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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: For Writer's Notebook: Heart Maps and Writing Topics

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
A heart map is a visual representation of a student's heart, displaying topics that "live" there; these topics are ones the student would show passion about and interest towards when writing about them. In writer's workshop students...
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Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Explorer, Meriwether Lewis Was Born Aug. 18, 1774

For Students 3rd - 8th
A brief look at the life of American explorer, Meriwether Lewis. Provides a historical map of the Oregon Territory, a portrait of Lewis, and a photograph from Little Belt Mountain.
Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Chronological Order

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Strategies to help students recognize the order of events in a selection provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade. Includes strategies such as plot diagrams, probable passages, story mapping, summary...
Unit Plan
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Zoom School: Australia

For Students 3rd - 6th
Use this site to visit the land Down Under and learn about the country of Australia. Explore art, history, animals, flags, explorers, folk music, dinosaurs, map, geography, story time and more. Includes an interactive quiz.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Papa Tells Chita a Story

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use this flipchart with the Harcourt Series 3rd grade Basal. It incorporates spelling and vocabulary as well as story mapping.
Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Chronological Order

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
The site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th-grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section focuses on identifying the chronological order.
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Success Link

Success Link: Peaceful Transitions Between Leaders

For Teachers 4th - 8th
A lesson plan that uses the creation of a story map to show the change in leadership from George Washingon to John Adams in the election of 1796.
Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: American Explorers [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th
"American Explorers" is a one page, non-fiction, reading passage about the Lewis and Clark Expedition from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean. Along the way they drew maps for future travels. It is followed by constructed-response questions...
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EL Education

El Education: An Immigrant Experience

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
As part of a Learning expedition on immigration, 4th grade students in Springfield, Massachusetts, created this series of interview booklets. Students, working together in small groups, interviewed a person who had immigrated to the...
Interactive
National Geographic

National Geographic: Interdependence

For Students 3rd - 5th
Use this interactive to explore how interconnected the global economy is. After creating a character, gather some clothes together and enter their origin information into your database. Then look at your own interdependence map and...
Website
Scholastic

Scholastic: Milly and the Macy's Parade

For Students 3rd - 8th
Resource guides the reader through this great book. Choose from different categories in before, during, and after you read. Take a quiz, create a story map, and write a book report.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

National Park Service: The Ohio & Erie Canal

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site begins with a story to introduce the Ohio & Erie Canal. Following the story is an extensive lesson plan for students to learn about the canal's structure, use, and much more. Included in the lesson are links to maps,...
Graphic
National Geographic

National Geographic: Geostories: Geography on the Job

For Students 5th - 9th
Each story point in this Geostory includes images, a short bio, and an interactive mapping tool that allows students to see the regions where geography work takes place.
Unit Plan
University of South Florida

Fcat Reading Grade 4: Teaching Strategies

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This is a great resource that concentrates strategies and student activities in one place in an easy to use format, and can be navigated easily. Find great examples of probable passage, selective underlining, and semantic feature...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindbergh

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was created to use with the story, Flight, by Robert Burleigh, in the Scott Foresman Reading Series for third grade. Students will preview and predict what the story will be about. The...
Website
Other

Katelyn Pointek: One Word Writing Prompts

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
This site offers a list of one word writing prompts perfect for free writing activities which can be used as quick write or developed into stories. With one word story prompts, you start with the word provided and use either one sentence...
Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Developing Characters and Settings

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
In this activity provided by SMART, students will give reasons why they feel characters are important in a story. Students will explore how to create effective characters and settings in their own writing by using a character web.
Handout
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Henry Hudson

For Students 3rd - 6th
A brief story of Henry Hudson's explorations for the Dutch and the English and a map of his routes from 1609 to 1611.
Graphic
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Free Graphic Organizers for Teaching Literature & Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Character Webs, Responding to Literature Forms, Reading Analysis Organizers, Story Maps, Cognitive Bookmarks, Instructional Webs, and more.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Free Graphic Organizers for Teaching Literature & Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Character Webs, Responding to Literature Forms, Reading Analysis Organizers, Story Maps, Cognitive Bookmarks, Instructional Webs, and more.
Graphic
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Free Graphic Organizers for Teaching Literature & Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Character Webs, Responding to Literature Forms, Reading Analysis Organizers, Story Maps, Cognitive Bookmarks, Instructional Webs, and more.
Graphic
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Customizable Graphic Organizers

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of graphic organizers for reading students. Forms are provided for plot, character analysis, reading logs, and reading responses.
Graphic
Curated OER

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For Students 3rd - 5th
At this site travel through a sampling of cities in India. Includes a map, slide show for each city, a story and worksheet to answer. There are also other websites to explore.
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Curated OER

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For Students 3rd - 5th
At this site travel through a sampling of cities in India. Includes a map, slide show for each city, a story and worksheet to answer. There are also other websites to explore.

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