This article highlights the five essential components of cooperative learning, provides a quick overview of the research behind the strategy, describes three of the most common types, and offers ideas on how to get started using cooperative learning at the elementary level.

When should you teach the Countable and Uncountable Nouns lesson?The lesson suits beginner-level students and can be taught to children, teenagers, and adults. Some recommended prerequisites to this lesson are the use of a/an and singular/plural regular nouns.If you want additional lesson plans and support, including teachers’ notes, be sure to register for a free Off2Class account.

This article provides an overview of Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center that provides educators with free resources around the areas of equity, justice, and tolerance.

This article discusses how creating Readers Theater scripts from informational text can improve fluency and build comprehension.

This article discusses the importance of student feedback in creating a respectful, equitable classroom.

This article provides an overview of culturally responsive teaching and highlights resources for more information.

This article describes how curriculum compacting can be used to meet the needs of gifted students within the regular classroom.

This nonfiction article, written for students in grades 4-5, explores the life and seasonal migration of the sanderling bird. Modified versions are available for students in younger grades.

Demonstrative pronouns – this, that, these, and those – are used to replace nouns in sentences. Demonstrative pronouns are difficult to grasp for English language learners for many reasons. First, they all start with th, which is a hard sound for English learners to produce. Second, they are used in relation to the speaker, which often creates further confusion for students. However, if English language learner wants to improve their fluency, they must learn to use them confidently and correctly.If you want additional lesson plans and support, including teachers’ notes, be sure to register for a free Off2Class account.

In episode seven of the Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears podcast series, learn how scientists can get a first-hand look at changing polar icebergs and glaciers and what these changes can teach us about density.

This article describes the reading strategy of determining importance and provides templates and guidance for teaching this content area strategy to elementary students.

This article highlights lesson plans and activities that help elementary students develop map skills as they learn earth science concepts.

This article includes a menu of post-reading activities for use with any nonfiction text. Students spend $50 on their choice of activities.

This expository article for elementary students describes the dinosaurs that lived in polar regions as well as the adaptations that helped them survive in the dark and cold environment. Modified versions for younger grades are available.

This article describes how to use art projects to help students learn science concepts and how this integration helps students with language-based learning disabilities.

This article presents thirteen web sites that provide resources for ELL students and their teachers. Reprinted from TeacherMagazine.org with author permission.

When to teach this lesson?This lesson is designed to teach to students at a pre-Intermediate level. This means that they have mastered basic language skills and familiarity with plural nouns, a/an, frequency, and time. Before starting this lesson, students should have a solid understanding of how to use the present simple tense. They should be starting to use the past and future tenses as well. This lesson can be used to introduce the difference between the articles a/an and the. If you want additional lesson plans and support, including teachers’ notes, be sure to register for a free Off2Class account.

This ESL lesson plan on consumerism and consumption is suitable to use with advanced-level students. You must use this lesson with mature students that can engage with the content…I know my adult students love this lesson! Not to mention, I love teaching it! In any case, you should use this lesson plan to practice reading, speaking and listening as well as to introduce your students to new vocabulary.If you want additional lesson plans and support, including teachers’ notes, be sure to register for a free Off2Class account.

This issue of the free online magazine, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, explores glaciers, wind, water, and volcanoes and their role in shaping the landscape of the polar regions.

This article discusses the role of effort and praise in student motivation and achievement.