Language Arts Ideas

Here are selection of activities that I've developed for my classroom. Many of them were designed to be used with Cooperative Learning strategies, but they don't come with specific directions. Be sure to sign up for Candler's Classroom Connections, a bi-weekly newsletter where I provide directions for many of the printables on my site! For complete literacy lessons, click on the Literacy Mini Pack link on the right.

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Language Arts Printables and Lesson Ideas

• Expository Essay Format
• Friendship Cinquain Activity 
• Plural Noun Showdown Task Cards 
  Note: For a complete lesson plan on regular and irregular plural nouns, check out my new Mini Pack, Plural Noun Showdown.
• Expanding Sentences Activity
  Note: For complete directions including a lesson on run-ons and fragments, check out my Sentence Go Round activity.
• Past Tense Verb Game
• Dictionary Word Sort Gameboard
• Rain Forest Dictionary Words
• Names to Know
• Daily Grammar Practice: Quotations
• Grammar Practice Recording Form
• Word Play Directions
• Word Play Letters   
  (Big Words: wrestling, quarterback, multiplication, measurement, kindergarten)
• Word Play Recording Form
• Writing Web Idea Organizer
• Paragraph Evaluation Form
• Blank Rubric Form