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Painting Inside the Lines

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils examine how freedoms of expression and religion are shaped within democracies. They consider reactions to controversial art exhibit in Moscow. They compose reaction papers supporting or refuting a quotation from the article read...
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Long Vowel Phoneme -ee- 1 of 4

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students apply word-level skills through shared and guided reading. They use poems of parts of poems as models for own writing. They read texts aloud with pace and expression.
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On Your Mark, Get Set, GO!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students in order to become a fluent reader need to read often and repeat what they read over and over. Repeated reading helps students gain better knowledge of text. Fluent readers recognize words automatically and with this automatic...
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Poetry as a Means of Redemption and Reflection

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders read poetry for homework and discuss it during class. They participate in poetry readings and decide who the speakers are in the poems.
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Having Beary Much Fun with Core Knowledge

For Teachers Pre-K
Students participate in a teddy bear themed unit to improve their social and reading skills along with other core knowledge subjects. In this social and reading skills lesson, students complete 8 units of activities to learn about social...
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Likes and Dislikes

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this likes and dislikes worksheet, students read the sentences and complete them with the phrase 'I like' or 'I dislike.' Students complete 15 sentences.
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School-Home Links: Tracking Text Top to Bottom

For Students K - 1st
In this following text learning exercise, students tell a story about their family in their own words and ask a family member to write it on the provided lines. The family member then reads the story to the child.
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"Dr. Xargle's Book of Earthlets"

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars examine the expressive and descriptive language used in the books "Dr. Xargle's Book of Earthlets" and "Planet of the Robots." In pairs they take notes about each other's physical appearance and conduct interviews,...
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Impacting Indiana

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders become familiar with the culture and history of Indiana.  In this James Whitcomb Riley lesson, 4th graders read poetry which includes the dialect of Indiana.  Students analyze the poem.  Groups memorize and recite stanzas...
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The Eyes Have It

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the health risks associated with wearing decorative contact lenses. They research other cosmetic modes of expression that can pose health risks and debate whether these practices should remain legal.
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If I Could Fly

For Teachers K
Students listen to an oral reading of the book Tar Beach, start and exit the Kid Pix program, use the mouse and the keyboard as input devices, and use the software to create a painting to express their ideas generated by the reading of...
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LOOKING AT A CHARACTER

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate self- and teacher-selected literature (e.g., picture books, nursery rhymes, fairy tales, poems, legends) from a variety of cultures. They re-enact and retell stories, songs, poems, plays, and other literary...
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Poetry-The Essence of Life

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students analyze and appreciate various types of poetry. In this poetry unit, students read classic and contemporary works to discover ways in which poetry expresses strong feelings. Students identify key vocabulary used to analyze...
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Richie's Rocket

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, after reading with intonation and expression the book, "Richie's Rocket," by Joan Anderson, circulate in centers to create a puzzle with emotions and experiences from the ideas in the story, write the definition of words...
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Finding Science in An American Childhood by Annie Dillard

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars read excerpts from Annie Dillard's memoir, "An American Childhood," with the teacher. They experience opportunities to connect English, science, nature and art together from a new and unique perspective. This approach...
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Wonderful Wintertime

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students explore the seasons and how to describe them with adjectives. In this lesson about winter and descriptive language, students develop an understanding of the seasons specifically winter, and become equipped to describe them with...
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Idiom Quizzes I

For Students 4th - 6th
In this identifying idioms in an online/interactive worksheet, students read sentences with expressions written in brackets and choose the expressions that best replace those expressions. Students choose 21 answers.
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Idiom Quizzes - Legal & Law

For Students 5th - 6th
In this recognizing the meaning and usage of idioms in sentences worksheet, students choose idioms to replace the expressions in parenthesis. Students choose 20 online/interactive answers.
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In the Middle - Middle School Poetry

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students analyze and interpret poems.  In this poetry lesson, students are read poems aloud, discuss the meanings in groups, and complete two worksheets after listening to the poems.  Links to the worksheets and discussion questions are...
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MacBeth Activity Using Alanis Morissette's "Wake Up"

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students analyze Macbeth through the lens of a pop song. In this Macbeth lesson, students read Act I, Scene 7 of Macbeth and determine Lady Macbeth's viewpoint. Students read the lyrics to Alanis Morrissette's song 'Wake Up' and work in...
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Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students discover how rivers inspire creative expression.  In this Mark Twain lesson, students list songs about rivers and discuss common characteristics. They locate the Mississippi River on a map and write a script in which a steamboat...
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Readers Theatre: The Three Snow Bears

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students dramatize the story, Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett. In this readers theatre lesson, students read the story and then dramatize the events during readers theatre. There is an included script.
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Animal Communication

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students use three nonfiction selections in order to investigate the concept of animal communication. They use a graphic organizer for the information as it is gathered in the reading.
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Mood

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students analyze their feelings after reading or listening to music. In this moods lesson, students react to the feelings generated by the story or music they heard. Students pair edit their stories.

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