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Mc Graw Hill: Language: Vocabulary Acquisition: Shades of Meaning: Verbs [Pdf]
Students learn about the differences among action verbs with similar meanings by acting them out with classmates in this fun verb game.
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Read Works: In the Night Passage & Question Set
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares a first person account of a cat and its night on the prowl. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are...
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Wisconsin Rt I Center: Frayer Model [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about the Frayer Model, an engaging instructional strategy tool. Teachers will learn how to implement the Frayer Model, understand how to measure progress with the Frayer Model, find research that supports...
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Washington and Jefferson College: Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon
Images aid vocabulary acquisition and are essential to instruction. At the Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon (CAPL) project site, find a browsable and searchable collection of photographs arranged by language and context.
ESL4kids
The Efl Playhouse: Games for Learning English
Use these adaptations of familiar children's games to help foster language development. Each game has a write up detailing how to play, what materials are needed and what adaptations can be made for non-English speakers.
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill Education: Grade 1: Treasures: Practice Book O [Pdf]
Help Grade 1s reinforce their understanding of the reading skills, vocabulary acquisition, phonemic awareness, and sight words with the exercises in this 275-page workbook. This workbook is designed to supplement the stories from Grade 1...
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Teach Engineering: Using Heat From the Sun
In this lesson plan, students will first discuss where energy comes from, including sources such as fossil fuels, nuclear, and such renewable technologies as solar. After this initial exploration, students will investigate the three main...
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Read Works: Cool in the Hot Desert
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives information about the fennec fox and how it stays cool in the hot African desert. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for...
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Read Works: The First Thanksgiving
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage describes the first Thanksgiving. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included. Several...
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Read Works: The Holocaust
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains what the Holocaust was and its impact on people throughout the world. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for...
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Read Works: How to Draw a Map Passage & Question Set
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains how to draw a map. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included. Several questions...
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Read Works: Cat Treat Stops Mosquitoes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage explains how catnip is used to keep mosquitos away from biting. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also...
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Read Works: Jack's Lost Kite Passage & Question Set
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares the story of a boy named Jack who has lost his kite. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also...
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Read Works: The Chicken Pen
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary passage personifies a chicken and his life in the chicken pen. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included....
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Read Works: The Scientific Method
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage lists steps in the scientific method. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included. Several...
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Read Works: "Jose and the Blue Crayons" Passage & Question Set
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares the story of a boy who listened to his teacher during a lesson about "sharing" and then shared a crayon with his classmate. This passage reinforces essential reading...
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Read Works: Callie Learns to Listen
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares the story of a girl who wants to pack up her backpack but first needs to stop and listen for directions from her teacher. This passage reinforces essential reading...
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Read Works: Back Roads
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares the story of two young men who decide to travel from New York City to Pittsburgh by taking back roads. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills....
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Read Works: Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage discusses the show entitled Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grade? and its debut in 2007. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for...
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Read Works: Dear Mr. President
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses different letters to the President in different historical contexts. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary...
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Read Works: Crisis in Africa
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the problems related to poverty, disease, and war in Africa. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition...
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Read Works: Students Get Healthy!
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the need for healthier school lunches and the mandates implemented to ensure that healthier options are provided in schools. This passage reinforces essential reading...
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Read Works: Casey Saves the Play
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares the story of a person who fills in at the last minute to fill a role in a play. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for...
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Read Works: A Scared Tiger
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares the story of a scared cat who will not come down from a tree. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition...