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Your students (deep down inside) are wondering what the difference is between Veterans Day and Memorial Day. And those truly inquisitive students...
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Here are 5 Cool Facts About Ice Cream: 1. Long before modern refrigeration and freezers, around 200 BC, the Chinese enjoyed a frozen mixture of milk...
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Sometimes it just takes one simple thing to get reluctant readers and writers motivated to start their task. That one simple thing could be a fun,...
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This year, when you are looking for ideas that go beyond the boring book report or essay, but you still want students to read informational text and...
How Chameleons Change Colors: An ELA Literacy in Science Lesson
This fun lesson combines science and ELA (a.k.a. literacy in science). Students read about why and how chameleons change color. They explain why...
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes Reading Literature Lesson
I like to get students excited about reading literature by having them do a fun activity to go with the story. This is especially true when the book...
Labor Day in ELA
You're curious about Labor Day and, deep down inside, students are too. Here are a few interesting facts about Labor Day to satisfy your curiosity,...
100 Questions on Standardized ELA Assessment Tests
After having been an ELA teacher for 10 years, and then an assessment writer contracted with multiple Ed-Tech companies (while running my store...
The 10 Reading Informational Text Assessment Test Targets (Progressing from Grades 4 to 12)
No matter which state (or U.S. Territory) you live in, your state’s ELA standards include these 10 Reading Informational Text Assessment Test...