In this inference lesson plan, your students will use evidence and background knowledge to make inferences in a variety of media including artwork, fictional stories, and even a short film.

The English language has some tricky rules on when to use the definite article "the" and when not to use it. This lesson teaches your students some of the rules for when to use the definite article "the" with geographical nouns.

A lesson about the Great Depression doesn't have to depress your students! They will enjoy building background knowledge for Bud, Not Buddy with great interactive and cooperative learning tasks.

It’s time to make an educated guess! In this lesson, your students will practice using their background knowledge and evidence from the text to make inferences in nonfiction pieces about Martin Luther King, Jr., and Cesar Chavez.

Is it fairly accurate there is a 100% chance that trying to teach your students about oxymora is controlled chaos? Your students will find their lack of knowledge growing smaller after this teacher-approved figurative language lesson.

Show your Halloween spirit by creating funny, creepy or trick-or-treating themed Diamante poems. Following the poem template, students will review parts of speech while creating festive masterpieces to share with the class.

Teach your students how to use timelines to organize information from nonfiction texts.

Teach your students to multiply decimals using the standard algorithm.

By creating an interactive notebook template, kids will help themselves remember the correct ways to use the commonly confused words to, too, two, there, and their. Young writers will love improving their writing skills with this lesson.

This lesson combines students' knowledge of US geography and their creative writing skills in one fun activity!

Got facts? Got opinions? Use this lesson plan to teach your students to evaluate texts for facts and opinions. Students will use a non-fiction text selection to collect quotes as proof.

This lesson combines historical facts and creative writing to engage students in exercises that enhance both vocabulary and social studies knowledge.

Nonfiction texts offer a great lens into cause and effect relationships. Use this lesson plan to teach your class to compare cause-and-effect relationships across texts that share a topic.

Teach your students to recognize and use the distributive property of multiplication.

Teach your students to multiply by multiples of 10, up to 1,000.

Let's practice reading nonfiction texts! In this lesson, teach your ELs about identifying and describing text features. This lesson can be taught on its own or used as support for the lesson Formatting Text Features.

Teach your students to round to the thousands place using number lines.

Teach your students to predict and explain features of scaled regular shapes.

Teach your class to develop strong inferencing skills by focusing on clues and hard evidence. In this lesson, students will play a game of “What’s for Breakfast?” to help them link context clues with word meaning.

Get your students excited and test their knowledge of comparing decimals with this fun decimal "war" game!

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

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

Teach your students to round to the hundred thousands place with this straightforward lesson.

Teach your students to use bar models and multiplication to find a fraction of a whole number.

Teach your students to multiply fractions by whole numbers in this dynamic hands-on lesson!

Use this lesson to teach your students how the different parts of a brain are responsible for any act they do. This lesson will teach your students how a 3.5 pound organ controls a grown human being!

Teach your students to use partial products as a strategy to multiply multi-digit numbers.

Teach your students to use an area model to solve multiplication problems with mixed numbers.

Teach your students to use tape diagrams to solve equations involving whole numbers and fractions.

Guess what comes next! Teach your students to make a prediction based on textual evidence.