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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In lesson two of the unit, Remembering the Holocaust, students will brainstorm methods to illustrate the number six million. Using real-life math, students will create a graphic presentation to represent the six million Jewish Holocaust victims.
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Settings transport readers to these places, inviting them to consider what it would be like to visit these locations personally. This lesson plan takes that imaginary tourism one step further by asking students to create a travel brochure for locations in texts that they have read. The activity requires students to think about and collect the details mentioned in the text that should be highlighted and conduct additional research on the location as they design their own brochures.
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In this lesson, students use previewing to activate their prior knowledge and set a purpose for reading. Using a strategy called THIEVES, which is an acronym for title, headings, introduction, every first sentence in a paragraph, visuals and vocabulary, end-of-chapter questions, and summary, students are guided through a preview of a nonfiction text. After guided practice, partners work together to use the strategy to preview a chapter from a textbook.
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In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this history through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
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Jigsaw is a strategy that emphasizes cooperative learning by providing students an opportunity to actively help each other build comprehension. Use this technique to assign students to reading groups composed of varying skill levels. Each group member is responsible for becoming an "expert" on one section of the assigned material and then "teaching" it to the other members of the team.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This lesson, from the Anti-Defamation League, offers ten ideas for teaching Black History Month.
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After reading the narrative poem, “The Walrus and the Carpenter†by Lewis Carroll, students use a comic strip format to study the organization and presentation of ideas and supporting details in the plot sequence of the poem.
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This curriculum unit from the Anti-Defamation League provides educators with background about bullying in U.S. schools, an extensive bibliography of selected children's books that deal with bullying, and strategies for selecting literature that is appropriate and effective for classroom use. In addition, this unit offers instructional activities (discussion guides) based on a variety of books that can be used in kindergarten through high school to increase empathy and help students to respond constructively to bullying that they observe or experience in their communities.
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This resource includes one poem, with an accompanying link to the poem being read aloud, and nine text-dependent questions (including one optional constructed-response prompt for students), and explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS.
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The following unit incorporates multimedia and classroom activities to encourage students to explore and interact with poetry by first writing letters to important historical poets as practice for writing letters to the Academy of American Poets Board of Chancellors, a group that represents poetry in America at its best.
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This resource is a brief instrucional guide on the use of adjectives and adverbs.
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A short video on choosing the correct dictionary for each student's needs.
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A series of worksheets, projects, lessons and activities on characterization for various student levels.
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Common Lit is a searchable collection of free fiction and nonfiction texts searchable by thematic connection, subject, discussion questions or text. Please note in order to access the entire site you will need to create a free account.
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This PDF allows students to read passages, identify the text structure, and write information from the passage into the appropriate graphic organizer. The handout will serve as a great means of practice to remediate, enrich, or extended students? knowledge about various types of text structures found in informational text.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson
Grouped by each state, by genre, or thematically, this resource has hundreds of folklores, fairy tales and fables for any age group.
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This resource contains activities to help students draw conclusions/make inferences. Such activities include: guess the emotion, you are what you bring, using pictures, and links to additional resources.
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This teacher's guide for Addie on the Inside by James Howe contains discussion questions, activities, and research assignments.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
There is no one poem that represents the experience of African Americans in the United States, yet the history of racism in this country is seared deeply into the lives of many African Americans. “The Weakness” by Toi Derricotte recounts an experience with racism through the eyes of a young, light-skinned African American girl going shopping with her grandmother in a department store in 1945. The poems in The African American Experience offer a number of perspectives from African American poets that add a rich complexity to students’ perceptions of African American lives.
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