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Marking Time

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Two narrative excerpts tell the same story from different points of view. In the first excerpt (first person), sequencing words and phrases are bolded and learners write down what the bold type does. The second excerpt is in third...
Writing
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Protest Letter

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
What a fantastic resource to guide youngsters in persuasive letter writing. They read a brief letter to the editor and answer question about the author's purpose, word choice, and structure. Next, scholars draft their own letter by...
Lesson Plan
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Introduce: Comprehension Monitoring using About Trees

For Teachers K - 3rd
As scholars begin reading more difficult text, they need to acquire an arsenal of comprehension strategies. Here are few helpful ones to guide new readers through the informational text About Trees, which is linked here for...
Lesson Plan
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Genre Lesson: Realistic Fiction

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
As scholars begin identifying stories as realistic fiction, its important they see many examples to solidify their concepts of this genre. Readers begin with a personal connection, thinking of television shows they like and determining...
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Juliana Dogbadzi: Slavery/Trafficking

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Progress your learners' comprehension of universal human rights by exploring the violation of human trafficking through the experiences of Juliana Dogbadzi. This activity analyzes and discusses very sensistive and graphic issues but is...
Lesson Plan
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Mid-Unit 2 Assessment: Inferring About the Silversmith Trade in Colonial Times

For Teachers 4th Standards
The seventh lesson plan in this unit on colonial trade assesses fourth graders' ability to use details from an informational text to make inferences and create a piece of informative writing. The included assessment begins with learners...
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End of Unit 2 Assessment: Working with Two Texts - Reading, Listening, Summarizing, and Synthesizing

For Teachers 4th Standards
As a summative assessment for this unit on colonial trade, fourth graders listen to and read informational texts in order to demonstrate their ability to take notes, write summaries, and draw connections. Young scholars first listen as...
Study Guide
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Study Guide for Where the Red Fern Grows

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
One of the best fourth grade books of all time is Where the Red Fern Grows. Provide your class with interesting background on the book and the author as well as worksheets for every five chapters of the novel. The first part of the guide...
Printables
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The Common Core Literacy Standards - Kindergarten Posters

For Teachers K Standards
Can we do it? Yes we can! Your class can become Common Core masters with a fine set of posters that state each of the kindergarten literacy standards in a friendly "we can" statement. Each of the posters contains two standards, a "we...
Worksheet
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Printable Alphabet Tracing Worksheets

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
As usual, A is for apple! Practice writing every letter in the alphabet. Each page in this packet begins with a cute graphic, an example of the letter in a word, and several lines for practicing both the uppercase and lowercase version...
Workbook
National Behaviour Support Service

Academic Vocabulary Building Activities

For Teachers K - 9th Standards
Suggestions for using Roberto Marzano's six-step approach to academic vocabulary instruction are detailed in a packet that includes graphic organizers, worksheets, and activities.
Unit Plan
Portland Public Schools

Opinion: Persuasive Essay Unit Introduction

For Teachers 4th Standards
Opinion, audience, purpose. Fourth graders are introduced to the three characteristics of persuasive writing in the third unit of a year-long writing program. The 98-page packet is complete with plans, model essays, graphic organizers,...
Unit Plan
Los Angeles Unified School District

Tools for ESL Lesson Planning

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Whether you are new to teaching language learners or an experienced pro you will find much to like in this massive tool kit. The 195-page packets contains teaching tips and tools, sample lesson plans and activities, worksheets and...
Assessment
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Area and Perimeter

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Get third graders excited to work find area and perimeter of unit squares, rectangles, and irregular shapes. A 36-page packet comes with task cards, graphic organizers, practice worksheets, printables with squares, exit tickets, and word...
Lesson Plan
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Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" in Graphical Representation

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars analyze graphical forms of Eudora Welty and interpret the shorts stories in the representations. In this graphical representations instructional activity, students analyze the short story genre in comic strips. Young...
Organizer
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Graphic Organizers

For Students 4th - 5th
In this graphic organizer worksheet, students read a text and then use the graphic organizer to help them write the sequence of the story.
Organizer
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Monster: Compare and Contrast

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Helpful for a unit on Walter Dean Myers' Monster, or any novel that you are teaching, a graphic organizer prompts learners to compare and contrast different character traits. The first box has one set of lines to jot down what two...
Organizer
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Compromise, Resolution, and Synthesis

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Provide your debaters with a graphic organizer that asks them to select a topic and then list for the first position key points and arguments, possible compromise and systhesis, and key points and arguments for their second position. 
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Polk Bros Foundation

I Can Analyze Cause and Effect

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
Examine cause and effect by asking pupils to fill out a basic graphic organizer. The template is for any story or event and provides a line for writing in the story or event title. Pupils write in two causes in the circles and the change...
Lesson Plan
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English/Language Arts Methods Project

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students design a webquest requiring higher order thinking and providing students with opportunities to reflect on their learning. They include an assessment tool to evaluate the process and product.
Worksheet
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Compare and Contrast Greek Myths (4)

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
How are Icarus and Prometheus similar? How are they different? Compare any two Greek myths with a graphic organizer, which provides space for kids to fill in the ways that the myths are like and unlike each other.
Lesson Plan
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The Devil’s Arithmetic: Semantic Feature Analysis

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Organize the characters in Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic according to their shared character traits. After listing character traits as a class, kids note which characters exhibit particular characteristics with a...
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Literary Elements Worksheets and Graphic Organizers

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Using graphic organizers can be an effective way to teach literary elements.
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Art Nouveau

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Art Nouveau lessons and activities can provide a way for students to compare and contrast different artistic styles.

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