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This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Order of Operations Sequencing.

Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Explain Fraction Conversions.

Before reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story's setting!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explain Fraction Conversions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Order of Operations Sequencing.

Get to know more about your family's meaningful traditions with this fun interview activity.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Writing About Math Expressions.

Give your students the opportunity to conduct an interview with a family member or loved one to learn about their meaningful traditions. They will ask questions about fall traditions, finding out about clothing, food, location, and the people involved. Th

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Fractional Tape Diagram Descriptions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Word Problem Vocabulary Preparation.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Word Problem Vocabulary Preparation.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Writing About Math Expressions.

This Father's Day, encourage your child to get to know dad a little better by writing a brief biography.

Take notes on peer conversations as students explain points that support their answers.

Challenge your students to refine their thinking and explanations!

Help students ask and answer questions as they gather information from other students.

Use this worksheet to help evaluate student summaries of texts or other presentations.