Key Literacy Strategies

Establishing Cause and Effect

RESOURCE GRADE LEVEL MEDIA TYPE
Building the Erie Canal

Building the Erie Canal

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students look at how the construction of the Erie Canal brought about major changes within United States, particularly in New York City, upstate New York, and the Midwest.

5-12

Self-paced Lesson

Character Change: <em>The Diary of Anne Frank</em>

Character Change: The Diary of Anne Frank

In this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students examine how Anne Frank's character changed while she was in hiding from the Nazis in World War II.

5-12

Self-paced Lesson

Newton's Third Law: Action–Reaction

Newton's Third Law: Action–Reaction

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, an early astronaut's experiences teach students that Newton's third law of motion—for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction—applies both on Earth and in outer space.

7-12

Self-paced Lesson