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Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills as they learn about the characters, setting, and plot of their favorite fiction books by creating a story map.

The Elements of Fiction: Creating a Story Map

Use this story map and your choice of short fiction passages to develop your students’ reading comprehension skills with this group reading lesson. 

Story Mapping Group Work

This experiment explores how listening in to a one-sided conversation affects concentration.

Are Cell Phone Conversations More Distracting than Normal Conversations?

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

Adding dialogue to writing makes for more entertaining and relatable story-telling. In this activity, young writers will use a fun comic book format to add simple dialogue to their personal narratives.

Personal Narrative: Adding Dialogue

Students often understand the basic conventions of writing, but may need support in incorporating these skills into their work. In this lesson, students will review some of the more common capitalization and punctuation errors and apply their editing skills to real writing.

Editing for Capitalization and Punctuation

Challenge your student to write something out of the norm! Get creative and write a screenplay based on the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

Write a Screenplay!

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

Use these discussion questions to engage students in thoughtful dialogue as they read chapters 9-12 of Pam Mu&ntilde;oz Ryan&rsquo;s novel <em>Esperanza Rising</em>!

Novel Study: Esperanza Rising: Discussion Guide #3

Expose your students to the wonderful genre of drama, but be sure to teach them the important key terms so they understand the structure. Use this as a stand alone lesson or a pre-lesson for the *Putting a Play Together!* lesson.

Parts of a Drama

Are your second graders struggling with reading comprehension? Help them understand how prosody can help their understanding of the text with this reading lesson plan.

Punctuation & Prosody

Using this lesson plan, your students will synthesize literary information by reimagining storyline outcomes. Substituting characters from their favorite texts and reimagining the effects will excite and bring your class new insights!

Mash-Up Reading Reflections!

If young writers can learn how to write a solid paragraph, then they have the building blocks of an essay. In this lesson, students will study paragraph structure and practice organizing ideas into paragraphs.  

Paragraphs That POP!

Add some spice to your writing by varying sentence patterns with this two-page writing worksheet for sixth graders!

Vary Sentence Patterns

Review and practice writing dialogue with your students. Choose from three situations and create an original dialogue for the characters in one of them.

How to Write Dialogue Between Characters

Practice creative writing, storytelling, and dialogue skills as you create a dialogue in this comics activity.

Summer Comics (Part One)

Learn how to write dialogue with this writing activity that, in the long run, will help you better understand literature.

How to Write Dialogue

Use this worksheet to help middle-school writers correctly use ellipses to indicate a pause in narrative dialogue.

Use Ellipses in Narrative Dialogue

Cultivating resilience is one of the most important ways we can overcome challenges and reach our goals. In this activity, children will explore the concept of resilience and then create a video to explain and teach resilience to others.

Resilience

Students love comic books! Channel their excitement for this fun genre and get their creative writing juices flowing.  By writing their own comic strips, students will be practicing composing, sequencing, and using dialogue.


BAM! POW! Comic Strip Writing

Floyd and Roly are best friends and neighbors! Help your child stretch his writing skills with this fill-in-the-speech-bubbles worksheet.

Brainzy Presents: Floyd and Roly's Amazing Adventures

Let your fourth grader dig deep into their imagination to come up with their own adventure for A.J. and C.K., in this fill-in-the-blank comic strip.

Cat Comics: Joy Ride!

Oh no! Cuz-Cuz is in Roly's food! It's up to your child to figure out why by adding text to the characters' speech bubbles.

Brainzy Presents: The Amazing Adventures of Cuz-Cuz and Roly

Use this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott&rsquo;s classic novel <em>Little Women</em> to help your middle schooler analyze plot development!

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Plot Development in Little Women

What are Floyd and Roly talking about? Fill in the word balloons and make up your own comic!

Brainzy Presents: The Amazing Adventures of Floyd and Roly

Featuring Stephanie's Ponytail by Robert Munsch, this creative writing lesson gives students the chance to turn themselves into the main characters of emotion-packed short stories.

What Happens Next?

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Make a Dialogue Journal!

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

Emphasize student understanding and reasoning! This lesson plan helps learners solve story problems using sense-making strategies. This can be used alongside the lesson Solving Word Problems or as a stand-alone lesson.

Reflect on the Context First!

Your spotlight-loving third or fourth grader will be delighted to play this improvisational game of freeze theater with family or friends.

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