In this article, the author provides information about the Indian festival, Holi, and how it is celebrated. As students read, they take notes on what Indians celebrate on Holi.

Charlie Villanueva is a professional basketball player who last played for the Dallas Mavericks. In this informational text, Marjorie Flintom discusses Villanueva’s success and his challenges growing up with a skin disease that caused him to lose his hair when he was young. As students read, they take notes on Villanueva’s attitude about his hair loss.

This is a remix of "Native Americans: Trail of Tears" for ESL students from beginning to advanced level.

 This is a multi-day culminating activity for Wonders Unit 6 Weeks 1-2.  Students will use the Wonders materials provided in the Reading/Writing companion, as well as their Literature Anthology to learn about renewable and non-renewable resources. Students will work in pairs to answer the question; Which renewable energy source is best for our NC Region?  Students will develop an interview script to educate classmates about the renewable energy source of choice and provide details to support this throughout the interview script.  Partners will utilize Flipgrid to record themselves as the interview participants.

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 4th Grade English Language Arts.

This resource accompanies our Rethink 4th Grade ELA course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.  

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 4th Grade English Language Arts. 

Help students explore an important moment of environmental activism in North Carolina with Save Our Sand Dunes by Hannah Bunn West and with Ann-Cabell Baum. This complementary learning guide to the book is designed to help educators guide young readers in discovering how Carolista Baum rallied a community and advocated for local and state leaders to preserve Jockey's Ridge.

In this activity, students play a board game in which players try to ensure the survival of their animal species while dealing with problems (such as habitat destruction, pollution, or natural disasters) the animals encounter during the game. Prior to the game, the book Brother Eagle, Sister Sky by Susan Jeffers should be read aloud to the students and used to engage student thinking about human and environmental impact on animal survival.

In this lesson, collaborative strategic reading (CSR) is initially presented to students through modeling and whole-class instruction. To facilitate comprehension during and after reading, students apply four reading strategies: preview, click and clunk, get the gist, and wrap-up. Graphic organizers are used for scaffolding of these strategies while students work together in cooperative groups.

This is an informational e-book I wrote about pelicans in one of the classes for my master's degree. It has questions and information you can click on to work on comprehension questions.

Per the ReadWriteThink website: In this collaborative inquiry unit, the real gold is the inquiry skills and content area knowledge that students develop. The class works in small groups, each focusing on one aspect of the same big topic, such as the Gold Rush. After skimming related texts, the class brainstorms people, places and things associated with the topic and develops a list of five or six main subtopics. Students then work in small groups to research one of the subtopics, practicing specific research skills as they work. Finally, students choose an activity, such as an oral report, trivia game, or newspaper, to teach what they have learned to the rest of the class. Group accountability and individual responsibility are built in to this lesson process. While this unit uses the Gold Rush as an example, any event or geographical area could be substituted.

Franklin Gorin purchased a slave, Stephen Bishop, to act as a tour guide for Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. Stephen went on to make many discoveries in the cave and to be a well-known guide. As students read, they take notes on how the author describes Stephen.

Franklin Gorin purchased a slave, Stephen Bishop, to act as a tour guide for Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. Stephen went on to make many discoveries in the cave and to be a well-known guide. As students read, they take notes on how the author describes Stephen.

Patricia Cuff has written for Highlights Magazine for Kids. In this informational text, Cuff discusses one of the first girls’ soccer teams in Katutura, a city in Namibia, Africa. As students read, they take notes on what people think of the girls’ soccer team.

Vegetables have been an important part of humans’ diets for hundreds of years. In this informational text, Barbara Hagen discuss some of the vegetables that were most important to many American Indian diets. As students read, they take notes on how American Indians grew and used three primary foods.

In this lesson, students will use thematically related texts, organized from least to most complex, to gather a word bank of supporting details and content vocabulary about a concept. Then they use these words as a basis for writing acrostic poems, which support organization of information around a central idea, as the lines of an acrostic poem are held together by the topic or main idea spelled vertically.