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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Common Content Area Roots and Affixes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This table offers 50 or so common roots, prefixes, and suffixes, their definitions, and sample words in the content areas. L.9-10.4b Patterns/word changes
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Bingo Lingo Game [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Bingo-like game where students match cards to root words. This PDF document contains five pages of directions, game boards, and game cards.
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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Bright Ideas for Writing

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
Looking for writing ideas? Here are two groups of writing prompts: one for grades 1-2 and one for 3-5. They are even organized by type of prompt as well. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.10
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University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Compare & Contrast

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Strategies to help students recognize similarities and differences provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade. Includes strategies such as Character Frames, Character Mapping, Semantic Feature Analysis,...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Nature's Violet Children [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
"Nature's Violet Children" is a one page, folktale about violets who were sad because a little girl picked them and took them home. It is followed by open-ended questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Cloud [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
"The Cloud" is a one-page, folktale about a cloud who moved closer to the earth, despite warnings that it would die, to save the drought-stricken plants and animals. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence...
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 1 Reading: Literature: Compare and Contrast Characters

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
Learn how to compare and contrast characters on this site. Understand how comparing and contrasting characters is important for reading comprehension.
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 1 Reading: Literature: Compare and Contrast Settings

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
To comprehend a story, students need to be able to compare and contrast the setting. Learn how to compare and contrast setting in this reference article.
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Frayer Model [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about the Frayer Model, an engaging instructional strategy tool. Teachers will learn how to implement the Frayer Model, understand how to measure progress with the Frayer Model, find research that supports...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Prairie Keepers [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
"Prairie Keepers" is a one-page, nonfiction passage about how the prairie was saved from total destruction and the efforts of the Department of Agriculture to rebuild the prairie. It is followed by questions which require students to...
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Education Development Center

Tv411: Summarizing Activity 2

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This activity asks students to differentiate between main ideas and supporting details.
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Other

Sacramento City College: What Are Context Clues?

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This screen is the first of a series of slides about using context clues. It defines context clues. The following screens contain examples and tips on how to use and interpret context clues. Use the Next buttons to complete the...
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Savvas Learning

Pearson Education: The Longman Vocabulary Website: Dictionary Skills

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
How are your dictionary skills? Check out this site to learn how to improve your dictionary skills. This site features exercises grouped into three different levels.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Figurative Language Awards Ceremony

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for five to seven lessons that teach about figurative language like similes, metaphors, and personification by asking students to write award acceptance speeches that incorporate them. In addition to objectives and...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Unlikely Diary Keepers

For Teachers 2nd - 7th Standards
The writer will assume the role of a living creature (like an arthropod) or an abstraction (like a fraction). Writers will do research on what they have chosen as their roles, and learn new facts about these roles. The writer will...
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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...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography Writer's Workshop

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This tutorial has students follow a step-by-step guide to write their very own biography using that of Frederick Douglass as a model.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Character's Decalogue

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
In this lesson, the writer first writes a personal decalogue (a list of ten personal beliefs) about something important to him/her. The writer then creates a decalogue for a fictional character they will invent and envision. The final...
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Road to Grammar

Road to Grammar: Understanding the Ed Ending

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This unit focuses on the -ed ending; it offers 15 pages of information and practices about the -ed ending. These explain the uses of the ending including in past tense, perfect tense, certain adjectives, passive voice, and clauses. It...
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Other

Campbell County School District:technology Rubrics [Pdf]

For Students 5th Standards
This is a PDF of two four-leveled grading rubrics for use with fifth-grade students - one for a multimedia presentation and one for a word processing/desktop publishing project.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Oral Presentation Rubric

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
A printable four-point rubric for use when evaluating oral presentations. The rubric focuses on the specific areas of delivery, content and organization, and enthusiasm and audience awareness. Directions on how to use this rubric as well...
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Main Idea & Details

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
This interactive lesson offers clarification and practice in the realm of main ideas and details.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Patterns of Organization

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site discusses the topic of patterns of organization of paragraphs. Links with video content and further explanations about the following patterns of organization topics are provided: sequence, spatial, cause and effect; order of...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Analyzing Setting [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this graphic organizer for analyzing setting and its effect on the meaning of any story.