This page includes a small sampling of lesson ideas from Creative Educator that can help language learners demonstrate content understanding, build vocabulary and build fluency.
You can find additional ideas by clicking the Lessons link at the top and choosing which subject you would like to explore.
Students practice writing and illustrating as they create a page in your class's adaptation of their favorite pattern story.
In this lesson, students write a five senses poem to share information about a favorite place or topic they are exploring.
After reading examples and learning about this short form of Japanese poetry, students write and illustrate their own haiku poems.
In this lesson, students read and learn about the Korean form of sijo poetry and then write and illustrate their own sijo poems.
Students will illustrate the meaning of an idiom to help others learn these examples of figurative language.
In this lesson, students create an alphabet book to share knowledge and information they have learned, organizing their writing using the ABC’s.
Students will create a visual, or video, poem as they analyze the imagery in a text.
In this lesson, students create vocabulary trading cards that use images to help other students master the meaning of new words.
Students will combine text and visuals create visual vocabulary cards with words and photos.
Students practice counting through the creation of a Halloween counting book.
Students learn about 2-dimensional shapes and create a class book identifying these shapes around their school.
Students color a page in the style of Piet Mondrian and then count, describe, and compare the shapes and colors.
Students explore the life cycle of a butterfly as they write and illustrate stories that show the stages of a butterfly’s metamorphosis.
In this lesson, students design a snow globe highlighting a specific habitat, showing the plants, animals, and organisms found there.
In this lesson, students tell the story of a US symbol from it’s perspective.
In this lesson, students explore symbols in the world around them and create a flag that represents the characteristics and values of their family.
Students will demonstrate map making skills as they create maps of the geographic features, regions, and economy of their state.
Students build media literacy skills as they create a visual essay to share information about themselves.
Wixie
Share your ideas, imagination, and understanding through writing, art, voice, and video.
Rubric Maker
Create custom rubrics for your classroom.
Pics4Learning
A curated, copyright-friendly image library that is safe and free for education.
Wriddle
Write, record, and illustrate a sentence.
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