WORKSHEETS
Spark discussion about A Hat Full of Sky, The Wee Free Men, and The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents with the…
BOOK GUIDES
Lead a serious classroom discussion about bullying, cyber-bullying, and "the bystander effect" with the discussion…
Designed for reading the novel aloud or in small cooperative groups, this teachers pack includes a six-week unit for…
LESSON
Use these Literature Circle Roles to support students to take ownership over their book discussion. Each gives students…
Use this discussion guide to integrate the young adult novel Hour of the Bees into classroom learning and independent…
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
Your child can use this graphic organizer to identify the sequence of events in a story or a sequential task. This…
Enhance your instruction about story development with this graphic organizer that can be used for prewriting or to…
Sign of the Beaver, written by Elizabeth George, is a timeless story about a boy in eighteenth-century Maine helped to…
LESSON PLANS
Review poems read at presidential inauguration ceremonies with this lesson plan. After the presidential election is…
GAMES AND APPS
Students improve their reading comprehension by making and creating a board game based upon the Harry Potter books.
This sample script can be used as a basis for a Readers Theater production.
ACTIVITIES
Definitions for "The Black Cat" vocabulary words.
Use this discussion guide to integrate the young adult novel A Single Stone into classroom learning and independent…
Use a teaching guide that helps students analyze the elements of short stories, their responses to the selection, and…
EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Did you assign reading from our summer reading suggestions? Use our related teaching guides when you return to school in…
Enhance understanding and diversity awareness with a teaching guide that offers reading ideas about Hispanic heritage…
REFERENCE
Pupils will learn about Spoonerisms, instances in speech when the initial letters or syllables of words are switched,…
Use Literature Circles to promote small group discussion in your classroom. This teacher's guide illustrates how to set…
Ask pupils these questions to guide classroom discussion about The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo.
Use the materials in this literature guide to supplement Unwind, a book about a futuristic world in which parents are…
Spark debate about symbolism, good versus evil, relationships, and more with these discussion questions for The…
TEACHING RESOURCE
In this excerpt from Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire, Rafe Esquith explains how to establish a sense of trust with your…
Find out what schools and universities were like in the Middle Ages by reading this passage and completing these…
Student work in groups of three or four to pick a scene or event that they will present as a skit.
