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Activity
Curated OER

Express Yourself Lesson Seed 8: Character

For Teachers 6th Standards
Characters often change over the course of a story or novel. Use the sample graphic organizer provided here to track how the narrator has responded to the sequence of events in chapter four through six of The Cay. In addition to this...
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Activity
Curated OER

Express Yourself Lesson Seed 9: Climax

For Teachers 6th Standards
Conduct a close reading of chapter 9 of The Cay. Read the chapter again and ask pupils to respond to a list of included text-dependent questions. Finish the class with the provided writing assignment, which asks learners to use textual...
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Activity
Curated OER

Express Yourself Lesson Seed 10: Character Development

For Teachers 6th Standards
Make a study of Timothy and his development as a character over the course of the first half or so of The Cay. This idea focuses in particular on chapters 10 through 12. Learners start out by working on double-entry journals created in...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing a Personal Narrative

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
What is the difference between a news story and a personal narrative? This plan has learners write a personal narrative using the topic of service projects in their community. Consider completing a cross-curricular extension by bringing...
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Curated OER

Telling Our Stories of Giving - Writing to Persuade

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
After identifying the parts of a persuasive piece of writing, young writers explore different prewriting activities for the persuasive essay. They have the option to write a news article, personal narrative, or persuasive essay to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lesson Plan 2: So What's a Novel, Anyway?

For Teachers 5th - 9th Standards
What makes a novel a novel? Class members select a favorite novel, record their impressions on a worksheet, and then come together in groups to discuss the elements common to narrative writing. Next, they identify the characters, the...
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Curated OER

Oral Presentation

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Practice public speaking in this oral presentation lesson. Middle schoolers list the characteristics of a powerful speaker. They watch a video of two speakers, compare them and discuss the qualities of a good speech. Afterwards, they...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Genre Lesson: Autobiography

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
Have your middle schoolers write a short story about themselves with an autobiography unit about Rosa Parks. They learn the difference between biographies and autobiographies, define the different types of autobiographies and determine...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Civil War

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Historical poetry is lyrical in form and rich with content. After examining the differences between the Northern and Southern states before and during the U.S. Civil War, learners complete a Venn diagram and create an illustration of the...
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Curated OER

Harvest the Wind

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Wind is a natural resource available around the world. Help your pupils appreciate the power and importance of wind by researching wind farms, making pinwheels, and designing windmills. 
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Curated OER

Just Lookin' For a Home

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
What is a boll weevil? Your class can find out that and more by following the activities included here. Pupils read an article, sing a boll weevil song, add to the song with their own original lyrics, illustrate the song, study the...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Time Management

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
In this video segment from TV411, Ruby and her mom plan a schedule so she can complete her homework and still have time for friends and sports.
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Handout
Other

Best Evidence Encyclopedia: Middle and High School Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Looking for opportunities to improve your readers or to help your readers get ahead? BEE presents a number of programs that have been evaluated by their researchers to bring educators the best programs on the market. Learn about programs...
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Lesson Plan
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Additional Webs

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of graphic organizers. Middle schoolers will be able to plan the writing of summaries, paragraphs, and literary responses.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Setting a Purpose for Reading Using Informational Text

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
This lesson engages students in using a two-column graphic organizer to take notes. Students will record titles and subtitles and list questions that will correspond with each one.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Enlightening Explorations

For Teachers 6th Standards
This lesson engages students in making observations about different features of light. Students will circulate in different light stations, reflect on what they have observed, and then write about what they learned.
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Professional Doc
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Write in the Middle: Workshop 5: Teaching Multigenre Writing

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Workshop 5 centers on multigenre writing, an eclectic approach to writing instruction that offers students a wide range of options for expressing ideas and communicating knowledge. As students explore different avenues for translating...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Anticipation Guides

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
An Anticipation Guide is a strategy that is used before reading to activate students' prior knowledge and build curiosity about a new topic. Before reading a selection, students respond to several statements that challenge or support...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Frame Routine

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The Frame Routine is a strategy designed to assist students as they organize topics, main ideas and details about reading assignments. This technique includes a basic hierarchic graphic organizer called a "Frame" that can be used to help...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Literacy Practices Interview

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Literacy practices interviews are informal assessments that elicit information on students' reading and writing activities, including their free-time reading habits, their access to books, and their attitudes toward reading and writing....
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: What Should an Assessment System Look Like?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The developmental nature of reading means that diagnosing the reading comprehension ability of adolescents is more challenging than diagnosing reading comprehension among third graders. In particular, assessments should not only capture...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Effective Reading Interventions for Kids With Learning Disabilities

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Research-based information and advice for sizing up reading programs and finding the right one for your child with a learning disability.
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Extended Writing to Learn Strategies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Writing enables students to process, organize, formulate, and extend their thinking about what they have been learning. In addition, teachers can also assign writing to help students evaluate what they know and understand about a topic....
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Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Writing to Learn [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Teachers will learn how to use Writing to Learn as a formative assessment tool. Teachers will learn how to implement the strategy, measure progress, and find research to support writing to learn. A list of Writing to Learn activities is...