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Reading Portfolio
Students record their own voices using microphones, computers, and reading selections and chart progress at recognizing words, phonics, word structure, and context clues. This elementary lesson uses the computer program Timeliner.
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Friendship
First graders explore human psychology by reading a book in class. In this friendship lesson, 1st graders identify the benefit of friends and strong relationships while reading the book The Rainbow Fish. Students analyze the images from...
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The Root of the Problem
Identifying root and base words is an important skill. Using this lesson, learners practice identifying Greek and Latin roots. However, this resource is incomplete and should be augmented to provide a complete experience.
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Cache: Lesson Plan 4 - Grades 4-5
After viewing the West of the West's documentary Cache, individuals craft either a newspaper article chronicling the discovery of the cache on San Nicolas Island, a historical narrative of the placement of the cache in the cliff side, or...
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"Seeing Things With Parted Eye."
Student read a section of Shakespeare's, Julius Caesar to identify the context. In this Shakespeare lesson, students discuss a section of Julius Caesar to determine how Cassius feels about Antony. They work with a partner to develop a...
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PERCEIVINGT A CULTURE THROUGH ITS LITERATURE
Studentsexamine cultural values in literature, identify the cultural assumptions, prejudices, and purposes of authors and translators, use historical perspective to determine if the values and lifestyle depicted apply to contemporary...
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The Declaration of Independence: From Rough Draft to Proclamation
Learners discover how the Declaration of Independence transformed from a draft to a treasured historical document. In this Declaration of Independence instructional activity, students discuss the context in which Jefferson wrote the...
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Lessons and Units: The Watsons go to Birmingham—1963 5TH GRADE UNIT
Get ready to read The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 with a lesson about historical fiction. Spanning several centuries, the resource prompts learners to guess the historical era of a story based on a word or phrase...
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Unlocking New Words
Students are introduced to the various types of suffixes and prefixes. In groups, they identify the root words and determine the proper suffix or prefix to add to the root. They complete a worksheet and review their answers to end the...
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Celebrations
Second graders answer questions after listening to the the story "Celebrating Life Around the World" and verbally identify three ways in which people celebrate special occasions. They then make two verbal connections from their own...
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Geography and Artifacts of Mexico
Pupils review the structure of government in Mexico and discuss how it is different than the United States. Using artifacts, they must label and identify the city or state in which the artifact originated. They use the artifact clues...
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Clap Syllable
Students identify the number of syllables in a word. They count the beats in a word and realize that one beat -words are shorter than three beat words.
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Vocabulary Lesson (Color Words) Using Various Books by Eric Carle and Internet Sites
Students investigate color words. In this vocabulary, high frequency words, and technology lesson, students visit various websites to practice reading color words. Students listen to Eric Carle books and observe the illustrations,...
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Fractions - One-Half and One-Fourth
First graders identify and create the fractions one-half and one-fourth. The teacher first demonstrates how to create the fractions on a geoboard. The students then create one-half and one-fourth of a square, triangle, and a rectangle on...
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Communicating My Ideas; Developing Self-Expression in Writing
Fifth graders identify new vocabulary. In this vocabulary lesson, 5th graders predict the meaning of unfamiliar words. Next they find them in a dictionary and use them in a sentence.
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Trucks and Community Workers
First graders identify community helpers and their roles. In this transportation lesson, 1st graders complete a series of lessons integrating technology and literacy. Students decode sounds of short u, c/s/ and g/j/ words and improve...
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Making Words
Third graders spell words and define homophone. In this making words lesson, 3rd graders decipher words from letter strips in an effort to identify the "secret word". Students use a set of letters to spell different words.
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Compound Words
Learners identify compound words in the story, "Once There Was A Bull." They work with a partner to discuss what makes up a compound word and participate in a game that helps them to understand the concept better. As the assessment...
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Idiom Ideographs
Pupils explore idioms. They divide into groups of three. Each group is given an idiom and three sentence clues. They discuss the meaing of their assigned idiom. Students create a new sentence using their idiom and dramatize the idiom.
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Uncovering The Truth
Learners investigate the social and religious contexts that surrounded the Salem Witch Trials. The research is guided using the worksheets included in the lesson plan. The culminating assignment is writing an editorial of personal...
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Correlative Conjunctions
Students identify correlative conjunctions in sentences and then rewrite pairs of sentences as a single sentence with correlative conjunctions. They practice diagramming sentences of various sentence patterns and then write a personal...
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Discovering Culture through Literature
Pupils read the story "The Last Seventeen Years". Using the story, they identify cultural clues about the country of Korea. In groups, they complete a Venn diagram comparing Korean and United States culture. They use the internet to...
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Spelling: Homophone Review
Third graders practice using homophones. In this homophones lesson, 3rd graders review what makes a word a homophone and use clues to complete a worksheet that requires them to write in the correct homophone.
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Weathervanes in the Wind
Students investigate wind and weather by creating a weathervane. In this environment lesson, students identify the purpose of a weathervane and observe weathervanes in action on their campus. Students create a weathervane and...