What is a Lesson Plan? An effective lesson plan demonstrates how a teacher creates objectives for his or her students and measures how those objectives are mastered. Creating a lesson plan begins with ...

Ask each student to sum up their initial "gut" reactions to the article in one word and write these words on the board. (5 minutes) Give a presentation on how we express opinions and back them up in ...

To help students understand the form and function of a summary and to prepare them to write their own summary paragraphs. Students have read a sample summary (i.e., an abstract of an journal article) ...

This strategy for teaching creative writing to first- and second-grade students uses an engaging and differentiated approach.