Digital Word Detectives: Building Vocabulary With e-Book Readers

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E-book readers, or digital readers, are devices that can host thousands of electronic books and allows readers to interact with digital texts through the use of e-book tools and features. In this lesson, students will read e-books and use digital tools (dictionaries and notes) to support their development of vocabulary. Specifically, students will assume roles of “word detectives” as they look up words in digital dictionaries and use other strategies to identify the meaning of vocabulary words.

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Author: Lotta C. Larsen

Do You See What I See? Asian or American: Figurative Language

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This interactive unit encourages students to evaluate the effect of the inclusion of figurative langauge in Amy Tan's nonfiction narrative essay Fish Cheeks paired with the poem Face It by Janet Wong. This lesson will assist students in understanding the power of language. Students will be compelled to write by the conclusion of this lesson.

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Author: Shonterrius Lawson-Fountain

Editing Checklist Activity

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In this interactive lesson, students will learn the basics of editing.

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Author: TV411

Primary Sources and Personal Artifacts - Library of Congress

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This lesson plan introduces the practice of using primary sources; where to find primary sources, what they are, how to examine them, and how to construct a context to tell more of the story.Students will:Analyze personal artifacts as primary sources; Analyze historical primary sources; andConnect historical text with primary sources.Materials/Links Included:Primary Source Analysis ToolPrimary source setsTeacher's guide to Analyzing Primary Sources

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Author: Dawn Perez

Zoom In with Internet Keyword Searches

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In this lesson, students gain an understanding of appropriate search skills for locating information while using the Internet as a reference source. Students will search for answers for content-specific questions after identifying keywords and phrases to use as they access different search engines on the Internet.

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Author: Beacon Learning Center

Perky Prefixes

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In this lesson, students create games of their choice to be played with the class to reinforce their knowledge of prefixes.

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Author: Beacon Learning Center

STEM Inquiry Lesson Template

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This template supports STEM teachers and librarians in working collaboratively to create lessons that build science practice and STEM inquiry skills in alignment with state and national science standards, and that address the Common Core literacy shifts around close reading and building textual evidence.

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Author: Megan Simmons

Read All About It

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Using a variety of magazines for this lesson, students work cooperatively to determine the main idea of a text and how details help support the main idea.

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Author: Beacon Learning Center

It's Raining Idioms!

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In this lesson students will analyze idioms in order to comprehend their literal meanings through illustrations and paraphrasing.

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Author: Beacon Learning Center

Look It Up!

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In this lesson students will improve their writing skills by finding, defining, and correctly using new and interesting vocabulary words and then integrate them into a persuasive piece of writing.

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Author: Beacon Learning Center

Character and Plot Development Through Comics

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Students are introduced to character, plot development, point of view, and tone through the use of comic strips. Students will identify these four attributes in comic strips and present their findings to the class.

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Author: Beacon Learning Center

Out of the Dust Lesson 2

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In this lesson, after being introduced to the novel Out of the Dust, students examine unfamiliar words and phrases and interpret them using context and word structure, making inferences and generalizations, using graphic organizers and comparing and contrasting skills.

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Author: Beacon Learning Center

A Short, Short Story

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Lesson plan where students must write an original short story that cannot contain over 100 words.

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Author: Beacon Learning Center

Scrambled Stories

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For this lesson, students brainstorm several examples of plots, settings, and characters and randomly select these elements to create their own short stories.

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Author: Beacon Learning Center

Crazy Critters are Figuratively Fantastic

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This lesson uses creatures created from students' imaginations to teach hyperbole, simile, metaphor, and alliteration in association with creative writing.

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Author: Beacon Learning Center

Hero Spontaneous Lecture

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In this lesson, students select and research a real-life hero. They then prepare short lectures for their classmates based upon the research they gain from a variety of primary and secondary sources.

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Author: Beacon Learning Center

Letters to Poets

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The following series of activities for the classroom allow students to explore and interact with poetry by writing letters to poets.

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Author: Madeleine Fuchs Holzer

Compare and Contrast Electronic Text With Traditionally Printed Text

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Students become familiar with the similarities and differences between electronic and printed text by comparing the textual aids included in a textbook with those of an educational website.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive, Lesson Plan, Presentation, Reading

Author: ReadWriteThink

Poetry Pot

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For this lesson, students deliver an oral, informative presentation on a favorite poem that the he/she has artistically illustrated with images, title, author's name, and words of poem on a clay flowerpot, effectively communicating ideas and feelings about the poem.

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Author: Beacon Learning Center

Book Selling Project

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In this lesson, students create an oral presentation that uses a visual aid to sell their books to their classmates with the goal of trying to get their classmates interested in reading the book.

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Author: Beacon Learning Center