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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders engage in Layered Curriculum that is essentially, an opportunity for self-made choice in the process of evaluation. While reading this novel students get to choose the projects that best help apply what is read.
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Your Own Fresh Water Aquarium in the Classroom

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore aquariums. In this fish and ecosystems lessons, students establish a freshwater aquarium environment using materials provided. Students read about and care for the classroom fish.
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Listening to Learn: Podcasting as an Assessment Tool

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Students use podcasting and iPods to take tests rather than reading. In this podcasting lesson plan, students learn how to use a podcast rather than have a test read to them.
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Silly Sally

For Teachers K - 1st
Students examine character traits. In this literary elements lesson plan, students read 2 short stories paying special attention to the actions and descriptions of the characters. Students add themselves as characters in the story.
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Out of the Dust

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine 1930's America through literature. In this Dust Bowl lesson, students read Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust and set up vocabulary journals and question bookmarks to log their thoughts and impressions as they read the novel.
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Beans Are Seeds

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read literature regarding the growth of seeds. They investigate how seeds need water and light to sprout and then grow. They experiment by planting their own bean seeds. They record the progress of their seeds in both...
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Language and Literacy Support through Photography

For Teachers K - 8th
Students experience creating realia with digital photos to increase their vocabularies. They practice creating meaningful digital photo books that the students can take home and read with their families. Each student interacts with a...
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Words That Will Haunt You

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create taxonomies of Halloween-related terms. Drawing from their compiled vocabulary lists and previous reading, they compose personal essays of their own memories of the holiday. Students present their essays at a...
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Flip Camera Activity: Being a Good Citizen

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students make a video. In this citizen lesson, students discuss what a good citizen is. Students define what rights Americans have and write paragraphs about our rights and responsibilities. Students videotape their partner as they read...
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It's Happening, Where? Find the Absolute and Relative Location of News Articles

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Pupils read newspaper articles. In this social studies lesson, students locate the latitude and longitude of the location where the news article takes place. Pupils write a summary of the news article.
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Feeling Sleepy

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students read the article "Feeling Sleepy?" students compare the article to a sleep survey they do in their class, describe problems that can arise from not getting enough sleep and identify strategies for getting adequate sleep.
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Language Arts: Koko's Kitten

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read "Koko's Kitten" and complete an Internet scavenger hunt. After reading the book, they visit Koko's Website, focusing on the Kid's Corner section. Once there, 4th graders complete worksheets to answer questions posed...
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Helicopters

For Students 2nd - 4th
Using this reading passage relating to helicopters, learners can practice comprehension and vocabulary skills. Because of the novel aspect of the topic, learners should enjoy reading the story and answering the 10 questions that follow.  
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Story Telling

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers practice story telling. In this story telling lesson plan, students work in groups to read a fable and divide it into a beginning, middle, and end. Each member takes a section and practices retelling it with vocals,...
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-ed word accuracy

For Teachers 1st
First graders read past tense words. In this word accuracy lesson, 1st graders view index cards containing words ending in -ed. Students practice saying the given words in the past and present tense.
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Gandhi's Autobiography and the Study of Memoir

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore the life of Gandhi using his autobiography and memoir. In this Gandhi exploration lesson, 7th graders analyze Gandhi's literary voice by reading his autobiography. Students identify literary techniques in Gandhi's...
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Predicting Our Way to the Top

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders make predictions. In this prediction lesson students enter quotes into their journal as they read. They write down quotes from each chapter that they feel make predictions about the story.
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Protecting Man's Best Friend

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students read about how dogs help people. For this language arts lesson, students select a topic and create a presentation about dogs. Students choose the type of presentation to create.
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Building a Sentence

For Teachers 1st
First graders echo a sentence targeting a vowel selected by the teacher and shown on a sentence strip. In this sentence building lesson plan, 1st graders put the cut up sentence strip back into correct order, repeating the sentence....
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Angels of Generosity

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students write a generosity journal which chronicals acts of kindness after reading the Surat story, Angel Child, Dragon Child.
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House and Home

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars read the first chapter of the book "House on Mango Street". They take notes and reflect on quotes that were meaningful to them. They discuss their observations and write an essay emulating the writing style from the book.
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Little Cloud

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create "little clouds" after reading the story "The Little Cloud" by Eric Carle in this cross-curricular Art and Language Arts lesson for the early-elementary classroom. The author suggests using this with a "Raindrop Picture"...
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Bo Knows "O"

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e patter that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They distinguish between the short vowel o and long vowel o. Students practice reading and spelling words with the...
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Book Making

For Teachers K - 8th
Students make connections with real life experiences and the two languages, including Spanish and English. They create their own books in this project lesson plan to take home and read with their families. Students also use a digital...

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