Grade 6 - Grade 8 Language Arts Lesson Plans

1. Comparing and Contrasting Fables
2. Comparing and Contrasting: Picturing an Organizational Pattern
3. Composing for "The Nightingale"
4. Cooking up Descriptive Language: Designing Restaurant Menus
5. Cosmic Oranges: Observation and Inquiry Through Descriptive Writing and Art
6. Creative Communication Frames: Discovering Similarities Between Writing and Art
7. Creative Writing Through Wordless Picture Books
8. Critical Literacy: Point of View
9. Critical Media Literacy: Commercial Advertising
10. Critical Media Literacy: TV Programs
11. Culture Shock
12. Dancing A Christmas Carol
13. Dancing through Poetry
14. Destination: Japan
15. Developing a Definition of Reading through Analysis in Middle School

1. Developing Reading Plans to Support Independent Reading
2. Digital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
3. Discovering National Parks
4. Documenting African American History
5. Don't Be Fooled by a Photograph
6. Doodle Splash: Using Graphics to Discuss Literature
7. Dynamic Duo Text Talks: Examining the Content of Internet Sites
8. Ecosystem Services - Water Purification
9. Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Narrator
10. Elements of Fables
11. Elements of Folktales
12. Elements of Myths
13. Enchanting Readers with Revisionist Fairy Tales
14. Entering History: Nikki Giovanni and Martin Luther King, Jr.
15. E-pals Around the World
16. Every Punctuation Mark Matters: A Mini-Lesson on Semicolons
17. Everyone Loves a Mystery: A Genre Study
18. Exploring American Tall Tales
19. Exploring and Sharing Family Stories
20. Exploring Author's Voice Using Jane Addams Award-Winning Books
21. Exploring Free Speech and Persuasion with '"Nothing but the Truth"
22. Exploring Women's History
23. Expository Escapade-Detective's Handbook
24. Fairy Tale Autobiographies
25. Fairy Tale Tunes
26. Fairy Tale Variations
27. Fiction Writing
28. Fiction, Creating Characters
29. Fiction, Plotting the Story
30. Fiction, Setting the Story
31. Fighting Injustice by Studying Lessons of the Past
32. Finding Figurative Language in "The Phantom Tollbooth"
33. Finding the Science Behind Science Fiction through Paired Readings
34. Flip-a-Chip: Examining Affixes and Roots to Build Vocabulary
35. Focusing Reader Response Through Vocabulary Analysis