LESSON PLANS
An easy way to practice solving analogies before the big test! Analogies are a key part on many standardized tests -…
Encourage development of your students' skills with activities that follow Bloom's Taxonomy.
Use a lesson that provides students with an opportunity to recognize cause-and-effect relationships in a fable by Aesop.
Use this resource containing a list of suggestions and activities to help prepare your students for reading a new book.…
GAMES AND APPS
As a fun way to practice reading and pronouncing words, try these tongue twisters with your students.
After reading the Christmas poem A Real Santa Claus by Frank Dempster Sherman, students will complete a cloze activity…
Use a lesson that provides students with an opportunity to draw conclusions using one of Aesop's enjoyable fables.…
WORKSHEETS
Comic strips are a great way to encourage reading and writing and reinforce key story elements.
Use a lesson that introduces the Question-Answer Relationship strategy to intermediate students. Students should be able…
EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Poetry is an ideal way to help students with fluency and to appreciate the beauty of words. Use these activities to help…
Students learn to summarize one chapter from a Harry Potter book and write a one scene script for it.
In this lesson, the teacher will read The Wall by Eve Bunting with the purpose of focusing on asking important…
Teach students to use a KWL and a Who, What, When, Why, Where, and How Charts to extract important details about a text.
Deliver a lesson plan that will help you teach students to read on the Web, a skill that is different from reading…
Assign or suggest creative ways for students to convey their knowledge of a book they read with this resource. Using…
Learn how to identify goals, and list steps necessary to achieve them.
In this poetry activity, students identify the characters in the poem, the setting, and the main events; and predict…
Recommended books related to fables for classroom use.
Reward students for reading books by adding to a student-made tree.
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.
Draw pictures and write captions to show the sequence of a realistic fiction story.
Students illustrate a poem wile predicting what will happen in each stanza.
Use this poem to teach students about interpreting metaphor and fantasy in poetry. I Dreamed I Was a Snowman is a great…
