As part of the study of women's history, young scholars examine Chester Comix's strips about the Seneca Falls Convention and four 19th century leaders in the struggle for equal rights. After researching other elements of the Suffrage...

Fifth graders create multi-media newscasts based on their knowledge of Civil War battles of the ironclad ships.

This lesson plan focuses on prewriting and planning a personal narrative. The information can be used in all types of writing. It discusses brainstorming ideas, narrowing the focus, and developing the central idea. W.9-10.5 Writing...

This article from Re:Fiction magazine offers tips on different ways to end a piece of narrative writing.

Here is an excellent list of ideas for teachers to utilize in their classroom to accompany paragraph writing skills. These creative and exciting activities will sharpen your student's writing abilities.

Fifth graders will use non-fiction books to identify and explain how text features help them as individual readers.