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Simon Says Summarize
Students comprehend text for the purpose of understanding what is being read. In this lesson they practice the skill of summarization with the goal of improving reading comprehension while reading the article "Godzilla".
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"Let's Get to the Point--Summarize!"
Young scholars get rid of unnecessary information. They pick out the most important information. Students write a sentence that covers everything that is important information from the passage. They fill out a check list to check behind...
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Star Summarizers
Students participate in a reading literacy lesson plan with the goal of improving reading fluency and comprehension. They work on the skill of summarization that helps to pick out important details of a reading.
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"Sum, Sum, Sum It Up!"
Learners are provided with a model of how to better comprehend text through using a summarization rubric which includes: deleting trivial information, deleting repeated information, substituting easy words for lists of items, adding a...
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Read All About It!
Students are taught the comprehensions aids them in their reading and will make reading seem easier once they know what they are reading about. They access how th ask themselves the five W's: who, what, where, when, and why. Students by...
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Do You See What I See?
Students participate in a reading skills lesson to improve reading comprehension. The skill of visualization is taught and practiced to help them better understand the plot of a story.
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Movies In Your Head
Students participate in a reading literacy lesson that focuses on the skill of visualization and the metaphor of a movie is used to explain images in the mind. This lesson teaches children how to make a movie in their head from what is...
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Creating Images to Fill in the Holes
Students encounter the effective method to improve their comprehension of visualizing, or using the text on the page to create a mental image. They increase comprehension by essentially digesting the text in two different...
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Think First, Then Ask
Students are to read the book Everglades and create a KWL chart about the book. The KWL chart is explained to the students during the process of them reading the book. They complete step-by-step instructions to read the book and complete...
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Izzie's Igloo
Students must be phonemically aware to both read and write. This means that the student must understand phonemes and the relationship between letters and sounds. For this lesson, students work on the phoneme i=/i/. Since vowels are the...
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Eeeee -- It's a Mouse!
Students recognize the long "e" sound, and identify it in spoken words by learning letter symbols. Students participate in role playing and tongue twisters to learn the long "e" sound. By learning phenomes, students are taking the...
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"Ready, Set, Speed Read!"
Students become fluent readers. They need plenty of time to practice reading familiar text in order to remember more words, read faster, smoother, and more expressively. Students reread familiar text, the more their reading skills with...
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Melodia Sight-Singing
Students practice sight-singing skills in this Choral instructional activity for the High School mixed-choir. Emphasis is placed on State and National Standards in the Arts and the song "Dirait-on", a piece by Morten Lauridson, based on...
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Autobiography: Maya Angelou
Learners study the concepts of autobiography, biography, and fiction as literary genres. They read, study, and analyze Maya Angelou's autobiographical writings in terms of what she intended to accomplish by her writings. They develop and...
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Travel Brochure Prewriting Worksheet
In this prewriting skills worksheet, students complete the provided graphic organizer as they research the Greek islands in order to create informative brochures about the area.
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Notable American Composers
Young scholars visit web sites for each of the composersand listen to selections of each composer's music and place important dates of the composers into a pre-printed time line.
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Everyone's an Author
Students examine variety of written pieces of quality fiction, discuss what different story elements are present and how those elements make stories as effective as they are, and create a class story.
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DNA: Controversies
Students study DNA research and genetic engineering. Also, they learn why diversity among people are important.
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Let the North Star Tell You Where You Are
Learners create an astrolabe and locate the North Star in the night sky. They determine the latitude of the North Star, and calculate an average latitude based on class results.
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Remote Sensing
Ninth graders participate in a variety of activities designed to reinforce the concept of light and the electromagnetic spectrum. They research and analyze data from remotely sensed images. They present their findings in a PowerPoint...
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Analysis of Character in a Short Story
Ninth graders examine a character from the short story, John Steinbeck's, "Flight." students respond to questions about the story and illustrate the character's journey.
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So Far From the Bamboo Grove
Students read and discuss the book So Far From the Bamboo Grove. They select and reflect on the events that they consider most important in shaping their lives.
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Super Polymers
Students investigate polymers and compare the absorbency of a disposable diaper to cotton dish towels They determine the absorbency of sodium polyacrylate.
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Universal Proportions: Earth and Moon
Students create scale models of Earth, the Moon, and the distances within the universe. Working in groups, they construct their models of Earth and the Moon on a scale of 50:1 and calculate how far apart to place their models. They...
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