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From Home to Nome

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders develop and create an electronic portfolio on their hometown, school, and themselves to send to a school on the Iditarod Trail. They gather information from the Internet, printed materials, and a digital camera.
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Author, Author!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders, in groups, select and research a favorite studenT author or illustrator. They answer questions about the author, conduct research and prepare a PowerPoint presentation with their findings.
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What's Important To You?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss as a class the importance of silent reading and describe some examples when it would be inappropriate if everyone read out loud. They read silently along as an article called, "Fighting a Mystery Illness" is read...
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Mercy to the Rescue! Maze Activity

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this maze worksheet, learners complete a maze, helping "Mercy find some sugar cookies." Students draw a route from one house to another to complete the activity.
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Famous Black Americans

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students recognize famous Black Americans and their roles in America's society. They create a database and slideshow presenting famous Black Americans and relevant facts of their lives.
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Book Report Database and Author E-mail Project

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students read a number of books by a given author and input information into a database. They e-mail information about their favorite author to other students. They focus on story elements and ask questions or make suggestions for future...
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Detroit Science Center Presentation

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students brainstorm what they learned while at the Detroit Science Center while the teacher records their thoughts on the whiteboard. They create a PowerPoint presentation using to the class using the information on the white board.
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Awesome Animals

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars collect data from classmates about their favorite animal. They use the ClarisWorks graphing program to enter data, graph results, and interpret data.
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Plant Parts with Sequencing Cube

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders listen to the story, Jack's Garden by Henry Cole. They learn the parts of the plant by looking at live plants.
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Adapting to Animal Behavior for Survival

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore animal behaviors and adaptations by researching several different animals and their habitats.
Unit Plan
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Adventures in Wonderland: A Genre Study

For Teachers 3rd
Students explore the concepts of fantasy writing through this nine lessons unit. The unit presents semantic mapping, discussions, comparisons of various works of fantasy, and the opportunity to create their own fantasies.
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Fitness for Life

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students discuss their favorite activities and determine which activities are suitable for older people. In groups, students research the benefits of aerobic exercises and the equipment needed. Students share their information with the...
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Discover the Planets

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders research the planets. In this science lesson, 3rd graders create PowerPoint presentations over a planet. Students present their findings.
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Re-telling The Tale

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students retell a fairy tale by writing on the computer. In this writing lesson plan, students draft, revise, edit, and publish their retelling of the story.
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Texas Gateway: Determining Importance & Summarizing Informational Text

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
These teacher resources focuses on why it is important to teach elementary students to determine the importance and to summarize informational text. It leads an activity to help teachers experience when and how we use these strategies.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension: Summarizing

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Lesson that introduces young scholars to the comprehension technique of summarizing. Students learn using the QuIP (questions into paragraphs) method which involves organizing information and putting it in writing.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Summarizing

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
A twelve-part learning module with links to videos, images, websites, and text about summarizing a text.
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Education Development Center

Tune in to Learning: Summarizing

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Series of interactive activities for practicing skills in summarizing information, in identifying main points and ideas, and in sorting lists into meaningful categories.
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Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Summarize

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Learn how to summarize a text based on the main idea and supporting details you found.
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Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Summarize

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Learn how to summarize a section of a text with this site.
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: Summary of Fiction and Nonfiction Text [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This 31-page document focuses on teaching summarizing strategies for use with fiction and nonfiction texts. This series of lesson plans starts with fiction summarizing strategies such as "Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then" and "Story Arch."...
Unit Plan
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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Classify and Summarize Information [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
This learning module contains a link to graphic organizers that will help students categorize content and comprehend short and extended texts. The graphic organizers are designed to be applied to reading nonfiction passages in science...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Summarizing Mathematical Learning With the Important Book

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson plan, The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown is used as a mentor text. Students will create an illustrated paragraph about a particular math topic. Students will use the mentor text and attempt to adapt the author's...
Activity
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Mc Graw Hill: Part 1 Reading: Literature: Summarize

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Summarizing is a key skill needed in reading comprehension. This page describes how to summarize main ideas in a text. Click on Model button for a model with explanation and then click on Practice (Bottom Right)

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