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Comic Page Templates

For Students 3rd - 7th
Looking for a set of comic strip templates? Use a resource with five comic templates complete with writing frames and text bubbles. Not only is it a great tool to have on hand in the classroom, but especially when working on...
Worksheet
K5 Learning

Authors Tell Different Stories

For Students 2nd Standards
The story of Cinderella is a popular one! So much so, there are multiple versions of the story being told around the world. With this collection of activities your young readers receive background information about two versions...
eBook
Planet e-Book

Les Miserables

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Many consider Les Miserables to be one of the greatest novels ever written. An eBook version of Les Miserables by Victor Hugo contains the entire text, translated from the original French. Each section is organized into books...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Different Types of Text

For Students 4th - 6th
In this different types of text worksheet, students review, brainstorm and analyze what a persuasive text is and what an instructive text is. Students then answer what type of text ten examples are as shown.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Frogs Frogs Frogs

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students view a disk on the continental movement and analyze the given data on fossils, rock types and climate zones. In this geology lesson students draw a diagram of the earths layers, take a quiz complete a PowerPoint presentation.
Unit Plan
University of Kansas

Newspaper in the Classroom

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Newspapers aren't only for reading—they're for learning skills, too! A journalism unit provides three lessons each for primary, intermediate, and secondary grades. Lessons include objectives, materials, vocabulary, and procedure, and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Parrot in the Oven: Request Strategy

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Victor Martinez's Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida is used in an activity that models how to develop questions to aid in comprehension of a text.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Idea-Noun Definition: Source Searching

For Teachers 11th - 12th
A great idea for showing language arts pupils the universality of themes, even in the real world! Have class members choose an idea-noun (peace, justice, war, love, etc.) at the beginning of the year or semester. They complete weekly...
Unit Plan
Virginia Tech

Unit Plan: Exponential and Logarithmic Functions

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
A six-day unit for algebra II on exponential and logarithmic functions builds upon Chapter 12 of Merrill Algebra II with Trigonometry; Applications and Connections. The text provides assistance in the depth of instruction...
Writing
Terminix

Bee Writing Prompt

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
What do your pupils know about bees? Ask them to examine facts and images about three different types of bees and write about one type. Pupils explain why their chosen bee is interesting and back up their ideas with facts and opinions....
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Persuasion in Print

For Teachers 9th
Advertisers target teenagers. Groups select three magazine advertisements for similar products, analyze the appeals used in each, create a poster that features the persuasive techniques used, and present their findings to the class. The...
Activity
Curated OER

The Last Lecture: Found Poem

For Teachers 9th - 12th
To focus attention on key concepts and vocabulary words in The Last Lecture, readers use power words drawn from the text to craft found poems.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Worksheet 6: Reading: Recipe for Beignets

For Students 3rd - 4th
Travel to New Orleans for their warm, sweet beignets, or bring a piece of New Orleans to your classroom by baking the delicious treats with your third and fourth graders! If baking them isn't possible, at least review the recipe for a...
Unit Plan
Curated OER

Tuck Everlasting Unit

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Natalie Babbitt's award winning fantasy, Tuck Everlasting, is the anchor text in a unit plan that focuses on identifying similes, metaphors, imagery, and personification in the text and analyzing how these elements effect the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Shizuko’s Daughter: Question Answer Relationships

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Asking questions about what you're reading is an effective way to connect with the text. After kids read passages from Kyoko Mori's Shizuko's Daughter, they identify questions about the passages as Right There, Think and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Spider "How To" Make a Spider

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young chefs follow the set-by-step instructions of a recipe and use their prior knowledge of the body parts of a spider to make edible spider cookies.  After completing a pre-writing graphic organizer they then write a "how to"...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Haiku In Color

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students engage in a lesson plan that is concerned with the concept of Haiku Poetry. They read a variety of samples of text to create the context for practicing the composition of new poetry. The lesson plan contains questions for the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Acrostic Book Report

For Teachers K - 8th
Learners read the story Wild Horse Winter and construct acrostic poems. In this poetry lesson, students use adjectives and events in the text to develop an acrostic poem.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Recognizing Types of Propaganda in Advertising

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students recognize the various types of propaganda so that they be better able to recognize propaganda in its various forms.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Thinking Syntactically: Using non-print text to faciliate generation of syntax and analysis of tone

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students write with a command of the stylistic aspects of composition. They respond to non-print text. Students demonstrate working knowledge of syntactical choices. They construct sentences using descriptive language. Students analyze...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Types of Behavior

For Students 9th - 12th
In this behavior worksheet, students review the different types of behaviors including instinct, reflex, and learned behaviors. This worksheet has 10 terms in a crossword puzzle and 6 fill in the blank questions.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Recognizing Text Relay

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders recognize and distinguish between different types of text. After a discussion of the various types of text, small groups compete in a relay race game demonstrating their knowledge of the text. Correct choices earn...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Preformatted Text

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students examine how to create a table of aligned text. They apply tabs and spaces to control the placement of text on a page.
Worksheet
Curated OER

School-Home Links: Types of Reading

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this reading materials worksheet, students read a list of different story materials and then look around their house to find different types of reading materials. Students then write down what they've found and share the list with...

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