Grade 3 - Grade 5 Language Arts Lesson Plans

1. Developing Students' Critical Thinking Skills Through Whole-Class Dialogue
2. Did You Say Spiders?
3. Discovering National Parks
4. Discovering Peace
5. Documenting African American History
6. Doggie Dance
7. Dust Bowl Days
8. Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: A Little Nonsense
9. Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: There Once Was...
10. Elements of Fables
11. Elements of Folktales
12. Elements of Myths
13. Engaging Students in a Collaborative Exploration of the Gettysburg Address
14. Examining Plot Conflict through a Comparison/Contrast Essay
15. Exploring American Tall Tales

1. Exploring Cause and Effect Using Expository Texts About Natural Disasters
2. Exploring Equal Sets
3. Exploring Flips and Slides
4. Exploring Friendship With "Bridge to Terabithia"
5. Exploring How Section Headings Support Understanding of Expository Texts
6. Exploring the Subtext Strategy: Thinking Beyond the Text
7. Exploring Turns
8. Exploring Women's History
9. Exploring World Cultures Through Folk Tales
10. Fairy Tale Tunes
11. Fairy Tale Variations
12. Fairy Tales from Life
13. Fairy Tales, Then and Now
14. Females in the Spotlight: Strong Characters in Picture Books
15. Fiction Writing
16. Fiction, Creating Characters
17. Fiction, Plotting the Story
18. Fiction, Setting the Story
19. Figurative Language Awards Ceremony
20. Figurative Language: Teaching Idioms
21. Finding Possibilities
22. Fishing for Readers: Identifying and Writing Effective Opening "Hooks"
23. Flying to Freedom: "Tar Beach and the People Could Fly"
24. Freeze Frame
25. From Story to Stage
26. Genre Study: A Collaborative Approach
27. Get the Reel Scoop: Comparing Books to Movies
28. Getting the Facts
29. Getting to Know You: Developing Short Biographies to Build Community
30. Giving Voice to History
31. Go West: Imagining the Oregon Trail
32. Graphing Plot and Character in a Novel
33. Great American Inventors: Using Nonfiction to Learn About Technology Inventions
34. Greek Mythology: Cultures and Art
35. Guided Comprehension: Evaluating Using the Meeting of the Minds Technique