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Help your students' understand the English language with this lesson that teaches them that there are word "twins" that look and sound the same but have different meanings.

Is that fact important, or is it just interesting? Use this lesson to help your students determine importance in nonfiction text.

Context clues are a powerful tool for all readers! Use this lesson to teach your students how to utilize context clues to determine the meanings of unknown words.

Will one be left out? Students will practice creative problem solving as they strive to answer this question and determine whether a group is even or odd.

When reading, we all encounter unknown words at times. But how do we figure them out? In this lesson, students learn how to become a “human dictionary” by using a variety of strategies to figure out the meaning of unknown words.

Introduce the concept of author’s purpose in fiction texts with this fun reading lesson! Students will discuss three examples of fictional texts to determine the purpose of each.

If you can see it, you can achieve it! Use this lesson to teach your students how to use visuals to determine if two fractions are equivalent.

Change is inevitable, even for story characters! In this lesson, your students will determine how a character changes throughout a story by focusing on the character’s dialogue and actions.

How are plants’ traits affected by environmental factors? In this integrated science and reading lesson, students will use multiple sources to identify and determine how traits are influenced by the environment.

Use this lesson to teach your students how to determine if they should use addition, subtraction, or both operations to solve a word problem by following four simple steps.

Students will read a short fictional story and discuss why the author included certain details and words. Use this lesson to help your students navigate parts of fictional text to determine the author's purpose!

This lesson will help your students use sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text. Students will enjoy learning about maps and figuring out tricky words along the way!

It’s time to get those magnifying glasses out! In this lesson, students will act as detectives, searching for clues about idioms. Who can find the clues that lead to the meanings of various idioms?

Get your students moving! In this lesson, your students will walk around the classroom as they practice using and interpreting idioms.

This lesson will provide students with an opportunity to become more comfortable with identifying and defining academic vocabulary words in a nonfiction text about a chicken's life cycle to support comprehension.

Use a short story that can be told entirely in idioms and students will get the picture! Students match story strip text to idioms in this interactive exercise that includes a matching worksheet assessment.

Let Amelia Bedelia introduce figurative language in this fun and interactive lesson that includes a game, group work and a chance for students to shine as idiom authors!

In this lesson your students will find and examine the morals in the classic folktales of "Stone Soup" and "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."

Smaller dictionaries that are totally relevant to the material being read? In this lesson, students will learn that these miraculously really do exist and go by the name of glossaries!

Can you tell what the author thinks about this subject? What do you think about it? Use this resource to help your students recognize the author's point of view and establish their own.

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

Expand on your students' knowledge of base ten numbers with this lesson that introduces the students to the place and value of digits within a number.

In this lesson, students get practice with finding the beginning, middle, and end of the story. Have your students help you fix a mixed up story while they learn the parts of a story.

Collect and graph! In this lesson, your students will practice collecting, organizing, and interpreting data by using real life examples.

Give your students a conceptual understanding of three-digit addition with this lesson focused on base-ten blocks and drawings.

Freshen up on your understanding of division word problems with long division and one-digit divisors! Use this lesson to help students identify key division terms and solve word problems.

Teach your students to add mixed numbers and improper fractions with the same denominator using the counting up strategy with number lines.

What’s the deal with all of those text features? Use this handy lesson plan to help your second graders answer that very question.

Help your students discover patterns when multiplying by five.

What exactly does the number 97 mean? How about 454? In this lesson, students explore how two-digit numbers are made up of tens and ones. Then they use this understanding to subtract numbers within 1000.