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PBS

African American History: Honored as Heroes

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
To gain an understanding of the treatment of African American soldiers during World War I, class members watch an excerpt from the History Detectives film, Our Colored Heroes, and then examine three recruitment posters from that...
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University of North Carolina

Audience

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Challenging pupils' perspectives by having them walk in the shoes of the reader. An informative resource discusses how to identify an audience and anticipate their needs before writing an upcoming argumentative essay. 
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University of North Carolina

Essay Exams

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
For decades, the sight of blue books has struck fear in the hearts of collegians. Those books usually signal an essay exam, the topic of one of the handouts in a larger series on specific writing assignments. Using the handout, writers...
Activity
Poetry4kids

How to Write a Funny Epitaph Poem

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
What can happen if you eat too much cafeteria food? Or wear dirty clothes every day? Or talk back to your mother? Use a lesson on humorous poems as a way for students to practice silly rhymes as fictional epitaphs.
Activity
Beverly Hills High School

Evaluation of Events During the French Revolution

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
How would you grade the events of the French Revolution? History class members evaluate the positive and negative impacts of eight pivotal events, including the Reign of Terror, the Meeting of the Estates General, and the Coronation at...
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K12 Reader

How Things Move

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
As part of a comprehension exercise, kids read a physical science article about motion and then answer a series of comprehension questions based on the passage.
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2
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K12 Reader

Push and Pull

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
For this comprehension exercise, kids read a physical science article about forces that can move an object, and then answer a series of questions about the passage.
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2
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K12 Reader

Many Ways to Measure

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Measurement tools, yardsticks, scales, and thermometers, are the subject of a reading comprehension worksheet that asks kids to answer a series of questions based on the provided article.
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K12 Reader

Justify Your Answer

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
How do you check to see if an answer to a question is correct? Just follow the four simple steps outlined in this reading comprehension learning exercise.
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K12 Reader

Active and Passive Transport

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Active and passive systems used to transport materials to and from cells are the subject of a comprehension activity that asks readers to use information from the article to answer a series of questions based on the text.
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K12 Reader

Bartering for Basics

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
A passage about bartering practiced by early Native American tribes provides the text for a reading comprehension worksheet that asks kids to use information from the article to answer a series of comprehension questions.
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K12 Reader

Absolute Location

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Where in the world are we? As a reading comprehension exercise, kids read a short passage about navigation using latitude and longitude, and then respond to a series of questions based on the article.
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K12 Reader

Conflict Over North American Lands

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Readers are introduced to some of the conflicts that arose over land and resources in the Americas in a two-part cross-curricular comprehension worksheet that asks kids to study the article and then to use information provided to...
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K12 Reader

Simplifying Fractions

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
 Young mathematicians respond to a series of comprehension questions after reading an article about simplifying fractions.
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K12 Reader

Making Predictions

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Prediction as a reading comprehension strategy is the focus of an article attached to a two-part learning exercise. Kids read the article and then use the provided information to respond to the comprehension questions.
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K12 Reader

The Inner Planets

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Here's a reading exercise that uses an article about the inner planets to assess comprehension. After reading the article, kids respond to a series of questions using information from the text.
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K12 Reader

Water Water Everywhere

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
The protection of our water supply is the subject of an article used in this cross-curricular reading comprehension worksheet. After studying the passage, readers use information from the text to respond to a series of comprehension...
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K12 Reader

Converting Fractions to Decimals

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
After examining a short article on fractions and decimals, readers draw information for the text to respond to a series of reading comprehension questions.
App
Super Duper Publications

Difficult Situations Fun Deck

For Students K - 6th
What would you do? Fifty-six illustrated picture flash cards provide players with an opportunity to talk about difficult situations, practice responses to awkward or uncomfortable situations, and consider how to deal with dangerous...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Comparing Light Bulbs

For Teachers K - 8th
An average home produces twice as many emissions as an average car. Teach your class how to reduce energy consumption by replacing standard incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs. Perform an experiment to compare...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Epic Improvisation

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Really? Rapping The Odyssey? Really. A discussion of the oral tradition of story telling and its links to Epic poetry sets the stage for a series of activities that encourage improvisation to integrate music into other classrooms....
Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Vocabulary: Word Analysis, Meaning Map

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Lead young learners to understand new vocabulary with this series of word maps. The first of these organizers asks children to determine the definition and provide examples and descriptions of each word with the help of dictionaries,...
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Teacher's Corner

Shape Poetry

For Students 3rd - 7th
Calligrams, or shape poems, are the focus of ninth exercise in a ten-part poetry writing series.
Unit Plan
Mathematics Vision Project

Circles: A Geometric Perspective

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Circles are the foundation of many geometric concepts and extensions - a point that is thoroughly driven home in this extensive unit. Fundamental properties of circles are investigated (including sector area, angle measure, and...

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