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When Turtle Grew Feathers

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the Choctaw Native American tribe.  In this cross curriculum literacy and U.S. history lesson, students locate where the Choctaw Indians lived on a United States map.  Students listen to When Turtle Grew Feathers and...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Ima's Story

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this listening comprehension interactive worksheet, learners listen to an audio story clip and complete the eight sentences with the appropriate word based on the story. The QuickTime software is required for this worksheet.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Halloween Activities

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this online/interactive Halloween worksheet, students view and listen to the "Five Little Pumpkins" video to fill in the blanks to complete sentences, use picture clues to unscramble words about Halloween, match sentences and...
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Story Corps

The Great Thanksgiving Listen

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
StoryCorp provides a resource that captures and preserves the remembrances of family or community elders. Prior to the Thanksgiving holiday, class members select a person they want to interview, record the conversation, and then upload...
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Tangerine: Instructions for Guided Imagery

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A guided imagery exercise draws class members into a particularly intense scene in Edward Bloor's Tangerine. After listening to a reading of an excerpt from the text, participants respond to a series of questions and then share their...
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Missouri Department of Elementary

Sally’s Super Day

For Teachers 2nd Standards
After having a bad day, Sally took scholars' suggestions and had a super day. Pupils listen to her newest short story then discuss the events that occurred. They sort each event by what was in her control and what was not. Participants...
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PBS

Reading Adventure Pack: Oceans

For Parents 1st Standards
Flotsam by David Wiesner and The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor by Joanna Cole, illustrated by Bruce Degen, begin a reading adventure pack focusing on oceans. With story listening and thoughtful discussion, scholars complete several...
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Road to Grammar

Health

For Students 6th - 12th
Are your English language learners feeling unwell? Provide them with the tools to express how they are feeling and to talk about health in general. Included here are discussion activities, vocabulary, listening activities, grammar...
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Museum of Disability

Ian’s Walk and Apples for Cheyenne

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd Standards
Help young learners understand friendship and empathy with two reading comprehension lessons. Each lesson focuses on a story about a child with autism, and encourages readers to compare and contrast the characters to each other and to...
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EngageNY

Grade 9 ELA Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 15

For Teachers 9th Standards
How much progress has Claudette made at the end of "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves"? Ninth graders note evidence for and against Claudette's successful adaptation into human society with a graphic organizer. Additionally,...
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The Listening Walk

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students play instruments that reflect sounds in the story: hoots, toots, creaking, shrieks, clacking, crunching, whooshing, etc. They make vocal sounds from the story: whispered, sniffled, sigh, giggled, croaked, laughed. The...
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Mission Impossible: Secret Phrasal Verbs

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students work together in groups and each member has a task to solve. They role-play the roles of agents in which they have to listen and speak carefully.
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Let's Learn About Firefighters!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore, analyze and study about fire fighters and fire safety. They listen to a book, list what they already know about firefighters and fire safety rules and compare/contrast types of firefighters. Each student then writes a...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Walking Fast a Sign of Longer Life

For Students Pre-K - 6th
In this English worksheet, students discuss walking. Students conduct a survey about walking, write a short piece on walking, listen to and read an article about walking.
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Interactive
Mr. Nussbaum

Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension—The Middle Years (Part 1)

For Students 5th - 7th
Learn more about Honest Abe with an informative passage that details his life chronologically. As learners read sections of the text, they answer multiple choice questions that draw on their ability to recall details from the passage.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Reading Comprehension: Voice of Nature

For Students 4th Standards
Understanding a text can be a very interesting task. Fourth graders read a passage describing the origin of an Aboriginal myth. They answer 11 comprehension questions that require them to pull key details, use context, and think...
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Hear, Hear

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students participate in a listening assessment. In this listening skills lesson, students listen to presentations by classmates and then write essays about the use of dialogue in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
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Cloze Word Story

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders complete a cloze word story test. In this listening skills instructional activity, 5th graders listen to a story and follow along with their own copy. Students listen to the story a second time and fill in the missing words...
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Telephone Game

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students practice their listening comprehension by playing the "telephone" game.  In this foreign language lesson, students listen to a story read by a teacher in their target language and try to remember the details by writing 5...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Basic Listening Comprehension

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this listening comprehension worksheet, students watch a video and answer multiple choice comprehension and vocabulary problems. Students complete 21 questions total.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills: Any Answers – Think of an Answer 2

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this speaking and listening worksheet, students read 20 questions and statements. They think of a response to each, practice saying it to a partner, and then, write down their answers.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills - Any Answers – Think of an Answer 1

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this speaking and listening worksheet, learners read 20 questions and statements. They think of a response to each, practice saying it to a partner, and then, write down their answers. They respond to questions about DVD's, going out...
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What's in the shoebox?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a game to build self esteem, self awareness and listening skills. In this citizenship lesson, students search for representations of their favorite things in the classroom, hide them in a shoe box and lets the...
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A Melody Activity

For Teachers K - 4th
Young scholars explore melody. In this music lesson, students define "melody" and identify the melody line present in increasingly complex musical pieces. Young scholars sing or hum the melody line after listening to an excerpt of music.

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