English – Language Arts
10 Graphic Organizers for Summary Writing
A graphic organizer for summarizing every type of text! Make summary writing a breeze with these printable, editable, and digital graphic organizers.
3 Steps for Teaching Root Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes
A three-part teaching strategy for incorporating Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes into your lesson plans. Increase reading comprehension and fluency with word parts practice.
3 Easy Steps for Tackling Academic Vocabulary
A three-step process for teaching your students how to identify, define, and apply academic vocabulary found in complex texts.
Teaching Listening Skills in the Upper Grades
Lesson ideas and activities for listening skills practice and monitoring with upper elementary and middle school students.
5 Common Core Current Event Reports
Add diversity to your current events assignments with these 5 different Common Core aligned templates. Each current events template focuses on a different reading comprehension skill (Main Idea & Details, Text Connections, Vocabulary in Context, Fact vs. Opinion, and Summarizing).
11 Compelling Reasons To Use Exit Tickets
11 reasons to formatively assess your students using exit tickets. Exit tickets can be used to document learning, plan for differentiation, guide future instruction, and so much more!
15 Graphic Organizers for Narrative Writing
Use graphic organizers to guide your students through the entire narrative writing process. Make narrative writing easier for you teach and your students to learn with these 15 different templates
Create Your Own Differentiated Close Reading in Three Easy Steps
Create your own differentiated close reading in three steps! Save yourself time and energy!
Preparing Students for Successful Presentations
Prepare your students for successful oral presentations by identifying the causes and effects of stage fright; explaining the appropriate use of voice, gestures, and posture; and reviewing the grading rubric ahead of time.
Increase Reading Comprehension with Timelines
Facilitate reading comprehension with timelines! You can use a variety of different timeline styles to help students organize information into a concise summary, identify cause and effect, or to compare and contrast different approaches to the same topic or event.
4 Major Benefits of Close Reading
There are several major benefits for incorporating close reading into your curriculum. Close reading mirrors the Common Core State Standards, embraces differentiation, encourages critical thinking, and support cross-curricular instruction.
5 Critical Components of Primary Source Analysis
These five components of primary source analysis have the power to increase students' overall depth of knowledge and critical thinking skills. Providing background information, front loading vocabulary, scaffolding instruction with guided questioning, summarizing, and developing extension activities are critical to the success of teaching students how to effectively analyze primary sources.