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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Informational Text 101

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
A five-part learning module on informational text including links to a video, images, and an assessment.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Text Features

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to images, graphic organizers, and a video on recognizing text features in nonfiction texts.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Informative Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A nine-part learning module with links to websites, videos, and images to use while learning how to write and deliver an informative speech.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Tone and Mood

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to texts, videos of movie clips, and a slideshow to introduce Tone and Mood.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Infographics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to images, a text, a video, and websites about infographics and how to design effective infographics.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Reading Comprehension Visualizing

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
A five-part learning module with links to images and web sites to help student improve reading comprehension by visualizing.
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Article
Other

Nielsen Norman Group: Guidelines for Multimedia on the Web

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Guidelines on how to design presentations for web media. This is an old article and some of the information is outdated, but much is still relevant. SL.9-10.5 Audio Visuals, RI.11-12.7 Eval Different Media/format....
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Website
Literacy Head

Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Text to Self Connections

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Enjoy with your students this collection of images that invite them to make personal connections. Students can practice articulating and writing about their personal connections using these images, a nice scaffold for later connections...
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Handout
Other

How to Study: Making an Oral Presentation

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
Ten useful ideas for making oral presentations more effective and interesting. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.4
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Handout
Columbia University

Columbia: Tips for Effective Presentations Using Four Important Design Concepts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Excellent, clear guidelines to aid you in using visual aids in a presentation. Curser down to find the information. W.9-10.6 Techno, SL.11-12.5 Audio Visuals
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Article
Other

Ecg Coaching: Pulling It Out of Thin Air

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An article about public speaking that presents various strategies for recovering when one forgets what to say.
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Handout
Other

National University of Singapore: Preparing for Presentations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Some tips are presented on how to properly prepare the content of and structure a presentation. SL.9-10.1a Prepared/Discuss. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.4, SL.11-12.4 Presentation
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Website
Literacy Head

Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Storytelling

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of images of people listening to and telling stories give your writers ideas. These paintings and illustrations point to the universal nature of telling and listening.
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Handout
Other

Frontiernet.net: Note Taking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from Frontiernet.net outlines the reason why educators prefer to "lecture" students, as well as the best ways to take notes during these lectures.
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Graphic
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Graphic Organizers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of pre-formatted graphic organizers that you can integrate into activities and lesson plans or use by themselves.