[Free Registration/Login Required] With this lesson plan, students can learn how several authors can write about the same topic, but for different purposes.

This online lesson supports the language development and reading comprehension of kindergarten through second graders. Through the use of an innovative "Text talk," strategy, students will explain, develop, and expand upon story ideas....

Students will further their reading comprehension by associating real-life events with the events of a story.

A kindergarten teacher shares how she introduced persuasive writing in her classroom. After a discussion about "problems" that need to be fixed in their school, the class decided they wanted to write the principal a persuasive letter...