Ever wondered how to explain what an index is to a 6 year old? Look no further! Use this engaging lesson to help your students become text feature experts.

Reading reflection topics like theme, problems, and solutions can be challenging concepts for young readers. Help your students make sense of these literary elements using dynamic organizers that draw comparisons between fiction texts.

"Like" is a fundamental word for beginning readers and writers. Help your students learn to spell and write sentences with this popular sight word in this collaborative class lesson.

Get your students excited about basic math with this quirky addition lesson. It contains a bug-themed selection of games and worksheets.

In this lesson, students will construct their own number lines and bar models to find equivalent fractions.

This lesson will have your students learn to compare and contrast using both a classic fairy tale and a fractured versions of a fairy tale.

Encourage your students to take part in some friendly competition with this game that has students practice their addition skills with flashcards.

Getting ready to add fractions? This lesson reviews how to add fractions with unlike denominators using number lines. Students will focus on understanding the process and reasoning behind each step.

Pop! Pop! Pop! Blending is fun when it includes balloons! In this lesson filled with balloons, students will learn how to substitute letters to create new words that are in the -op word family.

Engage your students in a fun, hands-on lesson about addition using a well loved topic—birthday presents!

Double dominoes! Get your students excited to add with dominoes and playing cards. This lesson is a fun way to help your students continue to learn to add.

In this lesson, students will add three-digit numbers using expanded form addition and standard algorithm addition. They'll explain their answers and highlight the steps for each of the strategies.

Look at history! In this lesson, guide students through an exploration of the context, causes, and effects of the Transcontinental Railroad, and help them practice identifying the main idea and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

In this food-focused lesson plan, students will get to learn from real-world examples how to solve a subtraction problem. Perfect for all of your pizza lovers!

Introduce your students to divisibility rules with a lesson that encourages deep thinking and meaningful math talk between peers.

In this fun exploration of materials, students will practice differentiating between heavy and light objects.

Connect addition with real-world problem solving as students analyze and solve story problems.

Teach your students to recognize patterns of zeros when multiplying by powers of 10 with exponents.

Teach your students to multiply fractions by whole numbers in this dynamic hands-on lesson!

Teach your students to use bar models and multiplication to find a fraction of a whole number.

It's time to learn about time. In this hands-on lesson, students manipulate clock hands and jump across timelines in order to calculate the "distance" between different times and events.

This integrated reading and science lesson is packed with content on ecosystems. Your students will use the reading strategy of synthesizing while comparing and contrasting information from various sources.

What if Cinderella’s stepsisters weren’t really evil? In this engaging lesson, you will introduce your students to multiple points of view and discuss how these different perspectives can change a reader’s experience.

10, 20, 30, and up! In this lesson, students learn strategies for multiplying one-digit numbers by multiples of ten (10 through 90) through practice problems and playing a fun, hands-on game.

Make math colorful! Teach your students to find the factors of a number using the factor rainbow strategy.

Arts and crafts, Venn diagrams, and literature all come together as students compare and contrast stories. Opportunities for student creativity are endless!

Not all nonfiction texts on the same topic are created equal! Using this lesson plan, your class will become familiar with nonfiction features by comparing and contrasting texts on a shared topic.

Prepare students for more complex math skills and build their current math skills with this hands-on lesson.

Make division come to life with this hands-on, introductory lesson on the operation of division! Students will use authentic problems and manipulatives to experience division in action.

Use this lesson to introduce composing and decomposing as part of your students’ addition and subtraction toolkits.