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Internet4classrooms:3rd Grade Skills Builder: Main Idea
This interactive Language Arts skill-building site provides links to interactive activities that focus on finding the main idea of a reading selection. Online lessons, games and quizzes challenges students understanding of main idea.
Literacy Head
Literacyhead: Writing Prompts: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Family Stories
These images are intended to give students ideas for writing about their families by exploring the details of the art works.
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Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Text to Self Connections
Enjoy with your students this collection of images that invite them to make personal connections. Students can practice articulating and writing about their personal connections using these images, a nice scaffold for later connections...
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Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: School
A collection of images of school to use as writing prompts. Students can make text-to-self connections, write creative stories, or just write about how the students in the images might feel.
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Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Summarizing
A collection of images to serve as writing prompts for students.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Free Graphic Organizers for Planning and Writing
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides free graphic organizers to use while planning and writing including webs, flow charts, essay maps, concept wheels, and more.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Free Graphic Organizers for Planning and Writing
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides free graphic organizers to use while planning and writing including webs, flow charts, essay maps, concept wheels, and more.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: More Free Graphic Organizers for Teaching Writing
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides free graphic organizers to use while planning and writing persuasive, expository, and fiction texts.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: More Free Graphic Organizers for Teaching Writing
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides free graphic organizers to use while planning and writing persuasive, expository, and fiction texts.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Graphic Organizers: Customizable Graphic Organizers
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides free graphic organizers to use while planning and writing different types of texts.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Science Now! A Picture Is Worth
A video clip asks students to explain how X-ray images communicate information. This is one in a series of creative writing prompts. [0:32]
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: More Free Graphic Organizers for Studying and Analyzing
A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Time Organizers, Learning Maps, Project Internet, Concepts and Characteristics, Vocabulary Charts, Project Author Study, Decisions and Goals, and more.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: More Free Graphic Organizers for Studying and Analyzing
A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Time Organizers, Learning Maps, Project Internet, Concepts and Characteristics, Vocabulary Charts, Project Author Study, Decisions and Goals, and more.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 5th Grade Text Structures: Test
This interactive assessment consists of six multiple-choice questions over text structures and patterns of organization.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 5th Grade Text Structures: Flashcards
This interactive set of flashcards helps students learn the terms and types of text structures and patterns of organization.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Text Structure: Flashcards
This interactive set of flashcards helps students to learn the terms and definitions for types of text structure, organizational patterns, and keywords and graphic organizers for the types of text structures.
Literacy Head
Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Testing
Let students write in response to these narrative images. You can also engage them in discussions about what is interesting in each picture or how the characters feel.
Literacy Head
Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Storytelling
A collection of images of people listening to and telling stories give your writers ideas. These paintings and illustrations point to the universal nature of telling and listening.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Graphic Organizers
A collection of pre-formatted graphic organizers that you can integrate into activities and lesson plans or use by themselves.