Lessons and Activities Spelling Lessons Five lessons written by a middle school teacher to help students connect spelling to other curricular areas. The site is part of the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee. A single lesson using folk sayings, proverbs, and maxims as an impetus for group and student writing. You may complete the following Internet activities alone or by working in a group. You may complete all or only some of the activities depending on your goals.
Links range from limericks, to a rhyming dictionary, to reaction to individual poems.
Explore the Content A web site rich with teacher and student help to enrich and improve personal writing. Although the title is strange, the ideas for poetry lessons are many and varied. The author is a high school English teacher from Canada who has collected these ideas from many teachers. A web and writing lesson that leads students on a hunt to determine the meaning of their name.