LESSON PLANS
Use this poem to teach students about interpreting metaphor and fantasy in poetry. I Dreamed I Was a Snowman is a great…
Fluency activities include playing a punctuation card game, performing a Reader's Theater, and engaging in a challenging…
Students learn how to write a haiku using the Harry Potter book series as a prompt.
DAILY WARM-UPS
Appeal to students' sense of adventure while improving their reading skills with a suspense story and comprehension…
In this printable warm-up, students read a passage of historical fiction about Patrick Henry and answer comprehension…
REFERENCE
In this printable reading warm-up, students read a short biography on Henry Ford and answer reading comprehension…
Help students master important nonfiction reading skills with an informational text on segregation and reading…
Improve students' reading skills and knowledge of World War II. This printable warm-up includes a passage about Pearl…
Discover the wonders of medical technology while improving students' reading skills. This printable warm-up includes a…
Develop students' reading skills as they learn about amphibians. This printable warm-up includes a science reading…
Students will read a passage about horses and answer comprehension questions. Use this printable warm-up to develop…
BOOK GUIDES
Introduce children to classical music through the engaging and entertaining murder mystery The Composer Is Dead by…
WORKSHEETS
This guide to books by Margaret Peterson Haddix includes teaching resources for each book in the Missing series and The…
How do your students relate to Nikki and her friends from Dork Diaries #2: Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl? Use…
This teacher's guide to The Soccer Fence: A story of friendship, hope, and apartheid in South Africa contains reading,…
Extend students' enjoyment of Judy Moody's adventures with book activities for Judy Moody, Mood Martian. Each classroom…
MAPS
Hold a Junior Genius Jeopardy! Game in your classroom. This printable classroom guide to Ken Jennings' Junior Genius…
Use the discussion questions in this teacher's guide for Finding Serendipity to help students understand what they've…
Patricia Polacco is a beloved, highly acclaimed author and illustrator of numerous books for children. Use this guide to…
Use this literature guide to review vocabulary, check reading comprehension, and encourage students to make predictions…
Students read the classic Aesop fable, "The Donkey and the Dog," and then complete a vocabulary activity on words used…
ACTIVITIES
Students will immerse themselves in the poems of Emily Dickinson by writing, researching, drawing, and more.
This selection of Emily Dickinson's poems gives students the opportunity to experience one of America's outstanding…
EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
There are literature guides, discussion questions, reading graphic organizers, and more, in this slideshow. All of these…
