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Keyboarding

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders participate in assessments related to keyboarding. They orally defend what they have learned in assignments involving keyboarding, creating a list of 15 words, reading a news article about computer technology, and...
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Patterns in Poetry: Part 2 -- Sound

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students understand a variety of poems listening for sound letter correspondence, rhyme scheme, assonance, and alliteration. In this language arts instructional activity, students practice listening and reading skills to complete...
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Smiles Change the World

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore their feelings when someone smiles at them. For this smiles lesson, students practice listening skills while discussing what makes them smile with a partner.
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Languages Around the World

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars discover languages of the world. In this global languages lesson plan, students use the Internet to discover and translate common phrases in various languages.
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Texas Symbols

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify the Texas symbols, collect information from the Internet about one of the state's symbols, and present the information they collected in KidPix. Can be adapted to any state.
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Word Sorts And Story Mapping

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders engage in a lesson that covers the concept of using a storymap to increase reading comprehension. They possess the prior knowledge of parts of speech from previous lessons. Students fill in the blank storymap while working...
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ESOL Basic numbers and SHapes

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students review then recognize the letters A-Z both uppercase and lowercase and the numbers 0-100. They practice letters orally then play a letter writing game and number game as a class.
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Word Wall, If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use vocabulary from "If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon" to play a game.
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Geography: I Spy Environments

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine nature paintings from a Utah museum for their physical characteristics. In small groups, they observe museum postcards and discuss the season, precipitation, temperature, and geometric shapes pictured. Focusing...
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Word Wizards: Students Making Words

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore patterns in words and how to make new words by adding or changing the sequence of letters
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Hidie Ho H!

For Teachers K
Students become more familiar with the letter and sound of h by using the poem, Humpty Dumpty. They are given a sequencing sheet, a pair of scissors, crayons, and a piece of construction paper and told to put pictures in the correct order.
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Going Batty - Part II

For Teachers 1st
First graders apply the knowledge they've gained about bats to create bat poetry.
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Year of the Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners analyze Korean culture from their literature piece. They investigate the theme of oppression by an occupying army. Students encounter courage, resistance movements and explore the underground railroads.
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Environmental Education/Water Pollution

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders play a game in which they list as many environmental issues or terms in alphabetical order. They brainstorm ways they can save the environment and create a mural that displayed research found from the internet and Encarta.
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When A Says Its Name

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students are introduced to the concept of vowel digraphs. They identify the digraph /ai/ in spoken language. After a brief discussion, students apply the rule for reading and spelling words containing the /ai/ digraph by playing word bingo.
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I'll Trade a Ponce de Leon for a Columbus...

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders research the discovery of the Americas by various explorers. They create a multiedia presentation about an explorer of their choice including their motivations, obstacles, and successes. Their explorer information will be...
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Monster Dictionary

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore several retrieval strategies to find information in a variety of sources. They organize the information they find and create a Monster Dictionary that includes imaginary monsters and their definitions.
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B is for Bowling Green

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify important places in Bowling Green and list facts about those places. They write complete, varied sentences using capitals and punctuation correctly and also use the Writing Process. As a final project, a...
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Read Write Think: A Z: Learning About the Alphabet Book Genre

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for at least seven 20- to 30-minute sessions about alphabet books. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
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Read Write Think: Writing Abc Books to Enhance Reading Comprehension

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for four lessons that are adaptable to many texts that learners may be reading. Students analyze the text for literary elements such as characters, setting, figures of speech, and themes, and then publish their findings in...
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Phonemic Awareness, Alphabetics and Sight Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Discover more about phonemic awareness when you visit this informative site. This resource features activities that teach phonemic awareness and activities that teach alphabetics.
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English: A Alphabet [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is a slide show type alphabet "Book," that begins with a photograph, but then depends heavily on clip art. Fine for an alternative type alphabet practice, but instruction would be necessary to show how to move from slide to slide.
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill Education: Kindergarten: Activity Book [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Help kindergarteners reinforce their knowledge of the alphabet and learn sight words with the activities in this 325-page book. This workbook is designed to supplement the following Big Books: Animals in the Park: An ABC Book by Bob...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: States, a to Z

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson students will collect information about the state they live in and create an alphabet book of information.