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Predicting Nations at Risk
Students explain the "So what?"-or the international implications-of factors that indicate the developmental status of a nation.
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What will you be for Halloween?
First graders construct a story sticking to the topic with 2-4 sentences.
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Past and Future Heroes
Third graders view various murals and explore the characteristics of heroes and how heroes can be represented in art. They choose a hero, then write and illustrate a short report on his or her life.
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Meet Me at My House
Third graders improve their writing skills by writing directions from school to their houses to give to a friend. The directions must be sequential and include direction words (north, south, east, west), landmarks and specific street names.
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How Dense Are You?
Students examine how density is a value that describes what type of a material an object is made of regardless of its shape or size.
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Making The Height
Twelfth graders apply estimation techniques to determine how high any one basketball player can jump.
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Global Warming--Points of view
Students are introduced to global warming through analysis of political/editorial cartoons dealing with the subject. They discuss the cartoon and what the feel it means and then discuss the mechanics of and the concerns about global...
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PBS Kids Go Buster Buster and Beatrice/ The Giant Pumpkins
Second graders visit San Antonio, Texas and Mt. Hood, Oregon in these two episodes of PBS Buster Go Kids. They examine the music and food that is local to San Antonio by looking at images and pretend to play instruments. They use...
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Icky Sticky Hands!
Students examine the letter 'i'. Through instruction and modeling they explore the sound the letter makes, how the letter is written, words that contain the letter, etc. They use letterboxes to write 'i' words and read stories containing...
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Icky Sticky
Students recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /i/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in pseudo words they read.
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Everyone is Reading
Students study /e/ in both written and spoken words using a tongue twister and letterbox activities. They recite a tongue twisters and make words using letterboxes. Next, they read "Red Gets Fed" and find words that contain the /e/...
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Icky Stinky Fingers!
Students examine the letter 'i'. Through instruction and modeling they explore the sound the letter makes, how the letter is written, words that contain the letter, etc. They use letterboxes to write 'i' words and read stories...
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Dad's Fat Hat
Students complete a variety of activities as they examine the letter 'a' as it makes the short /a/ sound. Through instruction and modeling, they explore the sound the letter makes and how the letter is written. They recite tongue...
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Making Words #7
In this word activity worksheet, students color all consonants in a set of letters yellow, then cut out the letters and create as many words as possible, sorting by how many letters the words have.
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Making Words #6
In this making words worksheet, learners read a set of letters, color all consonants yellow, then cut out make and write as many words as possible.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: K W H L Chart [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn how to use use the K-W-H-L research strategy. Teachers will find this activity that may be used as a pre-research, during-research, or post-research strategy.
Read Works
Read Works: Genre Studies: Informational Text Kindergarten Unit: Labeled Diagrams
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Bats by Gail Gibbons to teach students how to identify facts learned from labeled diagrams within an informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice...