Alabama ELA Standard: 4.LF.21.c

Can your students fit a whole story into seventeen syllables? In a haiku, every word has to fight for its spot.

Can your students shrink a whole story down to one sentence? Every cut reveals what is truly essential.

Young students can use this big idea organizer to identify the main idea and support it with details.

Autumn was once powerful because of the harvest. What gives Fall its power now?

Your young students will compare how two characters have changed in a story.

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

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

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

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

Allison Edwards explains how blood flow in your brain affects your decision-making

One painting of ruins. Three robots. Three pieces of writing. Who wrote it best?

One painting of a bridge. Three robots. Who wrote it best?

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

Three paragraphs about baseball. They all cover the same topic — so what makes each one different? Now combine them into one super-paragraph.

Let’s get students thinking big and focusing on more abstract ideas.

Get kids focusing on the small, but essential, details of a topic.

Reduce anxiety by breathing in a square pattern.

Romeo and Juliet in just about five minutes.

Shakespeare’s Much Ado summarized in just five minutes!

It’s Hamlet in just about five minutes!

Let’s write a summary. A very short summary. With VERY strict rules.