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Read Works: American Heroes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Black History resource contains mini-biographical sketches of Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, George Washington Carver, and Marian Anderson. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that...
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Read Works: A Museum of Their Own
[Free Registration/Login Required] This infomrationa text piece discusses the accomplishments of several African-American baseball players from the days of segregation and the museum that has been built to honor their accomplishments....
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Read Works: The First Greenmarket in New York City
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage describes the history behind the first greenmarket for produce in New York City. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Write Think: Peace Poems and Picasso Doves
This lesson plan develops "think-aloud strategies" for reading poetry and incorporating symbols of peace in poetry and art. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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Read Works: Ancient Egypt Making Mummies
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage discusses the mummification process that was used in ancient Egypt. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: Edison Tried and Tried Again
[Free Registration/Login Required] This biographical passage shares information about Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: Famous African Americans George Washington Carver
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage contains biographical information about the famous African American researcher, inventor, and educator, George Washington Carver. and This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that...
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Read Works: Watch Your Commas
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage discusses Lynne Truss' book Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really DO Make a Difference! This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works: Watch the Tennis Ball
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains concepts related to the sport of tennis. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Scholastic: Questioning the Text
In this magazine article originally featured in Instructor, the reading strategy called "questioning the text" is explained by the renowned literacy consultant and staff developer, Stephanie Harvey. The steps included for questioning the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Asking and Answering Questions Professional Development
Asking and Answering Questions Professional Development provides strategies to teach students how to ask and answer questions more effectively to improve comprehension in the classroom and on standardized assessments. It containing 9...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Workers' Rights and the History of Labor Unions
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Recognizing Numerals and Numbers
This instructional activity engages students in listening comprehension strategies related to Trisha Callella Jones' book, Numbers All Around Me. As a post-reading activity, students will participate a series of hands-on math games.
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Common Lit: "Martin Luther King, Jr." by Us history.org
A learning module that begins with "Martin Luther King, Jr." by USHistory.org, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Grammar (English I Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on finding and fixing grammar errors in your writing. It includes strategies for locating errors such as reading your paper aloud to see if your are...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Grammar (English Ii Writing)
This lesson focuses on finding and fixing grammar errors in your writing. It includes strategies for locating errors such as reading your paper aloud to see if your are missing words. It also provides practice with subject-verb agreement...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Books: Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg
This comprehensive teacher's guide for the book "Zathura" by Chris Van Allsburg provides us with an opportunity to examine how writers blend scientific information with a fictional story.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Looking at Punctuation
This lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to high interest articles. Students will participate in reading aloud from various texts and analyzing punctuation in sentences. Students will follow author models...
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Read Works: French Native American Relations in the Great Lakes Region
[Free Registration/Login Required] This historical passage discusses the relations between the French and Native Americans in the Great Lakes Regions during the 1700's and 1800's. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that...
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Big Book Activities: What Will the Weather Be Like Today?
In this K-2 lesson, the teacher uses guided reading strategies and creative activities to make a big book come alive to her students.
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Woodward English: Questions Words
Woodward English: Questions Words uses pictures and words to answer the 5 W's and H questions.