Ready to Rhyme with Hop on Pop Students will enjoy recognizing rhyming words with these fun activities.		Tongue Twisters As a fun way to practice reading and pronouncing words, try these tongue twisters with your...
Adjective Chains Students learn to use a thesaurus by making paper chains of synonyms. This is a great arts &...		Thankful List Teaching students to free-associate and generate a list of things they are thankful for is a...
Letter for Great Mail Race Students practice writing and word processing a letter to be used in The Great Mail Race.		Where Students Can Publish If you are interested in having your students' writing published, send their work to the...
Gardening with Kids Tips for gardening with children.		Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery provides lots of laughs for the reader. This lesson...
Sunflowers, Van Gogh, and You Students will taste sunflower seeds, plant sunflowers, research Vincent van Gogh, and paint a...		Make Way for Ducklings Make Way for Ducklings is the ideal book to entertain and teach with. This lesson plan...
Animal Defenses An article with photos of some of the innovative means animals have developed for attack and...		Charlotte's Web Extend this well-loved book with enrichment ideas and resources.
Collect a Sentence Students name everyday objects and then construct imaginative sentences with those words.		Literary Glossary The definitions of literary terms such as memoir, tragicomedy, comedy, and more can be found in...
Comic-Strip Challenge Use comic strips to teach students that there is a beginning, middle, and end to stories.		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...
Reading the Newspaper Use this lesson to explore the newspaper through a variety of academic areas.		Labor Day Newspaper Students learn about the history of the Labor Day holiday and write a newspaper about the...
Ten Tips for Writing An Essay Find tips for writing an essay, from scheduling and time-management to outlining to revision.		James and the Giant Peach Students love James and the Giant Peach, an action-filled fantasy that will amuse and encourage...