Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Prepositional Phrases as Key Details.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Problems and Solutions in Fiction.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Understand Text Features.

What's the best way to get to know a city? Play tourist! In this activity, students create a travel brochure on the 2008 Olympic host city, Beijing.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features Evaluation.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts.

Students will learn about the sword maker Muramasa Sengo, read through the eyewitness accounts, and decide who the trustworthy source is!

After reading a nonfiction text about the history, sights, and people of Vancouver, your student will create their own informational brochure about the city.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Citing Inferences.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferences with Sentence Stems.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Citing Inferences.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferences with Sentence Stems.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferences and Introductory Phrases.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Sentence Structures for Summarizing.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Problems and Solutions in Fiction.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Nonfiction Details.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

If you're studying The Wizard of Oz, take a break with this fun quiz on quotes from different characters in the book.

Encourage students to turn vacations into educational experiences. This activity asks students to research a famous destination, pull key information, and plug that information into a travel brochure.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferences and Introductory Phrases.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Evidence.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Characters and Settings.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Fiction.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Fiction.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Quotes with Introductory Phrases.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Nonfiction Details.

After completing Jim Murphy’s book The Great Fire, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts.