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Reading Quest: Making Sense of Social Studies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Teaching students to read well in areas other than language arts requires teaching and reinforcing the kinds of reading strategies taught here. There are 27 strategies, ranging from brainstorming to word mapping. The site includes PDF...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: On Track English I Writing: Editing

For Students 1st - 9th Standards
This site offers links to each section of Writing, Module 8, Lessons 1-9 and Practices 1-3. Students write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions in their compositions; spell correctly; and edit drafts for...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Accountable Talk Introduction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Learning to engage in collaborative conversations allows children to learn about their world, to become familiar with words, and to build a solid foundation for the development of reading and writing skills. This lesson will model...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Speaking and Listening in Content Area Learning

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Oral language development facilitates print literacy. In this article, we focus on the ways in which teachers can ensure students' speaking and listening skills are developed. We provide a review of effective classroom routines,...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Missions, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
A Spanish Franciscan and a French Jesuit report on the reciprocal relationship between natives and Catholic missionaries as Europeans settled New France and New Spain.
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University of Texas at Austin

Tex's French Grammar: Pronominal and Reflexive Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Tex's French Grammar is a great, succinct lesson on Pronominal (reflexive, idiomatic & reciprocal) verbs. Site has short, very usable written and auditory examples and dialogues which can be used for listening...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Perpendicular or Parallel?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students can use TI 73 calculators to explore equations that create parallel and perpendicular lines. Teacher will use the screen capture feature of the Navigator system to display students graphs and equations to discuss observations to...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exponential Functions: Zero and Negative Exponents

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will solve exponential functions with zero and negative exponents. The problems involve the use of reciprocals and graphs.
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Language Guide

Language Guide: Pronominals (Reflexives)

For Students 9th - 10th
Presentation of Pronominal verbs - discusses various usage, such as reciprocity, usage without an external agent, and to form the passive. Has audio for pronunciation guide and interactive exercises. There are several languages available...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Explore Parallel and Perpendicular Lines

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students can use a graphing calculator to explore graphs of parallel and perpendicular lines. Students will find that parallel lines have the same slope and different y-intercepts and that the slopes of two perpendicular lines are...
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Learning Wave Communications

Learning Wave: Fractions

For Students 6th - 8th
This resource contains information about fractions and includes ratios, equivalent fractions, basic operations, and reciprocals. Several links for practice problems are also included, along with links to a post and pretest.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Arithmetic: Quotients of Mixed Numbers

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students find the quotient of two mixed numbers by converting to improper fractions and multiplying by a reciprocal. Students examine guided notes,...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Rational Numbers

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students review the definition of rational numbers as ratios and as terminating and repeating decimals. They also examine the reciprocal property of rational numbers and operations with rational numbers.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Monitoring/clarifying

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The Monitoring/Clarifying strategy teaches students to recognize when they don't understand parts of a text and to take necessary steps to restore meaning. This technique is a component of the Reciprocal Teaching model in which teachers...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe Slopes and Circles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The purpose of this task is to lead young scholars through an algebraic approach to a well-known result from classical geometry, namely, that a point X is on the circle of diameter AB whenever angle AXB is a right angle. This consists of...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: N q.a.1: Fuel Efficiency

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The problem requires learners to not only convert miles to kilometers and gallons to liters but they also have to deal with the added complication of finding the reciprocal at some point. Aligns with N-Q.A.1.
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Cuemath

Cuemath: Cosecant, Secant and Cotangent Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Features graphs of the trigonometric functions cosecant, secant, and cotangent. Includes solved examples and practice questions.
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University College London

Internet Grammar of English: Pronouns

For Students 9th - 10th
Grammar tutorial on the correct use pronouns. Includes a follow-up exercise on the identification of pronoun types.
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University College London

University College London: Types of Pronouns

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
This site from the Internet Grammar of English from the University College of London provides a table with examples of several types of pronouns. For each type, example pronouns and a usage example are given. Includes practice problems.
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University College London

University College London: Types of Pronouns

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Identify the pronoun type in nine sentences. Browser must be Java enabled. Netscape recommended. Site by University College London.
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Gdrc: Collaborative Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site provides a thorough introduction to collaborative learning including terms and definitions, benefits of collaborative learning, strategies, tools, methods and making collaborative learning work.
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Quia

Quia: Multiplicative Inverse

For Students 3rd - 8th
The resource consists of four activities through which students can play to review multiplicative inverses.
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Math Words

Math words.com: Trig Identities

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This MathWords.com site lists the equations for all of the trigonometric identities.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: 1930s Isolationism

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about the ways the American government and people looked inward during the 1930s, isolating themselves from actions taking place in Europe and Asia.

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