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Stories, Poetry, & Drama: Fun, Effective Ways to Review Throughout the Year Imagine…you reach the end of your fiction reading unit, your students have worked

  Text & Illustrations: Why Pictures Really Are Worth A Thousand Words We’ve all heard the old saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words,”

You’ve been working with your students on understanding character traits for a while now. They are practically experts at:  identifying character traits describing characters finding

For many elementary students, the idea that other people have a different outlook on the world than their own view is pretty new! Kids tend

Asking and answering questions come naturally to kids!  Asking and answering TEXT DEPENDENT questions that can be answered with text evidence or through inference? Welllllllll…not

The central message of a story is super important for students to be able to identify, but unfortunately can be a tricky concept for kids

 Teaching paired texts is quite a feat. There’s so much to cover! This task can also be overwhelming for students because they’re required to integrate

Upper elementary nonfiction standards naturally scaffold with the intent to take students from recognition of nonfiction features and the author’s craft and structure to the

Most students are pretty familiar with how to complete the task of comparing and contrasting two books on their own accurately. When we do a

You see a pair of broken glasses. What happened? Why did it happen?  You see an ice cream cone on the ground. What happened? Why