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Introduce: Comprehension Monitoring using About Trees

For Teachers K - 3rd
As scholars begin reading more difficult text, they need to acquire an arsenal of comprehension strategies. Here are few helpful ones to guide new readers through the informational text About Trees, which is linked here for printing....
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Plant Part Exploration: Stems

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Explore water transport in plant stems using this fun experiment! Your scientists will start by reading Stems by Vijaya Bodach. Then, activate prior knowledge about plant stem functions and water transportation. Demonstrate this concept...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Into the A, B, Sea (Rose)

For Teachers K - 3rd
As budding readers learn about the ocean, they'll get practice with the alphabet and new vocabulary words (cling, nab, prey, slumber, and thrive) in context. Read Deborah Rose's book Into the A, B, Sea, which includes a glossary in the...
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Glossaries

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Explore text structure with a focus on the glossary feature in informational texts. Learners read a brief introduction before examining a glossary from a text about plants. They reference it while completing four comprehension questions....
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Identifying Text Features of a Self-Written Fable

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Make learning the parts of a book fun by having pupils construct their own glossary entries, table of contents, and title page. Beginning with a review of text features and a hunt for examples, kids use previously written fables to...
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Research and Study Skills: Dictionary/Glossary

For Students 5th - 7th
What is the difference between a dictionary and a glossary? After looking at series of dictionary and glossary entries (included on the worksheet itself), learners are asked to explain the differences between these two reference...
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Vocabulary Development

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
What is a root word? What is a prefix? Suffix? Use these questions to spark a discussion amongst your language art learners. Then, start by writing the word irresistible on the board and have teams of learners attempt to create new words...
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Wrapping It Up

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Class members develop their own glossaries for unfamiliar words in each chapter in Elizabeth George Speare’s The Sign of the Beaver. After recording the word, the page number on which the word appears, and its part of speech, they...
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Vocabulary Development

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th Standards
Students create new words. In this vocabulary development lesson students use five root words and add a prefix and a suffix to make new words. They use the new words in a sentence.
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Reference Skills

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students participate in an online scavenger hunt using the parts of a book to locate information. In this reference materials lesson, students locate the title, subtitle, table of contents and glossary. Students then create their own...
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Nouns and Adjectives

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this nouns and adjectives worksheet, learners choose words from a word bank to fill in two blanks, an adjective and noun, to logically complete sentences. A mini-glossary helps students complete three sentences, some with multiple...
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Vocabulary Dictionary Drill

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Investigate vocabulary terms related to communities. First your class generates a list of vocabulary terms related to the study of communities. Working in small groups, they compete in a dictionary drill to discover the meaning of the...
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Getting to Know Your Textbook

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders use the glossary, index, and headings to location information in their textbooks. For this textbooks lesson plan, 8th graders complete discussion questions about the information they can learn from textbook features.
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Using the Glossary

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the glossary. In this language arts lesson, 5th graders define unknown words in a text by using the glossary. Students read a text and use the glossary to find unknown words.
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Analyzing Textbook Formats

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the characteristics of a non-fiction text. In this comprehension instructional activity, students are led on a guided tour of each text and identify the features of a non-fiction text. High schoolers continue to...
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Glossary: computer verbs

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this glossary activity, students create a glossary of verbs they use while using the computer. Students create a glossary for 12 verbs.
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Computing Concepts with Java 2 Essentials

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students identify with various programming texts; introduce material in different orders; and emphasize different concepts. Students read an introduction to LiveTexts; complete various activities; discover and apply its Global features...