What is secession? How did secession of the southern states from the Union during the Civil War affect the Senate and how did the members respond?

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how animals' physical characteristics, such as jaw structure, are directly related to the function they perform when the animal interacts with its environment.

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students study a disease outbreak and the investigation that followed to understand the role that public health workers play in protecting the communities they serve.

The VPK Learning Center Activities included with this guide are aligned with the Language, Communication and Emergent Literacy Domain within the Florida Early Learning and Developmental Standards for Four-Year-Olds (2011). These standards and associated benchmarks were themselves developed based on the best available research evidence about the important skills that preschool children should know and be able to demonstrate to be ready for kindergarten by the end of the preschool period.

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the varied physical and behavioral adaptations that animals rely on to help them survive changing environmental conditions, such as the arrival of winter.

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.

This issue of the free online magazine, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, explores how elementary teachers can move from a study of the weather at home to the weather of the polar regions through hands-on activity, reading, and discussion.

What's in the Bag? invites primary students to play with vocabulary common to their environment.

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.