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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Two Easy to Make Classroom Book Formats

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this article, the author gives directions about how to conduct book-making projects with students. Directions for making concertina books, often referred to as accordion books, and single-section binding books are included in the...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ch. 2: Choice in a World of Scarcity: Critical Thinking Questions

For Students 11th - 12th
This is a list of five critical thinking questions based on content presented in Chapter 2: Choice in a World of Scarcity from the TEA AP Macroeconomics online text.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Choice Poems for Little Children

For Students 2nd - 4th
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of Choice Poems for Little Children, a book of poetry for children.
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: '121 Express' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
121 Express is a novel by Monique Polak for Grades 5-8. It looks at a boy's attempts to become popular by teasing other children on a bus. He then learns to question his choices when he realizes the negative consequences of his actions....
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: Thunderbowl: Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This teacher's guide contains a summary, discussion topics and teaching ideas for the book Thunderbowl by Lesley Choyce. The book is about a teen who wants to make a success of his musical aspirations. But, when he starts playing with...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Novel Study Independent Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will choose a novel from a teacher-created reading list. After reading their choice novel, students will prepare a 1-1/2 to 2 minute multimedia presentation to "sell" other students on the novel. In addition, students will...
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wikiHow

Wiki How: How to Make a Hollow Book

For Students 9th - 10th
If you have a hardback book you don't want anymore this is a creative idea to recycle it. Use it as a secret storage place or a spring board for some art ideas.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Make Westing" by Jack London

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "Make Westing" by Jack London. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Making a Sensation" by T. S. Arthur

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "Making a Sensation" by American author T. S. Arthur. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Making Allowances for Mamma" by Kathleen Thompson Norris

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "Making Allowances for Mamma" by Kathleen Thompson Norris. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Big Book Activities: What Will the Weather Be Like Today?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this K-2 lesson, the teacher uses guided reading strategies and creative activities to make a big book come alive to her students.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Differentiated Narrative Lesson: Two Safe Frame Choices

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson plan is based on two narrative picture books that can be compared and contrasted: When I was Five by Arthur Howard and Jamie Lee Curtis' When I Was Little: A Four-Year-Old's Memoir of her Youth. Students will need to think...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Apparent Motion & Animation

For Students 3rd - 5th
This project investigates the phenomenon of apparent motion by making your own flip-book animations. This optical illusion experiment, while fun and short, will prove to be a very eye opening experience.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Abc Community Walk

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson, students will learn vocabulary related to a community. The class will create a class Community ABC Book as a culminating activity to show what they have learned about what it means to be part of a community.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Masks and Aesop's Fables

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This multi-media visual and language arts activity offers intellectual, creative, and interpretive opportunities through use of books, music, and the internet. It offers complete grade-leveled lesson plans for grades k-4 which include...
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Lesson: A Listening Doll

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson plan, students explore the tradition of Pueblo "Listening dolls" and create their own version of this historical tradition. Also contains a rubric, extensions, and books to use as references.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Which Make Men Remember" by Jack London

For Students 9th - 10th
A fugitive criminal seeks refuge in this short story by Jack London. Read the full text on this site.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What in the World Is Wrong With Sammy?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
This lesson provides students with the technology-based project researching Guinea Pigs. The trade book, Sammy, the Classroom Guinea Pig, will be used to make predictions.The students will use the facts from their research to create a...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Who Doesn't Want to Be a Millionaire

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Inspired by Barry Lane's book 51 Wacky We-Search Reports, in this cross-curricular lesson students learn how to summarize properly.
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Other

Teachingheart.net: A Teacher's Dental Health Page

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
These lesson plans teach students the importance of good dental hygiene and feature crafts, games, books ,and songs.
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Character Lab

Character Lab: Imagine That: How Reading a Book Can Make You a Better Person

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This blog explains how reading and empathy are related.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Phonological Awareness/beginning Sounds

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
During this lesson students will develop phonological awareness through activities that focus on beginning sounds. Students will go on a scavenger hunt, make a picture book, and play games on the Internet in order to help them learn to...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: My Family and Me

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Instructions for making a book about family with a young child.
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NOAA

Noaa: Endangered Species Origami [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover facts about endangered whales and turtles. Fold paper to make Origami models of these two creatures.

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