Ready to Rhyme with Hop on Pop Students will enjoy recognizing rhyming words with these fun activities.		Event Map Organizing the who, what, where, when, why, and how of an event is the goal of this graphic...
Collect a Sentence Students name everyday objects and then construct imaginative sentences with those words.		Conflict Dissection Students will be able to identify the characters, and analyze the setting, problem, and...
Comic-Strip Challenge Use comic strips to teach students that there is a beginning, middle, and end to stories.		The Herringbone: Main Idea and Supporting Details The object of this graphic organizer is to identify the main idea and supporting details.
Tongue Twisters As a fun way to practice reading and pronouncing words, try these tongue twisters with your...		Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How Use this graphic organizer to help students write in a journalistic fashion. This printable is...
Thankful List Teaching students to free-associate and generate a list of things they are thankful for is a...		Double Venn Diagram, Version 1 Use this two part Venn diagram to identify differences and similarities. This printable is...
Where Students Can Publish If you are interested in having your students' writing published, send their work to the...		Proper Punctuation Commas, question marks, semicolons, and more! Use these handouts to teach your students the...
Our First Classroom Book Build classroom community while creating your first classroom book.		"Hi" in Hieroglyphics Children explore an online resource and translate names and common words from English into...
Sequencing Your students can use this graphic organizer to identify the sequence of events in a story or a...		Gun Safety—What Would You Do? Students answer what they would do if they found a gun. For use with The Gorp's Gift, a...
Story Map Using a story map helps children to identify key elements in a story such as characters or...		"Choose Your Own Adventure" Stories Students learn how to write "Choose Your Own Adventure" stories by looking at an example of...
Five Elements of a Story The five elements of a story (introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and...		Holiday Poems Students will write an acrostic poem from the name of a winter holiday: "Christmas," "Kwanzaa,"...