In this lesson plan, 5th graders will compare and contrast different versions of the fairy tale "Cinderella." Students will use a compare and contrast chart chart. After the shared readings, students will use all the elements of a fairy...

Students read The Summer My Father Was Ten by Pat Brisson and discuss the father's actions and the consequences that followed. In small groups, students make and share text-to-self connections of when they were caught up in the moment...

This lesson includes a poem in two voices and is adapted from the poem by Eric Ode in Rolling in the Aisles, published by Meadowbrook Press. Students will share the responsibility of reading lines of this poem about a boy who learns a...