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Read Works: Classify and Categorize 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on classifying and categorizing through which students learn how to sort items into two and three categories and explain how each group is classified. Finally, students categorize...
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Read Works: Classify and Categorize 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-instructional activity unit on classifying and categorizing through which students learn how to categorize information to answer research questions and then to organization that information into...
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Read Works: Classify and Categorize 2nd Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to classify and categorize items, characters, and information. The third lesson plan is based on the book Splish! Splash! Animal Baths by April...
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Read Works: Classify and Categorize 4th Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-activity unit on classifying and categorizing through which learners learn how to organize research into an outline, use text features to locate information, and write a research report. Lessons...
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Cpalms: Classify and Categorize: Using Text Features to Find Information

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will develop research questions, classify information into an outline form, and use the features of nonfiction writing to identify information relevant to a research question.
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Read Works: Classify and Categorize Kindergarten Unit: Adding to Sorted Groups

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book My Big Animal Book by Roger Priddy in which students learn to sort items into predetermined categories. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are...
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Everything Esl: Categorizing & Classifying Animals

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Teach your young scholars about categorizing and classifying with this high thinking level unit. It features many downloads and resources. It also provides bulletin board ideas.
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Everything ESL

Everything Esl: Categorizing & Classifying Animals

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Teach your learners about categorizing and classifying with this high thinking level unit. It features many downloads and resources. It also provides bulletin board ideas.
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Read Works: Earth Rocks

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about three different types of rocks: sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Read Works: The Sounds Spring Brings

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes Students read spring and its sounds and sensory imagery. A question sheet is...
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Read Works: Animals Get Ready

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how different types of animals prepare for winter. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Read Works: Vanishing Frogs

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about a skin fungus causing the harlequin frog species to become endangered. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Read Works: Tis the Season

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the winter holidays Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Read Works: Celebrations Around the World

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about festivals and celebrations from different countries around the world. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Read Works: Don't Know Much About Liberty

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Read Works: Branching Out

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about three branches of government and their system of checks and balances. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Read Works: Ready to Rumble

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about three different types of volcanoes. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Read Works: Our World

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read facts about seven continents. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Read Works: On the Prowl

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about a new leopard species found in Indonesia. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Read Works: Saving Big Cats

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about jaguars, tigers, and other big cats that have become endangered species. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Read Works: Living on the Edge

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about four endangered mammals: the golden-crowned sifaka, the long-beaked echidna, the red panda, and the Saiga antelope. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in...
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Read Works: Creepy Cave Crawlers

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about new insect species found within caves. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Read Works: Superstars of Science

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about scientists Jane Goodall, Stephen Hawking, Dean Kamen, Rachel Carson, and Charles Henry. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Read Works: Dream Machines

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about cars of the future. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.