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Learning to be a Super Speedy Reader

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students review the steps to follow when they come to a word that they do not know, review blending, and the body and coda part of the word. They time the teacher as she reads for one minute using the clock on the wall. They then read...
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Remember Me Bag and Other Gift Ideas

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students make end of the year gift bags in the forms of a bag with different materials in it. In this crafts lesson, students put stationary, lollipops, stamps, bookmarks, pencils, and other materials into the bags.
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How Do Words Feel? (Individually)

For Teachers 1st
First graders used textured print to discover how spoken words feel.
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Surfing for ABC's

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore how to use the Internet and how it can be a learning tool and a safe, informative place for them.
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Speaking Out For Women's Rights

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners write a children's story in which the characters are encouraged to speak out for the equality of women. They create a character and plot outline that includes details and supporting statements for women's rights. A brief 2-3...
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Please Read Politely!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students, through teacher modeling and independent practice, discover the concept of silent reading. They read a selection aloud, in a whisper, silently, but with lips moving and finally silently without lips moving. They answer...
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Take Me to Your Reader

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students observe and demonstrate a variety of strategies for reading with expression. They listen to the teacher read different sentences with and without expression and discuss the differences. Next, in pairs they take turns reading...
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Ehhh! What'd ya say? Eeeggs

For Teachers K
Students identify the vowel sound with a short e. They distinguish this sound /e/ in written and spoken words. Finally, students identify and spell using a letterbox lesson and reading various words with the vowel sound and are...
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Musical Alphabet- Skipping Up

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students explore the musical alphabet. In this music lesson, students are introduced to the concept of skipping up and stepping up. Students complete a worksheet to reinforce the concepts taught.
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Knick Knack Paddywhack

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students search for hidden patterns and rhymes.  In this pattern and rhyming lesson, students search for hidden patterns and rhymes within the song "Knick-knack Paddywhack."  Students discuss what they find or hear together. 
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Speedy Monkeys

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing crosschecking, decoding, and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
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Using The Catalog to Locate Information

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify prior knowledge of the Public Access Catalog. They identify parts of a catalog record. Students use the Public Access Catalog to locate an item. The teacher place 6-8 books on the tables. Students locate several...
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Practicing Smarter Not Harder is Best!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students increase their reading fluence through repeated reading of a selected, leveled passage. Working in pairs, students read a grade level appropriate text in one-minute intervals. After reading they determine their fluency through a...
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Steve and Harriet's Wedding

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new digraph /sh/...
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Developing a Media Portfolio

For Teachers 9th
students discuss the vehicles used by media to feed images to consumers. In small groups, 9th graders are given magazines and asked to pick out the ads that appeal to them. They write responses to the questions:
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Garden Journals

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners create "Garden Journals" using construction paper, poster board, and general art supplies in this Art, Science, Reading, and Writing lesson plan for the early-elementary classroom. This activity may be done at the beginning of...
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Snowshoe Orienteering

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students discuss the history of the snowshoe. They wear snowshoes to experience how Aboriginal people used snowshoes. Students simulate a hunting trip. They walk a course, in snowshoes, collecting information on the course and recording...
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On Your Mark, Get Set, Read

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students improve their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding and rereading strategies, students work with the instructor to complete a timed assessment of their words read per minute.
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Learning to Read With Jet Speed

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
not a lesson Student's success in school depends on the accuracy at which they can read their materials in the expected amount of time. If young scholars do not read accurately, quickly, and effortlessly they may fall behind their...
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Dear Mr. Henshaw

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students read Dear Mr. Henshaw. In this language arts instructional activity, students answer Mr. Henshaw's ten questions using detailed paragraphs. Students create a lunch box alarm.
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The Pony Express

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders answer four math questions based on their reading of a short story on the history of the Pony Express.
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Tissue Leaf Rubbings

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students use tissue paper to create the texture of a leaf. They use different colors of tissue paper to have leaves of different colors. They place the leaves on white construction paper for all classes to view.
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Scrapbook

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students, using photos as their inspiration, develop six personal narratives, then edit and revise them.
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Musical Form and Sibelius Groovy Music Shapes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners create a song using the form ABACADAEA. Students listen to a musical piece created by Vivaldi that is an example of this musical form. Then learners use software to create their own musical forms representing this pattern.

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