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Can You Follow Me? Writing Instructions

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars write directions for completing everyday activities.  In this writing instructions lesson students exchange their set of written directions with a partner and follow their partners directions.  If the directions...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing the Final Copy and Presenting a Research Paper

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners finalize and polish a research paper.  In this research writing lesson, students revise and double-check the corrected version of their first draft.  Learners peer edit and create a final draft.  Students create a...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reviewing Proper Writing Techniques

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students use proper writing techniques to write an effective description of the best or worst meal they have ever eaten.  For this proper writing techniques lesson, students review the parts of a composition and discuss was to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing a Political Leader

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students peer edit a letter.  In this editing instructional activity, students peer edit a letter written to a political figure by another student. Students discuss edits and revisions needed for improvement. This is a continuation...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Passive Form

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this interactive grammar instructional activity, students read the 15 sentences and revise them by typing in the passive form of the verb.
Interactive
Curated OER

Intermediate General Review Test

For Students 4th - 7th
In this revision activity, students correct the mistakes in sentences, combine sentences, insert verbs in sentences, and more. Students complete 4 problems total.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Word Choice in Writing

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore language arts by writing dialogue. In this vocabulary choice lesson, 6th graders identify synonyms and the importance of using a thesaurus while writing dialogue in their own original work. Students revise and edit...
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Emotion Similes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students define what a simile is before writing a poem that is based primarily on similes. They brainstorm and write the poem using the give format. They write drafts, revise and present a final poem.
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Who's Who at Our School?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars recognize and use language appropriately for varied contexts and purposes. Students integrate listening, speaking, viewing, reading, and writing for multiple purposes. Young scholars develop and use a variety of strategies...
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Curated OER

Write Your Own Cultural Connections

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students write a cultural narrative. In this multicultural writing lesson, students create an expository narrative to teach others about their lives. Students complete the narrative and use a buddy editing strategy to revise their papers.
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Conducting the "Orchestra": How to Implement the Maestro

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students work as a team member to produce a newspaper.  In this newspaper production lesson plan, students understand the role that each staff member plays in the production of a publication as they demonstrate commitment to...
Lesson Plan
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Making Predictions by Analyzing Key Ideas and Details

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students make predictions. In this language arts lesson, students read nonfiction texts and make predictions about what they are going to read. Students confirm and revise their predictions as they read the text.
Website
University of North Carolina

Application Essays

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
There's a lot riding on good writing! Often, an application essay is the difference between acceptance and rejection. As part of a series on specific writing assignments and contexts, a handout helps scholars craft the perfect personal...
Lesson Plan
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Revising The Constitution

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Student review the Constitution using Dataviewer. Students discuss each Amendment in the Bill off rights and what each one means to individuals and their freedoms. Students break into groups and brainstorm about Amendments they think...
Worksheet
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Science Revision

For Students 9th - 10th
In this biology worksheet, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms pertaining to photosynthesis and kinetic energy. There are 54 biology terms located in the word search.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Revised “Understanding Nutrition” Activity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students evaluate their current food choices. In this health science lesson, students test different drinks to rate the amount of Vitamin C content. They discuss results in class.
Lesson Plan
National Park Service

What Can We Do?

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Motivate young conservationists to stand up and make a change. After learning about the efforts in Cascade Nation Park to reduce carbon emissions in order to preserve the wilderness, students work in groups creating action plans for...
Printables
Nancy N. Boyles

Summary Frame for Story Text and Informational Text

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Provide these templates as aids for pupils as they work to compose summaries of both stories and informational texts. The first two frames provide sentence starters to help learners structure their summaries and include all the necessary...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Department of Archives and History

W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, and Jim Crow

For Teachers 6th - 11th Standards
Class members use the think-pair-share strategy to compare the views of W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington and to consider how each man's backgrounds influenced his philosophy.
Activity
Google

Futuristic Communication Project

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Conversations around the fire, smoke signals, drums. Books, letters, newspapers. Telegraph, radio, television. Telephones, cell phones, the Internet, Twitter, Pinterest. These developments in communication devices, which we take for...
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National Gallery of Canada

Picture This!

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Introduce your class to Inuit prints and use these artworks as inspiration for a printmaking activity. Pupils make stories to go along with the images and then come up with their own heroic moments to illustrate. They take moments from...
Lesson Plan
Akron Art Museum

Storytelling Resist

For Teachers K - 5th
The illustrations of Ezra Jack Keats in The Snowy Day inspire young artists to examine shapes in illustrations and to use these shapes to create their own watercolor resist painting.
Lesson Plan
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How Do Authors Use Imagery to Shape Their Writing?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Esther Forbes' award-winning Revolutionary War novel, Johnny Tremain and excerpts from Julie Otsuka's When the Emperor Was Divine are used to model how imagery brings alive the setting of a story. The young writers then craft their...
PPT
Margaret Bearden

Chuck Close

For Teachers 7th - 12th
The work of American portrait artist Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close is featured in a 22-slide PowerPoint. Although a wide variety of his work is featured, the pieces are not titled or dated, and no script is included.

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