Feelings (Happy. Sad, Silly, Angry, Scared)
This is a reading and writing lesson for individual small group instruction where students use personal experiences to describe five different feelings.  This would be good to use as a Six-Traits lesson on voice.

My Teacher's Secret Life
Students will listen to Stephen Krensky's My Teacher's Secret Life, discuss the content, and make predictions about what everyone does when they're away from school.
 

Thanksgiving Writing Reproducible from Scholastic

There are many writing language arts lesson plans on this site to support speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.

Get Ready to Write:  Using this graphic organizer, partners tell old rhymes in new ways.  

Stationery:  Spice up your students' writing with various stationery

Write Source Writing Topics:  Journal writing topics organized by grade level

Story Starters:  Story writing topics for kindergarten and first grade students

Suggestions for English Language Learners: 
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding)  

(E/B) Students draw pictures to express thoughts and may add words to complement the pictures.
(E/B, D, E) Students write shopping lists and have other students read from the lists.
(E/B, D, E) Students keep dialogue journals with the teacher to open a line of communication.
(D, E) Students write thank you notes to classmates or other individuals who have done something special for them.
(D, E) Students write brief letters to friends and correctly prepare them for mailing. 
 

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