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Suspense-Around

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers participate in round-robin cooperative writing groups to develop a variety of possible stories around a single prompt.
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Bears

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of bear-related activities. They sort and graph teddy bears, distinguish between real and non-real bears and research bear life cycles and habitats.
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Why Do People Do What They Do?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers, in groups, develop questions on topics listed on a worksheet. They compare the results with other groups.
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Regroup More Than Once

For Students 4th - 5th
In this regrouping in multiplication worksheet, students use the table for the 'New England Public Libraries' to find the products for each six problems. Students use regrouping to solve the multiplication problems.
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Poetic Devices

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this figurative language worksheet, students read and study examples of simile and metaphor. There are 20 questions to be used with Smartboard and 10 questions in which students identify similes or metaphors.
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PASS the Arts

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore math and art concepts, create digital art examples of the concepts, and incorporate these works into a PowerPoint portfolio with explanation and analysis.
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Yummy in My Tummy

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars explore phonemes in spoken words. They discuss the correspondence u=/u/. Students identify a meaningful representation for the phoneme and practice identifying /u/ in both written and spoken words. Young scholars learn a...
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County Chronicles

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students review and use the information from previous lessons about their county. In groups, they write articles for various sections of a class newspaper. They review and edit each others work and publish their newspaper using a desktop...
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The Big City

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore structures in a big city.  In this big city lesson, students become familiar with vocabulary about big cities through songs graphs, and hands-on art. Students practice phonic sound /M/.
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Pooh's Rumbling Tummy

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel u in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /u/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words and pictures.
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Hot Rod

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /o/ sound. They spell different words containing the short /o/ sound using letter manipulatives, and with a partner read the book "Big Top." With their partner they count...
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Ohio Department of Education: Fifth Grade Achievement Test (Practice Test) [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 6th
Half-length practice test for the third grade OAT (Ohio Achievement Test). The test includes 17 multiple-choice and 3 open-response question dealing with topics such as measurement (unit conversion, time), geometry (volume, area), data...
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Writing Fix: Antonyms and Comma Splices

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For Dickens' opening to his Tale of Two Cities, he uses one of the longest series of comma splices in the history of literature. Dickens seemingly did this for stylistic effect. In this lesson, students create their own Dickens-like...