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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
You will learn how to determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Applying Word Study Strategies (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Apply previous lessons, (1) Linguistic Roots and Affixes, (2) Denotation and Connotation, (3) Origins and Meanings of Foreign Words, (4) Cognates, and (5) Reference Materials, to improve fluency and comprehension.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Does Grammar Matter?

For Students 9th - 10th
It can be hard sometimes, when speaking, to remember all of the grammatical rules that guide us when we're writing. When is it right to say "the dog and me" and when should it be "the dog and I"? Does it even matter? Andreea S. Calude...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Yoruk

For Students 9th - 10th
The Yoruk are an ethnic-tribal grouping found widely throughout Turkey but primarily along the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts. The Yoruk are not linguistically distinct from most of the rural populations among whom they live. They speak...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Tropical Forest Foragers

For Students 9th - 10th
The term "tropical-forest foragers," or "pygmies," refers to ethno-linguistically diverse peoples distributed across the forested regions of Central Africa who are particularly short in stature and who traditionally have lived by...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Turks

For Students 9th - 10th
Ethnically, the Turks are a cultural group united by a common language, but the term "Turk" has no clearly defined racial significance; it can be properly applied to those communities historically and linguistically connected to the...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: San Speaking Peoples

For Students 9th - 10th
San-speaking peoples do not constitute an ethnic group in the usual sense. The most widely known are those who call themselves "Zhu I oasi" (!Kung or Juwasi in most ethnographies), although the other peoples mentioned above have also...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Persians

For Students 9th - 10th
Persians are an ethnic group defined primarily by language and location. The Persian language, also known as Farsi, which linguists classify in the Indo-Iranian Branch of the Indo-European Language Family, had about 23 million speakers...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Pedi

For Students 9th - 10th
"Pedi," in its broadest sense, has been a cultural/linguistic term. It was previously used to describe the entire set of people speaking various dialects of the Sotho language who live in the northern Transvaal of South Africa. More...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Ibibio

For Students 9th - 10th
The name "Ibibio" identifies the largest subdivision of people living in southeastern Nigeria, in Akwa Ibom State, and it is generally accepted and used for both ethnic and linguistic descriptions. Like their Igbo neighbors, the Ibibio...
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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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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Jews of Iran

For Students 9th - 10th
Until mass emigration began in 1948, Jews constituted one of the largest and longest-settled non-Muslim populations in Iran. Dispersed in every city and town in the country, Iranian Jews were almost always a minority except in a few...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Mandaeans

For Students 9th - 10th
The Mandaeans are a group of people defined primarily by their religious affiliation, which differs from that of their mainly Muslim neighbors in Iran and Iraq. Today they live along the rivers and waterways of southern Iraq and...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Nuristanis

For Students 9th - 10th
The area known as Nuristan is located at the southern end of the Hindu Kush mountain range in Afghanistan. There are limited amounts of arable land in the Hindu Kush, but there are abundant amounts of pastureland well suited for...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution: Anthropology on the Internet for K 12

For Students 9th - 10th
The Smithsonian institute offers this site by Robert L. Humphrey titled, "Anthropology on the Internet for K-12." Includes excellent information on the different branches of anthropology, careers, exhibits, publications, and more.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Antonyms, Synonyms & Homonyms

For Students 2nd - 6th Standards
If you need to brush up on antonyms, synonyms, and homonyms check out this game. Practice identifying these three tricky types of words by matching the identified words on the frog with the words on the correct flies.
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Other

Ancient scripts.com: Phonetics

For Students 9th - 10th
Ancient Scripts features a tutorial on phonetics and the terminology used to describe the sounds and the tones that make up spoken language.
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: In the Beginning

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This expansive self-guided unit hits on many objectives such as analyzing literature for author's purpose, figuring out the main idea/theme, understanding historical criticism, comparing and contrasting works from major historical...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Structuralism Basic Premises

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Excellent source for structuralism and its tenets and premises. Provides key works, methodologies, and criticisms. Thorough website.
Article
TESL Journal

The Internet Tesl Journal: Copyright Issues on the Web

For Students 9th - 10th
Specific, easy to read guidelines on Copyright and Plagiarism regulations. Focuses on use of Internet material. Includes clear definitions and copyright information listings. A great resource to prevent plagiarism on your site and in...
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Auburn University

Auburn University: How Children Learn to Read Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How do children really learn to read words? This resource offers insight into this complicated but exciting journey of putting sounds and words together to learn the joy of reading. Come and discover more.
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Indiana University

Indiana University: Howard Gardner

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This website from the Indiana University gives an overview of Howard Gardner's life and work. Learn more about this educational reformer by reading about his work.
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SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Italics & Underlining

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains information regarding the correct use of italics and underlining, along with many examples.
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LD Online

Ld Online: English Language Learners With Special Needs

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site provides a synopsis of educating ELL students who are struggling in school, and identifying learning disabilities in this population of students. Included are strategies for avoiding misidentification and implementing early...

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