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Literacy Design Collaborative

The Lottery

For Students 6th Standards
Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" provides middle schoolers with an opportunity to hone their close reading and literary analysis skills. After annotating their copy of the story, writer's craft an essay in which they analyze...
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College Board

Evaluating Sources: How Credible Are They?

For Teachers 7th Standards
How can learners evaluate research sources for authority, accuracy, and credibility? By completing readings, discussions, and graphic organizers, scholars learn how to properly evaluate sources to find credible information. Additionally,...
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Big Learners

Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.l.1.6 : First Grade English Language Arts

For Teachers K - 1st
Here is a collection of our common core aligned worksheets for core standard L.1.6. A brief description of the worksheets is on each of the worksheet widgets. Click on the images to view, download, or print them. All worksheets are free...
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Other

Shutterfly: Ell Resources: Videos: K 1

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An annotated list of Youtube educational videos designed as teacher resources for a variety of English language learner topics. Science, social studies, language arts and math are the featured subjects.
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Other

University of Central Florida: English Classroom Uses for the Digital Camera

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site has nine great lesson plans involving the use of a digital camera in a language arts class. There are suggested activities for students in every grade level.
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Other

China Daily: China Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
Broad access to up-to-date cultural news about China, from the Chinese publisher of a national English-language daily newspaper. Includes a wealth of information about Chinese history, politics, and the economy along with news and...
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Ela Informational Text 6 8 Element Cards

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This 38-page resource will assist middle school English Language Arts teachers as they plan for an informational text unit.
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Other

Database of Award Winning Children's Literature

For Students 4th - 9th
This is a phenomenal resource. It allows the user to create a reading list of quality children's literature based of choices such as reading level, type of book, genre, ethnicity, gender, etc. In addition, one can determine if a book won...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Some Obstacles to Vocabulary Development

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A strong vocabulary, both written and spoken, requires more than a dictionary. In fact, it requires an educational commitment to overcoming four obstacles: the size of the task (the number of words students need to learn is exceedingly...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Intro to Accountable Talk With "Big Anthony and the Magic Ring"

For Teachers 1st Standards
For this lesson, 1st graders will take a more active role in their learning by discussing a read aloud with their partners. The teacher will become more of a facilitator in the lesson and allow the children to "wrangle" with the content.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Kutenai

For Students 9th - 10th
With this resource the students will learn about the culture and origin of the native American people, the Kutenai.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: The Virtual Classroom Glossary of Literary Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Glossary of Literary Terms provided by the University of Cambridge Faculty of English. Seventy terms are included, and they are given between one sentence and a paragraph of explanation each.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Making Vocabulary Meaningful

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
SWBAT define words using a child friendly definition while adding an action in order to retain the meaning of new words.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Science Writing With Author Lois Ehlert

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is an interdisciplinary language development unit addressing science and language arts standards designed for English Language Learners. In the week-long unit students will learn the life cycle of plants and discuss various uses for...

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