This text tells the story of food that many enjoy while watching a movie. Learn why popcorn is so popular and how it's made.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Primary Source, Reading
Migration is one of the most fascinating practices of animals. Find out how it works in this text.
Material Type: Assessment, Reading
Can you imagine a party where you celebrate dead people? This festival is celebrated in some Latin American countries, including Mexico, whose tradition of placing altars for the dead is world-renowned.
Material Type: Assessment, Lesson, Reading
Many people speak more than one language, like the narrator in this poem. How does being bilingual affect you? These resources would be a good way to share different cultures and identities.
Material Type: Reading
These Guidelines for Improving Math Materials for English Learners (the Guidelines) were developed to provide specific guidance to developers of mathematics content on key areas of English language development that must be embedded across a curricula, in units, and in lessons so that English learner students (ELs) can access and engage in grade-level content.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This poem describes the differences that exist between two people. Read the poem aloud and focus your attention on the way the author describes the differences between two people.
Material Type: Assessment, Lesson, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy
On the night before Christmas, Miguel and his family visit their neighbors to carry out the tradition of asking for a posada. As you read, focus your attention on the relationship that Miguel has with his family.
Material Type: Assessment, Lesson, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) was a Baptist minister and a leader of the African American Civil Rights Movement. This article shares key details about Dr. King's life and accomplishments, including his belief in equality and non-violence. As you read, take notes on the problems that African Americans faced during the 1950s and 60s, and the strategies that Dr. King used to create social change.
Material Type: Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Reading
In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn that transitional fossils provide scientists with evidence to establish how major animal groups are related to one another.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Malala Yousafzai (born 1997) is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Malala is from the Swat Valley in northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban has banned girls from attending school. Malala, whose family ran a chain of local schools, publicly stood against the Taliban's actions and launched an international movement. On October 9th, 2012, a gunman from the Taliban boarded a school bus and shot her in the head. Malala remained in critical condition in the days following the attack, but survived. Since then, she has continued to advocate internationally for women's education. As you read, consider what drove Malala to overcome tremendous adversity.
Material Type: Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Reading
J. Patrick Lewis is an American poet and prose writer known for his children's poetry. In this poem, the speaker describes the experiences of Sylvia Mendez, an important Civil Rights activist of Mexican–Puerto Rican heritage. Mendez played an important role in the desegregation of schools in California, meaning that white and Mexican American students were no longer forced to go to separate schools based on their race. As you read, take notes on Sylvia’s perception of the different schools.
Material Type: Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Reading
Sheldon Allan "Shel" Silverstein (1930-1999) was an American poet, cartoonist, and author of children's books. "Masks" is a poem from Silverstein's book of poems called Everything On It.
Material Type: Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Reading
Adjectives are the words we use to modify nouns. David explains how, with the help of a bear.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Students write original stories using alphabetical order, beginning each page with a new letter, and then illustrate their texts in class or at home with their families.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Sheldon Allan "Shel" Silverstein (1930-1999) was an American poet, cartoonist, and author of children's books. In this poem, the speaker explains why she cannot go to school.
Material Type: Reading
Formerly known as Shape Poems, this online tool allows elementary students to write poems in various shapes.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
The Letter Poem Creator provides an online model for the thought process involved in creating poems based upon a letter; then, students are invited to experiment with letter poems independently.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
Students use their five senses as a prewriting tool to guide their poetry writing as they compose free-form poems using imagery to describe a color.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
This text is part of an advice column for kids called "Ask Arizona" in Highlights. An advice column is part of a newspaper or magazine where people going through a hard time can write a letter to someone asking for help. In the answer, the author gives them ideas on how to solve their problem. In this letter, "Confused in Concord," writes to Arizona looking for help on how to handle their feelings about spending Mother's Day without their mother.
Material Type: Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Reading
Cecelia Rose LaPointe is an American Indian author from the Ojibway/Métis tribe. In this essay from the collection, #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women, they share about an experience in college.
Material Type: Reading
