The Teachers Language Arts Academy

• Into the Curriculum Reading/Language Arts
  Main ideas and supporting details - parts of a plot - the hero or heroine --all are great for grades 4-5 teachers.
  gopher://ericir.syr.edu/11/Lesson/SLMAM/Curriculum/Reading

• ERIC New Lesson Language Arts
  A gopher site with creative writing lessons for elementary, junior high, and secondary teachers.
  gopher://ericir.syr.edu/11/Lesson/NewLesson/Language_Arts

• Lesson Plans and Activities by McREL
  This is a large site which includes more than language arts. The arts, math, science, technology, social studies, and inter/multi-disciplinary subjects are also featured.
  http://www.mcrel.org/connect/lesson.html

• Mayan Lesson Plans/Classroom Activities: Language Arts
  TIES Teacher To Teacher Center sponsors this site which includes lesson plans and activities about the Mayan culture.
  http://www.ties.k12.mn.us/~mayatch/mq96/lesson/Language_Arts/

• GC EduNET Language Arts Lesson Plans
  Making Classroom Rules, The Unites States Postal Service, and Mexico are the current lesson plans at this site.
  http://snow-white.gac.peachnet.edu/gather/LessonPlans/language/languagemenu.html

• SUNY Cortland Memorial Library Language Arts Lesson Plans
  Links to Big Sky, ERIC, Scholastic, and UCLA are featured.
  http://www.cortland.edu/www/libwww/tmc/lp_lang_arts.htmlx

• Adverbily: An AskERIC Lesson Plan
  Standards: 4th WRITTEN AND ORAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE CONVENTIONS; Standard 1.3
  In the course of this simple lesson, students compile (or use) a list of verbs to make adverbs, then take turns acting out verb-adverb combinations, á la charades.
  http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/

• Successful Paragraphs: An AskERIC Lesson Plan
  Standards: 4th WRITING Standards 1.0, 1.2, 1.3; 4th M Standards
  Through this lesson plan, 4th-6th grade students create interesting paragraphs by varying sentence beginnings.
  http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Lang_arts/Writing_comp/WCP0035.html

• Class Books: An AskERIC Lesson Plan
  Standards: 4th REARCH AND TECHNOLOGY Standards 1.5, 1.7, 1.9, 1.10; 4th Math STATISTICS, DATA ANALYSIS and PROBABILITY; Standards 1: 1.1, 1.3; Computer skills: database, word processing, graphs
  The class brainstorms categories, creates a computer database of information on the students, conducts and writes-up interviews of one another, and uses the computer to produce a "Class Book".
  http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Lang_arts/Whole_lang/WLG0001.html

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