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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Writing to Learn [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Teachers will learn how to use Writing to Learn as a formative assessment tool. Teachers will learn how to implement the strategy, measure progress, and find research to support writing to learn. A list of Writing to Learn activities is...
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Choral Reading [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about choral reading, an engaging instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement choral reading, understand how to measure progress with choral reading, find research that supports choral...
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Activity
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Ei/ie Spelling Rules Exercise 1

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Practice ei/ie spelling words by choosing the correctly spelled word for each sentence in this practice exercise.
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Activity
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Ei/ie Spelling Rules Exercise 2

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This resource provides practice for spelling words correctly that contain ie or ei in them.
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Handout
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School

Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Writing a Thesis Statement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An excellent tip sheet for creating and perfecting a thesis statement. Also includes information about statement of purpose and examples.
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Reading Literature: Craft and Structure: Point of View

For Students 6th Standards
This learning module focuses on point of view including the speaker or narrator, first and third person, perspective, and the thoughts and feeling of the speaker. It offers a model story with explanation and a practice story with questions.
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill: Conventions of Standard English: Avoiding Vague Pronoun References

For Students 6th Standards
Read about vague pronoun references then click the practice button to practice what you've learned.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Visuals: Graphs, Charts, and Diagrams

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article explains that graphs, charts, and diagrams are used to display information visually. The choice of what type of graph or chart to use depends on the information to be displayed. Software programs make these much easier to...
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Activity
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Prose Constructed Response Organizer [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for preparing a constructed response that must compare two sources that make the same claim: two articles or an article and a video.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Improve an Argument [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This resource provides a downloadable worksheet. Students will read a nonfiction article and then answer scaffolded questions that will help them determine the strength of evidence presented in the argument. Then students will provide...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Share Knowledge: Fact Bank [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
This graphic organizer can be used to collect facts during a research task prior to writing about the topic or sharing what was learned in a discussion. Students will place facts in the boxes and then number the facts, according to the...
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Northern Virginia Community College

Northern Virginia Community College: How to Analyze Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In addition to briefly explaining the reason for analyzing a work of literature, this site provides the definition of key terms used in literary analysis. W.11-12.9a Amer Lit 18th,19th, 20th cen/Analy
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill:informational Text: Analyze Development of Text Elements:individuals

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Read an informational piece, and learn how to analyze the development of individuals in the text. Includes practice exercises.
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill: Informational Text: Analyze Development of Text Elements: Events

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Read an informational piece, and learn how to analyze the development of an event in the text.
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Analyze Multiple Accounts

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Learn about the different perspectives that can be used in an informational text.
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 1 Reading: Literature: 5th Grade Quote Accurately

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
An article describing the importance of making inferences while reading a story.
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Activity
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 1 Reading: Literature: Determine Theme

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Determine the theme of a story with this reading activity. See the model and then practice identifying the theme.
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Author Point of View

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
Learn four questions you can ask while reading an informational text to determine the author's point of view. Includes practice worksheet.
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English Worksheets Land

English Worksheets Land: Inappropriate Shifts in Verbs

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Find fifteen worksheets designed to provide practice on maintaining verb tense. These exercises have been created expressly for elementary students. All worksheets are available as PDFs.
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Other

Beacon Educator: Reading Educator: Dictionary Game

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Develop better vocabulary and dictionary skills while playing this fun dictionary game with students in small groups. Click on the video link to watch the game being played in a classroom. L.9-10.4c References
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Article
Other

Dean and Laura Vandruff: Conversational Terrorism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This humorous essay arms you against a host of "conversation terrorist" techniques. Learn to interpret phrases that are meant to keep you quiet, change the subject, or throw you off track in your conversation. SL.9-10.3 Eval...
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Other

Westside Toastmasters: The Grand Finale: 12 Ways to End Your Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource presents 12 different ways to conclude your speech and provides short examples.
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Website
Other

Creative Proverbs: Index of Countries and Cultures

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A detailed list of proverbs by culture. Over 100 countries/cultures listed and over 2,000 proverbs! Also provides information about the country and culture, including maps and cultural information.
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill: Craft and Structure: Point of View

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This learning module focuses on the types of point of view, how the point of view impacts the description of events, and the impact of the types of narrators. It provides an example with an explanation and a practice activity with...