What Did You Say?

Readers of Mitch Albom’s, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, are asked to respond to a series of interpretative and analytical questions using lines from the novel to support their answers. The learning exercise could be used as a...

What if you could ease your English language learners into class with engaging questions? You can do just that with these questions. The questions, designed to prepare learners for working with English, are grouped by topics, such as...

What makes you who you are? Susan Krauss Whitbourne presents her theories about the role of memories in the development of identity in this short abstract of her research.

What did he say? Learn to report what another person said with a instructional activity focused on reported speech. As kids read 20 short statements, they reply with a sentence frame to report what they have learned from each statement.

How well do your readers know As You Like It? Find out with this quick multiple-choice quiz. Most questions focus on characters and who did what.

Kids age 13 and older are asked to read the provided Times article and background information in order to construct a thoughtful blog response to Obama's first Oval Office speech. They work to address each of the related critical...

Facilitate discussion about goals and family relationships with this resource from the New York Times and The Learning Network. After reading through an excerpt about Marshall Reid, a sixth grader who worked with his family to create...

Conduct a classroom conversation about communication using this resource as a jumping-off point. For this The Learning Network activity, learners read an excerpt from The New York Times opinion piece, "The Flight From Conversation," and...

What do Robert Downey Jr., Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett, Fritz Weaver, Roger Moore, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Daffy Duck have in common? Why, it’s elementary, my dear Watson! They all have portrayed Sherlock Holmes. Literary detectives...

Stimulate discussion with this brief article and series of questions related to reading habits. This resource, from the New York Times' The Learning Network, asks learners to comment on their own reading habits. You could have your class...