Bad Lesson Plans

Bad Response Journal (Prestwick House)

By reflecting on what they've read, students develop new ideas and link these ideas to their lives. To facilitate this process, we offer reproducible Prestwick Response Journals in the tradition of the response-centered teaching movement. Each... More »

Bad Teaching Unit (Prestwick House)

A teaching unit and individual learning packet from Prestwick House. Includes the following: Comprehensive chapter-by-chapter study guides for students Questions suitable for essay topics or discussion Vocabulary lists Muliple-choice and... More »

Story Element: "Setting" - "The Two Bad Ants

Graphic organizer for story element: "Setting" in "The Two Bad Ants" by Chris Van Allsburg. More »

"The Two Bad Ants"- Story element: Character

Story element "character" for "The Two Bad Ants" More »

Good Lunch Bad Lunch

Template for health/diet foods versus good foods. More »

State of USA Education Bad

Describes decline of US education. More »

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

After reading a story, studens will write about good days and bad days. More »

Exemplar templates with Math problems related to "Two Bad Ants"

Two Bad Ants-themed Math exemplar problems (3 pages with the steps) More »

Adjectives: Good/Better/Best & Bad/Worse/Worst

This unit demonstrates how to use comparative adjectives 'good/better/best' and 'bad/worse/worst.' Each page contains an instructional rule box with examples, followed by activities in which students select the best adjective. More »

Adjectives: Good/Better/Best & Bad/Worse/Worst

This one-page activity demonstrates how to use 'good/better/best' or 'bad/worse/worst' to compare things (good lunch, better lunch, best lunch). The page includes a rule box followed by activities in which students select the appropriate adjective. More »

Usage: Using 'Good/Well' & 'Bad/Badly'

This unit demonstrates how to use the words 'good' (tells what kind of noun), 'well' (tells how), 'bad' (tells what kind), and 'badly' (tells how). Students fill in the correct word in sentences. More »

Usage: Using 'Good/Well' and 'Bad/Badly'

This one-page unit demonstrates how to use the adjectives and adverbs 'good/well' and 'bad/badly.' There is a rule box with examples, plus sentences in which students select and write the correct word. More »

Double Negatives & Good/Well and Bad/Badly (Usage)

This unit provides rules and examples for not using double negatives in a sentence and for correctly using 'good/well' and 'bad/badly' as descriptions for nouns/verbs. Students rewrite sentences to change negatives and select the correct adjective... More »

Usage: Good/Well, Bad/Badly, Can/May

This unit on using words correctly demonstrates how the words good/well, bad/badly, and can/may should be used in sentences. Students complete sentences correctly, write new sentences, and proofread a paragraph. More »

Bad Teaching Unit

A teaching unit and individual learning packet from Prestwick House. Includes the following: Comprehensive chapter-by-chapter study guides for students Questions suitable for essay topics or discussion Vocabulary lists Muliple-choice and... More »

Precise Language: words for 'bad'

This vocabulary skills unit for grade 3 presents activities (match the sentences, write a more specific word) in which students select and use the most appropriate synonym for a common word in order to make writing more precise (bad = disobedient,... More »

The Big Bad Wolf and Me (Character Traits/Comparisons)

This literacy unit presents a comparison about how Nick is like the Big Bad Wolf (from the Three Little Pigs tale). The unit includes three comprehension questions plus three activity pages in which students compare characters by listing... More »

Where's the Big Bad Wolf? (Character Description): Book Project

This book report project for PreK-K is about 'Where's the Big Bad Wolf?' by Eileen Christelow. It includes teacher directions, wolf puppet pattern, and suggestions for reading at home (with parent letter). Literature skill focus: describing a... More »

Bad Response Journal

By reflecting on what they've read, students develop new ideas and link these ideas to their lives. To facilitate this process, we offer reproducible Prestwick Response Journals in the tradition of the response-centered teaching movement. Each... More »

Bad Sam

From the Skill Sharpeners Spell & Write series, this unit focuses on the '-et' word family and includes a one-page story, spelling list and activities, reading readiness skills, grammar activities (sentences), writing skills (complete sentences),... More »

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: A Little Novel-Ties Study Guide

This Little Novel-Ties study guide accompanies Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, the story about a boy who wakes up with gum in his hair and finds there are days when nothing goes right.This Little Novel-Ties guide... More »

Prefixes: mis-

This vocabulary skills unit for grade 2 presents activities (add, write, circle, use, choose) in which students add a word part (mis- means 'bad' or 'wrong') to the beginning of a base word that changes the word's meaning (mis- + behavior =... More »