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A South African Storm

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read "A South African Storm" by Allison Howard and participate in a class discussion that examines Howard's letter for both content and writing form. They write a letter using some of the techniques they identified in Howard's.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

American Diplocmacy in World War II

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The end of World War II saw the world deeply changed over the last few years. Four thorough lessons explore post-war Europe, America, and Asia through reading assignments and discussion questions about the Grand Alliance and the signing...
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Using Your Senses

For Teachers K - 1st
Here is a terrific lesson that uses a special State Quarter as a learning tool. This one uses the Alabama State Quarter. During this lesson, pupils learn about their five senses. They make observations about what is in paper bags using...
Worksheet
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Parallel Structure, Exercise 1

For Students 4th - 11th
Challenge your pupils' writing skills with this two-page worksheet. There are a total of twenty sentences which must be read in order to determine whether or not they contain errors in parallel structure. Note: This worksheet accompanies...
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Baylor College

Challenge: Microgravity

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
What a festive way to examine what happens to the heart in different gravitational situations! Small groups place a water-filled balloon in different locations (on a table top, in a tub of water, and held in a vertical position), drawing...
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Personal Genetics Education Project

Personalized Medicine

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Genetics learners read an article and watch a video about personalized medicine and the hope it holds for treating patients more specifically than doctors currently are able to. They research, design, and produce a brochure about the...
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Humanities Texas

Primary Source Worksheet: John T. McCutcheon, “A Wise Economist Asks a Question”

For Students 8th - 11th
No joke! Kids learn how to read political cartoons using McCutcheon's drawing as a starting point and then progressing to other images found online.
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AQA

Teaching Guide: Set Design

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The task of creating a set for a theater production may leave theater arts students asking where to begin. Set their minds at ease with a packet that not only provides information about the elements of design, but also guides them...
Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Utopian Promise

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Scholars learn all about the Puritans in the third installment of a 16-part lesson series. After watching a video, they read and discuss biographies of Puritans and Quakers from American history, write journal entries and poetry, and...
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Annenberg Foundation

Poetry of Liberation

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
How do writers use words to protest injustice, challenge the status quo, and shape their own identities? Individuals watch and discuss a video, read author biographies, write poetry and journals, develop a slideshow, and complete a...
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Kids Helping Kids

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students experience reading in a multi-age learning community. In this partner reading lesson, students plan and implement a "Reading Buddy" program. Students practice oral reading, select sight vocabulary to "teach" the younger student,...
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Hanukkah

For Students Pre-K - K
In this holiday worksheet, students read about Hanukkah. For example, "I see challah...I see a dreidel...I see the Star of David..."
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I Can See Christmas

For Students Pre-K - K
In this holiday worksheet, students read a story about Christmas. For example, "I can see the holly...I can see Santa Clause...I can see the sleigh..."
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The Zoo

For Students Pre-K - K
For this animal worksheet, students read about the different animals seen at the zoo. Each sentence begins with "I see..." and is illustrated with a picture.
Organizer
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Essential Words Record Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 4th
Your pupils use this page to record progress in spelling and vocabulary. There are spaces to record whether or not they can read and spell a word, use the word in a sentence, and write the word. There are spaces to record information...
PPT
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Hello Year 1 - Do You Know These Phonemes?

For Teachers K - 1st
Here is a very basic presentation which introduces young readers to the letters, s, p, i, t, n, and a. After each letter sound is practiced, the remaining slides make simple words for pupils to read that use different combinations of the...
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Perkins School for the Blind

Wheel of Fortune Game

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
Games are great for practicing any number of basic skills. Here is a set of wonderful instructions for making a braille version of a spinning game, where children win points by correctly reading/identifying the high-frequency words the...
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Music and Technology

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice reading rhythm patterns with different types of notes and meters. Using a counting system, they perform a sight reading exercise and take notes when needed. They use a form of technology to illustrate the music.
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Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary in Alphabetical Order

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts activity, students learn 220 commonly used words on this Dolch Word List. The words are arranged alphabetically.
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SH Sight words 1

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this SH words worksheet, students write 8 words with the sh sound in them. Students must trace each word to practice both spelling and printing.
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Nemours KidsHealth

Human Body Series - The Five Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Get your class up and moving with these engaging hands-on-activities that target their five senses. Children explore four different work stations that require them to look, smell, hear, touch, and taste as they record their responses...
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Reading Resource

Pyramid Words

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Sometimes it helps struggling readers to see that all words are just letters strung together. Use a pyramid word activity to guide kids through writing out an entire word by adding one letter at a time on the spaces provided.
Worksheet
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Letter Recognition and Sight Words

For Teachers K - 1st
In this cut and paste letter worksheet, students cut the cut the letters and then paste them into the boxes to spell the words see, at, you, and the.
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Let's Learn Sight Words

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this Hawaiian language worksheet, students look at the pictures and say the words shown in English first and then in Hawaiian. Students write the Hawaiian words by tracing the letters in each box.

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