Use this lesson to help your ELs compare and contrast characters' thoughts and actions using a Venn Diagram. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson.

This lesson introduces young learners to prefixes. It also gives them hands-on experience with building words using prefix and root word cards.

There's no shortage of homographs in the English language, making them a fun topic to explore with your fourth graders! In this lesson, students will become experts on distinguishing the different meanings of homographs.

In this support lesson, your EL students will learn eight common theme words and will practice applying them to a short story. Use this lesson as a stand-alone lesson or as support to the lesson Determining the Theme of a Poem.

Students will become more familiar with common metric measurements by matching everyday objects with the metric mass and volume units they would use to measure them.

Use this lesson to introduce your class to four kinds of sentences, and how understanding and using different types of sentences allows writers to control the tone of their sentences.

Students will enjoy playing a dice game in this interactive lesson on prefixes and their meanings.

In this homograph lesson, your students will play a fun game of "homograph memory" in which they will have to identify multiple meanings of several common homographs.

Practice finding unknown numbers in addition equations using fun and silly word problems.

In this great grammar lesson, students will practice using coordinating conjunctions to write compound sentences.

Learn to use text formatting tools like capitalization, bold, underline, and italics to give emphasis to your writing.

All fictional stories have story elements but they sure can differ between stories. In this lesson, students will compare and contrast the story elements of two fictional stories and document their findings in a graphic organizer.

This tasty lesson will teach second graders about fractions using cookies.

It’s time to learn a new strategy! Teach your students to use the partial quotients strategy to solve long division problems with one-digit divisors and no remainder.

Teach your students to multiply decimals using the standard algorithm.

Your students will learn to add unlike mixed numbers using tape diagrams.

Students will find angle sums using a baseball diamond diagram.

Students will solve area problems by multiplying side lengths for rectangular shapes in real world contexts.

In this lesson, students will learn to program an animated figure using ScratchJr.

There’s more than one way to add and subtract mixed numbers! Use this witty lesson plan to teach your students to illustrate mixed number sums and difference while giggling with delight.

Students will learn to model mixed number subtraction with manipulatives using this hands-on lesson plan.

Suffixes can do some amazing things. They can turn "power" into "powerful," "big" into "bigger," and "fear" into "fearless." This hands-on lesson allows young writers to build their own words using different root words and suffixes.

Help your students become shining stars with this lesson about metaphors. Your class will hone art skills and practice comparison using figurative language.

What’s the missing link? In this lesson students will explore missing factors using three digit numbers. Using their knowledge of skip counting, students will determine the missing links.

With this super sensory lesson, students will make sense of a variety of sensory words. In addition to exploring sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell words, students will make connections to real-life experiences!

When students read nonfiction texts, they will need to make inferences using text features and quotes as evidence. Support your students using short texts as practice before diving into more complex materials like textbooks.

Teach your students to calculate fractions of 100 using a number line model.

Ask an important question this month: What does an activist do? This engaging lesson can be used leading up to Martin Luther King Jr. Day (and year-round). It supports students in understanding what it means to be an activist and how Martin Luther King Jr. used collaborative action to change the world and speak out against oppression. Perfect for first graders and second graders, this activity explores word meaning and other reading and writing skills.

Teach your students to double two-digit numbers using decomposition as a strategy.

In this great grammar lesson, your students will practice using the eight parts of speech to complete sentences.