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

Give students a chance to experience a different point of view! This fANTastic lesson on narrative style turns young readers into characters of Chris Van Allsburg's Two Bad Ants.

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

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.