[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which learners use the book Once in a Blue Moon by Nicola Morgan to learn to identify and interpret the meaning of figurative language in a fiction text. Lesson includes...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use the book The Runaway Tortilla by Eric A. Kimmel to learn to identify and understand the use of personification in a fiction text. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice, and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students use the book More Parts by Tedd Arnold to learn to identify and understand the use of idiom in a fiction text. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify problems and solutions in fiction text and to retell a story's problem and solution in sequence. Students learn to identify the plot...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan helps students identify the sequence of events in a story with flashback. The lesson includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice and utilizes the book...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which learners learn to use the meanings of prefixes to help determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson includes directions for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a instructional activity in which students learn to use a dictionary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The instructional activity utilizes the book The Mitten by Jan...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach young scholars to recognize a character's personality traits, predict a character's actions, and describe a character using rich language. Lessons are...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify effects, causes, and the relationship between them. Lessons are based on the books Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes, Why Do You Cry?:...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to classify and categorize items, characters, and information. The third lesson is based on the book Splish! Splash! Animal Baths by April...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach young scholars to identify and explain the meaning of figurative language including personification and idiom. Lessons are based on the books Once in a...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to retell and summarize a fiction story told in chronological order and a story told with flashback. Lessons are based on the books First Day...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A set of two lesson plans designed to teach students to identify pronouns and their antecedents and to replace nouns with a correct pronoun. Lessons are based on the book Are You My Mother? by P.D....

[Free Registration/Login Required] A set of two lesson plans designed to teach students to use context clues to identify the setting and changes within it. Lessons are based on the books Bigmama's by Donald Crews and The Stories Julian...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A set of two lesson plans designed to teach young scholars to use story elements to identify theme and to match a given theme to a story. Lessons are based on the book Aesop's Fables by Jerry Pinkney....

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of four lesson plans designed to develop students' vocabulary skills including understanding prefixes, using context clues, and using a glossary and a dictionary. Lessons are based on the books...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A set of two lesson plans designed to teach students to describe the author's voice in two poems and compare voice in four short works. Includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn about putting events in order with a short text. Then they complete guided and independent sequencing activities with The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Short texts and handouts...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which learners learn to recognize differences between two pictures. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included. Pictures for the lesson are available to...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity using the book My Big World Book by Roger Priddy in which young scholars learn to sort items into predetermined categories. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book My Big Truck Book by Roger Priddy in which young scholars learn to sort items into categories they create for themselves. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify author's purpose including to entertain, to inform, and to persuade. Lessons are based on the books The Adventures of Taxi Dog by...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles to teach students that biographies are about real people and how to identify information about these people. Ideas for direct teaching, guided...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a lesson in which learners learn to use context clues in surrounding sentences to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin by...