Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Semantic Feature Analysis

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section on semantic features helps students recognize supporting details as they read.
Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Author's Purpose

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section focuses on identifying the author's purpose.
Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Selective Underlining

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section focuses on identifying main ideas and significant details by selectively underlining them in a text.
Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Chronological Order

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
The site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th-grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section focuses on identifying the chronological order.
Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Cause and Effect

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section helps students identify cause and effect in literature.
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University of South Florida

Fcat Express: The Inverted Pyramid

For Students 9th - 10th
A short explanation of how newspaper writers construct their articles. Review questions at the end are corrected for you, and model answers are shown for the short answer questions.
Activity
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Droughts May Have Killed 1st Colonists

For Students 9th - 10th
For advanced readers, this newspaper article on the "Lost Colony" and Jamestown, is followed by questions with immediate feedback. It can be printed for class use.
Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Author's Purpose

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Some author's purpose teaching ideas from a standardized test preparation site (Fourth Grade Reading Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test). Aligned to Florida standards, four ideas are provided including "Author's Grab Bag," "Author's...
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Other

Esl Independent Study Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a great resource for ESL/EFL students; it presents a collection of more than 250 sites where you can find reading and writing exercises, games, vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and more. Rather than present a straight list,...
Unit Plan
Study Languages

Study Spanish: Cardinal Numbers: 1 10

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a lesson on the cardinal numbers 1-10 with an explanation of how to change the number one to match the nouns it modifies. A quiz follows the lesson to test the student's comprehension of these cardinal numbers.
Unit Plan
Study Languages

Study Spanish: Cardinal Numbers: 31 1000

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a lesson on the cardinal numbers 31-1000 with an explanation of how to change the hundreds to match the nouns they modify.A quiz follows the lesson to test the student's comprehension of these cardinal numbers.
Unit Plan
Study Languages

Study Spanish: Months, Seasons, and Dates

For Students 9th - 10th
This online lesson is on the use of definite articles and numbers with months, seasons, and dates. A quiz follows the lesson to test the student's comprehension of this grammar principle.
Unit Plan
Study Languages

Study Spanish: Ordinal Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th
This online lesson is on the use of the ordinal numbers 1st through 10th with an explanation of how they change to match the nouns they modify. A quiz follows the lesson to test the student's comprehension of ordinal numbers.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Are Idioms?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
After listening to More Parts by Tedd Arnold read aloud, intermediate school students distinguish between literal and figurative meaning by using a graphic organizer, playing an online game, and incorporating an idiom into their writing.
Activity
BBC

Bbc Bitesize: Higher English

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides information about characters, plot, and setting of several different pieces of literature. It offers links to activities and tests on topic such as analysis and evaluation, creation and production, drama, novels, and...
Handout
Other

University of Northern Iowa: Study Skills

For Students 9th - 10th
Collection of web sites that provide tips to help you study more effectively, manage your time, take better notes, and handle the stresses of school life.
Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Organizing Information Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Organizing information questions ask you to understand and analyze how a passage works to make an argument. What is the progression of ideas in the passage? or What is the purpose of a specific paragraph?
Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Purpose of Reference Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Purpose of reference questions ask you to identify why the author referred to something in a certain part of the text. In other words, what was the point of including the reference?
Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Applying to New Contexts Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Some questions ask you to identify which scenario matches the principle in a passage. This type of question asks you to apply a principle or idea presented in the passage to a new context presented in the choices.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Inferences About Attitudes Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Article discusses the author's attitude or the attitudes of people or groups that are mentioned. While not explicitly stated, these attitudes can be discovered from both the language and content of the passage.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Additional Evidence Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
There are two kinds of additional evidence questions on the LSAT: strengthening evidence and weakening evidence. This article describes strategies for answering these types of questions along with examples.
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British Council

British Council: Go4 English: English for Arabic Speakers

For Students 9th - 10th
Go4English is a website of the British Council dedicated to teaching English to Arabic-speaking children and adults. It includes lesson plans, self-tests, learning exercises, games, stories, songs, and many more activities and...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Greek and Roman Mythology

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a comprehensive unit on Greek and Roman mythology including essential questions, key terms, background information, reading assignments from both Greek and Roman mythology, influences of them today, assignments such as creating a...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Native American and Aztec Mythology

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a comprehensive unit on Native American and Aztec Mythology including key terms, animals and archtypes, animal tricksters, totems, readings of Cherokee and California myths, the Aztec creation myth, research assignment with...