Free Reading Chart

How can you tell what point of view a narrator is using, and why does it matter when reading or writing? Use a handy flow chart to determine whether or not your narrator is telling the story from a first or third person point of view.

Need to gauge how well your pupils comprehend what they are reading? The six exercises provided by this Nonfiction Comprehension practice test ask readers to respond to questions based on a sentence, a paragraph, a complete story and a...

Your young writers have their research questions formulated, but now how do they go about reading new texts and finding information with those questions in mind? This video conveys the importance of avoiding tunnel view while...

An argumentative essay absolutely must include evidence. Part of a series on writing an argumentative essay in response to the article "The Little League World Series' Only Perfect Game," directly builds off the previous video. Looking...

Teach your class about being as adaptable as a bat with Aesop's "The Bats and the Weasels." After listening to an audio retelling of the fable, learners fill out a KWL chart about the story, including what they learned about bats.

Scholars detail and summarize three main ideas of a text using a graphic organizer equipped with bullet point directions and arrows.   

Good writing takes practice, doesn't it? Here, a lesson emphasizes the importance of using question tags to improve a written piece. A discussion opens a dialogue about the purpose of a question tag. The class reads several statements...

Kate and her father went on a fishing trip! What happened during their adventure? Young readers search a text and identify the sequence words used. They complete an accompanying worksheet which asks them to record the sentences that...

Following a presentation on introductory phrases with commas, small groups examine a sentence without punctuation. They read the sentence and discuss its meaning to identify the proper location for a comma. Pupils put pen to paper to...

For this free verse poem writing model worksheet, students read the poem "Super Girl" and then respond to 3 short answer questions. Students then use the provided graphic organizer to plan to write their own free verse poem.