How would you feel if you were on trial for murder—and you were only 16 years old? Put yourself in Steve Harmon's shoes before reading Monster by Walter Dean Myers. Kids listen to music that fits the theme of the book before...

Money motivates! Help young bankers understand how math plays a part in investing. Give learners math practice while instilling real-world financial literacy skills.

Students choose, read,and analyze a text at least one-thousand words long using varied reading strategies. They identify the strategies used in the analysis of their text and explain how they are crucial to comprehension.

Fifth graders read "My Side of the Mountain." They create a pantomime using vocabulary words from the story. Students create three questions about the reading. They discuss the passage they read and act out words to help them better...

Students practice different strategies to help them draw meaning from their reading. Students, divided into groups, read an assigned text selection. Each group member provided a summary of what they have been read based on a particular...

Students listen to a story and chime whenever they hear rhyming word pairs. Students generate other rhyming words that rhyme with each pair from the story. Students draw and/or paint illustrations to go along with a rhyming song given....

Students create story webs to aid comprehension of ecosystems. In this reading strategies instructional activity, students discover the importance of organizing information while reading a nonfiction text. Students produce story webs to...

Learners observe and demonstrate how to use a story map to identify the main idea of text. They observe the teacher read an article about birds out loud, and create a story map for the article. Students then independently read another...

Learners use their journals in order to predict what will happen in a text for a prereading strategy. In this prereading lesson plan, students list the 5 strategies they learn and use them before they read.

Third graders practice strategies for aiding in their comprehension of material they read. Through guided practice, they read a selected piece of text and answer questions pertaining to what they have read. They practice looking back in...

Students practice different strategies to aid them in drawing meaning from their reading. Students, working in groups, read an assigned text selection. Each group member provided a summary of what they have been read based on a...

Students identify figurative language and symbolism in poetry as well as prose. In this literary elements lesson, students read and discuss the role of symbolism in Yellow Man by Moonlight, A Christmas Carl, The House of Wings, and...

Pupils practice their reading skills. In this reading fluency and comprehension lesson, students read instructor-selected passages and use metacognitive skills to make inferences based on the selections. 

Students distinguish between questions, statements, and formality as dictated by the instructor in a targeted foreign language: French or German. On a provided worksheet, students classify statements according to their vocabulary and...

Learners engage in a activity that uses sight word strategies in order to increase reading comprehension. The skills are applicable to rote skill, math facts, formulas, etc... The activity includes sample exercises for the teacher to use...

Learners describe what a consumer is and give examples of how we affect the earth. They explain how we as consumers can change our actions to have less of an impact. Students discuss "How can we reduce the size of our footprint?"

Learners say the name of pictures of simple objects, people and places, choosing 15 to use for the activity. Students glue pictures in a scrapbook and write the word for each picture beside it. Learners complete word recognition...

Students are introduced to pre- and post-reading strategies. Individually, they read excerpts of a story while making predictions about what they believe is going to happen next. After reading the selection, they answer comprehension...

Pupils participate in a lesson used in order to strengthen reading comprehension skills. They use spelling lists in order to sort them to the corresponding studied sounds. Vocabulary is used and students read them in context.

Students works in groups to study the lives of women in New France and Huron communities. In this French and Indian history lesson, student groups research cultural attributes that existed for women in New France and Huron communities....

Students work in literary circles to discuss Catherine, Called Birdy.  For this Catherine, Called Birdy lesson, students brainstorm ideas for discussion and observe as the teacher models a good discussion group.  Students...

Fourth graders explore electricity by reading a story in their class. In this research technique instructional activity, 4th graders read a Magic School Bus book together and decide which elements of the story are the most important when...

Middle schoolers study the Holocaust and explore peer pressure, prejudice and intolerance.

Learners use literature to examine how the structure of families in Mexico has changed over time. In groups, they examine how their life now relates to their ancestors and the Spanish conquest of the area. As a class, they are read...