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The Raven

For Teachers 6th - 9th
After a close reading of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" individuals copy the rhythm and rhyme scheme and rewrite the final stanzas of the poem.
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Edgate

Why Map a Map?

For Teachers 5th - 12th Standards
After brainstorming reasons why Native Americans mapped their lands, your young critical thinkers will work together to review their ideas and determine the definition of a map. With today's extensive use of mapping technology and GPS...
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Maine Content Literacy Project

Understanding Theme

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The ninth in a fourteen-lesson series, this plan marks a sort of midpoint in a unit devoted to the study of short stories. Pupils learn about theme and work on their short story projects by adding to their blogs, checking in with the...
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Smithsonian Institution

Barn Again! Celebrating an American Icon

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
How do barns serve as a window to a community's past? Here are a series of lessons on the symbolism and historical context of barns throughout American history. Topics include community-building, in-depth primary and secondary...
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PowerPoint Presentations

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students create a PowerPoint presentation. In this PowerPoint instructional activity, students create a storyboard about themselves. They use this storyboard to turn into a presentation with seven slides.
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WWI & Depression

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders describe WWI influence in Indiana. In this guided reading activity students read about the participation of Indiana citizens during World War I. Students give examples of event that changed life in Indiana during the early...
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Summing It All Up in a Nutshell

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students observe and demonstrate a variety of summarization strategies. They discuss the process of asking the five W questions, and apply then to a passage from the book "Sarah Plain and Tall." Students then finish the chapter from...
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ESOL: Effective Telephone Communication

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students study ways to communicate via a telephone. They discuss and define what an emergency is and how to use 911 for emergency situations. They role-play conversations subsituting various emergency situations and take turns playing...
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Summarization Mapping

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners observe and demonstrate the strategy of summarizing the main idea. They discuss six rules of summarizing, and observe the teacher summarizing the first chapter of the novel "The Incredible Journey." Students then read chapter...
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Curated OER

Stories Aren't Always What They Seem; Or Are They?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers draw conclusions about a story with examples to support their statements. In this reading comprehension activity, students look at a PowerPoint of a variety of passages from different books. They answer questions about the...
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Questioning the Reader

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students consider various reading strategies to improve their understanding and fluency. They review their assessment task and rubric for how their work will be evaluated. They read a story and predict what will happen by recording...
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Technical Literacy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore the components of the transference of technological information through this ten lesson plan unit. The applications to specific careers, the determination of responsible use of technology, and the affects of...
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Researching Lesson 4

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars explore a "table of contents." In this book researching lesson, students identify common elements of a "table of "contents" and complete a worksheet with questions about this topic.
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Textual Analysis: Forensic Science Files: Handwriting Analysis

For Teachers 6th Standards
Learn to analyze handwriting samples in a textual analysis lesson plan. Middle schoolers complete a textual analysis procedure based on the text Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief. They also provide supporting evidence for their work.
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Let's Go Camping!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students view and use visual texts to gain and present information, become familiar with and use appropriate technologies eg. publish writing on computer, use photographs to record events, use video to record events.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Writing Workshop: Writing a Compare-Contrast Essay

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
Crafting a compare-contrast essay can prove to be a challenge even for experienced writers.  Eradicate the mystery with a PowerPoint that details the rationale for and the structure of this form of expository writing. The 20-slide...
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Skimming

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students examine how to skim textual material. They read an article, and identify the main ideas by reading first and last paragraphs, topic sentences, and other organizational clues.
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"How To Build A Snowman" Expository Writing

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders write a "how to..." or an expository essay on building a snowman. They practice giving directions by explaining how to draw a person using shapes without mentioning that it's a person being drawn. They revise through the...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

The Letter B (b)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students discover words through text, audio and images that begin with the letter B.  For this letter B lesson, students download an ebook and navigate through an interactive reading activity. 
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Problems with the Congress of Vienna

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read a text that outlines the Congress of Vienna. They discuss the main goals of the Congress of Vienna and complete a chart.
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ESOL Safety and Security

For Teachers Higher Ed
Pupils discuss preparation and procedures for natural disasters. They discuss safety procedures for each natural disaster and then share their own personal experiences with natural disasters.
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Language Arts: Before-Reading Organizers

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders discover how to create graphic organizers using the titles and subtitles of informational texts. Following a teacher demonstration, they work in pairs to create their own organizers based on assigned texts. Upon...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Stories? Information? What's the Difference?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students listen to a power point presentation to distinguish between fiction and nonfiction text. In this what's the difference lesson plan, students identify fact from opinion within a text. Students listen critically and respond to text.
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Mobile of Information

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Young scholars create a mobile of various geometric designs to be usend to display information from a variety of texts. They add graphics as well as graphs and charts, color, design and artwork to express the ideas learned through the...

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