Grade 3 - Grade 5 Language Arts Lesson Plans

1. A Case for Reading -- Examining Challenged and Banned Books
2. A Character Life Box
3. A Daily DEAR Program: Drop Everything, and Read!
4. A Genre Study of Letters with "The Jolly Postman"
5. A Listening Doll
6. A Nepalese Village and Your Town: What's the Difference?
7. A Race with Grace: Sports Poetry in Motion
8. A Schema-Building Study with Patricia Polacco
9. A Simple Melody
10. A Tale of Two Stories
11. A Variety of Unwise Characters
12. A Way with Words or Say What?
13. A World of Myths
14. Acoustical Science
15. Acquiring New Vocabulary Through Book Discussion Groups

1. Adjective Monster
2. African-American History Month
3. Alaska Native Stories: Using Narrative to Introduce Expository Text
4. All About Our Town: Using Brochures to Teach Informational Writing
5. Alliteration All Around
6. Alter Egos and More With Avi's "Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?"
7. America, A Home for Every Culture
8. American Colonial Life in the Late 1700s: Distant Cousins
9. An Alternative to Testing: "Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster"
10. An Owl in the Woods
11. Animal Habitats
12. Animal Spirit and Powers (Nahuales)
13. Applying Question-Answer Relationships to Pictures
14. Are the von Trapps Historically Correct?
15. Art Show with the Masters!
16. Artistic Elements: Exploring Art Through Descriptive Writing
17. Arts Careers
18. Asian-Pacific Heritage Month
19. Australian Aboriginal Art and Storytelling
20. Author Study: Improving Reading Comprehension Using Inference and Comparison
21. Balancing Three Branches at Once: Our System of Checks and Balances
22. Be a Geography Detective
23. Be a Reading Detective: Finding Similarities and Differences in Ideas
24. Beatrix Potter's Naughty Animal Tales
25. Behind the Scenes with Cinderella
26. Bibbidi Bobbidi Tunes
27. Biographies: Creating Timelines of a Life
28. Blending Fiction and Nonfiction to Improve Comprehension and Writing Skills
29. Book Clubs: Reading for Fun
30. Book Report Alternative: Creating a New Book Cover
31. Book Report Alternative: Examining Story Elements Using Story Map Comic Strips
32. Book Report Alternative: The Elements of Fiction
33. Book Report Alternative: Writing Resumes for Characters in Historical Fiction
34. Born on a Mountaintop? Davy Crockett, Tall Tales, and History
35. Boys Can Dance