Adjective Chains Students learn to use a thesaurus by making paper chains of synonyms. This is a great arts &...		Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery provides lots of laughs for the reader. This lesson...
Letter for Great Mail Race Students practice writing and word processing a letter to be used in The Great Mail Race.		Charlotte's Web Extend this well-loved book with enrichment ideas and resources.
Gardening with Kids Tips for gardening with children.		Make Way for Ducklings Make Way for Ducklings is the ideal book to entertain and teach with. This lesson plan...
Sunflowers, Van Gogh, and You Students will taste sunflower seeds, plant sunflowers, research Vincent van Gogh, and paint a...		James and the Giant Peach Students love James and the Giant Peach, an action-filled fantasy that will amuse and encourage...
Collect a Sentence Students name everyday objects and then construct imaginative sentences with those words.		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...
Comic-Strip Challenge Use comic strips to teach students that there is a beginning, middle, and end to stories.		Literary Glossary The definitions of literary terms such as memoir, tragicomedy, comedy, and more can be found in...
Ten Tips for Writing An Essay Find tips for writing an essay, from scheduling and time-management to outlining to revision.		Research Paper: Use Footnotes and Endnotes How to use footnotes and endnotes in a research paper.
Tongue Twisters As a fun way to practice reading and pronouncing words, try these tongue twisters with your...		Research Paper: How to Write a Bibliography How to write a bibliography for a research paper.
Thankful List Teaching students to free-associate and generate a list of things they are thankful for is a...		Sample Essay Outlines These sample outlines will help students organize their ideas before writing an essay, a good...
Where Students Can Publish If you are interested in having your students' writing published, send their work to the...		Transition Words and Phrases A list of transitional words and phrases and suggested uses.