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Using Keywords

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify how to use keywords in resources. In this using keywords lesson, 3rd graders practice using keywords from a table of contents.  Students also formulate questions for peers using keywords from orgainzers.  
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Cooperative Classroom Text Features Activities

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine text features and create a PowerPoint presentation. In this text features lesson, 5th graders go over Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures and text features before they choose one to include in a book and...
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Research project

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore reference materials and then complete a research project.  In this research project lesson plan, 8th graders choose the best reference source to use. Students learn to correctly site sources for their project....
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Land as a Valuable Resource

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate why the soil is important to our lives. In this natural resources lesson, students have a farmer as a guest speaker. Students begin to understand how farmers use and protect our natural resource. Students write...
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My Guide to Summing It Up

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students are broken into reading groups based on reading ability and rotate one group at a time reading with the teacher at a table. They discuss the function of the Table of Contents and find a story using it and predict what the story...
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I Can Read! Sight Words Set #6

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Master the sight words big, said, come, and in with a packet of helpful reading activities. Kids work on their reading skills with tracing pages and bingo activities, as well as flash cards, connect-the-dots, and a short word search.
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I Can Read! Sight Words Set #13

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Take the first steps to reading fluency with a set of language arts activities. Kids work on the sight words pretty, ran, so, and out with tracing worksheets and matching games.
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Math Vocabulary

For Students K - 2nd
In this math vocabulary worksheet, students are exposed to math words that they should learn in school during year 1. There are 19 flashcards in this packet that can be used to assist students in learning these vocabulary words.
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Parts of a Book

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders learn to identify the parts of a book. In this book parts lesson, 2nd graders learn the names of book parts by participating in a teacher led lesson in which they look at transparencies. They complete a worksheet in which...
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Determining Relevancy

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students learn skills for evaluating information they retrieve from searching book catalogs, article indexes and Web search tools. They evaluate print and Web materials that they have collected for a specific topic. Use before a research...
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Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumpkins

For Teachers K
Students identify and interpret the lifecycle and parts of the pumpkin. Students utitlize interactive ways to discover this process. Students create a big book of their own by researching further information about pumpkins and what...
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First Grade English/Language Arts Test

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this language learning exercise, students complete multiple choice questions about punctuation, forms of sentences, nouns, and more. Students complete 30 questions.
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The Camelot Times: Writing a Newspaper

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create and publish a newspaper based on Arthurian literature and history. After completing a class read of "King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table," students work in groups to write an article based on their...
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Examining newspapers

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students compare and contrast tabloid and broadsheet papers. In this journalism lesson plan, students examine how techniques and form differs from one type of publication to the other. The culminating activity is for students to take...
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Beach Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students practice b words, search for sea shells, write on beach post cards, and more, all to learn about the beach. Students also wear sun hats around the room.
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The Ie Storm 1998: Maps and facts activity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the St. Lawrence River Valley, ice Storm of 1998.  In this middle school mathematics lesson plan, students interpret ice storm data from tables and maps.  Students write about their own experiences of the ice storm.
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Common/Proper Nouns

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students sort word card into two categories (common and proper nouns). They copy the class charts. Students create a table in Word including the headings, common noun and proper noun. They put the correct words onto their chart and add a...
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Beginning, Middle, or End?

For Students 2nd - 4th
Here's a activity to help students become familiar with where to find words in a dictionary. Students whether the each of the 15 flower related words would be found at the beginning, middle or end of the dictionary.  
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How to Make Your Own Website

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore technology by creating a web page on-line. In this digital arts lesson, students identify the structure needed to create a website as well as the content required to keep visitors entertained. Students collaborate in...
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Examining Ways to Organize Questions and Answers Within a Text

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students study questions and answers within a text to learn about writing structure and organization. In this writing structure lesson plan, students investigate books in class by asking questions for the text. Students then format their...
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Beyond Black and White

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students critically examine the portrayal of minorities in video games and other forms of entertainment and assess the role of racial stereotyping. They keep a log of media minority portrayals and respond to their findings.
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No Title

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify and practice a variety of prereading strategies to assess how to ask questions that a new reader might ask about the book, "One Day in the Woods." They skim the book, brainstorm the topic of the book and preview...
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Mobile of Information

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students create a mobile of various geometric designs to be usend to display information from a variety of texts. They add graphics as well as graphs and charts, color, design and artwork to express the ideas learned through the...
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Ecosystem Interactions in Refuges

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders, using national parks as models, illustrate the energy flow in ecosystems. Working in groups, they use murals, flow charts, or other visual displays to record their findings. Students represent the food chains and webs...