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Language Journalism
Eight lesson plans from Ask ERIC

The Write Site
Journalism information and activities.

Speech Unit
Several lesson ideas for grades 9-12.

The Media Literacy On-Line Project
Resources and lesson plans for teaching about media.

AskERIC Listening Lesson Plans
Five lesson plans for a variety of grade levels.

The Three Rival Brothers Debate Lesson Plan
An elementary lesson plan involving a debate based on the story, "The Three Rival Brothers" from the book African Myths by Carter Godwin Woodson.

Theater Lesson Plans
The Drama Teacher's Resource Room
Lesson plans and resources for theatre/drama.

Drama Curriculum Guide
Lesson plans and model units for grades 6-8 from Saskatchewan Education.
Ask ERIC
A great site for reading, literature, writing, etc. lesson plans.

LanguageLesson Plans
K-12 language arts lesson plans.

Teacher's Lesson Plans
5th and 6th-grade language arts lesson plans.

English and Language Arts Lesson Plans
secondary language arts lesson plan sites.

Kevin's Language Lessons
mostly for middle and high school.

Vocabulary Lesson Plans

Vocabulary Building
lesson plan for the primary grades.

Euphemisms
junior high school lesson plan in which students learn to choose appropriate synonyms for writing and speaking.

Matching with Synonyms and Antonyms
A 4th-grade lesson plan.
 

Making Words: Cardboard Letters
A K-1 hands-on activity in which children discover sound-letter relationships.

The Letterbox Lesson
A lesson plan in which students analyze the phoneme sequence in a word.

What You see Isn't Always what You Get!
A middle-grade reading comprehension activity.

KWL - A Reading Comprehension Strategy
A lesson plan in which students are taught the KWL reading comprehension strategy. See also Using A KWL Chart.  

What is Reciprocal Teaching?
An overview of this instructional procedure designed to enhance students' reading comprehension.

Poetry Lesson Plans

Irritating Creature
lesson plan for grade 3 or 4 designed to encourage students to think about and evaluate the meaning of a poem.

Harris Middle School Poetry Lesson Plans
middle school poetry lesson plans.

Edgar Allan Poe: An Author Unit
An Internet-based unit. Click here for a Poe Webliography.

Edgar Allan Poe Poetry Readers Theater
A lesson plan for grades 8-9 that involves learning and then performing four of Poe's poems.

Lesson Plan Using Silverstein
A high school lesson plan involving interpreting and writing poems.