How can learners evaluate research sources for authority, accuracy, and credibility? By completing readings, discussions, and graphic organizers, scholars learn how to properly evaluate sources to find credible information. Additionally,...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a lesson in which students learn to use a dictionary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The lesson utilizes the book The Mitten by Jan Brett and includes directions for...

Journalists are inundated with acronyms. This site contains 240,000 of them and their meanings. Search tool allows you to enter the exact acronym or the first letter. You can even enter a keyword and look for acronyms that include it....

This site offers links to a list of computer terms middle schoolers need to know; it also offers links to lesson plans teaching things like using spreadsheets.

Explains the difference between open and closed questions. Gives examples and situations where each might be used.

A good overview of what a thesaurus is and how best to use one. Also includes the difference between the two forms of thesauri and explains how to choose the correct synonym to use. L.9-10.4c References

This article focuses on writing a one-minute persuasive speech force students to be clear and concise and to hone debate skills. From there it suggests the use of improvisation speeches.

This article discusses how important learning opposites is to young children. It offers ideas to teach opposites including making a book, using online printable pages, and using exercise.

This article focuses on teaching articles and determiners to native and non-native English speakers. It suggests beginning with articles (a, an, the), then moving to determiners (my, her, his, this, that, these, those); it also suggests...

Contains plans for a lesson that will provide middle schoolers with strategies for spelling unfamiliar words. Students are asked to use phonological awareness and visual recall, analyze alternative spellings, and use a variety of...

A learning module that begins with the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...

A learning module that begins with "Martin Luther King, Jr." by USHistory.org, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Help your students review root words so they can analyze unfamiliar words and figure out the meaning without using a dictionary. In this worksheet, students will identify the root of each word...