Edgar Allan Poe – Annabel Lee: Lost Love

Students read from Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee” and answer questions.

Edgar Allan Poe; Journalist Trickster

Students read about one of Edgar Allan Poe’s hoaxes when he was a journalist. Each student then write’s their own hoax!

Edgar Allan Poe: Secrets in Poetry

Students read from Edgar Allan Poe’s “An Enigma” and decipher the name of the woman’s whose name is hidden within the text.

Eight Cousins: Telling Troubles

Students read a passage in Louisa May Alcott’s Eight Cousins and answer realted comprehension questions.

Endangered Species

Week 11 Reading Comprehension (D-11). A life science reading comprehension passage about endangered species. Cross-Curricular Focus: Life Science.

Eratosthenes: Geographer and Mathematician

Week 16 Reading Comprehension (D-16). A short story and related questions about the world’s first geographer. Cross-Curricular Focus: History / Social Sciences / Mathematics

Escaping Persecution

Week 31 Reading Comprehension (E-31). How some settlers who came to the English colonies in rth America tried to escape religious persecution Cross-Curricular Focus: History / Social Sciences.

Estimation

Week 10 Reading Comprehension (D-10). A reading segment about using estimation in mathematics. Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics.

Evaluating Efficiency

Week 33 Reading Comprehension (D-33). A passage about determining the best way to solve problems. Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics.

Excretory System

Week 17 Reading Comprehension (E-17). How the excretory system regulates the amount of water that you have in your body and helps remove waste. Cross-Curricular Focus: Life Science.

Exponential Notation

Week 16 Reading Comprehension (E-16). A passage about exponential tation, also kwn as scientific tation as a way to represent numbers. Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics.

Expressions with Parentheses

Week 13 Reading Comprehension (D-13). A reading segment about how parentheses are used in solving math problems. Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics.

Extreme Weather

Week 33 Reading Comprehension (E-33). A passage and questions about how severe storms happen in low-pressure weather systems. Cross-Curricular Focus: Earth Science.

Eyes Front! Idiom Practice

Your students will learn what is an idiom by writing their own sentences with an idiom, and then explaining what their idiom means.

Father’s Day Bio Poem: My Father

Enhance your students’ writing skills with this fun Father’s Day Biography Poem activity.

Find it: Indirect Characterization

Learn about indirect characterization with this printable worksheet on making inferences and understanding character traits. This classroom activity is great for students looking to practice their reading and inferencing skills. Download and print for use both at home or in the classroom.

Find It! Sentences with Prepositional Phrases

Work on identifying prepositional phrases with this printable classroom activity. Students will complete the worksheet by reading through the given sentences and circling the number of the sentences that have a prepositional phrase. This activity is great for 4th – 5th grade, but can be used where felt appropriate.