Teach your students about text clues that will help them read with expression. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the Reader's Theater: Read the Script lesson.

Teach your students to find the perimeter of polygons using real world examples. They will make polygon pictures using tangrams and practice finding the perimeters of the polygons in their masterpieces.

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.

This lesson gives students the chance to demonstrate and reinforce their knowledge of sequencing. Have them role play a fantasy text to practice sequencing!

Teaching your students about root words is a great way to strengthen their vocabulary and comprehension. Use this lesson to introduce the root words tele and sign.

Help your students use multiplication to support their conceptual understanding of division. Use this lesson alone or as a pre-lesson for Division: Solving for Unknown Factors.

Get your students to be builders and create structures with a variety of materials. Students will have the opportunity to be creative, cooperate in groups, and discuss their experience.

Students are at the center of learning as they create and illustrate their own Halloween math problems that show the relationship between addition and multiplication - helping them transition conceptually from the concrete to the abstract.

Guide your students through the process of putting all of the play pieces together! In this integrated reading and writing lesson students will learn how to construct a play, while simultaneously learning about the components of a play!

In this suffix lesson plan, your students will practice using the suffixes -er and -est to create comparative and superlative adjectives.

My dog is better! In this lesson, your students will combine reading, writing, and movement to practice distinguishing and supporting facts and opinions.

Adding big numbers can be tricky, but this lesson introduces your students to a strategy that makes it less intimidating! Using the place value strategy will make the task less daunting.

Use this lesson with your students to allow them to explore the associative property of multiplication by having deep discussions in small groups. Use this as a stand alone lesson or alongside Associative Property of Multiplication.

There are many ways to represent skip counting, so help students find their chosen method! Use this as a stand alone lesson or as a pre-lesson for Skip Counting to Understand Multiplication.

A hands-on approach makes geometry fun! Use this lesson to teach your students about the basics of perimeter with geoboards.

Help your students discover the power behind base ten drawings! Regrouping is a challenge for many students, but with this hands-on lesson, your students will be empowered with a new strategy to tackle difficult regrouping problems.

In this lesson, students collaborate to create a class-wide behavior contract. With your guidance, your class will develop and implement their own set of classroom rules.

Teach your students to confidently follow the steps of regrouping in subtraction problems. Use this as a stand alone lesson or alongside Regrouping with Popsicle Sticks: Double-Digit Subtraction.

Let your students explore similarities and differences between arrays, and help them understand the commutative property of multiplication. Use this as a stand alone lesson or as a prelesson for Parking Lot Multiplication.

What's the difference between regular and irregular plural nouns? Your students will enjoy finding out via some fun writing exercises in this comprehensive lesson.

Analyzing and discussing arithmetic patterns builds a strong number sense in your students! Use this as a stand alone lesson or as a pre-lesson for Boom, Clap! Patterns in the Multiplication Table.

Review halves, thirds, and quarters with this activity that gives hands-on students a way to learn about fractions actively.

Get your students to think deeply about fractions as they discuss which pictures show equivalence. Use this as a stand alone lesson or a pre-lesson for the Equivalent Fractions: Are They Equal? lesson.

It's not enough to just memorize the multiplication table! It helps students to know how to explain their strategy to find the product too. Teach this lesson on its own or use it as support for the lesson Slap and Roll Timed Multiplication.

Teach your students to add mixed numbers and improper fractions with the same denominator using the counting up strategy with number lines.

Life is about balance, and that applies to government too! Use this civics lesson with your students to teach them about the system of checks and balances, and why these are an important part of American government.

Students will have a blast as they engage in interactive projects to learn about the characteristics of urban, suburban, and rural communities. This lesson will help them develop both their writing and social-studies skills.

Your students will turn into crazy Halloween sentence making machines with this fun lesson on constructing complete sentences. Students will practice making and mixing subjects and predicates - and the results will have you all ROTFL.

Delicious multiplication! In this sweet lesson, your students will learn how to relate multiplication to repeated addition using candy counters.

In this lesson, students will discuss compassion, hear from a local nonprofit about their compassionate work in the community, and design a compassion sculpture made mostly out of recycled materials.