This engaging lesson plan provides students with an opportunity to learn all about America's prima ballerina, Maria Tallchief.

This lesson challenges young learners to add dialogue to their writing. Students will love using their creativity to write personal narratives.

Students will enjoy this fast-paced lesson as they incorporate acting, reading, and detective work while learning how to use context clues in fiction.

Use a silly movie clip and fun activity to teach your second graders how to spell and recognize words with the inflectional ending -ing.

Double-digit trouble? No problem! Your students will practice their decomposing and regrouping skills in this lesson.

This lesson, perfect for first and second grade learners, will help kids become environmental activists as they think of ways to help the Earth! First, students will brainstorm examples of what it means to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Next, students will partake in a creative art project where they trace their hands and think of way ways they can give the planet a hand. This engaging activity integrates creative writing skills and Earth science.

In this highly engaging lesson plan, your students will have a chance to compare volume using water play. Can be used as a stand-alone or support lesson for the Which Holds More? lesson plan.

Build your students' knowledge of synonyms to support their vocabulary development. This lesson can stand alone or be a pre-lesson for the Get Clued in to Context Clues lesson.

It’s time to make some sentences! In this lesson, students will review parts of speech and simple vs. complex sentences. They will then use their knowledge to create word grab bags to use when forming sentences.

Students will be able to answer questions to show understanding of important details in a text. This can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to be used prior to the Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How? lesson plan.

Help students visualize the missing addend in an addition problem with this fun game. Use this scaffolded EL lesson alone or for more practice before teaching the Mystery Addends: Representing Word Problems lesson.

Are you ready to teach your kindergarteners about the super sneaky silent E? Use an engaging picture sort and catchy song to teach your students how to recognize and read words that contain silent E.

Kindergarteners love talking about how big they are! Help them develop a stronger understanding of big and small in this engaging measurement lesson.

In this lesson, students will learn how to write a conclusion for informational text using pre-written texts for practice.

Help your students' story telling abilities grow with this lesson that helps them recount what happened in a story and has them point out key details.

Dive deep into using base-ten blocks to solve two-digit subtraction problems with regrouping. This lesson can be used independently or in conjuction with the lesson Double Trouble: Subtraction Practice.

This lesson will provide your EL students with support as they explore the elements of fictional text and learn about verbs in the present participle tense. This lesson can be used as a stand alone activity or a support lesson.

In fifth grade, students are expected to analyze complex texts on a deeper level. Teach your students to use close reading strategies, like rereading and annotation symbols, to dive deeper into fictional texts.

How do irregular verbs change when they are used in the past tense or past participle form? Use this lesson to review some grammar basics.

Scientists observe and classify the world around them! In this lesson, your students will practice their processing skills by observing a group of objects and grouping the objects based on their attributes.

Idioms are a challenging piece of figurative language for students, but it can be an easier task with the help of context clues. Use this as a stand-alone lesson or as a pre-lesson for the Capturing the Clues lesson.

Students will learn a new spelling rule with a super silly name: the FLOSS rule! Explore double-letter one-syllable words using this fun lesson plan.

Linking and helping verbs may not be the most exciting or understood verbs — but they are still important! Learn and practice these parts of speech. Learn and practice these parts of speech with this lesson that incorporates interactive exercises.

Help students develop compare and contrast skills while they examine digital and analog clocks. This lesson can be used independently or in conjunction with the lesson Time to Tell Time: Showing and Writing Time.

It is important for students to stop and think as they read. This activity/lesson is a fun and quick way to see how students are thinking as they read.

Use this fun lesson plan to introduce or review the concept of addition to your ELs. Can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for the Nature and Counting It All Adds Up lesson plan.

Use this handy lesson plan to practice the concept of adding one! Can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for the Math Mystery Bags lesson plan.

Give your students the opportunity to explore the perspectives of different characters by using the "See Think Wonder" Visible Thinking Routine from Harvard's Project Zero.

Beyond just prefix identification, this meaty lesson taps into your students’ thinking. Using a combination of analogies, constructing, and deconstructing words with prefixes, students will learn the meaning and mechanics of prefixes.

Tap into children's curiosity by having them record and share key details found in nonfiction texts! This lesson can be used alone or with the Nonfiction Reading: Learning and Recording New Information lesson plan.