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Read Works

Read Works: Drawing Conclusions 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on drawing conclusions through which students learn how to use pictures and context clues to discover a missing word and to draw conclusions about a story. Students also use...
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Read Works

Read Works: Drawing Conclusions 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson plan unit on drawing conclusions through which students learn how to recognize the difference between implicit information and drawing conclusions. Students also learn to draw conclusions...
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Read Works

Read Works: Drawing Conclusions Kindergarten Unit: Short Story

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan teaching students to make conclusions based on a sentences and short texts. Students use textual cues to explain how the conclusions were reached. Ideas for direct teaching, guided...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Make Inferences and Draw Conclusions

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Learn how to go beyond the literal meaning of a text by using a list of guiding questions to make inferences and draw conclusions.
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Read Works: Bringing Books to Life

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how children's books become movies. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: How Wind Affects Various Objects

For Teachers K - 1st
In this activity, students experiment with various objects in a wind tunnel. Together, they record predictions and data in a class data table. Students will then use the information gained in the experiment to draw conclusions about the...
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Syracuse University

Draw Your Own Conclusions: Political Cartooning Then & ?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Take a look at how wars and politics from the 1860s through the 1960s were drawn by some of the nation's most influential humorists and cartoonists.
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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Determine the Central Idea: Human Impacts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students will learn how to identify the central idea of a text about human impacts by examining key details.
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BBC

Bbc Skillswise: Listening for Specific Information

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial presents a video, factsheets, and worksheets for learning how to listen for and understand information. It looks at how to handle different situations, e.g., arranging a delivery, asking questions about a product before...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Watercolor Butterflies Craft

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This website shows students how to make their own watercolors to decorate their butterfly.
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Read Works

Read Works: Super Survival Skills

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how different types of fish are able to defend themselves and survive in their environments. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
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Broward Education Foundation

Broward Education Foundation: Project Living History [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Inquiry research is self-directed and project-based on the grade-level curriculum. Students begin an area of inquiry research becoming a critical historian. Focusing on research writing involves reading and a digital search on Destiny...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Various Texts With Similar Themes (English I Reading)

For Students 9th Standards
You will learn how to make inferences and draw conclusions about similar themes in various texts by finding supporting evidence within the texts.
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Intel Corporation

Intel: Fractions Made Visual

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students learn the importance of math accuracy and, more specifically, that knowing how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions make life easier for everyone. To help students come to this understanding, they are assigned to a...
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Google

Google for Education: Data Aggregation and Decomposition (Python)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn how to use and analyze data to draw conclusions about information collected from classmates. Then they use computational thinking by collecting and aggregating data onto a spreadsheet, identifying patterns in their data,...
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University of Maryland

Howard County Public School System: Shays' Rebellion [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students will be able to corroborate multiple primary sources to draw conclusions about how the leaders of the American Revolution viewed Shays' Rebellion.
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University of Maryland

Howard County Public School System: Foundations of American Government [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
How was the foundation of today's representative democracy established in early colonial America? Young scholars will be able to source three documents and corroborate evidence to draw conclusions about the development of democratic...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Rain Forest Rescue

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how the Amazon rain forest and how Brazil is trying to protect it. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
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Read Works

Read Works: Not So Loony Toons

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how political cartoonists use symbolism, exaggeration, humor, and caricature to comment on current events. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing...
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Read Works: Paradise Lost

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how the Amazon rain forest and some of the animals living there. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
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Read Works

Read Works: Look at Leaves

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how the leaves on trees change from season to season. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
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Read Works

Read Works: Awesome Animal Homes

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how different types of animal homes, including mounds, nests, burrows, and lodges. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
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Read Works

Read Works: Spiders and a Balanced Diet

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how spiders choose to eat a balanced diet. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
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Read Works

Read Works: Star Spangled Relic

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how on important historical relic was found. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.