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Poetry Out Loud

The Tabloid Ballad

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What do the theme song from Gilligan's Island, the nursery rhyme "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat," and the poem "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" all have in common? Why, they're ballads of course! Challenge your young balladeers to compose their...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Three Skeleton Key

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Encourage your students to interact with the text as they read. While reading "Three Skeleton Key," class members note predictions, define words and study their meanings, take notes on how the suspense builds, and jot down ideas...
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Novelinks

The Hobbit: Anticipation Guide

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Prior to reading Tolkien's The Hobbit, class members respond to a series of statements in an anticipation guide that introduces many of the central concepts of the novel.
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Macmillan Education

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Follow Alice as she travels through Wonderland with a set of lessons based on the first chapter of the book. Learners discuss key moments and ideas from chapter 1 before answering a series of comprehension questions about what they have...
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Novelinks

The Joy Luck Club: Vocabulary Strategy (Magic Squares)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
As part of their study of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, readers engage in a magic squares vocabulary activity.
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Federal Trade Commission

Ad Targeting and Techniques

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
What techniques do advertisers use to reach a target audience? Pupils discover the answer with the second of four Admongo lesson plans. Scholars learn about the most common strategies advertisers use to convince people to buy something....
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Curated OER

Who's Up for the Olympic Challenge?:Integrating the 5 Themes of Geography with Olympic Bids

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore geographical themes.  In this problem solving geography lesson, students view a PowerPoint presentation about the Vancouver/Whistler Olympic bid.  Students analyze Vancouver as an Olympic site looking at...
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Curated OER

Fictional Characters

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore fictional characters. In this fictional characters lesson plan, students hear information about a character then ask and answer questions. Students also answer true/false questions about the character and make a mini...
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Curated OER

Cluing into Symbols Robert Frost

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners use the Internet and video to discover how find evidence in poetry in order to discover the theme(s) of the poems. They are able to define poetic devices like simile, metaphor and repetition. Students identify themes in...
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Curated OER

Geographically Speaking

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils play a matching game to reinforce the retention of vocabulary words. In this geography lesson, students watch a PowerPoint to define vocabulary words associated with geography, play a memory game with the words, and write an...
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Curated OER

Sentence Puzzle Race

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners create sentences based on the word cards they are given. In this sentences lesson plan, students work in teams and get points for correct sentences.
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Curated OER

Meet A Tree

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore different types of trees with their senses. In this nature lesson, students play a game in which pairs use their senses to explore trees, blindfolded. Students then must find the tree they found when blindfolded. 
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Curated OER

Test Your Reading Skills-- Any Answers 3

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this language arts worksheet, learners practice answering a question with a logical clear response. Students read 10 questions and choose the most appropriate answer.
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Curated OER

Olympic Games Snowboard Design: Winter Sports, Snowboarding, Graphic Arts, Global Cultures

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students gather information about a country and work as a team. They use their knowledge to create a snowboard design that represents the country they pick. They explore locations, languages, flags, and emblems for various countries.
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Curated OER

The Dictionary Game

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students play The Dictionary Game--also called Balderdash as a way to learn new vocabulary words.
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Storybooks and Games

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore stories, games and coloring pages on an interactive website. In this pre-reading activity, students have free access to stories, coloring pages and simple games at the Lil' Fingers website.
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Curated OER

Meet You at the Midden: Map Game

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use a sketch map to interpret map symbols in order to participate in a game. Using the game cards, they identify reasons why people modify their environment to meet their needs. They compare and contrast how people lived...
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Curated OER

Rules For the Home Game

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice naming furniture in this Home Game. Students also use prepositions of place to describe where the furniture is.
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Curated OER

Comprehension Game for Guided Reading

For Teachers K - 1st
Students play reading comprehension games. For this guided reading lesson plan, students play a comprehension game made by the teacher. Students may play the game before or after reading the story. 
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Curated OER

The Meishi Game

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In this Meishi game worksheet, young scholars create six small identity cards, exchange them as self-introduction cards with other students and try to collect as many cards as they can to win the game.
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Curated OER

Word Games from the Turn of the 20th Century

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders research games from the early 20th century and compare them with contemporary games. They create their own games including objectives, equipment, number of players and rules. They test the games by playing them.
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Curated OER

Copy Cat Game

For Teachers K
Students participate in a game about copy cats. They follow an adult leader as they perform positive and negative behaviors. They are to react only to the positives.
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Curated OER

Floogle Game

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students participate in a game of concentration, listening, and speech. While standing in a circle, students pass around an object which has been named a nonsense word. Two objects are passed around the circle, in opposite directions,...
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Curated OER

Sign Language Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students work on their sign language skills using yarn balls to tag with and cones for boundaries.

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