Jigsaw is a strategy that emphasizes cooperative learning by providing students an opportunity to actively help each other build comprehension. Use this technique to assign students to reading groups composed of varying skill levels. Each group member is responsible for becoming an "expert" on one section of the assigned material and then "teaching" it to the other members of the team.

The resource provides guidance to using a double entry journal in ELA class, including a "tips" page for students.

In this short story, a boy named Billy Weaver needs to find lodging in Bath, England. He goes to a boardinghouse. The landlady is an odd woman who compels Billy Weaver to stay with her at the boardinghouse. As the story progresses, clues are given as to the whereabouts of previous guests on the fourth floor.

Students will read a passage and write examples from the text that describe a character's feelings. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read an explanation and examples of verbal irony. Students will then read paragraphs to write and justify the examples of verbal irony they find in the paragraphs. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, cite textual evidence to support the main idea, and justify how the evidence supports it. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read background information, a passage, information, vocabulary words, and vocabulary in context. Students will write answers to questions, quotations to support a main idea, and a response to a prompt. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a description of and passage from L. Frank Baum's work, characters' descriptions, questions, vocabulary, definitions, text excerpts, and a writing prompt. Students will write short answers, quotations to support a main idea, and an essay. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a passage from Robert Louis Stevenson's work and write to answer questions in order to interpret the meaning of phrases. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

In this lesson, student teams read Native American legends from books and websites and write an original legend with enriched word choice and elaboration.

This lesson focuses on character analysis throughout William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies. While contemplating both direct and indirect characterization techniques, students will be able to consider how characterization builds relationships among the boys in the novel.

Students will have the opportunity to use four of the Miss Breed letters as primary source documents. As students compare the writers’ differing points of view, they might see more clearly that the history of an event or period of time is never a single story.

This teacher's guide for Little Green by Chun Yu includes background information on the Cultural Revolution, discussion questions, activities, writing practices, and collaborative exercises.

This lesson from the New York Times is a collection of activties and lessons to help students make accurate inferences in their own reading.

In this lesson, students will use the individual experience of Mary McLeod Bethune to analyze choice, its affects on social equality, and impact on their own life experiences.

In this lesson students examine how imagery is used to represent ideas, themes, periods of history, and make cultural connections to poem, "Still I Rise." Students will reflect through written expression how resiliency is in their lives, school, and community.

Students will be introduced to reading through the use of graphic novels. Students will follow different themes in the novel citing quotes to support the different themes in the book.

The activities in this lesson invite students to focus on the characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream, to describe and analyze their conflicts, and then to watch how those conflicts get resolved.

This teacher's guide for The Misfits by James Howe containes discussion questions, activities, and research assignments.