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When students finish reading Jim Murphy&rsquo;s The Great Fire, help them think about cause and effect with this graphic organizer!

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Book Study: The Great Fire: What Went Wrong?

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

identifying characters and their dialogue

Identifying Characters and their Dialogue

Once students have selected a topic related to a piece of literature they have read and mapped out their argument, this lesson will help them turn their prewriting into an essay. 

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Literary Argument: Drafting Your Essay

In this lesson, students will use their creativity, a graphic organizer, and a fun story to learn about character analysis.  

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It’s All in the Personality: Character Traits

Children add more transition words to their sequencing arsenal in this word-sorting worksheet.

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Time Transition Word Sort

Holy cow! Did President George W. Bush really have a longhorn named Ofelia as a pet? Students learn about wacky White House pets in this fun research activity that includes “president interviews” and a pet choice writing page.

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Presidential Pets

This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.

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Figurative Language in Context #1

Use this reference sheet to encourage students to use a variety&nbsp;of transition words in their writing to signal the different relationships&nbsp;between ideas.

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Transition Words Reference

Support budding authors in developing their informational writing voice with this writing worksheet.

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Crafting Voice in Informational Writing

Students read and analyze an excerpt from E. Nesbit&rsquo;s 1906 novel, The Railway Children, in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

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Reading Comprehension: Excerpt Adapted From The Railway Children

Learn how to identify and remove unnecessary and unrelated details in informational writing!

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Finding Irrelevant Details

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor&rsquo;s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, reflect on T.J. Avery&rsquo;s decisions and consequences with this extension activity.

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Novel Study: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: The Trial of T.J. Avery

Give your class a deeper understanding of theme with this art and poetry-focused lesson plan about theme. By the end of the lesson, students will understand what theme is and how to determine theme in a piece of writing, such as a poem.

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Determining the Theme of a Poem

Improve your child&#39;s reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children&#39;s story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

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Reading Comprehension: Stuffed Elephant

After finishing Rick Riordan&rsquo;s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author&#39;s use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

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Novel Study: The Lightning Thief: Analyzing Characters’ Dialogue

Help your ELs identify the characters and their dialogue in a story. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the *Action! Students Create Reader’s Theater* lesson.

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Characters and Dialogue

Students often understand the basic conventions of writing, but may need support in incorporating these skills into their work. In this lesson, students will review some of the more common capitalization and punctuation errors and apply their editing skills to real writing.

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Editing for Capitalization and Punctuation

Teach young authors how to "hook" readers with this hands-on lesson. By examining novels and developing their own introductions, students will be able to hone their writing skills.

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Interesting Introductions

If young writers can learn how to write a solid paragraph, then they have the building blocks of an essay. In this lesson, students will study paragraph structure and practice organizing ideas into paragraphs.  

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Paragraphs That POP!

Students will have the opportunity to strengthen their informational essay drafts by correcting errors in conventions and mechanics. They’ll use a checklist to guide this critical step in the writing process. 

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Informational Essay: Editing

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

how to write a scary story

How to Write a Scary Story

Quoting is a valuable skill in today's education. Lead your students on the right path with explicit instruction that will stick. Then, back it up with hands on practice on and experience in their own leveled chapter books.

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What's a Quote? (Bud, Not Buddy, Part II)

So your students are going to write a narrative? Use these prewriting exercises to help them choose an idea and plan out their story.  

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Narrative Prewriting Activities

This lesson will have your EL students exploring characters&#39; dialogue and actions to determine their personality traits! Use it on its own or as a support lesson.

discovering character traits

Discovering Character Traits

There is great wonder in building things and taking them apart. Use this grammar lesson with your students to teach them how to construct and deconstruct contractions while correctly using an apostrophe.

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Construct and Deconstruct Contractions

This lesson focuses on how punctuation affects reading fluency and comprehension using graphic organizers and sentence stems.  Use this lesson as a stand-alone activity or a support for the Punctuation and Prosody lesson plan.

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Building Fluency with Punctuation

Expose your students to the wonderful genre of drama, but be sure to teach them the important key terms so they understand the structure. Use this as a stand alone lesson or a pre-lesson for the *Putting a Play Together!* lesson.

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Parts of a Drama

What if Cinderella’s stepsisters weren’t really evil? In this engaging lesson, you will introduce your students to multiple points of view and discuss how these different perspectives can change a reader’s experience.

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Whose Point Is It Anyway?

Let’s put it all together! In this lesson, students will explore the different parts of a drama or play. By the end of the lesson they will be able to define terminology related to plays and give examples of the unique genre features!

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