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Read Works: Firefighters Are Helpers
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains the duties of a firefighter. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding...
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Read Works: The Difference Between Maps and Globes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares the difference between maps and globes. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: Cool in the Hot Desert
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is about the fennec fox that lives in the African desert. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding...
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Read Works: An Elephant's Excellent Trunk
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage includes information about the elephant's trunk. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: The Flying Machine
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage gives a brief history of the airplane and ideas that came before the invention. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills...
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Read Works: The First Americans
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informatioanl text passage includes information about the first Americans, Native Americans. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies...
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Read Works: The Liberty Bell
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text shares information about the Liberty Bell. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
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Read Works: A Sticky Idea
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares the history of Band-Aids. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning....
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Read Works: Welcome Back!
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares advice about how to make the first day of school a great one. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: Finding Food
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses how obtaining food was challenging in the past. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: The Grey Sheep [Pdf]
This nonfiction narrative entails a young girl describing her family's grey sheep on the farm activities related to raising them. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: The Harmonica
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares facts about the harmonica. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
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Read Works: American Symbols
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage lists and explains some of the different American symbols. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: Where Does Food Go?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains the process of food digestion. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding...
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Read Write Think: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations
Contains plans for two lessons that use movement and cheering to teach the letter y spelling generalization. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
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Read Write Think: Creating Question and Answer Books Through Guided Research
Contains plans for five lessons that develop research skills in primary learners by having them create their own question and answer books. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in...
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Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Bird in Hand Lesson Plan
This instructional activity, based on the 11-minute story "Bird in Hand" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, helps children use strategies, such as examining the parts of unfamiliar words to figure out their meaning. When Molly and...
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Nsw Dept. Of Ed.: "One World" [Pdf]
Reading unit plan about endangered animals from the New South Wales, Australia, Department of Education and Training entitled "One World" (Forty-four page PDF file). It contains ten days worth of teaching suggestions that use a variety...
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Reading Educator: Frayer Model
Learn new words using the Frayer Model and graphic organizer. Click the video link to watch a class using this model to learn new vocabulary words.
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Read Works: Edison Tried and Tried Again
[Free Registration/Login Required] This biographical passage shares information about Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: Watch the Tennis Ball
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains concepts related to the sport of tennis. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Ld Online: Learning Disabilities Online: Reading Resources
LD Online is an excellent resource for a variety of needs. The site has information on teaching reading skills and using technology as a resource. Many links are to specific products that you must buy however, there are other resources...
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Alex: A Star and a Wish
In this lesson students will use the game "A Star and a Wish" to help develop better fluency in reading. After practicing the game as a whole group, students will be divided into pairs to continue playing the game and have the...
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Scholastic: Multiple Ways to Solve a Problem
This Marilyn Burns lesson plan employs children's literature to teach the topics of combinations, perimeter, and area using a problem solving approach. Primary and intermediate levels have an activity appropriate to each.