Miranda and Baptiste Paul are a husband and wife team who work together to create picture books for children. In this poem, a speaker shares a lesson they learned.
Material Type: Reading
Margarita Engle is a Cuban-American poet, novelist, and journalist, as well as the author of many children's books. She has received numerous awards including the San Diego Book Award and Claudia Lewis Poetry Award. In Spanish, La Visita means "The Visit." In this poem, a girl talks about a visit from her Cuban abuelita, or grandmother.
Material Type: Reading
Culture is the language, ideas, foods, customs, and other things that make a group of people special. In this poem by Rosanna Deerchild, a Native American member of the Cree nation, the speaker describes their hairstyle.
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Pamela Love is a children's magazine and book author. Royal families, made up of kings, queens, and other members of their family, often hired, or gave jobs to, people to work for them. These people may be servants, whose job is to clean another person's house, cook their food, or help them in other ways in their home, or even as jesters, who were hired to tell jokes to royals. In this story, a girl named Mabel meets a giant.
Material Type: Reading
En este cuento, una niña celebra su cumpleaños en el Día de la Tierra.
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In this informational text, Mariam C. Orme discusses one family's tradition of painting eggs in Ukraine for celebration.
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Gary Soto is an American poet, novelist, and memoirist. His writing often reflects his experiences growing up. In this passage, he talks about a jacket he received when he was in fifth grade.
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Cinco de Mayo, a well-known Mexican holiday, has become an important cultural celebration for Mexican Americans across the United States.
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Students explore healthy posture through storytelling and observation.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan
Students create nonsense syllables and improvise on a familiar or created melody.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan
By listening to and looking at the qualities of various scales, students learn to identify the differences between the major, minor, and blues scales.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan
Taekwondo is a type of martial art form from Korea that involves quick kicking, punching, and spinning motions. Students learning taekwondo earn different color belts that show their progress. In this story, a young girl and her friend take taekwondo lessons.
Material Type: Reading
Karim Abouelnaga is the founder and CEO of Practice Benefit Corp, an organization which partners with schools to help close the achievement gap, a term used to describe a huge difference in academic performance between different groups. In his speech, "A summer school kids actually want to attend," he explains the benefit of an appealing summer school for inner-city students.
Material Type: Reading
an dulce means "sweet bread" in Spanish and comes from Mexico. There are many different kinds of pan dulce. In this poem by René Saldaña Jr., the speaker tells about the different kinds of pan dulce cooked by their grandmother.
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Mania is a huge desire for something. In this text, Tracy Vonder Brink discusses the mania around tulips, a type of flower.
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A young boy learns a lesson about fairness after taking a test in school.
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Patrick Harris II is a Black queer writer, storyteller, and middle school humanities teacher. He is the author of "The First Five: A Love Letter to Teachers," and has won multiple national teaching awards. In this short story, a teenage boy named Mehki takes part in martial arts, a form of fighting that mainly comes from East Asia. Forms of martial arts include karate, taekwondo, judo, and more.
Material Type: Reading
Bradford H. Robie has written for Highlights. In this short story, a boy falls into a river during a rafting trip.
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This lesson plan will guide teachers on the fundamental areas for content and language teaching. For new teachers, I would suggest using the WIDA ELD Framework to help guide them in the process.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Science is the study of the world around us. In this informational article, Tracy Vonder Brink explains the science of how ice cream is made.
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