How can learners evaluate research sources for authority, accuracy, and credibility? By completing readings, discussions, and graphic organizers, scholars learn how to properly evaluate sources to find credible information. Additionally,...

Children will create a picture dictionary to encourage the development of letter-sound recognition and fine-motor and creative-thinking skills, and increase their awareness about informational text.

A learning module that begins with "Teaching Kids in Vietnam to Avoid a Deadly, Everyday Legacy of War" by Michael Sullivan, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a lesson plan in which students learn to use a dictionary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The lesson plan utilizes the book The Mitten by Jan Brett and includes...

This site offers links to a list of computer terms middle schoolers need to know; it also offers links to lesson plans teaching things like using spreadsheets.

This article focuses on teaching articles and determiners to native and non-native English speakers. It suggests beginning with articles (a, an, the), then moving to determiners (my, her, his, this, that, these, those); it also suggests...

This article focuses on spelling in the 6th grade including vowel-consonant spelling patterns, spelling study strategies, and links to word lists and spelling games.

This article discusses how important learning opposites is to young children. It offers ideas to teach opposites including making a book, using online printable pages, and using exercise.

A strong vocabulary, both written and spoken, requires more than a dictionary. In fact, it requires an educational commitment to overcoming four obstacles: the size of the task (the number of words students need to learn is exceedingly...