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Curated OER

State Facts

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this state fact chart worksheet, students are provided with a chart showing all 50 states, their abbreviations, state bird, flower, animal, and the year of statehood. There are also basic facts about each state. The worksheet...
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Beth Kupper-Herr

Taking Notes

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
When you ask your students to take notes during class, do they really know what you mean? Are they taking the right kind of notes and using their time effectively? Make sure they are by offering this handout, a comprehensive guide...
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Yale University

Arabic - English Glossary

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Designed to accompany Focus on Contemporary Arabic by Shukri Abed, this document provides 41 pages of Arabic terms with English translations. The words are organized alphabetically in Arabic and include notations that indicate colloquial...
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School District of Palm Beach County

Timelines

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
What do BC and AD mean on a timeline? What is the difference between a decade and a century? Here is a nice handout that offers all the foundational knowledge your young historians will need on how to look at historical timelines.
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Willow Tree

Order of Operations

For Students 7th - 10th Standards
It's the classic please excuse my dear aunt sally strategy to remembering the order of operations. Young mathematicians practice to develop an understanding of the order of operations. Examples and practice problems include...
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Goodwill

Gcf Global: Abbreviations and Acronyms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn when and how to use common abbreviations and acronyms.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Abbreviations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site focuses on abbreviations including definitions, acronyms and initialisms, abbreviations for courtesy titles and academic degrees, Latin abbreviations, and other common abbreviations including time and dates, places, and units...
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English Club

English Club: Abbreviations: Acronyms

For Students 9th - 10th
This EnglishClub tutorial defines the term acronym, a type of abbreviation, and then provides several examples of acronyms.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Abbreviations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A very competent look at how to use abbreviations in their proper context. This site also examines the proper use of abbreviations with titles, numbers and phrases.
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Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Initialisms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Initialisms including definitions for each. It also provides links to lists of abbreviations, etc. by category including Titles of Literary Works, Books of the Bible, Legal Terms and...
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English Club

English Club: Abbreviations: Initialisms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This EnglishClub tutorial defines the term initialism, a type of abbreviation, and then provides several examples of initialisms.
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English Club

English Club: Abbreviations: Shortenings

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This EnglishClub reference page provides the definition for "abbreviation" and then provides a chart with examples of abbreviations.
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English Club

English Club: Abbreviations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This EnglishClub tutorial for abbreviations for the four main types of abbreviations and the ways to punctuate each.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: List of Country Abbreviations

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents a list of the two-letter abbreviations for the many countries of the world.
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Other

Time and date.com: Time Zone Abbreviations

For Students 9th - 10th
You can find out time zone abbreviations, time differences with UTC, and other useful time information.
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Other

Acronym Finder: Abbreviations and Acronyms Dictionary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Journalists are inundated with acronyms. This site contains 240,000 of them and their meanings. Search tool allows you to enter the exact acronym or the first letter. You can even enter a keyword and look for acronyms that include it....
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Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Guide to Grammar and Style: Periods

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An excellent outline of the usage and rules concerning the "period" in English punctuation. Includes guidelines about acronyms, abbreviations, sentence ending, and more.
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SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Apostrophes

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource looks at the three main uses of apostrophes: to take the place of deleted letters; to show possession; and to show plurals of letters, numbers, symbols, abbreviations and words used as words.
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Other

Sandhills Community College: The Period

For Students 9th - 10th
A good guide to understanding the several uses of the period in English punctuation. Includes information concerning periods in a sentence as well as abbreviations. Includes several examples.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Period

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource detailing the uses and rules of the grammatical element "the period." Also includes information about the period in sentences, quotation marks, parentheses, and abbreviations.
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Harvard University

Harvard Writing Center: Tips on Grammar, Punctuation and Style

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rather than lists of rules, this site provides practical advice on the use of commas, semicolons, dashes, hyphens, abbreviations, acronyms, split infinitives, "this," "that," italics, and underlining. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2
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English Plus+

English Plus: Grammar Slammar!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An easy-to-use grammar resource containing rules for style, usage, capitalization, abbreviations, punctuation, and letter writing. This site also includes a glossary of common grammatical mistakes.
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ACT360 Media

Writing Tips: Punctuation: Period

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief description of the rules, usage, and examples of the "period" in English punctuation. Includes basic information concerning period use in abbreviations as well.
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Other

The 101 Series: E Mail Lingo

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the 101 Series covers many of the abbreviations and acronyms that have been developed to save typing and emoticons to clarify the tone of the text.

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