An important key to teaching children is engaging their attention and facilitating their wonder, curiosity, and interests. We all hope reading will become a passion for our students, and the arts can play a significant role in...

This PDF is a visual essay assignment in which students create a visual presentation of a choice of poems read previously. It must be planned, organized, and created in such a way that it reflects the meaning of the poem.

This article explains that graphs, charts, and diagrams are used to display information visually. The choice of what type of graph or chart to use depends on the information to be displayed. Software programs make these much easier to...

Odyssey Online is a resource for both students and teachers as they explore world mythology in reading, writing, history, and art classes. Providing sections on Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and African mythology, Odyssey uses...

Katherine Cecil Thurston's novel, The Gambler, is presented here in English translation in multiple digital formats.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this close reading lesson, the students will analyze the poem "It Fell in the City" by Eve Merriam. They will read the poem, identify words or phrases that show feelings or appeal to the senses,...

This video segment from Between the Lions focuses on letter knowledge, showing several words that begin with the letter "c" and, in these examples, the /s/ sound that it makes.

Presents comprehensive biographical information on Louis Braille, the founder of a system of reading and writing by raised dots, and Valentin Hauy, the founder of the world's first school for the blind in Paris, France.

Collect letters in order to create words, and then use those words to change a sad story into a happy one.

Comprehensive guide with 17 areas of suggestions and tips for delivering a successful class presentation. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.4, SL.11-12.4 Presentation