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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: Word Splash Sentences [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
For this PDF comparison/contrast lesson, students learn a word splash writing activity which asks students to craft meaningful sentences that utilize content vocabulary words. Students-alone or in groups-examine a collection of...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Now & Then

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Inspired by Gene Barretta's Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin this fantastic cross-curricular activity has students comparing or contrasting a particular topic of history with how things are in this day and age.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Alike? Different? Compare and Contrast

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains numerous interactive activities. The flipchart introduces students to the concept of comparison and contrast, how it relates to real life, how it is used by authors, and signal...
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Teachers.net

Teachers.net: Venn Diagrams With the Pain and the Great One

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Come and check out this awesome lesson plan featuring Judy Blume's book, "The Pain and the Great One." Learners will have an opportunity to learn about comparing and contrasting through this Venn diagram lesson plan.
Website
The Book Report

Kids reads.com: The Fudge Books by Judy Blume

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This comprehensive site features activities, reviews, and more for Judy Blume's "The Fudge Books." Come and explore this educational gold mine.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Judy Blume's Biography

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discover more about the life and work of Judy Blume with this resource. Students and teachers will gain a different perspective of this author after exploring this resource.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Write Talks: Students Discover Real Writers/audiences/purposes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
There's a world of writers out there, and in this lesson students discover them as they listen to presentations from local writers and learn about what, why, and how they write in their day-to-day lives.
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Other

Hong Kong Polytech: Functions in Academic Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides a wealth of interactive exercises dealing mainly with the structuring of sentences in different kinds of academic writing.
Activity
University of Texas at Austin

Spanish Proficiency Exercises:beginning Task 07

For Students 9th - 10th
Video clips of native Spanish speakers provide examples for students who are taking Spanish. The videos feature Spanish speakers describing physical features of different people.. Provides a transcript as well so you can read along.
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PBS

Pbs: The Roman Empire of the 1st Century: The Violence of Ancient Rome

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the extreme violence that permeated Roman society and how that violence may have attributed to the downfall of the Roman Empire. Students will make comparisons between the violence in ancient Rome and the violence...