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August House

The Contest Between the Sun and the Wind

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Learn the moral of the story with a series of activities about Aesop's fables. Focusing on The Contest Between the Sun and the Wind, learners complete a graphic organizer to discuss who, what, how, and why the events occur. Additionally,...
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Lesson Plan
August House

Stone Soup

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
Sharing and cooperation are difficult skills for kindergartners to grasp. Using the story Stone Soup and a series of activities, kids learn about the benefits of working together, categorizing and comparing items, and eating healthy foods.
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Silly Stories: Challenge Activities (Theme 1)

For Teachers 2nd
This packet, the first in the series of support materials for the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic units on silly stories, contains enrichment activities for learners who have mastered the basic concepts of the lessons.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Smart Solutions: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 6)

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Smart Solutions is the theme of a unit created to meet the needs of English language earners. Through a series of lessons, scholars follow a routine—move, speak, and listen— to cover topics including stores, shops, celebrations, pets,...
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Activity
PBS

Reading Adventure Pack: What's Next? The Very Hungry Caterpillar

For Parents Pre-K - K Standards
A series of hands-on activities follows a reading of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Learners create a paper collage to explore the beginning, middle, and end of days of the week, numbers, and more. They grow a butterfly...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

6th Grade: Express Yourself, Lesson 2: Close Read

For Teachers 6th Standards
The second activity of a pair about Paul Laurence Dunbar, this plan focuses in particular on his poem, "We Wear the Masks." After a short historical introduction, class members conduct a series or readings, marking up the text and...
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Printables
Kiwi Crate

Story Cards

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Inspire your class to tell some creative stories with a series of story cards. They arrange cards that feature pictures of various items (a robot, a jeep, a ladybug, etc.) and narrate a story about each item.
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Unit Plan
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities

First-Grade Intervention

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Learning how to read is a big challenge for young learners, but this series of lessons provides them with the extra support they need to succeed. With each lesson following the a clearly outlined format, children are introduced to new...
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Worksheet
Voice of America

Henry Ford, 1863-1947: He Revolutionized the Auto Industry

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
How did Henry Ford change the world? One word: automobile. After reading a two-page passage about Henry Ford's contributions to society with the invention of the automobile, readers respond to a series of 10 reading comprehension...
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Federal Trade Commission

Ad Creation

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
How would someone market a new cereal to space aliens? Using the third lesson from a four-part Admongo series on advertising, pupils learn about persuasive techniques companies use to convince consumers to purchase their products. As a...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Alphabet Sequences

For Students K - 1st
In this language arts worksheet, learners reinforce the order of the alphabet by writing it in a puzzle grid. Students fill in the maze boxes with the letters of the alphabet. When Z is reached, the letters start over from the beginning.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using Picture Mapping to Improve Student Comprehension

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils draw pictoral representations of a reading selection they read in order to recall information. For this picture mapping lesson plan, students use pictures to comprehend what they read and sequence the pictures as well.
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Organizer
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McGraw Hill

Phonics Teachers Resource Book

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Looking to improve your classes literacy program? Then look no further. This comprehensive collection of resources includes worksheets and activities covering everything from r-controlled vowels and consonant digraphs, to the different...
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Activity
Curated OER

Express Yourself Lesson Seed 8: Character

For Teachers 6th Standards
Characters often change over the course of a story or novel. Use the sample graphic organizer provided here to track how the narrator has responded to the sequence of events in chapter four through six of The Cay. In addition to this...
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Organizer
University of Florida

The Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Energize a shared reading of the Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip with this collection of supplemental materials. Whether your looking for discussion questions, reading comprehension worksheets, or writing prompts, this...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Daily Routine

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this daily routine learning exercise, students listen to sentences and match them to pictures, sequence sentences, and solve a crossword. Students complete 3 activities about a daily routine.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

4-H Volunteer Development Series - Planning a Lesson

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students examine the steps for effective lesson planning. In this lesson planning instructional activity, students look at how a instructional activity is developed to meet its audience purpose through effective delivery. They complete...
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Printables
Curated OER

Elements of Fiction

For Teachers 1st - 8th
The metaphor of a pot of soup and a series of colorful templates remind young writers of the elements that make for a rich story. Pepper the plot with carrot/character, potato/point of view, corn/conflict, tomato/theme, and season with...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Analyzing Folklore: Redwall

For Teachers 8th
Brian Jacques’ novel Redwall provides the focus for a series of lessons involving the analysis of folklore. Adopting the persona of a character, groups write letters in the voice of their character, assemble a collage using Microsoft...
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Curated OER

Navajo Code Talkers

For Teachers 4th - 8th
An engaging lesson focuses on the contributions of the Navajo people during World War II. Learners read the book Navajo Code Talkers by Andrew Santella, answer a series of comprehension questions about the text, and write a letter as a...
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Lesson Plan
Vanderbilt University

Literacy Teaching Guide: Phonics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
You don't have to be a teacher in New South Wales to appreciate this phonics teaching guide. The 73-page packet is packed with information about the principles of effective phonics programs, teaching methods, sequencing, key strategies,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Let's Do a Biography!

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students sequence events of a biography for a person from the District of Columbia. In this sequence of events instructional activity, students read about the life of Duke Ellington and sequence the events of his lifetime into a timeline...
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Core Knowledge Foundation

Seasons and Weather: Read-Aloud Anthology

For Teachers K Standards
Kindergartners explore the cycle of the seasons in a 10-lesson language arts unit. Through a series of picture-supported read-aloud activities, children are able to identify the sequence of seasons and the types of weather associated...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Writing a News Article

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Join the newspaper business with a series of lessons and exercises focused on elements of journalism. The packet focuses on distinguishing fact from opinion, writing effective headlines, sequencing events, and editing and proofreading a...

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