In this lesson, students will practice listening comprehension skills after reading “The Paper Bag Princess” together as a class. Afterward, students will role-play, make inferences, and use summarization to strengthen literacy skills.

High order thinking skills are critical skills for students of all ages. In this lesson, your students will create word problems about money.

Use a sweet treat to help students do hands-on math! Students will practice their addition skills in this yummy activity.

Help your students absorb the details of a text and make inferences about what they read with the strategy of close reading. By reading closely, students will become better able to understand complex themes and nuances in a text.

Teach your students to ask and differentiate between recall questions and inferential questions. This lesson will help build a classroom culture around asking deep, inferential questions.

Use this lesson to introduce composing and decomposing as part of your students’ addition and subtraction toolkits.

Let’s start building numbers! Just as building skyscrapers is a visual representation of mathematics, students will use the visual representation of base-ten blocks to add—or build—onto a two-digit number.

Your young scientists will have tons of fun visiting measurement stations and using tools to measure various objects. They'll even be able to create posters at the end of the activity.

What does it feel like to take 120 steps? In this lesson, students practice counting and completing word problems up to 120.