Gardening with Kids Tips for gardening with children.		Research Paper: Take Notes How to identify important information and take useful notes for a research paper.
Sunflowers, Van Gogh, and You Students will taste sunflower seeds, plant sunflowers, research Vincent van Gogh, and paint a...		Reading Textbooks Tips for reading and retaining information from textbooks.
Comic-Strip Challenge Use comic strips to teach students that there is a beginning, middle, and end to stories.		Follow Me Freeze Build classroom community while giving many students the chance to lead your class.
Reading Games Students participate in reading games and enhance their reading abilities at the same time.		Snail, Snail Build community with younger students while playing the "snail" game.
Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery provides lots of laughs for the reader. This lesson...		Three Paragraph Main Idea and Details Chart This graphic organizer will help your students identify the main idea and supporting facts in...
Charlotte's Web Extend this well-loved book with enrichment ideas and resources.		Five Elements of a Story The five elements of a story (introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and...
Make Way for Ducklings Make Way for Ducklings is the ideal book to entertain and teach with. This lesson plan...		Event Map Organizing the who, what, where, when, why, and how of an event is the goal of this graphic...
Stellaluna Stellaluna is a baby bat who is separated from her mother at a young age. This lesson includes...		Conflict Dissection Students will be able to identify the characters, and analyze the setting, problem, and...
James and the Giant Peach Students love James and the Giant Peach, an action-filled fantasy that will amuse and encourage...		The Herringbone: Main Idea and Supporting Details The object of this graphic organizer is to identify the main idea and supporting details.
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...		The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe The classic tale of a fantasy world and four children's adventures in it,The Lion, the...