Students participate in shared reading, choral reading, and readers theater, using books by Bill Martin, Jr. Repeated readings and literary performances help students with their reading accuracy, expression, and rate.

In this lesson plan, The Colorful Desert, written by Audrey Wood, is used as a mentor text for sentence fluency. The content focus of the lesson is about how sentences build through a "building on" book. Learners will use sentence frames...

A big green monster helps students build their reading fluency and word recognition skills through choral reading, literacy center activities, and writing stories.

In this lesson learners will learn the meter and rhyme of a sonnet and they will write one of their own using specific word choice.

Let the power of imagination and inference serve as a "time machine" to bring Benjamin Franklin into the classroom! History and science come to life in a dialogue with Franklin the inventor, developed through lesson activities that...

Inspired by "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)," this lesson asks learners to think about memorable writing--writing that has, in some way, touched them personally. Students will make multiple drafts of simple advice in order to make...

Help Spanish-speaking English-language learners unlock the mysteries of their new language by using a bilingual book to recognize unfamiliar words and construct meaning from the text.

In this lesson plan, students will create 4 original poems within a particular rhythm and rhyme scheme.

For this lesson students will use the sentence structure from Wallace Stevens' "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."

In this lesson plan students will create a poem from the viewpoint of a lost toy.

In this lesson the students will use the conditional "if" in order to guide their reader to become someone or something.

In this lesson, students will use transition words and phrases to shift from one idea to another within a story.

Learners will learn how to combine sentences by utilizing participial phrases