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Your students will learn all about what makes a fictional character special when they become character detectives! Use this lesson to introduce the concept of using key details from a text to gather information.

Character Detectives

Give your class a deeper understanding of theme with this art and poetry-focused lesson plan about theme. By the end of the lesson, students will understand what theme is and how to determine theme in a piece of writing, such as a poem.

Determining the Theme of a Poem

A lot can happen in a day! Transition words can help us organize our thoughts into a sequential story. Use this activity to teach students the importance of transition words as they tell about their day...all with the help of sentence frames!

Tell About the Transitions

Holy cow! Did President George W. Bush really have a longhorn named Ofelia as a pet? Students learn about wacky White House pets in this fun research activity that includes “president interviews” and a pet choice writing page.

Presidential Pets

Students design a pet rock and use rhetorical appeals to convince their class to choose it as a mascot!

Rhetorical Appeals With Ethos, Pathos, and Logos: Pet Rock Mascot

Let’s put it all together! In this lesson, students will explore the different parts of a drama or play. By the end of the lesson they will be able to define terminology related to plays and give examples of the unique genre features!

Putting a Play Together!

Use this Evaluating Sources Checklist to help students evaluate their&nbsp;sources for relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability.

Evaluating Sources Checklist

This worksheet walks students through an example of how the dialogue between two or more characters can help writers change the pacing of a narrative.

Using Dialogue to Pace Your Piece

Once students have selected a topic related to a piece of literature they have read and mapped out their argument, this lesson will help them turn their prewriting into an essay. 

Literary Argument: Drafting Your Essay

So your students are going to write a narrative? Use these prewriting exercises to help them choose an idea and plan out their story.  

Narrative Prewriting Activities

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Punctuate with Pasta!

Students read and analyze an excerpt from E. Nesbit&rsquo;s 1906 novel, The Railway Children, in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Reading Comprehension: Excerpt Adapted From The Railway Children

In this grammar and punctuation worksheet, children learn guidelines for when to use quotation marks, and when not to use them.

What Are Quotation Marks?

Fill in the speech and thought bubbles as a guy and girl talk on the phone.

Make Your Own Comic Strip

Improve your child&#39;s reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children&#39;s story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

Reading Comprehension: Stuffed Elephant

Practice paraphrasing without plagiarizing, an important skill to learn in middle school. Your child will learn about Beethoven as she paraphrases this passage.

Paraphrasing: Beethoven

Expand sentences by answering the questions&nbsp;how? when? where?&nbsp;and&nbsp;why?

Expanding Sentences: Mysteries

Every great reader and writer knows that syntax matters. During this lesson, students will use the close reading strategy to focus on word choice, and use their understanding of syntax to develop theories about patterns in the text.

Close Reading Through Word Choice

Increase your student&#39;s ability to spot incorrect grammar with this Sentence Fixer worksheet. Students will practice their capitalization, punctuation, and dialogue skills to fix up this set of sentences.

Sentence Fixer

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

The Place Value Game

Students become word artists as they use ordinary pictures to practice creating detailed descriptions. This technique helps your class learn how to paint a picture with words.

Paint a Word Picture

Look at this scene of a mining town during the Gold Rush and create an advertisement that persuades people to travel to California.

Gold Rush Advertisement

What if a pirate went head-to-head with a ninja? Your little writer will decide the ending to this wacky story prompt!

Pirate vs Ninja

Write an ice skating story based on the illustration on the page. It can be silly or heartfelt, even science fiction!

Write an Ice Skating Story

What if Bigfoot and the Abominable Snowman were stranded on a desert island together? It's up to your creative writer to tell the rest of the story.

Bigfoot vs Yeti

Introduce your third-grade writer to sensory words with this worksheet about sorting adjectives under the correct senses.

Sensory Words

Children learn to identify and use common time and sequence words in this grammar and vocabulary worksheet.

Time and Sequence Words Practice

Imagine if Count Dracula had an advice column! What kinds of zany advice would he give out?

"Dear Dracula"

What if Cinderella's sisters stole her magical carriage and ended up in the desert! It's up to your creative writer to decide what happens next.

Funny Picture Prompt

Practice building sentences, and fill in the blanks with the correct transition word. 

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