This printout provides prompts that help students reflect on and process new information and think critically, and offers teachers the opportunity to differentiate upcoming instruction based on these reflections.

This rubric is designed to be used for any oral presentation. Students are scored in three categories—delivery, content, and audience awareness.

This concept map can be used in a variety of ways to show relationships between words and phrases. Students can add arrows as needed and group certain ideas together.

This rubric is designed to be used for any Readers Theatre performance. Students are scored both individually in the areas of delivery and cooperation and as a group in the area of active, on-task participation.

This graphic organizer provides students the opportunity to brainstorm words about a given topic, count and record the syllables, and draft a haiku.

Students use this printout to expand on connections they have made to a text and use those details to write essays or create projects about the text.

This printout helps students record ideas and situations from texts in one column, and their reactions in the second, thus making a connection between the text and themselves, another text, or the world.

This graphic organizer helps students see the sequential or cause-effect relationships between multiple events in a text.

Help establish a purpose for reading—and generate post-reading reflection and discussion—with this guide.

Use this helpful tool to integrate podcasts into your classroom or to help your students create their own podcasts with audio and images.

Use this graphic organizer to develop a persuasive stance for an essay, speech, poster, or any type of assignment that incorporates persuasion.

Acrostic poems are fun to write. Your students will find constructing them easy, too, thanks to this helpful tool, which has endless possibilities for curriculum integration.

This helpful tool will give your students the opportunity to edit their own writing and then observe as their peers edit the same work.

This K-W-L Chart, which tracks what a student knows (K), wants to know (W), and has learned (L) about a topic, can be used before, during, and after research projects.

Use this T-Chart to examine two facets of an object, situation, or event and to make comparisons related to a variety of subjects and content areas.

Combining words, images, graphics, and multimedia is simple with PowerPoint software. Students learn the basics of slide creation.

The Venn Diagram Rubric can be used to provide students feedback on students' use of a graphic organizer to compare and contrast two things.

Students and teachers can use this rubric when doing writing that compares and contrasts two things, as well as when assessing the writing.

Students can use this template as a means of communicating about a book that they have read.

Who are the characters in this story? Students will examine what a character looks like, what a character does, and how other characters react to him or her.