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Your Telephone Speaking Voice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an article that covers many different telephone skills. It covers the proper answering techniques and the correct way to leave a message.
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Telephone Skills in French

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers useful telephone phrases in french. It is perfect for students of french or students who are traveling.
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Amby Duncan-Carr

Amby: Telephone Communications

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you need to make a professional phone call? Before you pick up the phone, explore these telephone skills that allow you to communicate like a pro.
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Dj Zone: What to Say When Someone Calls

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives great tips for answering the phone in the most efficient and polite manner possible. Pretty good overview of basic telephone skills.
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How to Create a Great First Impression

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes how to make good initial immpressions by developing adequate telephone skills. Students who practice these skills will be more prepared for job interviews and careers.
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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: The Telephone

For Students 9th - 10th
The home page to the PBS feature film on the invention of the telephone. The People and Events section has biographies and commentary on the invention of the telephone and its subsequent success. Be sure to click on Gallery for pictures...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Today's Telephone" by Barbara Radner

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
A learning module that begins with "Today's Telephone" by Barbara Radner, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...
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Effectively Using the Telephone

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource contains an article about using the telephone to its maximum potential. It gives basic advice on improving your communication over the phone.
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Telephone Songs

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an amusing site that deals with telephones. Take a break from learning all these skills and learn how to play a couple songs!
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World Wide School

World Wide School: Etext of "A Telephonic Conversation"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the complete etext for Mark Twain's story, "A Telephonic Conversation."
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "A Telephonic Conversation" by Mark Twain

For Students 9th - 10th
The full text of the short "A Telephonic Conversation" by Mark Twain. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.
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Read Works

Read Works: Inventions: Then and Now

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how the telephone, calculator, television, and clock have changed since they were invented. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.
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Read Works

Read Works: Famous Inventors Alexander Graham Bell: You Rang?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares brief biographical information about Alexander Graham Bell and his role in inventing the telephone. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading...
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 587: Alexander Graham Bell

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of the life and achievements of Canadian inventor, Alexander Graham Bell. Focuses on the two fascinations that marked Bell's whole life: his concern for the deaf and for flight, and the inventions that resulted. This is a...
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PBS

Pbs: Technology Slider

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a view into the American home over the past 100 years and illustrates the role technology played in daily life.
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Other

Cpsr: Cyber Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
CPSR offers an informative discussion of current legal and policy topics hosted by group working for rights of assembly and speech for online communities.
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College Grad

College Grad: Job Search Central

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource explains how to set up a "control center" to organize your job search much like a business.
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Other

I Am Special: Yo Soy Especial

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Dynamic site for teachers who have Spanish ESL students. Activities for students to strengthen basic concepts such as writing their own name, address and telephone number. It offers Spanish and English capability. Downloads provided.
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Read Works

Read Works: Alexander Graham Bell

For Teachers 5th - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site includes a biography of Alexander Graham Bell. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary...
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Read Works

Read Works: Telephones: Then and Now

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This short literary text passage is about how telephones have changed over the years. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading comprehension skills...
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PBS

Pbs: Count on It!: Episode 207 Blossom and Snappy Learn About Utilities

For Students K - 1st Standards
Blossom and Snappy help Robbie prepare for a dinner party. They make a decorative centerpiece out of postage stamps. In order to help Robbie, they decide to pay her bills for her. In doing this, Blossom and Snappy visit and learn about...
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Curated OER

Telephone Songs

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an amusing site that deals with telephones. Take a break from learning all these skills and learn how to play a couple songs!
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Tale of Text Messages: A Character Study of a Tale of Two Cities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students engage in a character study of the numerous figures created by Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities. They compare and contrast several forms of communication: email, text message, and telephone; complete a character study...
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Read Works

Read Works: Inventions: Then and Now

For Students 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about popular inventions and how they have changed throughout the year, including: the telephone, the calculator, the television, and the clock. A question sheet is available to...

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