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Editor Travels U.S. Fixing Errors on Signs

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
An interesting article on editors helps young writers understand the conventions of written English. They read a news article about an editor traveling America correcting spelling and punctuation errors on signs.  They discuss...
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Watch the Road Signs

For Teachers 4th - 6th
What makes a good speaker? Upper elementary learners practice oral fluency by working with a partner to read nonfiction books. While reading, they practice using correct tone of voice, making eye contact, and speaking clearly.
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Transition Words and Phrases: Road Signs for the Reader

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Therefore! However! Furthermore! Explore the power of transition words and phrases. Signal your readers by suggesting the relationship between different thoughts or points. Help them demonstrate an understanding of word relationships. 
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ESOL Transportation and Travel

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students copy and practice familiar transportation vocabulary words. They write senteces using contractions for simple directions. They listen to a traffic hews report and summarize the report in their own words. They compare and...
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Recognizing Signs in Public Places

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore symbols by identifying public signage. In this public safety lesson, students view flashcards of everyday road, fire and food signs while discussing their function and purpose. Students record and identify road and...
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Road Manners

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars examine manners and citizenship. In this citizenship and safety lesson, students build an understanding of the relationship between good manners and safety. Young scholars talk about what good divers do to be safe on the...
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ESOL Transportation and Travel

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students discuss importance of reading and understanding traffic signs then list the common road signs. They complete "Traffic Signs" activity sheet and Compare and contrast traffic signs and driving practices in the U.S. with traffic...
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Trucks on the Roadway

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars explore trucks. In this truck and road safety lesson, students identify different types of trucks and define traffic and truck vocabulary.  Young scholars manipulate toy trucks on a road floor mat.
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Road Trip

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create PowerPoint presentations on destinations researched on the Internet.
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Sorting

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students understand that sorting helps find things at a later date. In this sorting lesson, students use a website game and sort the common items. Students sort folders and other classroom items. Students discuss how sorting helped them...
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World Literature: "One Evening in the Rainy Season" Shi Zhecun

For Teachers 12th
Did you know that modern Chinese literature “grew from the psychoanalytical theory of Sigmund Freud”? Designed for a world literature class, seniors are introduced to “One Evening in the Rainy Season,” Shi Zhecun’s stream of...
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Compass Rose Directions

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use cardinal and intermediate directions to locate places on maps and places in the classroom, school, and community. They draw a setting map of "Little Red Riding Hood." Students give five steps of cardinal or...
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WORD BINGO: GAME A

For Teachers 5th - Higher Ed
For this Word Bingo worksheet, young scholars are given five bingo-type cards with some squares filled with vocabulary words. Other squares are left bland. One caller's card is provided with all 25 vocabulary words. The words are 5th...
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Can You Get the Signal?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What is a signal word? Recognizing these words is an important step in both reading and writing formal text. Review a list of signal words (provided and organized into specific categories), and then have your class play a game to...
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Comprehension Questions: The City of Ember, Chapter 20

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Comprehension questions for the last chapter of Jeanne DuPrau's book The City of Ember assess factual recall, sequencing skills, and inference about the text. Note: One question about point of view is based on a sentence not related to...
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Tell a Totem Story

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study and view pictures of Native American totem poles on the internet. They create totem poles using PowerPoint that represent their family histories using symbols to designate historic events.
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The Rebecca Riots

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate the history of England as they research the Rebecca riots.  In this England history lesson, students discover how English men dressed as women in order to surprise attack another group in the 1800's....
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Reader's Theater

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students study sequencing while reading an Australian folk tale. In this sequencing lesson students read a folk tale using Reader's Theater and discuss what happened first, second and last. Students also create animal ears and noses...

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