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Discovery Education: Web Math: Using a Number Line
This WebMath site provides an interactive number line "solver." Content includes helpful hint and a full explanation of the mathematical solution.
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Discovery Education: Web Math: Graph a Circle
WebMath offers a java applet that allows you to input information about a circle, in one of four forms, and gives you the graph of the circle.
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Discovery Education: Web Math: Plot of a Mathematical Expression
This WebMath site provides an interactive 'solvers' to plot x and y coordinates on a graph.
Caro Clarke
Writing Advice: Don't Get It Right the First Time
How much of your novel have you written? Do you keep starting it and never finishing it? Learn the answers to these questions in this novel-writing advice piece.
Caro Clarke
Not Stopping the Reader: How to Avoid Stumbling Blocks
This is the eighth article in a series that focuses on helping the new novel author. This article looks at how the author can avoid creating stumbling blocks that disrupt the flow of the novel.
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A, B, and C Characters
This is the ninth article in a series that focuses on helping the new novel author. This article focuses on what the author calls "A, B, and C Characters," used to describe the different levels of characters.
Caro Clarke
Rewriting
This is the 17th article in a series that helps the new fiction author with the final step--revision.
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Read Works: The Story of the First Thanksgiving
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the first Thanksgiving. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in understanding plot.
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Read Works: Alex's Discovery
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Alex who meets a man from outer space in need of some help. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in understanding plot.
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Read Works: Puppies, Puppies, Puppies
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Kamil whose dog had puppies. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: My Favorite Alley Cat
[Free Registration/Login Required] Requires free membership. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It contains...
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Read Works: World's Greatest Robot
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about brothers who work together to plan the perfect robot. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Amra and the Skateboard
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fiction passage addresses a plot of a girl who wants to try skateboarding like her male peers were doing. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works: Up in the Air
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Kurt and his first trip on an airplane. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: I'm Not Eating That
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about making new friends. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Planet Y
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Zack who is traveling to a new planet with his family. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Scavenger Hunt
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Sophie who went on a musical scavenger hunt with a team from her troop. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Save the Whales
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Jake who watched a rescue squad save a beached whale. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: A Leaping Birthday
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Catherine who was born on February 29th. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Park
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about girl named Julie who had an odd dream. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Hiking Trip
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares the story of three characters who prepared and then went on a hiking trip. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: An Upset
[Free Registration/Login Required] This narrative passage tells the story of an "upset" in a sporting event. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: Casey Saves the Play
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Casey who worked on the set for the school play but ended up doing a lot more. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Accident Prone
[Free Registration/Login Required] This story is an example of fiction and assesses students' understanding of plot. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...