REFERENCE
Students learn about Miep Gies, a friend to Anne Frank's family, and then answer questions about her life.
Learn about Carleton Kendrick, a family therapist and parenting expert.
WORKSHEETS
Teach children about Chinese culture by baking traditional mooncake cookies.
GAMES AND APPS
This article depicts the story of Alice Parker, an African-American woman who invented a gas furnace for central heating…
TEACHING RESOURCE
Jeff Kinney answers questions about his very funny online journal, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley's Journal.
BOOK GUIDES
Our Teacher Discussion Guide for Librarian of Auschwitz, a novel about a young girl in Auschwitz during the Holocaust,…
ASSESSMENT
Self-Assessments Packet Self-assessments are an effective way to help your students grow as learners. When they are…
Opposites and similar meanings are reviewed.
CLASSROOM TOOLS
A two-column chart can be used to organize ideas in any curriculum area.
LESSON PLANS
Enhance understanding with a teaching guide that offers tried and true techniques for bringing poetry into the lives of…
Fluency activities include playing a punctuation card game, performing a Reader's Theater, and engaging in a challenging…
Reading comprehension activities challenge students to complete a Mad Libs© selection as a Cloze exercise, extract a…
ACTIVITIES
Enrichment activities and Internet resources to enhance teaching Shadow of a Bull, by Maia Wojciechowska.
For this PowerPoint project, students write alliterative sentences, type them on slides, and illustrate their work with…
Teach your students how to write a narrative poem based on a prose realistic fiction selection using this detailed…
In this computer activity, students read and discuss a poem, imagining what the world would be like if they were in…
DAILY WARM-UPS
In this reading warm-up, students read a short biography on Elizabeth Cady Stanton and answer reading comprehension…
Read about the digestive system. This printable warm-up includes a science reading passage about the human body and…
Students will learn about the water cycle as they read a short nonfiction text. Check their understanding of this earth…
Should whales be kept in captivity? Use this reading passage to start a class discussion on this topic. After reading a…
Keep students informed of controversial issues in education while improving their reading skills. In this printable…
In this printable warm-up, students read a short mystery and answer comprehension questions.
Appeal to students' sense of adventure while improving their reading skills with a suspense story and comprehension…
Students use a web resource to explore the perspective of left-handed people coping in a right-handed society. They…
