This article provides links to six web sites that provide an overview of cause/effect relationships, graphic organizers, and teaching strategies for elementary teachers.

This article describes how to help students engage with nonfiction text by asking questions, identifying facts, making connections, and reflecting on the text. A template for use with students is included.

This article describes the principle of Universal Design for Learning and how teachers can use this principle when designing lessons.

This article provides ideas, lessons and resources on how elementary teachers can integrate map skills, math, and art into lessons about the geography of the Arctic and Antarctica.

In this set of three mini lessons, students make judgements on situations and characters from literary works. Students establish criteria for judgement, make graphic organizers to help their thoughts flow, then judge characters from the novel Frankenstein (or another work).

Objective: Identify supportive evidence that supports their analysis of a text, including the theme, plot and character development.  Make inferences based drawn from the text and graphics.

This article explains how hands-on science activity can support vocabulary development and links to two books and six web sites that provide more information.

This resource is a catch-all graphic organizer that students can use while reading. It provides areas for students to analyze text and it helps to train student-readers to attain skills while analyzing literary elements.