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The Talking Stick

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars examine the lives of the Aboriginal peoples of Saskatchewan. For this talking stick lesson, students discover dance, art, music, and traditions of the First Nations people.  Young scholars design and create a talking...
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Random House

Teacher's Guide: The Hobbit: The Enchanting Prelude to Lord of the Rings

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
The Odyssey, Star Wars, The Hunger Games. Odysseus, Luke Skywalker, Katniss Everdeen. Add The Hobbit and Bilbo Baggins to these lists, and you have a unit examining classic and contemporary myths, legends, and folktales with hero and...
Writing
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The New York Times

401 Prompts for Argumentative Writing

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Sometimes the hardest thing about an argument essay writing assignment is coming up with a question. A four-page list of prompts includes a range of topics, from social media and smart phones to video games and sports. The list is a...
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Teachers.net

How to Write a Movie Review from a Pet's Perspective

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
When would two paws up denote a blockbuster film in your classroom? Only when young writers create movie reviews from a pet's perspective in this imaginative expository writing practice. This engaging topic begins with a class discussion...
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Baseball Stories, Cards and Interviews

For Teachers 3rd - Higher Ed
Everyone can be an MVP! Young learners create their own baseball cards about themselves in this autobiographical lesson. They use information about their lives to create a baseball trading card. They make flash cards using baseball...
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Fanatically Grammatically Correct

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Research guidelines for correct usage, then explore how creative writers employ punctuation as an essential tool in their craft. Secondary classes create board games to teach elementary school young scholars how to properly punctuate....
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Roald Dahl

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
Follow up a reading of The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl with this collaborative lesson on teamwork. Starting with a fun team game, learners go on to investigate examples of teamwork in the story before...
Interactive
American University

Factitious

For Students 5th - 12th Standards
Truth or factitious? Users of an engaging interactive test their ability to identify whether an article is real or fake news.
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Request

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students play a game of questioning with the teacher after reading silently a beginning passage of text. They and teacher request specific information from each other until students are able to summarize and predict the outcome of the...
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Visual Aural Impressions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students view a piece of impressionist art, listen to a piece of jazz music and then write a piece about the picture in the style of beat poets. They compare their writing and look for differences in their perceptions.
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Personal Experience Narratives

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Help your middle schoolers identify personal experience narratives in their own lives through telling stories themselves and from family members or other adults. They study personal experience narratives in Swapping Stories and compare...
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Storytelling

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Why are some people such good story tellers? Help youngsters demonstrate the art of storytelling. They start off by listening to a story and sharing what they noticed about the storytelling that made it exciting. Then, they study a story...
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My Access

“Banning Books” Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
To Kill a Mockingbird, Hunger Games, Brave New World. Welcome to Banned Books Week. As part of a study of censorship and book banning, class members investigate censorship, the purposes of censorship, and First Amendment rights,...
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TESOL

Are You a Good Listener?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Your learners talk to each other every day, but are they really listening? Use a lesson based on listening skills to ensure that class members feel heard and respected. It includes games, discussion topics, and self-assessment tools...
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Through the Looking-Glass Chess: Create Your Own Games!

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders research chess in relation to the metaphors in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass. They read the novel and note references to chess and research the history of chess and how to play the game. In groups, they create...
Worksheet
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Reading: The Ancient Olympic Games

For Students 5th - 6th
In this reading for information worksheet, students read a one page text about the ancient Olympic games. Students answer 9 true and false questions.
Assessment
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The Olympic Games: Verb Form Quiz

For Students 5th - 6th
In this verb forms worksheet, students complete an eleven question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz. From three choices, students complete each sentence. All questions pertain to the history of the Olympic games.
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Scholastic

Step-by-Step Strategies for Teaching Expository Writing

For Teachers 4th - 9th
A carefully crafted, logically organized, 128-page packet is an excellent addition to your unit on expository writing.
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The Power of Words in "Charlotte's Web"

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students analyze the text in Charlotte's Web. In this language arts lesson plan, students dissect the passages from Charlotte's Web, specifically the adjectives Charlotte used to describe Wilbur. Finally, students play a game using...
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Making Learning a Game

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
A game lesson can be a way to explore a variety of concepts with your students.
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Punctuation Review/Tic-tac-toe

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders play a tic-tac-toe game in pairs. In this language arts lesson, one student uses an X to show the correct sentences, while the other student uses an O to show incorrect sentences. Students use a T-chart to record the...
Worksheet
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Really Motivational Page of Encouraging Thoughts

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students discover motivational idioms by matching the first half of each saying with the second half. Students then discuss the meaning of each. Example: "You can't make an omelette without.....breaking...
Worksheet
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Common Idioms-- Body Parts 2

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts instructional activity, students read 20 names of body parts in a word bank. Students fill in the missing words in common idioms. Example: Riding the roller coaster was quite a ------- raising experience! (hair)
Worksheet
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Test Your Vocabulary Skills: More Common Idioms 2

For Students 5th - 6th
For this language arts worksheet, students discover that idioms are spoken or written sentences where the meaning is not obvious from the individual words used. Students read 10 idioms and match them to their meanings.

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