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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Improving Fluency Through Group Literary Performance

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students participate in shared reading, choral reading, and readers theater, using books by Bill Martin, Jr. Repeated readings and literary performances help students with their reading accuracy, expression, and rate.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: The Big Green Monster Teaches Phonics in Reading and Writing

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A big green monster helps students build their reading fluency and word recognition skills through choral reading, literacy center activities, and writing stories.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Generating Rhymes for Analogy Based Phonics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This online lesson introduces students to many different approaches toward learning about rhyme and other similarities in words, such as shared/guided reading and small group instruction. A good tool for increasing students' phonological...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Shared and Interactive Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This strategy helps learners refine their understanding of texts to meet the standards for reading and prepare for writing about texts by refining their writing and language skills. In early elementary, the writing that is produced can...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Opening the Door for Reading

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan explores opportunities to build connections and community within the classroom based on shared favorite texts. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Sharing Summer Reading Through Literature Circles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This instructional activity allows students to discuss the assigned summer reading in literature circles with respect to plot, character, and theme. Students work in groups of three to four to produce a slideshow presentation of one of...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Jigsaw

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations and engage in group conversations to meet speaking and listening expectations.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Creating a Persuasive Podcast

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson unit has students research a local, state, national, or international issue of personal interest and create and share a two-minute persuasive podcast presenting their research-based opinions on the topic. It includes tools...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Writing an Autobiographical Incident

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Lesson in which students are required to read and analyze biographies and autobiographies and use them as a model for writing about an autobiographical experience. Students complete the writing process and share written work with the class.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Storytelling in the Social Studies Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
People make the past come alive as students research and then share stories about famous Americans who promoted democratic ideals.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Weather: A Journey in Nonfiction

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Questions about weather clear up when students use what they learned from their books to create a presentation to share with the rest of the class.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: When I Was Young In, a Literature to Language Experience

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Past meets present in this lesson in which young scholars practice verb tense when they write personal short stories that they then publish in a flip book.
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Read Works

Read Works: Main Idea Kindergarten Unit: Using Details to Create a Title

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Amazing Gorillas! by Sarah L. Thomson and In the Wild: Leopards by Stephanie St. Pierreto to teach students how to use textual details to create a title for informational text. Ideas for...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Waldseemuller's Map: World 1507

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Discover a fascinating primary source document and share with students the historical relevance Waldseemuller's map has to our world today. Map reading, analyzing, and drawing conclusions as to why this particular map carries so much...
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Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Vocabulary Stretchers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Here is a list of terrific ideas for teachers to use in the classroom to accompany vocabulary building lessons. These activities are well summarized and easy to understand.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Discussion Guide to the Novels of Pam Munoz Ryan

For Teachers 5th - 8th
This lesson plan site shares discussion guides for three books written by Pam Munoz Ryan. The discussion guides may be used with Esperanza Rising, Riding Freedom, and Becoming Naomi Leon.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Challenge Question: "Walk the Line"

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners are introduced to the "Walk the Line" challenge question. They are asked to write journal responses to the question and brainstorm what information they need to answer the question. Ideas are shared with the class (or in pairs...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Building a Protein

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This hands-on activity is an assessment of the students understanding of peptide and disulfide bonds formed during protein synthesis, and the structure of an amino acid (R-group plus the common structure that all amino acids share)....
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Other

Education Extras: Presidential Election of 1896 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students first explore the party platforms of the Republican, Democratic, Populist, and Greenback Parties. They then read informational texts and complete a graphic organizer about the readings. After students share their...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Analyzing P H: Comparing Citrus Fruits, Stain Removers and a Green Product

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The students will analyze the pH of four citrus fruits: lime, lemon, orange, and a grapefruit, and then they will analyze the pH of four different types of stain removers: Shout Advanced, Spray 'n Wash Max, Oxi Clean Laundry, and Clorox...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Merlot Mathematics Portal: Symmetry and Tilings: An Exploration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A geometry lesson where students read about tilings and tessellations, answer some questions, then explore them using an online interactive. Afterwards, they share and apply their learning in discussion and by examining other tilings.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: Oh, the Places You'll Go!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After listening to Van Morrison's "Days Like This" and Lee Ann Womack's "I Hope You Dance " and reading Dr. Seuss' Oh, the Places You'll Go! learners will consider their choices in life. After asking students, "Who decides your lives are...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Character's Decalogue [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity students will write a personal decalogue for themselves, create a decalogue for an imaginary character and then, in the spirit of Because of Winn Dixie By Kate DiCamillo, they will write a short story where two...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: A Reader's Guide to Climate Change

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity from the Deep Earth Academy, learners divide into groups to read and discuss one of nine short articles (1-2 pages) about research done by the Ocean Drilling Program. These articles discuss our understanding about past...

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