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EngageNY

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 15

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What do a cheetah, Audi commercial, and air have in common? They're all topics of an engaging inquiry-based, hands-on workshop for educators about background knowledge, reading strategies, the CER model, and argumentative writing. The...
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New York State Education Department

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 4

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Why is it important to use precise language? Participants explore this question in the fourth activity in a series of 15 on effective instruction. Perfect for all content areas, the activity promotes appropriate language choice through...
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EngageNY

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 12

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How can opinions slant facts? Workshop participants learn how to examine primary and secondary sources and identify the author's point of view. They also examine how visual art impacts the meaning and rhetoric of sources. Full of...
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New York State Education Department

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 11

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
You'll C-E-R a difference in classroom achievement after using a helpful instructional activity. Designed for economics, civics, government, and US history classes, participants practice using the CER model to craft arguments about...
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New York State Education Department

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 5

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Are video games sports? Pupils investigate this question as well as various nonfiction selections to learn more about claims and the support that defines them. All of the selections mimic the rigor on state tests and encourage close...
Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Structural Analysis [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about structural analysis of words, an important instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement structural analysis, understand how to measure progress with structural analysis, find research...
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Semantic Maps for Morphological Analysis [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about semantic maps to break words into meaningful word parts, an engaging instructional strategy tool. Teachers will learn how to implement semantic maps, understand how to measure progress with semantic...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Incredible Inferences [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a game to cover words on a game board by making inferences. Materials are included.
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Other

Gordon State College: Poetry Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a detailed course assignment where students are asked to choose a poem from those provided and prepare an analysis of it prior to presenting it to the instructor. Students are given guidelines for an essay up to 3 pages long, and...
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Other

Reading Quest: Making Sense of Social Studies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Teaching students to read well in areas other than language arts requires teaching and reinforcing the kinds of reading strategies taught here. There are 27 strategies, ranging from brainstorming to word mapping. The site includes PDF...
Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Contextual Clues

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Strategies to help students recognize the meaning of words through contextual clues provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade. Includes strategies such as C(2)QU (See Two Cue You), PReP (Prereading Plan),...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Getting to Know Characters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this language development lesson using the books by Kevin Henkes English Language Learners learn vocabulary and language structures to express feelings, make text-to-self connections, and practice the reading strategy of analyzing...
Professional Doc
Phonics Guide

Papa Jan: What Is Phonics?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you define phonics? Take this opportunity to learn a little more about phonics and its relationship to letters and sounds.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: 8th Grade Evidence/inference Test

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
Reading strategy terms are included on this vocabulary test. This test assesses the following words: analysis, evidence, explicit, imply, and inferences. Five multiple choice questions are provided on this assessment.
Professional Doc
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literacy Achievement Academy, Grade 2: Additional Resources

For Teachers 2nd
This is a collection of links to teacher resources for teaching literacy to 2nd graders. It includes reading comprehension, word recognition, vocabulary, fluency, differentiated instruction, and using assessment data.
Study Guide
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Unpacking the Sat Essay Prompt

For Students 9th - 10th
The words in the SAT Essay Prompt have been chosen very carefully. What do they all mean? This article provides a detailed analysis of the SAT Essay task.
Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Contextual Redefinition [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about contextual redefinitions, an engaging instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement the strategy, understand how to measure progress with contextual redefinitions, find research that...
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Other

Welcome to mr.r's World of Math!!!

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
At this site, math word problems are presented in an exciting and creative format. Students attempt to find solutions to hilarious situations using their mathematical skills. To do this they must solve various math problems in a certain...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Power Patterns

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students investigate patterns that show relationships between powers and roots. They learn to identify strategies to be used to find important patterns in data.
Activity
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literary Text: Close Reading of Prose: Practice 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This activity focuses on close reading, the careful, sustained reading of a text. One strategy to help you read closely is to ask yourself questions such as What is your overall impression of the passage? What mood does the passage...
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Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 4th Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learners explore various strategies for using context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words. With free login, users have access to the passage and other teaching materials used in this lesson...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Assessing Theme

For Teachers 6th Standards
This is an introductory lesson on the concept of theme. Students choose two words that sum up the theme of the novel "So B. It" by Sarah Weeks. They then analyze a passage to find evidence of their choices and create a theme map. They...
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Six Is the Sum

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
You will probably want to make a list to figure out the solution to this problem. There are teacher notes and the solution right at this one page website.
Activity
Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Kids' Place Mathematics

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Educational publisher Houghton Mifflin provides a colorful, engaging site that offers test-prep practice, test-taking strategies, and brain teasers on a variety of math concepts for grades 1-6. Just "Choose an activity and pick a grade,"...