A student reader shares information about the history of slavery, the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, women's contributions to the war, the Emancipation Proclamation, and reconstruction.

Navigating a conversation can be difficult for kids with social skills issues. Here's a look at the four parts of a conversation, the skills involved, and how to help your child navigate each one.

Does talking on a cell phone make one a more dangerous driver? Here is an experiment you can do to investigate whether reaction time is adversely affected by a simultaneous phone conversation.

Explains the how a converse statement differs from an inverse statement, how to write a converse statement, and gives some examples of converse statements.

A comprehensive guide for learning all about converse statements with definitions, how inverse and contrapositive are obtained from a conditional statement, solved examples, and practice questions.

Listening and responding on topic during a conversation is a skill our kids need to practice and learn. Here are two fun ways to practice this skill. You can do these activities with groups of kids, or pairs of kids. If you are working...

Conversation skills are important for academic and social learning at all grade levels. This first-grade teacher teaches conversation skills very specifically, starting at the beginning of the year, and provides lots of structured...

The converse, inverse, and contrapoistive of if statements are discussed. The site begins with a generic model of each from a given generic statement and then offers specific examples and expresses when they are true and when not.

This humorous essay arms you against a host of "conversation terrorist" techniques. Learn to interpret phrases that are meant to keep you quiet, change the subject, or throw you off track in your conversation. SL.9-10.3 Eval...

Learning to engage in collaborative conversations allows children to learn about their world, to become familiar with words, and to build a solid foundation for the development of reading and writing skills. This lesson plan introduces...

Learning to engage in collaborative conversations allows children to learn about their world, to become familiar with words, and to build a solid foundation for the development of reading and writing skills. This lesson will model...

Be deliberate when inviting your student to watch a PBS KIDS show. These resources can help by adding meaningful conversation and easy activities to their experience watching Hero Elementary.

Be deliberate when inviting your student to watch a PBS KIDS show. These resources can help by adding meaningful conversation and easy activities to their experience.

Your children will gain practice recalling details from what they read in the text.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students are asked to give the equivalent value of a digit in two different place value positions for numbers up to 10 million. Includes...

Sixth graders will be using ratio tables to convert units of metric measurements and looking for patterns to help make the problems easier.

Be deliberate when inviting your student to watch a PBS KIDS show. These resources can help by adding meaningful conversation and easy activities to their experience watching Cyberchase.

Practice problems with answers for converting units with dimensional analysis.

At this site from the University of Edinburgh, the author claims that planning and control produce good communication. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.1

ReachOut fact sheets are written by young people for young people and edited by a mental health professional. This page offers tips for how to handle sharing difficult news with someone.

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This site features the full text of the dialogue Crito by Plato, a conversation between Socrates and his wealthy friend Crito regarding justice and injustice.

This article relates the dramatic conversion of St. Paul.

This site has a detailed step-by-step instruction of how to convert units of measurement. Multiplying by 1 is explained as are compound units, and finding conversion factors. The discussion is slowed down for students who may have missed...