Using Pictures to Read the Past

Designed to accompany a reading of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, the worksheets in this packet permit readers to keep notes on parallels between Lee's life and Scout's, on characters in the novel, and on chapter events.

Show kids the difference between past tense and past continuous (progressive) with a worksheet that features sentence reordering. Additionally, they use a schedule with pictures to answer questions about what someone had been doing at...

Language arts learners don't need a lecture about poetry; they listen to poetry every day on the radio! Apply skills from literary analysis to famous songs and beautiful lyrics with a lesson about literary devices. As class...

Do your kids need some ideas about summer reading? Use a reading list divided by grade level to inspire them to read independently. Titles are fun, engaging, and easy to connect to what you are teaching.

Accompany a reading of Madeleine L'Engle's classic tale, A Wrinkle in Time, with a detailed guide equipped with 15 informative and useful chapters. Scholars discover who the author is, why she wrote the book, and crucial story elements...

Help English learners tell the difference between the past tense and the past perfect tense with a grammar worksheet. As kids read twelve sentences, they change the given verbs to the correct tense based on context clues.

Learn about past tense and Elvis Presley with a grammar review learning exercise that focuses on expressions of time. After reading a table with details about Elvis's life, learners fill in the blanks to affirmative and negative...

Most teachers can agree that they don't want to read student writing that switches back and forth between the past, present, and future tenses. Help prevent this from happening by improving your pupils' awareness of verb-tense...

What's going on in this picture? That's the question posed to viewers of a 40-image slide show of photos that accompanies stories from the New York Times. Without captions or context clues, individuals use their close readings skills and...

Change, growth, and a sense of belonging are the focus of a unit that uses poetry to explore these themes and the distinguishing features of poetry as well.