Fourth graders explore the childhood of Lincoln and pioneer life in early Indiana. Students respond to literature and write a story using historical fiction. Students explore the writings of President Lincoln and the pioneer community...

Sixth graders examine the Creole language known as Gullah which is a form of speech comprised of a number of unrelated languages. They determine how slaves used this to communicate so that slave masters would not be able to understand...

Students use their writing skills and digital cameras to produce a newspaper. They write about school events, class projects, items of interest, culturally-related issues, and interview students. Students edit digital images and insert...

Second graders further develop simple addition facts and their ability to record the facts.

Fifth graders attempt to solve a problem related to an airline accident. The accident appears to be weather related. They analyze and research the effects of wind and turbulence in order to prevent future accidents.

Seventh graders are introduced to the characteristics of the state of Texas. In groups, they research one of the twelve regions of Texas and write a letter to each major town in the region to gather more information. Once information...

Students work in groups to write and perform a role play in the target language. They prepare an outline or notes on index cards. Each person in the group will pretend to have a job in the target country. They will describe their...

Students work in teams creating and posing math rules and trying to guess them using a formula controlled worksheet they create with Excel. Student pairs take turns to see who can crack the other's code the fastest.

Second graders create sentences using word wall or spelling words. In this literacy lesson, 2nd graders type their sentences and attach a clip art picture that coordinates with the word or sentence.

This lesson engages students in reading fluency practice. Teachers will modeling auditorily, use timed self-assessments, and ensure partners give feedback to motivate the students.

The best strategy for developing reading fluency is to provide your students with many opportunities to read the same passage orally several times. To do this, you should first know what to have your students read. Second, you should...

Links to self-assessment activities for content area fluency activities are found on this resource. Students will read, time themselves, and record facts. Students will improve their reading rates and levels of comprehension.

Mix up reading time by having your own students transform into guest readers. Have students act out the book, read, or show illustrations.

A lesson plan in which students read a list of wards from a passage three times and then take turns reading the passage while focusing on speed and accuracy.

This site features family reading activities that will guide parents with their children's reading development.

Explore a list of simple things that principals can do to help all children learn to read. Come and learn more about the collaboration process with school administrators, teachers and staff.

This resource provides great reading help for ESL students. You can use this helper to speed up reading time and improve your reading skills by providing definitions at a click for any passage you provide. Just copy and paste your text...

Spanish-speaking ELLs can read a short sporting activities schedule and test themselves using interactive comprehension exercises.

In this beginning reading video module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "y", "ie", "ind", and "ild" to form words with the long /i/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various...

Let the power of imagination and inference serve as a "time machine" to bring Benjamin Franklin into the classroom! History and science come to life in a dialogue with Franklin the inventor, developed through instructional activity...

This fluency graphic organizer for reading speed and comprehension will be used to record reading times and what they learned. Guiding questions are included to help students reflect about what they learned. This resource's prompts are...

In this lesson students get to combine the world of literacy and physical movement! As the teacher reads the book "Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now" by Dr. Seuss, students listen carefully and safely jump up out of their chairs...

This Roy the Zebra e-book shares the story of Roy the Zebra who finds the 'zebra warp drive' and learns how to drive a tractor. Students will develop their fluency and reading comprehension through this guided reading book.

This lesson provides young scholars with the opportunity to read books aloud to the class. Students also spend time researching Eric Carle and his practices as a writer and illustrator. Finally, young scholars become writers and...