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Tesol: Helping Students Understand That Written and Spoken English Are Different

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This in-depth article analyzes how teachers can effectively teach students that written language does not always correspond to spoken language. Sample lesson ideas are included. SL.9-10.6 Adapt to task/formal. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.1,...
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Shoreline Community College: Formal Properties of Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
As students become more aware of text complexity, an understanding of the formal properties of literature becomes more important. This is an excellent examination of the kinds of choices writers make that change the way readers receive...
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Purdue University Owl: Academic Writing: Sentence Variety: Strategies for Variation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson offers suggestions to help you fix short, choppy sentences, combine sentences with the same subject, and revise sentences that sound the same. L.11-12.3 Language Functions/Style
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TES Global

Blendspace: Present Simple vs. Present Continuous

For Students 9th - 10th
In this TES Blendspace, students will have access to thirteen multimedia resources that will help them learn the differences between the present simple verb tense and the present continuous verb tense. Each space's subtitle includes a...
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Alex: Learning to Clean Tables by Using Sign Language

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is a L.I.F.E Skills functional and reading lesson using sign language and picture symbols for a severe/profound class with little or no verbal expressive language skills.
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Do Dea: Web Design: Module 2: Web Authoring / Intro to Html

For Students 9th - 10th
In Module 2 of this course on web design, students learn how to begin creating a web page using a text editor, how to use tags and attributes, how to format text, and how to use lists. The last section covers accessibility issues and how...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Karamojong

For Students 9th - 10th
The Karamojong are a pastoral group who inhabit the plateau region of Uganda. Linguistically, the Karamojong belong to the Central Group of the Nilote Language Family, which also includes several neighboring groups that speak a mutually...
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Kimball's Biology Pages: The Human Eye

For Students 9th - 10th
Written by a former author of Biology textbooks, this page describes not only color vision, but the anatomy of the eye, and color blindness. Easy to understand language.
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Brown Math: It's the Law Too the Laws of Logarithms

For Students 9th - 10th
The laws of logarithms (which flow directly out of the laws of exponents) are discussed here. Combining logs with the same base and the Change of Base Formula are also explained in straightforward language for the reader.
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R. B. Jones: First Order Predicate Logic

For Students 9th - 10th
Great introduction to basic ideas in predicate logic. Conveys fundamental ideas without using technical notation. A good place to start.