Your class will be discussing some hot topics today. This set of three essay questions covers multiple aspects of the conflict in the Middle East. They'll discuss the Iranian Hostage Crisis, define PLO (Palestine Liberation...

Primary learners will use the five "W" questions for reading comprehension as they read silently to themselves so that they can understand and remember what they have read. They then read The Velveteen Rabbit aloud, discussing the five...

Find key details in books using this note card strategy. Each reader gets six cards with the classic who, what, where, when, why, and how detail prompts. After they read the book, they choose a card and locate a key detail...

How is your grandmother related to you? How is your cousin related to your grandmother? Learn about family relationships and pronouns with an activity that guides pupils to write two short narratives about members of their families.

Young scholars explore the 5W's and H of journalistic writing. In this 5 W's and H lesson plan, students read two articles from a newspaper and locate the 5 W's and H in the articles.

This Groundhog's Day, challenge scholars to predict, estimate, tally, and graph in a weather-themed instructional activity in which class members play the role of the groundhog to forecast the weather come February second. 

Accelerate young physicists' learning with this collection of problem-solving worksheets. Starting off by teaching students to identify the given information and variables in physics problems, this resource goes on to challenge them...

Students write a mock article. In this journalism activity, students define the word "article" and learn the five W's of article writing. Students complete a worksheet and write a paragraph using what they have learned.

What kinds of changes have marked the 20th century? Kids consider three patterns of change in Latin America: modernization, urbanization, women's rights and status, and democracy.

Students investigate sexism in history by identifying important women from the U.S.  In this women's equality instructional activity, students discuss why they remember more men in the history of the U.S. than women.  Students...

Why do ground squirrels build their homes in the ground? What's so unique about these burrows? Have individuals read about this burrowing animal, and then respond to five short answer questions that assess their comprehension of the...

Here is a fantastic primary source analysis activity regarding Frederick Douglass' speech delivered at the unveiling of the Freedmen's Monument in 1876. The follow-up discussion questions and activities highlight Douglass' discussion of...

Students explore reading comprehension strategies. They discuss the story-grammar strategy. Students discuss the importance of comprehension. They discuss questions they should ask while reading a text. Students read a story and stop to...

Few things can motivate children to learn like the promise of a sweet and tasty treat. Given a bag of M&M®s, Skittles®, or other colorful candy, students first predict the contents of the bag before counting the pieces,...

Third graders read and analyze an article.  In this interpretation and summarizing lesson, 3rd graders listen to an article and identify the who, what, where, when and why of the article.  Students pick their own article,...

Students relate health information text to themselves and society.  In this health information lesson, students answer questions using the 5 W's based on the health issue they are reading about.  Students discuss life...

Students practice various comprehension strategies to generate the main idea of the text. They encounter unfamiliar concepts and new vocabulary in their quest of the main idea in "Watson's Goes to Burmingham." The Five W's (What, Where,...

If one ice cream cone represents three ice cream scoops, and Bob has four ice cream cones, then how many scoops does Bob have? Learners solve these kind of questions with their new understanding of pictographs.

Students understand and recognize the names of various foods. In this food bingo lesson, students work in pairs to practice questioning with the phrases: do you want and do you like. Students practice listening and speaking skills while...

Students play an easy card game that reinforces skill such as: basic number recognition, greater than or less than, and odd or even number.

Students practice reading comprehension by answering the 5 "W" questions. After reading "The Kissing Hand," they complete a class discussion addressing the questions who, what, when, where, and why. Students choose an appropriate,...

Ninth graders participate in an activity about question words such as who, what, when, where, and why. Working in groups, they are given strips of paper with partial sentences on them and match them together to make a sensible question.

After a demonstration by the teacher of how to combine sentences, groups read a story loaded with short, choppy sentences and work together to combine sentences to create a more interesting tale. They record their version on a...

Students practice several techniques and strategies to become better at summarizing a piece of writing. They emphasize the five "W's: who, what, where, when and why. A book of Earthquakes is read and then summarized by each of the students.