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Better Lesson: Speaking, Listening and Writing Compound Contrasting Sentences
Students will be answering text-dependent questions in which they will have to describe the differences between the different characters, settings, and major events in our stories using complex contrasting sentences. The students will...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Speaking, Listening, and Writing Comparing Sentences
In this lesson, 1st graders will look at the structure of both stories to determine how our two stories are the same.
University of Sydney (Australia)
The Write Site: Practice 1: Sentence Fragments
During this interactive lesson, students will determine the number of finite verbs in each sentence or fragment.
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Better Lesson: Much Much More Than Take Away
Help your students solve subtraction number sentences by using the part/part/whole model. This instructional activity shows students how to separate parts from a whole or by comparison to understand the subtraction number sentences....
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Two Military Executions" by Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce is famous for his writings on the Civil War and showing the brutality that occurred. "Two Military Executions" is short story about a young soldier sentenced to death for hitting an officer. Read the full text on this site.
Other
Critical Reading: Three Ways to Read and Discuss Texts
Designed to help students think about their reading and writing skills, this page offers three different ways to interpret and discuss texts.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Teaching Dialogue in Context
A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and three videos demonstrating how to teach dialogue in context with mentor sentences.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Passive and Active Voice
This website provides two presentations on active and passive voice. The first presentation explains the difference between active and passive voice as well as how to build sentences in each voice. The second presentation explains when...
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Better Lesson: Put It All Together
A lesson plan for helping students to solve real world problems by using their mathematical tools.