In this lesson, Roald Dahl's book The Witches is used as a mentor text. Learners will attempt to save themselves and the other children. Students will analyze real population statistics from world-wide and details from the story to...

A kindergarten teacher shares how she introduced persuasive writing in her classroom. After a discussion about "problems" that need to be fixed in their school, the class decided they wanted to write the principal a persuasive letter...

This lesson is centered on word choice and vocabulary and the book, I Wanna Iguana, by Karen Kaufman Orloff. Young young scholars learn to grasp the difference between begging and persuading and apply this knowledge to their own...