that I use when my students are publishing. I use a Writer's Workshop model, but typically try to focus my... ByElizabeth Quinn
This lesson teaches word roots (i.e. latin roots) in a fun way. Students learn what roots (such as - ology) mean and make up words that have this ... ByElizabeth Quinn
Activities including math center ideas, writing activity and reading activity for the 100th Day of School. These activities will fill up the entir... ByElizabeth Quinn
Decoding Skills are introduced. This is a series of lessons that builds on students' prior knowledge of decoding. Shared readings are included.... ByElizabeth Quinn
This is an introduction to an ongoing task in my classroom. I have students write book review/recommendations at the end of each month. I do vari... ByElizabeth Quinn
Writing about what we know is the easiest way for students to become engaged in what they write. This idea comes from Regie Routman's Writing Esse... ByElizabeth Quinn
This is the directions which are given to my students for our space research project. I copy this packet on different colors of paper (i.e. the in... ByElizabeth Quinn
This is a thematic unit on pumpkins. There are enough lessons plans to easily use this for a week. The unit includes shared reading, writing acti... ByElizabeth Quinn
I use this lesson plan and letter on the first day of school. The letter can easily be adapted to fit your school and your writing program. This ... ByElizabeth Quinn