Animals in Research— Right or Wrong?
(View Complete Item Description)Students will research and discuss a sensitive or controversial issue and attempt to make a decision based on group findings.
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The Bracelet: Anthology
(View Complete Item Description)Ruri, a young Japanese girl, and her family are taken to an internment camp during WWII because the US government was afraid Japanese Americans would ally with Japan. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
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Cinderella Around the World
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students compare and contrast two versions of the same fairy tale. Students use a Venn diagram to graphically illustrate the similarities and differences in the two stories.
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Cancer Risks
(View Complete Item Description)Students describe environmental and herditary factors that increase the chance of developing cancer.
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Digital Word Detectives: Building Vocabulary With e-Book Readers
(View Complete Item Description)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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A Discussion Guide to Salt to the Sea
(View Complete Item Description)In this Penguin pdf resource for teaching Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys, students will delve into indepth discussion questions that expand their knowledge and understanding of the novel.
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Do You See What I See? Asian or American: Figurative Language
(View Complete Item Description)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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Editing Checklist Activity
(View Complete Item Description)In this interactive lesson, students will learn the basics of editing.
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Primary Sources and Personal Artifacts - Library of Congress
(View Complete Item Description)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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Zoom In with Internet Keyword Searches
(View Complete Item Description)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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Perky Prefixes
(View Complete Item Description)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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Rest in Peace, Maniac Magee
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students will use precise words to create an epitaph for each of the major characters reflecting the individual character's personality and nature after reading the novel, Maniac Magee.
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STEM Inquiry Lesson Template
(View Complete Item Description)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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Read All About It
(View Complete Item Description)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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It's Raining Idioms!
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson students will analyze idioms in order to comprehend their literal meanings through illustrations and paraphrasing.
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Look It Up!
(View Complete Item Description)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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Character and Plot Development Through Comics
(View Complete Item Description)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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Out of the Dust Lesson 2
(View Complete Item Description)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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A Short, Short Story
(View Complete Item Description)Lesson plan where students must write an original short story that cannot contain over 100 words.
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Scrambled Stories
(View Complete Item Description)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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