Give your students some early practice with shapes using this simple lesson. Young learners will have a great time creating shapes using pieces of string.

In this music-inspired lesson plan, students will practice recognizing the letters of the alphabet while using music to guide them.

Give your students practice explaining how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text. With these sports-themed texts, students will make inferences about the author and use text evidence to prove it.

Words can uplift others, but they can also cause harm. In this lesson, students will hear the story Desmond and the Very Mean Word, and they'll discuss the power of positive and negative words in friendships, school, and community.