A complete CCSS Grade 8 Mathematics course that includes interactives in every lesson, plus videos, hands-on activities, and questions with immediate feedback. Every lesson also has specifically chosen 'Related Modalities' that teach the...

Students will answer text-dependent questions for the expository text "Seasons and Weather". While text-dependent questions have been around for a long time, Common Core asks teachers to focus on them during reading. This activity...

What do students love more than building? Building with marshmallows! In this lesson, students get to build shapes with marshmallows and toothpicks. Included are an extensive lesson plan, a video showing examples, a worksheet, and ideas...

Links to 17 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard SL.3.1b: Follow agreed-upon rules for discussion (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics...

Choose from a variety of lessons that meet the Kindergarten standard of engaging in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

This lesson builds a foundation for adding larger numbers which is supported by the Common Core standards for second grade.

Understanding place value is critical to the Common Core Standards for second grade. Without a concrete understanding, 2nd graders may not fully grasp the meaning of the digits.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will generate measurement data by measuring lengths using rulers marked with halves and fourths of an inch and show the data by making a line plot. This lesson includes an...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will connect the concepts of counting each square unit and multiplying the side lengths to compute the area of a rectangle. They will extend this knowledge by computing a side...

In this lesson, young scholars are asked to examine a model for a space station on Mars that will house six researchers studying the possibility of establishing a colony. Given the dimensions of the station and the minimum amount of...

In this lesson, a teacher describes the steps being taken to encourage students to become independent readers outside class time.

This lesson offers suggestions to help you fix short, choppy sentences, combine sentences with the same subject, and revise sentences that sound the same. L.11-12.3 Language Functions/Style

This lesson contains strategies for proofreading your assignments. Use the links on the left for a step-by-step method for proofreading and editing for grammar and mechanics. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.5

[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to use visual, meaning, and structure clues separately and together to determine the meaning of unknown words. Lessons are...

This lesson focuses on strategies for maintaining credibility and authority in your writing. It also provides a table of different types of credibility markers, an explanation, and the application for each. SL.9-10.2 eval & integrate...

A Grade 5 literature study unit for the novel "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson. The concepts covered include cause and effect, character, genre, plot, predicting, and theme.

In this science-themed literacy lesson, students read for and differentiate between qualitative and quantitative information.

This tutorial discusses triangle inequality and provides practice problems for students to try out their skills. The teacher resource page contains a lesson plan for a yummy activity involving licorice.

An interactive simulation that teaches about equivalent, evaluating, and simplifying expressions through games and exercises building coin expressions. This simulation can either be downloaded or played online and includes handouts,...

A site for both students and teachers to explore the writing of a research paper. Find teacher resources, student interactive mini-lessons, and a review of types of research resources.

Students learn how to simplify multiple positive or negative signs. The resource consists of lessons with examples, a combining like terms calculator, an equation calculator, and a worksheet to check for comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets for students to practice the common core skill of understanding a central message or lesson.

During this mini-unit, students will learn common Greek and Latin roots. Several supplementary resources are provided for students' study beyond the lessons.

In this lesson, The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown is used as a mentor text. Students will create an illustrated paragraph about a particular math topic. Students will use the mentor text and attempt to adapt the author's style to...