Grade 6 - Grade 8 Language Arts Lesson Plans

1. A Directed Listening-Thinking Activity for "The Tell-Tale Heart"
2. A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words: From Image to Detailed Narrative
3. A Simple Melody
4. A Story of Epic Proportions: What Makes a Poem an Epic?
5. A Variety of Unwise Characters
6. A Way with Words or Say What?
7. A World of Myths
8. ABC Bookmaking Builds Vocabulary in the Content Areas
9. Action Is Character: Exploring Character Traits with Adjectives
10. African-American History Month
11. Airport Numbers
12. Alliteration in Headline Poems
13. Alphabiography Project: Totally You
14. An Exploration of Text Sets: Supporting All Readers
15. Analyzing Advice as an Introduction to Shakespeare

1. Animal Spirit and Powers (Nahuales)
2. Are the von Trapps Historically Correct?
3. Art Show with the Masters!
4. Asian-Pacific Heritage Month
5. Audience, Purpose, and Language Use in Electronic Messages
6. Avalanche, Aztek, or Bravada? A Connotation Mini-Lesson
7. Battling for Liberty: Tecumseh's and Patrick Henry's Language of Resistance
8. Beyond the Story: A Dickens of a Party
9. Bibbidi Bobbidi Tunes
10. Biography Project: Research and Class Presentation
11. Book Report Alternative: A Character's Letter to the Editor
12. Book Report Alternative: Character and Author Business Cards
13. Book Report Alternative: Comic Strips and Cartoon Squares
14. Book Report Alternative: Creating a Childhood for a Character
15. Book Report Alternative: Creating Careers for Characters
16. Book Report Alternative: Hooking a Reader with a Book Cover
17. Book Report Alternative: Summary, Symbol, and Analysis in Bookmarks
18. Book Reviews, Annotation, and Web Technology
19. Boys Read: Considering Courage in Novels
20. Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Critical Discussion of Social Issues
21. Building Reading Comprehension Through Think-Alouds
22. Campaigning for Fair Use: Public Service Announcements on Copyright Awareness
23. Can It Be?
24. Can the Chiru Be Saved?
25. Character Clash: A Mini-Lesson on Paragraphing and Dialogue
26. Child Labor: Giving Voice to the Industrial Revolution Through Monologues
27. Childhood Remembrances: Life and Art Intersect in Nikki Giovanni's "Nikki-Rosa"
28. Childhood Through the Looking-Glass
29. Children of War
30. Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience
31. Choosing, Chatting, and Collecting: Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy
32. Civil War Music
33. Climbing Mount Everest: Then and Now
34. Colonial Broadsides: A Student-Created Play
35. Compare and Contrast Electronic Text with Traditionally Printed Text