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

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

Learners can gather a lot of information about veterans and their former jobs by interviewing them on Veterans Day. Use the worksheet Interview a Veteran to have students ask veterans questions and write down their answers.

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.

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

The worksheet provides a tool for learners to gather and organize key information about civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Character Traits.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understand Text Features.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Character Traits.

Take notes of student peer conversations all in one document!

Give your students the questions and organizer to evaluate creative work. Use this worksheet to guide student evaluations of their partner’s creative products.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Understand Text Features.

Students will use this worksheet to write about their thinking as they discuss their ideas!