This package of activities is intended for use at a family literacy event on making books. There are suggestions for how to organize the event, as well as suggestions on how to adapt the activities for classroom use.

Are you looking to master Outlook Express? This fun and informative tutorial uses colorful activities and interactive quizzes to teach learners the basics of this e-mail software. The tutorial covers: sending and receiving e-mail, fancy...

Need help planning ways to creatively teach your middle schoolers chronological order? Here's a great place to start. While the site is specifically geared toward the middle school student, it is a teaching idea which could easily be...

A step-by-step Oulook Express email tutorial is presented by actden.com. Topics include: sending and receiving email, fancy email, teacher's guide, tutorials in print, address book, organizing email, and customizing the Outlook Window.

This lesson goes over how to organize a book report.

There's no shortage of teachers doing innovative work around goal setting for students. This article is a compilation of favorite resources. Included are books to read to your class, a goal planning worksheet, classroom activities,...

Students will learn about the Library of Congress Classification System by viewing online tutorials.Students will create visual aids to communicate an understanding of the system. Students will use the LCC to locate and organize books.

This lesson is an introduction to the ten main categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification System. The Dewey Decimal Classification System will be compared with the familiar layout of a grocery store. Students will organize grocery...

This graphic organizer can be use with students when they read an informational text. Using a Venn diagram to organize content, students will write important similarities and differences after reading an informational text and analyzing...

Students choose a question to explore, research it using a variety of resources, organize their information on a TCF chart, and then collaboratively write a class scientific explanation.

Learn about two different ways to organize a compare and contrast essay and how each way looks in a paragraph breakdown.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart guides students through the writing process utilizing a framework for finding out the important things. It teaches them a structure for organizing their writing as well.

Are you, your students, and their parents wandering lost in the Science Fair desert? Here's an oasis! The Science Fair Central website provides a complete guide to the topic. There's a "Soup to Nuts Handbook" that assists the student in...

This Bible.org site offers the history, study, literary structure, and much much more on the Minor Prophets.

Jamie McKenzie's book, Beyond Technology: Questioning, Research and the Information Literate School, emphasizes the need to teach children to ask important questions, then research the answers, instead of just learning information...

In this lesson, the book Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend, written by Melanie Watt, is used. Students will develop a question, collect data about the question, and then write a sentence about the findings of the data. [Requires Adobe...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to classify and categorize items, characters, and information. The third lesson is based on the book Splish! Splash! Animal Baths by April...

This is the homesite for the National Writers Union, an organization for freelance writers. Contains an amazing amount of useful material, especially for aspiring writers, journalists, or storytellers.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn to write a persuasive essay by organizing arguments in a logical order, providing appropriate supporting details, clarifying main arguments, and identifying...

As a part of a week-long unit about bats, the learners will identify the characteristics of a bat and organize the facts using Think-sheets. Student understanding will be enhanced with the use of books, poems, lectures, discussions,...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on classifying and categorizing through which students learn how to organize research into an outline, use text features to locate information, and write a research report. Lessons...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn to write an expository essay by providing evidence that supports a thesis, articulating concepts and information correctly and concisely, understanding the...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will learn how to choose a type of data visualization based on the kind of data they have collected and the objective of their research.

While this lesson's main focus will be centered on expository writing, it will also integrate reading, computer, and organizational skills. After reading the novel, Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, pupils will write an expository paper...