Ready to Rhyme with Hop on Pop Students will enjoy recognizing rhyming words with these fun activities.		Ten Tips for Writing An Essay Find tips for writing an essay, from scheduling and time-management to outlining to revision.
Adjective Chains Students learn to use a thesaurus by making paper chains of synonyms. This is a great arts &...		Birthday Buddies Students will prepare research projects about a famous person who shares their birthdate.
Animal Defenses An article with photos of some of the innovative means animals have developed for attack and...		What Happens When People Break the Law? An article explaining what happens when adults and children break the law.
Blooming Tree Reward students for reading books by adding to a student-made tree.		Thankful List Teaching students to free-associate and generate a list of things they are thankful for is a...
Book Snake Reward students for reading by adding to the "Reading Snake".		Where Students Can Publish If you are interested in having your students' writing published, send their work to the...
Collect a Sentence Students name everyday objects and then construct imaginative sentences with those words.		Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery provides lots of laughs for the reader. This lesson...
Comic-Strip Challenge Use comic strips to teach students that there is a beginning, middle, and end to stories.		Make Way for Ducklings Make Way for Ducklings is the ideal book to entertain and teach with. This lesson plan...
Reading the Newspaper Use this lesson to explore the newspaper through a variety of academic areas.		If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Laura Joffe Numeroff's humorous book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie tells the story of a...
Ten Art Questions Encourage students to observe details by asking specific and pointed questions about various...		Literary Glossary The definitions of literary terms such as memoir, tragicomedy, comedy, and more can be found in...
Tongue Twisters As a fun way to practice reading and pronouncing words, try these tongue twisters with your...		Labor Day Newspaper Students learn about the history of the Labor Day holiday and write a newspaper about the...