A short video resource that helps student decipher newspaper articles including the who, what, where, when and why.
An interactive resource that guides students to finding what they're looking for in a newspaper, reading headlines to predict what articles will be about, and locating information in the paper.
In this interactive lesson students will learn how to write their own personal letter by deciding what to include and what to leave out, practicing setting the right tone, choosing words with apostrophes in the right places, and practicing setting the right tone in a letter to a friend.
A student handout on strategies to recall new vocabulary words.
A short video on determining the correct definition of words in the dictionary.
An interactive reource on root words and their families.
A short instructional video on the identification and correction of sentence fragments.
A student interactive resource in which students read between the lines by using the power of inference, predict what will happen next in a story, and identify the main ideas in what they read.
A student handout on understanding new vocabulary by using context clues.
An interactive resource in which students summarize and identify the main idea of select texts.
A short video resource that demonstrates the beginning steps to analyzing a poem.
A short instructional video on the use of transitions to tighten up student writing.
An interactive student resource in which students read and identify various types of advertisements and analyze advertisements for examples of persuasive writing, generalizing, exaggeration, and scare tactics.
A student handout on strategies for understanding and defining difficult vocabulary.
Students will gain a deeper understanding of unknown words by using context clues.
A short video on the need and use of a thesaurus.
Brainstorming actvities to help students generate ideas for creative writing.