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Function Lesson Plan -- Asking for Repetition

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students with disabilities are tested in the use of language and taught the skill of asking for repetition in order to gain clarification and thus improve comprehension. They are assessed according to the practice of asking with...
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Rough Draft and Peer Edit of Oral Book Review

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Pupils write a rough draft book review over a book they have finished recently. Using their peers, they revise and make suggestions to correct spelling and grammatical errors. In groups, they practice giving their book report to the...
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International Debate Education Association

Speaking Across the Curriculum

For Teachers 6th - 12th
With the focus on 21st century skills it is even more important that all teachers incorporate listening and speaking activities into their curriculum. Here's a packet of practical ideas appropriate for any classroom.
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Missouri Department of Elementary

Ingredients of a Relationship Recipe

For Teachers 6th Standards
An eye-catching hook makes a smart analogy between ingredients for a food recipe and ingredients for quality relationships. Scholars discuss and list qualities they feel contribute to positive interactions. Pupils create a recipe card...
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Missouri Department of Elementary

How Does a Friend Act?

For Teachers K Standards
Two puppets showcase social skills while scholars decide whether their actions are positive or negative. Learners take turns with the puppets, acting out scenarios with a peer while the rest of the class decide if they're being a good...
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California Department of Education

Workplace Skills

For Teachers 7th Standards
What skills do employers look for in potential employees? Introduce scholars to the skills that pay the bills during the second of six career and college readiness lesson plans. Once they have defined critical 21st-century skills, groups...
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Missouri Department of Elementary

Acting Out Respect and Compromise

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Puppets showcase the importance of being a good friend. Following a discussion about positive character traits, scholars create a paper-bag puppet and role-play scenarios with a peer. 
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California Department of Education

Learn to Reach Out

For Teachers 12th Standards
How can social media help my career? Explore the world of networking through a lesson about professional organizations. The fourth of six career and college readiness lessons has seniors research organizations in their professions of...
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Telling a Story

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Writers explore storytelling and focus in on verb tenses. They will work with a partner to generate a story and then switch partners and retell the story. They also complete past perfect continuous and past continuous verb tense worksheets.
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Human Fax Machines

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discover how to communicate effectively by giving oral directions to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. They work with a partner and give oral directions for block building.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Family and Parenting

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students identify and explain the importance of the purpose of communication between the home and the school environment. In addition, they brainstorm the importance of attending open house and parent/teacher conferences, PTA, etc.
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A FOREST'S PLACE IN OREGON

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students engage in a instructional activity to find the purpose for the forests of Oregon. The role of the forest is researched according to different geographic perspectives. The information is portrayed in graphs and presented by group...
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The Building Blocks of the Nation

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars research, document, use the Internet, and employ varied computer skills, along with oral communication skills to discover people who have "made history" in Michigan, women in the United States, people who contributed to...
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Making School a Better Place.

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars study the problems in their school and work on solutions for those problems. In this writing process lesson, students analyze a problem and work as a team to find a solution.  Young scholars present written and oral...
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What Did You Say?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders role-play various situations in which they use verbal and non-verbal communication.
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Sounds Like Christmas, Exploring Hearing

For Teachers K - 1st
Students see that the sense of hearing helps us learn from each other through communication. Also, students explain that sound can produce patterns. They engage in a wide variety of activities that focus on the sense of hearing.
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Twisting Versions of Little Red Riding Hood

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students read orally two versions of Little Red Riding Hood (Classic and Cajun) They compare and contrast the two Little Red Riding Hood versions. Students create a concept map to demonstrate the comparisons/contrasts. They could also...
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Listening for Leschi: Voices from the Past

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the written and oral histories of mid 19th centruy western Washington. They imagine that they are a reporter who can travel back in time and interview Leschi to create a newspaper article that features him.
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A Heritage Study: Using Information Resources to Research Family History and Traditions

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students research their family history through ethnographical study. They locate information through a variety of sources, interview people, write a report and present an oral presentation to the class.
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Climate Change

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders compare the Arctic and Antarctic.  In this climate lesson students work in groups, research and complete an oral report or a poster. 
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An Internet Activity for The Introduction Of The Civil War

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers research, using the Internet, specified Civil War battles in order to prepare an oral presentation for the class. They, in small groups, present using images and maps. They take a quiz on the subject matter and evaluate...
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United States Legends

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students learn about legends in different states by communicating with students from different states. They exchange pictures and description through the Internet.
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Cyber CO-OP!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore ideas orally with partners or groups.
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Poetry for the Elementary Classroom

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Use Shel Silverstein's poem "Batty" to introduce poetry to young readers. This instructional activity is not formatted well, but the plan does suggest learners memorize a poem, recite the poem individually, and then recite the poem as a...

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