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Keep it simple! Teach your students to write a summary using the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then frame for analyzing a story.

simple summaries

Simple Summaries

In this lesson, students complete worksheets and engage in peer discussions to learn more about metaphors. Young writers will love making their own creative metaphors.


whats a metaphor

What's a Metaphor?

Bring theme to life with Chris Van Allsburg's *The Sweetest Fig*, a story with a great message for young readers to discover. This lesson pairs a wonderful read-aloud with activities and fun videos to keep your students engaged.

whats the theme analyzing character motivation

What's the Theme? Analyzing Character Motivation

Young readers will love this story-filled reading comprehension lesson. It&#39;s packed with engaging exercises designed to help students become better at looking for details and annotating passages of text.

reading closely

Reading Closely

This literary lesson has students delving into Emily Dickinson's "The Moon was but a Chin of Gold" to find different types of figurative language. Writers will love sharpening reading comprehension skills with this poetry analysis activity.

poetry figurative language

Poetry: Figurative Language

Give students many opportunities to see how visuals can influence a story's meaning. Show off your acting skills and read a great book to help them learn!

analyzing visual elements

Analyzing Visual Elements

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.

whose point is it anyway

Whose Point Is It Anyway?

When students read nonfiction texts, they will need to make inferences using text features and quotes as evidence. Support your students using short texts as practice before diving into more complex materials like textbooks.

making inferences in nonfiction texts

Making Inferences in Nonfiction Texts

That’s right! The theme applies to everyone! Use this interactive lesson to teach your students how to find the theme of a fictional text.

theres no i in themework

There’s No I in Theme-work!

Prepare your students to analyze and respond to literature by practicing five types of responses: predictions, questions, clarification, connections, and opinions.

five ways to respond to literature

Five Ways to Respond to Literature

Using your acting skills and a great book by Chris Van Allsburg, you will lead your students on an adventure to compare characters and events throughout a book.

whats so different comparing characters

What's So Different? Comparing Characters

Give your students practice with inferences using short fictional texts before asking them to apply the skill to a longer text of their choice.

inferences in fictional texts

Inferences in Fictional Texts

Encourage your students to translate their understanding of theme to poetry. In this lesson, students will evaluate the theme of poems by sketching pictures and citing text evidence.

poetry themes

Poetry Themes

Help your students make a connection between numerical expressions and written phrases in word problems.

solving expressions in word problems

Solving Expressions in Word Problems

Star light, star bright! Teach students all about constellations and earth movement with this engaging science lesson plan. Broken out over several days, this unit encourages students to research and report on a constellation.

star unit

Star Unit

The activities in this lesson will engage students in thinking about how a person’s position, needs, and concerns affect their point of view on an issue. Students will apply this to characters in "The Memory String" by Eve Bunting.

exploring different points of view

Exploring Different Points of View

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.

three times a charm close reading with annotations

Three Times a Charm! Close Reading with Annotations

Does onomatopoeia BANG your students up or cause them to want to BARF? Help them out with this comical lesson on the well-known figurative device. Students will have a fun time completing worksheets and using onomatopoeias themselves.

onomatopoeia practice

Onomatopoeia Practice

By the upper grades, students are pretty familiar with nouns, verbs, and adjectives. This rich, engaging varsity-level review incorporates the lesser-studied parts of speech: articles, prepositions, adverbs, and superlative adjectives.

varsity parts of speech review

Varsity Parts of Speech Review

Reading reflection topics like theme, problems, and solutions can be challenging concepts for young readers. Help your students make sense of these literary elements using dynamic organizers that draw comparisons between fiction texts.


head to head fiction reflections

Head to Head Fiction Reflections

Let's learn about natural disasters. After reading through some informational texts, students will use their close reading skills to answer questions about different types of disasters.

informational text close reading

Informational Text: Close Reading

Teach your students to color code for test success. In this lesson you will help students locate and highlight specific text evidence in order to answer comprehension questions.

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Colorful Coding

This lesson introduces students to a variety of resources that they can use when doing research. It will also help them differentiate between print and digital sources and how to use each.

research where to find the answers

Research: Where to Find the Answers

Not all nonfiction texts on the same topic are created equal! Using this lesson plan, your class will become familiar with nonfiction features by comparing and contrasting texts on a shared topic. 


comparing nonfiction text features

Comparing Nonfiction Text Features

Help your students create a basis for future math classes with this lesson that teaches children about math expressions and how they can interpret them.

express yourself

Express Yourself!

In this hands-on lesson, students will learn and use two methods of dividing whole numbers. They will roll dice to create their own unique equations for solving!

dicey division

Dicey Division

This integrated reading and science lesson is packed with content on ecosystems. Your students will use the reading strategy of synthesizing while comparing and contrasting information from various sources.

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Ecosystems Explained

What are the effects of weather events? In this integrated science and language arts lesson, students will explore causes and multiple effect in the context of reading and learning about various weather events and natural disasters.


eyeing the effects of weather

Eyeing the Effects of Weather

Teach your students to recognize patterns of zeros when multiplying by powers of 10 with exponents.


powers of 10

Powers of 10

This end-of-the-school-year lesson will get the students focused on all the things they learned in math class! It reviews different skills with fractions and decimals in word problems using the "Read, Draw, and Write" strategy.

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