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Reference Materials

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars discuss reasons to use reference materials, identify correct reference material to use for specific information, find answers to specific questions by locating information in encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, almanac,...
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What's the Story

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a narrative story from an image taken by a classmate. Each student takes and downloads a digital picture containing some sort of interesting action. They print and exchange photographs without discussing the photos....
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Commemorative Coin Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss and research an individual or event that has been memorialized on a commemorative coin. They use the information they found to write acrostics, creating stand-up accordion books to display the poems.
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Give a Hoot - Don't Pollute at Black Bayou Lake

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders visit Black Bayou Lake refuge to observe the effects of land and water pollution. They photograph examples of pollution. They list the effects of land and water pollution. They write a persuasive letter to convince others...
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Vowels

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students discover that every word needs a vowel. They solve word puzzles using vowels. They complete worksheet by replacing the vowels in well-known proverbs. They create their own puzzles by removing vowels from selcted proverbs and...
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Curated OER

We're Going to the Zoo!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars write and publish a poem as part of a class poetry collection after analyzing the poetic structures of haiku, limericks, sound poems and free verse. After viewing a multimedia demonstration of the poetic structures, and...
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Curated OER

Melody Words

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders compose a melody by placing words on the music staff. They play their melody words for the class.
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Curated OER

The Evolution of Arkansas Elementary Education

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders interview older citizens to discover earlier educational history. They write essays based on their interviews.
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Curated OER

Creating a Children's Book

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students create a studenT book following an introduction to the publication process. Through exposure to several sources, students learn the steps involved in publishing a book.
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Journalism - The Attention Grabbing Topic Sentence

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students act as journalists to grab audience attention with the topic sentence for their writing. They write paragraphs in quantities appropriate to grade level.
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Curated OER

Report on a Reporter

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Learners listen as a local reporter visits their classroom. They write them a thank you note and develop their own questions to ask them. They practice using proper sentence structure and grammar.
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Curated OER

Poetry in Weather

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars observe and identify the various types of clouds. They compare clouds to clouds on a chart, and in small groups compose and present a group poem about clouds and weather.
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Curated OER

School News

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a video of school news to improve writing skills, speaking skills, questioning skills, and to help build self esteem.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Spelling Patterns "Go Fish" Card Game

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Contains plans for four lessons that ask learners to make spelling cards grouped by spelling patterns. These cards are then used in a "Go Fish" style card game. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Sort, Hunt, Write a Weekly Spelling Program

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Contains plans for five lessons that provide a spelling program where learners categorize spelling words before using them in context. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: The Two Voices of the Ow Spelling Pattern

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Variable vowels are the focus of this lesson plan; students use nursery rhymes and ow to study how vowels can change their sounds according to different spelling patterns.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Variant Correspondences: The Write Word [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a game moving around the game board by identifying the spelling pattern of words. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Syllable Patterns: Syllable Game [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a game moving around the game board by counting syllables in words. Materials are included.
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Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Dictionary

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a lesson in which students learn to use a dictionary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The lesson utilizes the book The Mitten by Jan Brett and includes directions for...
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Word Wall Madness

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
This lesson plan for grades 3-5 uses a team activity to focus on locating misspelled words on the Word Wall and spelling them correctly.
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InterLink Language Centers

Interlink Language Centers: Self Test Quiz: Spelling

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
Students read each sentence and then click the arrow to hear the word that should be used to complete it. Once they have heard the word, they should type it into the box using the correct spelling. Each answer can be checked to see if it...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Hot and Cold Summer

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is based on the 5th grade Harcourt Reading Series. The lessons focus on spelling, grammar and vocabulary. Many items are linked to activities. The students will be engaged!
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My Schoolhouse Interactive Learning

For Students 3rd - 8th
Math and reading lessons, with automatic online correction, allow you to set your own pace.
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Dandi Palmer: Sorcerer's Apprentice

For Students 2nd - 5th
Click through the pages of this beautifully illustrated story book to read about a young sorcerer's apprentice who thinks she can cast spells like the sorcerer in order to get her work done more quickly, but she learns a lesson and the...