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.

Students can utilize this printout to organize their writing as they learn to use the RAFT strategy. This printout enables students to clearly define their role, audience, format, and topic for writing.

Students can utilize this printout to organize their thoughts as a new concept or content is introduced through a Seed Discussion. This printout readies students to acquire new knowledge by organizing what they know and what they're prepared to learn.

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.

It's easy to make a movie today, thanks to software that may already be on your home computer. Sounds fun, and it's a lesson in how to communicate ideas.

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 rubric delineates specific expectations about an essay assignment to students and provides a means of assessing completed student essays.

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.

Use this rubric to assess the effectiveness of a student's essay, speech, poster, or any type of assignment that incorporates persuasion.

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.