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PBS

Pbs American Masters: Willie Nelson: All Together Now!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This lesson plan is based on Willie Nelson lyrics, and the PBS feature on him. It focuses on brainstorming and choral reading skills. In addition to the lesson plan, there is information on how to do guided reading and choral reading.
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NWT Literacy Council

Nwt Literacy Council: The Northern Edge Study Guide: Climate Change [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson guide provides literacy activities for learning about climate change. The reading level is more accessible to struggling readers who may be studying this topic in the higher grades.
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Read Works

Read Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Realistic Fiction

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Allie's Basketball Dream by Barbara E. Barber to learn about the characteristics that define realistic fiction. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice,...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Company: Teacher's Guide for Bread and Roses, Too

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Katherine Paterson writes historical fiction for middle school aged middle schoolers. This book on the Bread and Roses strike includes good factual information about the strike woven into a personal story. This teacher's guide is a handy...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson is part of a week-long unit. It focuses on the pre-reading phase of guided reading. It aims to activate prior knowledge, preview vocabulary, and set a purpose for reading. This book deals with a very sensitive issue that most...
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Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Main Idea

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify main ideas through headings and chapter titles, and then to write appropriate titles of their own. Lessons are based on the books...
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Read Works

Read Works: Drawing Conclusions Kindergarten Unit: Short Story

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan teaching students to make conclusions based on a sentences and short texts. Students use textual cues to explain how the conclusions were reached. Ideas for direct teaching, guided...
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Read Works

Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Beginning and End

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This webiste provides a instructional activity in which learners identify and describe the beginning and end of a fiction story. Lesson includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Say What?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This is a practice lesson designed to excite sports fans in a unit about determining who is speaking in a story. The students practice this specific skill as the teacher models it in the hook. They get guided practice sorting and...
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Better Lesson: Who Said That?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
It is important for students to learn how to identify who is telling the story. This instructional activity not only asks students to identify the speaker but also asks the students to start identifying the point of view in the guided...
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Five Little Monkeys: Comparing and Contrasting

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Five little monkeys sitting on a bed or sitting in a tree? In this close reading lesson, students will compare and contrast the actions of the characters in two of Eileen Christelow's beloved books,...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: The Fox and the Grapes Moral

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will get exposure to a folktale and work to understand the moral. This lesson uses two fables "The Fox and the Grapes" and "The Fox and the Hen". The lesson involves guided practice where the students write notes on the left...
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CPALMS

Help Pick Your Class Pet

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this MEA simulation, kindergarten students will be given the power of slelecting a classroom pet. Students, working in collaborative groups, must collect data about different potential classroom...
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Other

Nancy Polette: "The Best School Year Ever" Literature Guide

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This is a good site for someone who has read "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson. It has a brief description of the story. Then, it lists several activities to do to better understand the book.
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Other

Teach With Picture Books: One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Author provides a summary, discussion questions, background information, pre-reading and after-reading questions, as well as extension ideas for math and language arts for the folk tale from India, One Grain of Rice.
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Other

Brookfield High School: Lesnansky's Control Center: Cool Google Tricks

For Students 9th - 10th
For this lesson, students will read an article that defines ways to improve the Google Search process to get better, more accurate results, and then write a short essay defining what new skills have been learned. The article that it...
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Better Lesson: Arctic vs. Antarctic

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will be able to identify similarities and differences between two texts about the polar habitats by using a Venn diagram. Included in this lesson are guided questions to use while reading, a printable Venn Diagram, and pictures...
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Better Lesson: Accountable Talk Introduction

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learning to engage in collaborative conversations allows children to learn about their world, to become familiar with words, and to build a solid foundation for the development of reading and writing skills. This lesson introduces rules...
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Better Lesson: Work Out Together

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will read an article and determine the author's point and identify the reasons the author gives to support his or her point. This lesson requires analysis by the students and a great deal of higher-order thinking as they...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Topo Map Mania!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Maps are designed to allow people to travel to a new location without a guide to show the way. They tell us information about areas to which we may or may not have ever been. There are many types of maps available for both recreational...
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Charles Dickens

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the life and work of Charles Dickens through this educational resource.

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