This Now Presenting - Report on a Topic Activity is a fun way for students to learn about Summarizing and presentations!

Using this Look in the Text Activity, students ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

This What Do You Think opinion writing activity helps 1st-3rd grade writers pick the best season, give two reasons and publish their opinion. Answer key included.

This share your opinion about your favorite book activity helps 1st through 3rd Grade writers plan and publish a book review with word cards and a planner. Answer key included.

Using this Get to the Point PowerPoint Activity, students learn to include multimedia components such as graphics, sounds, and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.

Using Enhancing My Presentation Activity, students add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations to enhance the development of main ideas.

Using Writing Cards Activity, students write informative and explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.

The This Is What I Think Activity helps Kindergarten and 1st Grade kids pick a picture topic card, draw their idea, then write an opinion sentence with a reason.

This strengthen your writing activity has 1st to 3rd graders fix capital letters, end marks and spelling with Fix-It cards, then edit with a partner checklist. Answer key included.

This Author At Work Writing Checklist Activity lets 3rd to 5th grade students sort writing cards by type and check their own writing with clear checklists. Answer key included for easy review.

Using Work in Progress Worksheet, students write about something that makes them happy to share their writing with a friend to gain feedback to improve their writing.

Using W.5.7 Common Core Activity, students conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.