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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Walmart Middle School Litercy Initiative

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Interactive, student-paced lessons on such literacy skills as categorizing, comparing and contrasting, summarizing, evaluating, determining cause and effect, using text features, connecting, inferring, sequencing, understanding problems...
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abcteach

Abcteach: Middle School Biography Book Report Form [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This is a great three-page printable resource to help middle school students write a report on a biography. Touches on six questions to derive at elements of the biography. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writing a Personal Narrative [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A middle school student model of personal narrative writing. Includes a good writing style, examples, and very good notes and annotations as helpful aids for writing success. Points out the introduction, sequence of events and how they...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner:workshop 4: Teaching Persuasive Writing

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
The fourth workshop [58:24] features the classrooms of two teachers: sixth-grade language arts teacher Jenny Beasley and fifth-grade teacher Jack Wilde. Both are teaching units on persuasive writing that allow students to write about...
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BBC

Bbc Skillswise: Writing a Letter

For Students 9th - 10th
This Skillswise site focuses on letter writing. Included is a video about why it is important to learn about letter writing, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, and quizzes on the information presented. The Skillswise sites from...
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Online Writing Lab

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A great resource for middle-school, high-school, and college writers, with worksheets, articles, model papers, and presentations that will help you with research, grammar, style, job-search and professional writing, and more. Includes...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity: Write Your Own Smart Goal

For Students 3rd - 8th
This SMART resource is an activity about helping students write their own SMART goal.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading and Writing in the Academic Content Areas

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This issue brief from the Alliance for Excellent Education looks at the role every middle and high school teacher must play to help older students become fully literate, and puts forth a four-part agenda for improving literacy in the...
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Other

Rmc Denver: Reflections on Poetry Readings

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This site features a lesson plan for how middle school students can learn to reflect on poetry readings. Students and teachers will benefit from this informative resource.
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Speaking and Listening: Formal and Informal Speaking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Skillswise site focuses on formal and informal speaking. Included are a video about how to decide whether to use formal or informal speech, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction. The Skillswise sites from BBC are geared to...
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Other

Dong a Newspaper: Korean Children's Newspaper

For Students 6th - 8th
Well-known Korean children's newspaper website. Articles match general interests of elementary to middle school students: reports on world news, movie stars, singers, sports, science, school news, cartoons, writing competition and study...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Workshop 1: Creating a Community of Writers

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Workshop 1 explores the components of a community of writers and what teachers can do to create and foster such a community. After a brief introduction to the goals of all eight workshop sessions, middle school teacher and writing expert...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Milly and the Macy's Parade

For Students 3rd - 8th
Resource guides the reader through this great book. Choose from different categories in before, during, and after you read. Take a quiz, create a story map, and write a book report.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Write Now! Career Writing Prompts: Physician Extender

For Students 9th - 10th
This Career Clip features Kerry Demeritt, a Physician Extender at Coordinated Health Systems. She spends most of her day doing casting. The best career advice she received was to try different things and especially use the activities and...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: "I Feel" Origami Boxes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Give your students writing prompts to help them with their writer's block by using these PDF templates of boxes with open-ended prompts written on them. Although targeting elementary students, the concept could be used for middle school...
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Number Symbols

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
This Skillswise site focuses on number symbols. Included are a video which explains how some numbers are used for amounts, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, quizzes on the information presented, and games to practice the skill....
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BBC

Bbc Skillswise: Place Value

For Students 9th - 10th
Five factsheets show you how to use digits, place value, place holders and the signs. Worksheets, quizzes, and a game make learning fast and fun. The Skillswise sites from BBC are geared to adults who are working on literacy and numeracy...
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Fractions

For Students 9th - 10th
This Skillswise site focuses on fractions. Included are a video about why one should learn about fractions, fact sheets and worksheets about fractions, quizzes on the information presented, and several games involving fractions. The...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Write and Compare Probabilities as Fractions, Decimals and Percents

For Students 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains how to represent a probability in the format of fractions, decimals, and percent. Includes a probability problem with a set of sixteen questions, and a...
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Code.org

Code Studio: Computer Science: 20 Hour Intro Course

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This twenty-hour course introduces elementary and middle school students core computer science and programming concepts.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Making Writing Instruction a Priority in Middle and High Schools

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Sometimes writing is seen as the flip side of reading, and it is assumed that students who are proficient readers will naturally be proficient writers. While reading and writing are complementary skills, students do not become skilled...
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Other

Young Author's Workshop: Resource Pages

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
This site provides middle school students with links to online resources that will take them step by step through the writing process. The steps in this process are those used in Writer's Workshop.
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EL Education

El Education: E Is for Egypt

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This book was written and illustrated by sixth grade students at High Tech High Middle School in San Diego, California. As part of a three-month study of Ancient Egypt, students researched topics to feature in this children's alphabet...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Into Space!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
While building and testing model rockets fueled by antacid tablets, students are introduced to the basic physics concepts on how rockets work. Students revise and improve their initial designs. Note: This activity is similar to the...

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