Alabama ELA Standard: 4.LF.16.a

Students explore the idea of indirect power – which can be both visible (a lighthouse) or invisible (magnetism).

Teach your young students to identify the moral or the theme of a story.

Can you use the context clues to get these sentences about great sloths back into the correct order?

Can you use the context clues to get these sentences about The Great Sphinx back into the correct order?

What’s going on in this painting? Who is that guy? What’s his job? And where’s his other boot?

What’s going on in this room? There are shoes everywhere! Are those… oranges? Let’s make some inferences!

What are these two women up to? What’s that thing she’s holding? Let’s make some inferences!

What would Socrates have thought if he watched Frozen?

Rather than just demand that students “write clearly,” we’ll explore the hazards of poorly written sentences… and maybe create one of our own!

A crocodile makes a deal. But the deal creates a paradox. Can your students untangle a 2,000-year-old logic puzzle?

Context clues lessons can be a disaster. Here, we expose students to a delightful classic packed with nonsense words (“Jabberwocky”) and ask them to decipher the meanings and parts of speech. Then, it’s only natural for students to write their own nonsense poems.

How would an economist read Goldilocks? How would they see a rainforest? How would they study the American Revolution?