Students will be answering text-dependent questions in which they will have to describe the differences between the different characters, settings, and major events in our stories using complex contrasting sentences. The students will...

Students can practice solving addition number sentences through the interactive learning exercises and games on this site.

Notes introducing how author's vary the length of sentences in order to express their voice and style. Examples from three literary texts are provided, "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Hills Like White Elephants" by...

During this interactive lesson, students will determine the number of finite verbs in each sentence or fragment.

Explore the relationship between addition and subtraction with this lesson. Help students understand that "every subtraction fact has a related addition number sentence, and every addition fact has a related subtraction number...

Help your students solve subtraction number sentences by using the part/part/whole model. This lesson shows students how to separate parts from a whole or by comparison to understand the subtraction number sentences. Lesson includes...

Emma Bryce explains how one-word sentences illustrate some lexical ambiguities that can turn ordinary words and sentences into mazes that mess with our minds. [3:28]

For this lesson, 1st graders will look at the structure of both stories to determine how our two stories are the same.

Students will solve word problems to create their own subtraction number sentences. They will use known addition facts to solve subtraction problems. A detailed lesson plan, worksheet, and pictures/videos of the lesson being modeled are...

Students will engage in a shared reading of Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox by Grace Maccarone, Arthur's Chicken Pox by Marc Brown, or Turkey Pox by Laurie Anderson. Students will discuss the text and then engage in several math-related tasks...

During this lesson, students will review the stores of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" via a text and a rap. Using this story, students will learn the question words of who, what, where, why, when, and how.

Ambrose Bierce is famous for his writings on the Civil War and showing the brutality that occurred. "Two Military Executions" is short story about a young soldier sentenced to death for hitting an officer. Read the full text on this site.

Designed to help students think about their reading and writing skills, this page offers three different ways to interpret and discuss texts.

What is the correct punctuation between two independent clauses? Use this site to learn more about the rules to follow.

A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and three videos demonstrating how to teach colons with mentor sentences.

A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and three videos demonstrating how to teach capitalization with mentor sentences.

A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and three videos demonstrating how to teach appositives with explicit instruction, systematic instruction, practice and feedback.

In this task, 6th graders solve fraction division problems by drawing a picture and writing a number sentence. Aligns with 6.NS.A.1.

This website provides two presentations on active and passive voice. The first presentation explains the difference between active and passive voice as well as how to build sentences in each voice. The second presentation explains when...

Practice pronoun agreement by correcting the pronoun usage errors in each of these 20 sentences.

Practice pronoun agreement by correcting the pronoun usage errors in each of these 20 sentences.

A lesson plan for helping students to solve real world problems by using their mathematical tools.

This article focuses on ideas for lessons to teach creative writing such as Brain-Scrambler, Five-Sentence Paragraph, Obfuscatory Sentences, and Two-Sentence Response.

Here's a project where you can try your hand at being a detective with your computer. In this project you'll write a program to do some basic analysis of features of written text (for example, counting the length of each word in the...