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Your students are probably used to answering questions. Give them a chance to ask their own with this imaginative lesson on reading comprehension and the ways one can use who, what, when, where, and why.

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Who? What? When? Where? Why?

Do you have students who are constantly asking what, who, where, why, how, and when? It's your turn to ask now! Have them read various stories and ask them to answer these questions in this lesson.

who when what where why and how

Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How?

Students will read a short fictional story and discuss why the author included certain details and words. Use this lesson to help your students navigate parts of fictional text to determine the author's purpose!  

examining authors purpose in a fictional text

Examining Author's Purpose in a Fictional Text

We aren’t mind readers, but we can still figure out why the author wrote a text and what an author thinks about the topic! This lesson will teach your students the main purposes for writing.

exploring authors purpose and point of view

Exploring Author's Purpose and Point of View

Improve your students' comprehension of non-fictional reading through this lesson that teaches them about text features. Students will find their own text features and explain why they aid in the reading process.

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Text Features: Reading that Makes Sense

Use this lesson to gauge your students’ basic comprehension of fiction text. If they can answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions, you know they have a handle on it and it’s time to get into more critical thinking!

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Questions that Gauge Comprehension

Roll up your sleeves and get out the magnifying glasses! In this lesson, your students will practice finding supportive details and examples in informational texts.

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Detective Reading

We all know how tricky telling time can be for our students. This terrific time lesson will have your students understanding analog clocks in no time!

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Tricky Time Telling

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.

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Star Unit

Teach your students to ask and differentiate between recall questions and inferential questions. This lesson will help build a classroom culture around asking deep, inferential questions.

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Red Light, Green Light Questions

Capture the tip of the iceberg! Use this lesson plan to teach your students to summarize nonfiction texts by noting the “tip of the iceberg,” also known as the main idea. Students will identify and sequence them.

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Tip of the Iceberg: Nonfiction Summary Details

This wacky lesson combines math and reading practice with a Dr. Seuss classic and some fun online games.

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One Fish, Two Fish

Get students excited for summer reading by creating some special “To Read” lists!

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Summer Reads

Practice finding unknown numbers in addition equations using fun and silly word problems.

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What's That Number?

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.

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Three Times a Charm! Close Reading with Annotations

Catch those fish before they get away! In this lesson, students will be challenged to order and count the total number of fish. This lesson focuses on the crucial skills of ordering numbers and recognizing one-to-one correspondence.

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Catch Those Fish!

In this lesson, students will listen to a story and answer literacy questions throughout. They will then complete a math activity to go along with the story!

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Caps For Sale!

Use this engaging mystery bag lesson to practice addition patterns of one more with your curious kindergarteners!

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Math Mystery Bags

Help your class understand what makes AEIO and U so special with this lesson that helps them differentiate between vowels and consonants.

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Vowel or Consonant?

Let's "cook up" some patterns! In this lesson, students use pasta to help them recognize AB, AAB, and ABB sequences.

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Pasta Patterning

Baby, you're a firework! In this musical lesson, your students will use context clues to determine the meaning of similes and metaphors in popular music. They will then use this knowledge to write their own metaphors and similes.



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Soulful Similes and Musical Metaphors

How well do your students know decimals? In this lesson, introduce your students to decimal multiplication using models.

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Multiply Decimals with Models

By sorting and categorizing different objects, young learners will build important foundational skills. Your students will enjoy playing with different toys and competing some fun worksheets.

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Categorize It!

Help your students understand what cause and effect looks like in everyday situations! This hands-on, engaging lesson plan allows students to examine cause and effect in their own lives as well as fictional text! 

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Learning About Cause and Effect!

Good readers ask questions before, during, and after reading. This lesson, which incorporates two wonderful activities and some practice with the 5 Ws, is sure to get your students ready to dive into literature.

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Questions for Comprehension

In this fun lesson, your students will practice identifying and writing sentences with alliteration. They will also reflect upon the purpose of alliteration and the effect it has upon the reader. 

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Analyzing Alliteration

Rhyming, moving, coloring and silliness...How can your class resist? Your students will love reading and moving with a poem, writing the letter S, and designing their own socks!


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Silly Socks: Poetry Featuring the Letter S!

Let your students learn more about books with this lesson that helps them learn to identify key parts of a physical book. This information will have them well prepared for research projects later on.

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Identifying Parts of a Book

This lesson helps students learn about asking and answering questions about a text. It also exposes them to valuable lessons about trying to figure out their dreams and not giving up along the way.

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Asking and Answering Questions

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. 

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