Tell Me Why?

Students complete pre reading, writing, and post reading activities for the book Bug Head and Me. In this guided reading lesson plan, students complete writing, go over vocabulary, answer short answer questions, have discussions, and more.

Every picture really does tell a story. Start the day by reading select passages from Children of the Orphan Train and discussing your listeners' initial feelings. Then, pair a KWL with a YouTube video (attached here). Then, using these...

In this comparing items worksheet, students compare 2 items together and then say why one is better than the other. Students complete 11 problems.

People often save money, but what are the benefits and drawbacks of that action? Youngsters learn about saving, savings, and opportunity cost through the lens of a short book, called Something Special for Me.

In this cause and effect worksheet, students read ten sentences about the Gulf Coast oil spill disaster on April 20, 2010. Students underline the case and circle the effect in every sentence. This worksheet goes with a Scholastic news...

Which picture should go first? Which one is next? Which picture finishes the story? Have your class cut out, sequence and write a narrative based on a set of unsequenced pictures. After binding, writers share their creations and their...

In this using forms of the verbs explain and tell activity, students fill in the blanks to complete sentences and create additional sentences. Students write 25 answers.

In this comprehension questions for Black Like Kyra White Like Me worksheet, students read the book then answer 20 comprehension questions about it.

Students find the best part of their body. In this positive self-concept activity, students listen to the story The Best Part of Me. They come up with their best feature and write a poem about it.  

Because this lesson focuses on improving young readers' ability to read to learn, it's a good lesson for readers who have experience decoding. This resource outlines a simple instructional sequence that involves a lot of modeling and...