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Reading Aloud
High schoolers practice their reading aloud skills. They examine different careers that focus on public speaking. They also gather new tips to practice when speaking aloud.
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Fiction: Reading and Responding
Learners respond and make predictions as they read an excerpt from The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. For this The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle lesson, students read aloud and respond to questions that require them to...
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Grade 5 Reading Quiz B
In this grade 5 reading quiz, 5th graders complete a 13 question multiple choice quiz covering a variety of grade 2 reading concepts.
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What Do You Mean I Can't Read That?
Fourth graders discuss censorship/banned books. They select and read one banned book. They conduct research to find the pro and con positions on the book. They present the book to the class.
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Seeing What You Read
Students practice visualizing what they read and hear in a text. They listen to selected passages from a text read by the instructor. Students discuss the visual pictures they see when listening to the text. After listening to a...
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Reading to Learn
Students complete story maps in this lesson. Students read "The Magic School Bus", and get into groups to choose their story element. Each group shares their information with the class. They then complete a story map for a book read...
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Daily Language Practice Builds Skills, Test Scores
Students develop their proofreading skills. In this daily language practice lesson, students improve their writing skills as they edit passages. The editing work encompasses capitalization, punctuation, and grammar.
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Close Reading of a Sonnet
Students practice reading sonnets line by line to find the message of the sonnet. In this sonnet lesson, students read a sonnet one line at a time as the teacher projects it for the entire class. As each line is shown,...
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Grade 2 Reading Quiz B
In this grade 2 reading quiz, 2nd graders complete a 11 question multiple choice quiz covering a variety of grade 2 reading concepts. Answers may be submitted on-line.
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Reading Quiz B-Grade 4
In this grade 4 reading quiz, 4th graders complete a 14 question multiple choice quiz covering a variety of grade 4 reading concepts. Answers may be submitted on-line.
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Reading and Writing Practice
Young scholars read a magazine article about the advantages and disadvantages of teleworking. They answer questions about the article to test their comprehension. They identify parts of each sentence.
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Test Your Reading Skills-- Homophones 5
For this language arts worksheet, students investigate homophones, or words that sound the same but are spelled differently. Students read each word and write a homophone in the blank next to it.
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Worksheet 9: Reading: Global Warming
Using an interesting reading passage about global warming, learners answer true and false questions related to the topic. This 6 question activity could be used in upper elementary or as part of an ESL lesson.
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JET SET Reading and Writing
In these reading and writing worksheets, students complete this packet that helps them with their reading comprehension skills and their writing skills including using correct grammar and punctuation.
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Reading: Global Warming
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a 1-page selection about global warming and then respond to 6 true or false questions regarding the selection.
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All in Good Time- Reading Comprehension and Open Response
In this reading comprehension and open response activity, students read a short passage in which the a younger sibling longs to be just like his/her older brother. They write short answers to a question about the main character's...
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Six Games for the FFL/ESL Classroom
Students participate in games to practice language skills.
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Lesson Plan for "The Ballad of Dirty Joe"
Upper elementary learners explore and practice identifying poetry in the ABAB rhyming format. In groups, they participate in choral reading of the poem, "The Ballad of Dirty Joe," emphasizing words appropriately and speaking in the...
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Microsoft Access Lesson Plan
Third graders read children's literature during the school year and compile a list of books and genres in an Access database. They print out a report of all the different books and genres of they read over the whole school year.
Avi Writer
The Cross of Lead, At the Edge of the World, and The End of Time
A fan of Ari's Crispin trilogy? Here is a packet that contains study guides for all three Crispin novels: The Cross of Lead, At the Edge of the World, and The End of Time.
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The Last Lecture: Concept Analysis
Designed as an overview for instructors using The Last Lecture for the first time, this packet provides an overview of Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow's book.
K12 Reader
I Have a Dream… Personal Narrative: Writing About Your Dream for the World.
How do your pupils want to change the world? Find out with this writing prompt, inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s well-known speech. The resource provides the prompt and lines for writing.
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Step-by-Step Strategies for Teaching Expository Writing
A carefully crafted, logically organized, 128-page packet is an excellent addition to your unit on expository writing.
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Fahrenheit 451: Study Guide
Here's a must-have packet for your curriculum library. If you are interested in Fahrenheit 451, if you are interested in Ray Bradbury, if you are interested in censorship, if you interested in programs that make a difference, then...