Give your students the opportunity to practice combining ideas using transition words and conjunctions.

Neverland: an imaginary place where your child never grows up. Have him read this passage from the story of Peter Pan and draw his own Neverland.

Help your EL students will practice differentiating between big ideas and details.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

Children read six short passages and draw a conclusion about each one based on context clues.

You decide what's happening on the page by drawing and writing it in!

Use this graphic organizer to help guide your students through the process of drawing inferences.

Young writers expand their transition word lexicon in this comprehensive three-page worksheet.

This worksheet focuses on finding details within a nonfiction text. First students will read a short paragraph, then they'll answer questions using words from the text before rewording their answers to make them unique.

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

Use this worksheet as a tool to assist your young writers in selecting the perfect idea for their narrative.

Help your EL students identify big ideas before they write short summaries.

Introduce students to this graphic organizer to help them outline their ideas for an essay of their own.

Guide students in learning about supporting their ideas with textual evidence.

Help students organize their ideas with this versatile storyboard graphic organizer! Children can use it to respond to text, organize the order of events, or even as a pre-writing tool to collect ideas.

For little private eyes everywhere, here's a chance to play detective! Your child will use writing and drawing skills to finish this fun and furry comic strip.

In this grammar worksheet, learners will enjoy writing what each idiom means figuratively, then drawing a picture to illustrate its meaning.

By writing the story themselves, kids can learn to identify larger concepts and ideas in writing.

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

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

If your child needs help understanding big ideas and concepts, have her tackle this helpful reading comprehension worksheet.