This lesson operates on the Scaffold Instructional of Release model (I do, we do, you do). Students will use the main idea and supporting details to expand understanding of a variety of texts.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a graphic organizer that uses the fishbone technique to help students see root causes and outcomes and identify the details leading up to each.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Using this flipchart, the teacher will explain definitions for author and illustrator and show students how to identify the title, author and illustrator on a book cover.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will write simple, non-chronological reports from known information (e.g., from own experience or from existing text), using notes made to organize and present ideas. Students will learn to...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart aims to help students understand how Frederick Douglass's writing painted a powerfully negative portrait of life on southern plantations. It uses video as well as text to inform students.