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Summarizing Puts the Pieces Together
Students summarize a piece of fiction. After reviewing the correct way to read and summarize, students work in groups to summarize a piece of text assigned by the instructor. They write a summary paragraph by creating a story map and...
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Slim Down to the Good Stuff by Summarizing
Students summarize a piece of literature using the technique "mapping" in this lesson. The technique involves 6 main steps: delete unimportant information, delete repeated information, substitute easy terms, add a series of event with...
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Easy Steps for Summarization
Learners practice techniques and strategies to assess mastery on the concept of summarization. They read, discuss and summarize the story, "How Goose Got Ready for Winter," by David Wingfield. Each student picks out the most important...
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Comprehension is Key!
Students observe and demonstrate how to use a story map to identify the main idea of text. They observe the teacher read an article about birds out loud, and create a story map for the article. Students then independently read another...
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Short and Sweet
Students examine how to summarize information from expository text. They read an expository text and identify the important information from the reading. Students identify the topic sentence and write their own topic sentences.
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Reading to Learn
Students participate in a lesson that reinforces reading skills. Specifically, this lesson focuses on the skill of summarization. This strategy teaches students how to better comprehend written text.
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Don't Despise, Summarize!
Students are introduced to strategies that they can use to summarize text. After reading an article, they use five steps to accurately summarize the material to share with the class. They also review what it means to comprehend what...
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English Vocabulary Activity
In this literacy worksheet, students find the words that are used to challenge average vocabulary usage. The answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Complete Sentences
In this ESL learning exercise, students read 10 intermediate level sentences. Students choose the best words to complete each sentence. For example, "Brad was off work because of a chest..."
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Interview! Magazine
Middle schoolers interview a subject and write a biographical sketch for a fictional magazine. In this interview lesson, students choose a person to interview and create two sets of questions. Middle schoolers conduct the interview....
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Media Literacy Unit - Part 4
Seventh graders study how advertisers use techniques to sell their products. In this persuasive media lesson, 7th graders analyze media messages to find the advertiser's purpose. They examine different advertising techniques and their...
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Word Usage: Present Tense Verbs
In this word usage: present tense verbs worksheet, students complete 10 sentences in multiple choice format with the correct verb form interactively with immediate online feedback.
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Better English Lessons: Vocabulary Skills 2
In this online interactive English skills activity, students respond to 10 multiple choice questions that require them to select the appropriate words to complete the sentences. Answers are scored immediately.
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Word Usage: Verb + "out"
In this word usage: verb + "out" activity, students complete 20 multiple choice sentences selecting the correct verb with "out", interactively and with immediate feedback.
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Better English Lessons: "Pull"
In this online interactive English skills worksheet, students respond to 20 multiple choice questions that require them to select the appropriate words to complete the sentences involving phrases using the word "pull." Answers are...
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Note-Taking Skills
Students take a closer look at their note-taking skills. In this communication lesson, students summarize information by taking notes using the various methods that their instructor presents to them.
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Summarizing
Learners use their note-taking skills to write summaries of information. In this writing skills lesson, students use the notes they have taken in another lesson to write adventure stories by implementing the Rule-Based strategy.
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Me on the Map: Homes, Neighborhoods, and Communities
Students read a book about maps and identify the differences between a picture and a map. In this maps lesson plan, students also label maps of their home, neighborhood, and community.
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???Autumn in the Palace of the Han??? by Ma chih-yuan
Students read and analyze a play that takes place in the late 1200s under the Yuan dynasty of the Mongols. They examine the structure of Yuan plays, participate in performing sections of the play, write a three page essay, and analyze...
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ESL-Adjectives
In this ESL adjective worksheet, students choose the adjective that correctly completes a sentence. Page has a link to additional activities.
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Break It Down!
Students explore the everyday implications of system failure and to challenge students to identify the causes of system failure.
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Technological Advances in Health
High schoolers explain how technology influences human existence by examining the benefits and risks of different biotechnological advances.
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Novel Topics Research Unit
Seventh graders use a variety of research tools to locate information about a topic that is included in a novel that they are reading. They work with a partner to research the topic, record bibliographic information, and to complete a...
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What's Important?
Pupils, through teacher modeling and guided practice, explore four steps/rules of summarizing. In groups, they read a short passage and then, by applying the summarization rules and skills, write an effective summary of it.