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Daniel's Story Study Guide
Students explore the concept of prejudice. In this World War II activity, students read Daniel's Story by Carol Matas. Students complete the provided study guide as they read the novel and discuss the Holocaust.
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A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words
Students examine historical photographs and discuss what the photograph reveals and how they can contribute to writing. In this response to literature students choose a photograph and develop a paragraph around it.
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Using Literary Elements to Compare Fiction Texts
Learners explore language arts by reading and reflecting on literary examples. For this fiction writing lesson, students read several different cultural versions of the story "Cinderella" and discuss their interaction with the story and...
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Word World
In this word world activity, students fill in fifteen blanks in fifteen sentences by choosing a word from the word bank that makes each sentence complete.
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Introducing Tolkien and His Words
Students identify and describe the types of narratives that made Tolkien the writer he was. In groups, they examine different myths and folktale motifs. They discuss what Tolkien meant by "faerie" and "eucatastrophe." As a class, they...
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American Literature, The Earliest Days
Students prepare for and respond to literature selections. This package includes eleven lessons from the American Literature, The Earliest Days: Prehistory to 1750 each covering a different reading selection. Pre-reading and response...
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A Festival Day In Ancient Greece
Sixth graders present a Greek festival. In this Greek festival lesson, 6th graders experience many facets of an ancient Greek festival. Students in sixth grade present the Greek festival to second grade students.
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A Graphic Scene
Third graders discuss the advantages of using various graphic organizers including Venn Diagrams and T-charts. They use the organizers to compare and contrast different versions of classic mythological stories.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
In this Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone learning exercise, students draw characters from the book, write descriptions about the character, and then exchange another students description and draw the character they described. ...
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Context Clues
Students develop vocabulary using pre -reading strategies. In this language arts instructional activity, students discuss the intended message from observing a picture. Additionally, students explore guessing the covered word within a text.
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Rock N Rhythm & Rhyme (Part One)
Students make flip books of rhyming words and match words together that are on cards. In this rhyming lesson plan, students read books and read individual words to identify rhyming words.
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Dictionary Skills
Students use a dictionary to review their spelling words. They discover how to use guide words in the dicotionary to find the words. They must write their spelling word and the page and guide words found on the page where the word is found.
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An Invitation to Simple Machines
Third graders explore simple machines as a way of helping the principle with a hurt foot manuever his way around the campus.
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The Greatest Survival Story of All Time
Students use the Internet to read about an explorer's survival in the Antarctic. They try to find a better route for him to have taken.
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World Literature From Africa
Young scholars prepare for and respond to literature selections. This package includes twenty-four lessons from the World Literature series, each covering a different reading selection from Africa. Pre-reading and response activities are...
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All About Me
Students write a paragraph, make lists, draw, and brainstorm things about themselves, their goals, and their past. In this all about me lesson plan, students recall information about themselves, and interview others in order to write...
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Veteran's Day Crossword Puzzle
In this holiday themed learning exercise, students determine the answers to 21 clues to fill in a crossword puzzle associated with Veteran's Day.
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What Is a Business?
Students discover how to maintain successful businesses as they assume the roles of owners and drivers of their own ice cream trucks.
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My Machine
Third graders explore how simple machines can affect their health and lifestyle. In addition, 3rd graders use their knowledge of simple machines to build a unique machine.
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Inside Information
Pupils research and write reports about inventions and inventors. They develop graphic organizers to organize their information, and create reports on the impact of inventors and inventions.
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Respect
Students define what having respect or showing respect means. They distinguish between a respectful and a disrespectful situation. They role-play examples of showing respect and disrespect to others.
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Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes
Students read the novel "Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr. They Reaearch Japanese Culture and design a presentation based on information from the Sadako Peace Club link.
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Revision Lesson
Students, through a series of 4 lessons, explore what it means to revise their written work. They revise a bland story together and then practice revising their own papers by identifying the main action and "exploding" that moment into...
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Rhythm and Rhyming Long Rope Jumping
Students discuss the importance of rhythm in rope jumping. They practice turning, then jumping. Students discuss the various types of rhymes. They work in groups for a couple of classes, students rotate from chart to chart trying out...
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