Find teacher resources for pk-12 on our Utah State Board of Education English langauage arts elementary page.

This article describes the processes of making inferences and using context clues to define unknown words. Links to web sites and articles provide background knowledge and instruction for teachers and students.

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn that transitional fossils provide scientists with evidence to establish how major animal groups are related to one another.

Learn how educators in upper elementary, middle grades, and high school can support their English learners' vocabulary development with these strategies.

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine our growing waste problem and learn about strategies we can use to lessen the strain on our landfills and Earth's natural resources: reduce, reuse, recycle.

This article explains how hands-on science activity can support vocabulary development and links to two books and six web sites that provide more information.

This is a lesson plan is an example of how to teach a new vocabulary word using the suggestions of McGraw-Hill and LETRS training. This lesson explains how to incorporate syllable types and phoneme counting into your vocabulary lesson.

The Iris Center provides a wealth of resources for Inclusive Literacy instruction for students of all grade levels. The Iris Center offers modules for content area teachers who are often frustrated by the poor reading abilities of many of their students. it is important for content-area teachers to understand where reading breakdowns occur and how they can effectively and efficiently teach the skills necessary for students to read and understand complex, content-area text.