Before they begin writing letters, evaluate your students' fine motor and pre-writing skills! Vertical lines will give students practice for forming letters such as F, L, E, and H.

Get your students ready to read by practicing rhyming words. Engage your class by introducing families of easily identifiable rhyming words.

Algebra concepts can be challenging for students in upper elementary and middle school. This lesson introduces students to the idea of a missing or unknown number while also considering the order of operations.

In this lesson, students will learn how to write a conclusion for informational text using pre-written texts for practice.

Your students will use a well-loved story to learn how to create their own detailed characters. This lesson focuses on understanding the pre-writing and planning phase of storytelling.

Use this fun lesson plan as a stand alone or pre-lesson when introducing the concept of retelling a story to your ELs.

Challenge students to compare two strategies for solving division expressions! Students will focus on their language use in this pre-lesson to the Dicey Division lesson.

In this fun EL pre-lesson, students will practice learning about and identifying the differences between vowels and consonants using pictures and a catchy song!

Use this helpful introduction to going on a picture walk and making predictions as a stand alone or pre lesson for the Reading Without Words lesson plan.

Help your students use multiplication to support their conceptual understanding of division. Use this lesson alone or as a pre-lesson for Division: Solving for Unknown Factors.

Use this lesson to teach your students about the strategy of skip counting. It can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for Multiply by 5.

Students will develop pre-writing confidence by learning how to approach unfamiliar opinion writing prompts. Writers will generate a topic sentence and flush out supporting information.

Use this lesson to introduce the concepts of capacity and volume with young learners. This hands on lesson can be used as a scaffolded pre-lesson to Capacity Comparison.

Teach your students about the attributes that make each shape unique. Use this as a stand alone lesson or as a pre-lesson for Are You Connected to Me?

Use this vocabulary-focused lesson to teach your students about area. It can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for Finding the Area of a Rectangle.

Who will win the race? Help your class build essential pre-reading skills with a friendly competition. Your students will race to identify the author, illustrator, and understand all the parts of a book in this engaging lesson.

Teach your students how to use specific vocabulary as they answer questions. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the Questions that Gauge Comprehension lesson plan.

This lesson plan will introduce your ELs to one-to-one correspondance when reading. This is a great stand-alone lesson or a can be used as a pre-lesson for the Pointers! lesson plan.

Give your students visuals to support their understanding of skip counting. Use this lesson on its own or as a pre-lesson for Roll the Dice: Skip Counting by Fives.

Build your students' knowledge of synonyms to support their vocabulary development. This lesson can stand alone or be a pre-lesson for the Get Clued in to Context Clues lesson.

This lesson is a great introductory or review lesson to teach your ELs about the elements of a story. Can be used as a stand alone lesson or a pre-lesson.

Students will have fun learning about rhyming words and poetry in this fun bee-inspired lesson plan! Can be used alone or as a pre-lesson for the Silly Socks Poetry Featuring the Letter S lesson plan.

In this lesson, students will use conjunctions to compare and contrast scary stories. It can be taught independently or used as a pre-lesson to Using Story Elements to Compare and Contrast Fiction Texts.

While memorization is important when it comes to multiplication facts, a foundation of understanding is key, too! Use this lesson on its own or as a pre-lesson for Hands-On Multiplication.

Help your students compare and connect two important multiplication strategies: equal groups and repeated addition. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for Candy Multiplication.

This support lesson provides students with the opportunity to explore elapsed time by discussing the time between timer rings. Use as a pre-lesson to Elapseable or as a stand-alone activity.

This lesson helps your ELs identify the role of coordinating conjunctions and compound sentences in nonfiction texts. Use it as a stand-alone lesson or as a pre-lesson to Nonfiction Genres.

Help your ELs identify the characters and their dialogue in a story. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the Action! Students Create Reader’s Theater lesson.

Increase your students' self-confidence while practicing pre-reading skills, number recognition and counting to five. Students will read about Sally the Camel and count the humps on her back.

Big, bigger, biggest? Teach your students about comparative and superlative adjectives as they make comparisons. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the Nonfiction Comprehension: Compare and Contrast lesson.