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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Free Graphic Organizers for Teaching Literature & Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Character Webs, Responding to Literature Forms, Reading Analysis Organizers, Story Maps, Cognitive Bookmarks, Instructional Webs, and more.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Free Graphic Organizers for Teaching Literature & Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Character Webs, Responding to Literature Forms, Reading Analysis Organizers, Story Maps, Cognitive Bookmarks, Instructional Webs, and more.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Free Graphic Organizers for Teaching Literature & Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Character Webs, Responding to Literature Forms, Reading Analysis Organizers, Story Maps, Cognitive Bookmarks, Instructional Webs, and more.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Get the Reel Scoop: Comparing Books to Movies

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students compare a book to its film adaptation, and then perform readers theater of a scene from the book that they feel was not well represented in the movie version.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Point of View

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
A fifteen-part learning module with links to images, web sites, videos, and texts about first and third person point of view.
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Character Head: The Beaked

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Character Head: The Beaked", created by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt in 1770 (Alabaster, height 43 cm).
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Character Head: The Beaked

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Character Head: The Beaked", created by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt in 1770 (Alabaster, height 43 cm).
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Character Head: The Gentle, Quiet Sleep

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Character Head: The Gentle, Quiet Sleep", created by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt from 1770-1783 (Tin cast, height 44 cm).
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Character Head: The Hanged

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Character Head: The Hanged", created by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt from 1770-83 (Alabaster, height 38 cm).
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Character Head: Ill Humoured Man

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Character Head: Ill Humoured Man", created by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt from 1770-83 (Lead, height 39 cm).
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Character Head: The Lecher

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Character Head: The Lecher", created by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt from 1770-83 (Marble, height 45 cm).
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Character Head: Incapable Bassoonist

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Character Head: Incapable Bassoonist", created by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt from 1770-83 (Tin-alloy, height 42 cm).
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Character Head: The Arch Evil

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Character Head: The Arch-Evil", created by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt from 1770-83 (Tin-lead alloy, height 38,5 cm).
eBook
Other

America Dept. Of State: Outline of American Literature [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This online book presents an overview of American literature chronologically. Eras and movements are explained and biographies of significant authors are provided. This is a good way to understand the background and influences of...
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School: 10 Major Types of Inference in Literature [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This printable worksheet helps students recognize the difference between an implication and an inference. Students are presented with quotes from the text and they practice with each of the ten types of inference: location, agent, time,...
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Learning Farm

Learning Farm: Compare and Contrast Literature

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Students will learn how to compare and contrast passages from different time periods. Analyzing the similarities and differences of in the way authors show a historical time, place, or a character gives the reader a broader understanding...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Trees Are Terrific

For Students 3rd - 5th
The cartoon character Pierre discusses and illustrates the parts of a tree in a format suitable for younger students.
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Other

Cape Girardeau Schools: Inspiration Templates and Ideas

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This school site provides templates and ideas for using Inspiration Software, a visual thinking and learning tool, in your classroom.
Lesson Plan
National Geographic

National Geographic: The Politics of Place Naming

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use an online geographic information system (GIS) to uncover the geographic and social context of streets named after Martin Luther King, Jr. They map street locations to identify regional patterns in honoring King, consider...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: The Hound of the Baskervilles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
View, read and discuss Conan Doyle's tale, "The Hound of Baskersvilles," and compare and contrast the story with the film. Explore the genres and elements of mystery and suspense that are present, and analyze characters, especially...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Scrapbook Book Report

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
After reading independently a novel or biography, learners in this creative writing activity demonstrate their understanding of characterization and point of view by creating the main character's personal scrapbook.
eBook
Stanford University

Dime Novels: Adventures of Buffalo Bill From Boyhood to Manhood

For Students 9th - 10th
Dime novels were popular literature about the West. Stanford University Library offers this e-text of the dime novel about Buffalo Bill Cody's adventures in his early life.
Handout
Sonoma State University

Sonoma State University: Soren Kierkegaard: Summary of Important Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent place to start learning the terminology and ideas of Kierkegaard. The explanations are clear and easy to understand.
Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Chorus

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The UVic Writer's Guide provides an excellent description of the term chorus. Content includes a focus on its historical meaning as well.