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Lesson Plans - Language Arts

Harriet’s Halloween Sort

This is a small group instructional activity in which students sort, classify and tell about what characteristics they sort individually wrapped candy.

Halloween Story with Portrayal Movement

To imitate action words in the story. To engage in cumulative movement patterns.

My Pumpkin Story

Students use an online tool to “carve” a pumpkin. Then they write a story about their pumpkin.

Collaborating on a Class Book: Exploring Before-During-After Sequences

In this classroom project, students and the teacher produce a class book through a group-writing activity, focusing on a basic before-during-after sequence of events.

A Directed Listening-Thinking Activity for “The Tell-Tale Heart”

In this lesson, students participate in a Directed Listening–Thinking Activity (DLTA), in which they listen to “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and answer prediction questions at designated stopping points during the reading.