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 "Let's Teach for Mastery - Not Test Scores" by Sal Khan, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...

Check out this site to learn more about building research skills for grades 2-3. This site offers suggestions for activities that will sharpen your abilities.

This article focuses on teaching 2nd graders to form possessive. It provides two complete lesson plans with activities for teaching them how to form possessives.

This site offers links to several lesson plans for teaching main ideas to first and second graders; it also provides and explains some activities for teaching the main idea to first graders.

This is a lesson plan for teaching storytelling and/or fables to first graders including listening, reading, lesson learned (moral), and follow up ideas.

This lesson focuses on teaching compound words and is specifically designed for second grade; however, it could be adjusted for other grades.

Copying definitions from the dictionary and memorizing words for tests is not sufficient work for students to master and retain new vocabulary. This article helps teachers choose which words are most important to teach and suggests...

This article focuses on spelling in the ninth grade including acquiring specialized skill sets for life, learning spelling while reading, and the skills to drill: letter sounds, syllables, and rhythm. L.9-10.2 Cap/Punc/Spell

This article focuses on teaching early reading skills to 4 year-olds including Dolch sight words and other 3-letter words from the list provided, reading-readiness skills, and tips for teaching the alphabet.

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.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which young scholars learn to use a glossary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin by Robin Johnson and Bobbie Kalman...

Students will have the opportunity to do research on a weather topic in which they are interested. This lesson will teach the students how to use dictionaries, encyclopedias, resource books and the Internet to find facts about the...