In this activity provided by SMART, students will give reasons why they feel characters are important in a story. Students will explore how to create effective characters and settings in their own writing by using a character web.

8th grade students at the Pioneer Charter School in Fort Collins, Colorado, each created a historical character file (HCF) as part of a Learning Expedition on slavery. Each HCF is a fictionalized account of a historically/geographically...

Strategies to help students recognize the order of events in a selection provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade. Includes strategies such as plot diagrams, probable passages, story mapping, summary...

This is a great resource that concentrates strategies and student activities in one place in an easy to use format, and can be navigated easily. Find great examples of probable passage, selective underlining, and semantic feature...

This site begins with a story to introduce the Ohio & Erie Canal. Following the story is an extensive lesson plan for students to learn about the canal's structure, use, and much more. Included in the lesson are links to maps,...

"American Explorers" is a one page, non-fiction, reading passage about the Lewis and Clark Expedition from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean. Along the way they drew maps for future travels. It is followed by constructed-response questions...

8th grade students in Fort Collins, Colorado each created a historical character file (HCF) as part of a Learning Expedition on slavery. Each HCF is a fictionalized account of an historically/geographically accurate character. Each file...

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of graphic organizers for reading students. Forms are provided for plot, character analysis, reading logs, and reading responses.

As part of a Learning expedition on immigration, 4th grade students in Springfield, Massachusetts, created this series of interview booklets. Students, working together in small groups, interviewed a person who had immigrated to the...

Use this interactive to explore how interconnected the global economy is. After creating a character, gather some clothes together and enter their origin information into your database. Then look at your own interdependence map and...

At this site travel through a sampling of cities in India. Includes a map, slide show for each city, a story and worksheet to answer. There are also other websites to explore.

At this site travel through a sampling of cities in India. Includes a map, slide show for each city, a story and worksheet to answer. There are also other websites to explore.

At this site travel through a sampling of cities in India. Includes a map, slide show for each city, a story and worksheet to answer. There are also other websites to explore.

Each story point in this Geostory includes images, a short bio, and an interactive mapping tool that allows students to see the regions where geography work takes place.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was created to use with the story, Flight, by Robert Burleigh, in the Scott Foresman Reading Series for third grade. Students will preview and predict what the story will be about. The...

This site offers a list of one word writing prompts perfect for free writing activities which can be used as quick write or developed into stories. With one word story prompts, you start with the word provided and use either one sentence...

A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Character Webs, Responding to Literature Forms, Reading Analysis Organizers, Story Maps, Cognitive Bookmarks, Instructional Webs, and more.

A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Character Webs, Responding to Literature Forms, Reading Analysis Organizers, Story Maps, Cognitive Bookmarks, Instructional Webs, and more.

A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Character Webs, Responding to Literature Forms, Reading Analysis Organizers, Story Maps, Cognitive Bookmarks, Instructional Webs, and more.

A brief story of Henry Hudson's explorations for the Dutch and the English and a map of his routes from 1609 to 1611.

This site tells the story of David Thompson, an early geographer who mapped nearly four and a half million square kilometres of North America. The site is designed for ages 9-12 and complements one designed for the general public.