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A Wild Family Album!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a scrapbook style family album for a selected animal. They complete an interactive Internet activity on research reports, fill out a graphic organizer, diagram a food web, and complete their scrapbook that includes...
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Zoo's Clues!

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students determine the difference between major and minor details after researching animals and completing graphic organizers. They write descriptive paragraphs for classmates to guess what animal is being described.
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Breaking News English: Koran abuse

For Students 6th - 10th
In this Koran abuse worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write, and...
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A System of Rules

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students write letters, create models, create a photo display, and make charts about the rules that a state has. In this rules lesson plan, students learn about and make different displays of how states come up with rules, change them,...
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Reading Plan

For Students 1st - 4th
In this reading plan instructional activity, students decide on and record information about 5 books they would choose to read. As they finish, they cut out the tags provided and write about the book on the back, before putting the tags...
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World Cancer Day

For Students 5th - 10th
In this World Cancer Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, writing questions, survey, and...
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-Stone Fox

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners read and complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the novel, Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner. Included are reading, math, science, writing, social studies, and library connections. A vocabulary/spelling...
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Mark Twain's America

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students read Huckleberry Finn, analyze text for historical contexts, and write book report emphasizing historical elements, type report comparing and contrasting events in book to events of today, create Powerpoint presentation...
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Mini Research Report

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders select a topic to research. They gather information from at least 3 sources and take notes according to the categories chosen. Students write a rought draft using the notes. They edit, revise and publish the information....
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A Short Report on the Moon

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this moon report worksheet, students use the cover sheet and 3 lined pages to make a short mini-book about the moon. Students will do their own research and write the facts on the lines.
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Primary Writing Lines in Bread Shape Outline

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this writing worksheet, students use the primary writing lines in a bread shape for any creative or report writing exercise. This can be duplicated and used as part of a shape book.
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Evaluating Print Sources

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Not all sources are created equal, so how do you evaluate them? Writers learn how to evaluate print sources based on elements such as audience, tone, and argument in the sixth handout of 24 in the Writing the Paper series from the...
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Abe Lincoln Remembers Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Discover the life of Abraham Lincoln with help from the story Abe Lincoln Remembers by Ann Turner. After listening carefully, scholars reflect on what they deem as Lincoln's most influential life event and how it relates...
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Fiction Graphic Organizers

For Students 3rd Standards
Analyze a fictional text with a four-page packet that explores a story's main character and moral, challenges scholars to ask and answer questions about the text, and to create a story map. 
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Ready to Research Owls

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Researching facts about owls can be a hoot for your class. Let them wisely collaborate on this writing project. The resource is the second part of three parts. It is best to use all three lessons in order. 
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Classroom Timesavers

For Teachers K - 8th
"There's never enough time." The lament of teachers everywhere. But this 30-page packet, loaded with templates, is sure to help. Everything from gradebook pages to certificates to 100 writing ideas to incident report...
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Energy for Keeps

The Energy Times

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Extra! Extra! Read all about past and present energy use in a classroom-made historical newspaper. Useful as a cross-curricular assignment between science, history, and language arts, the project is sure to get young journalists...
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A Pixie Biography Report

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students practice biographical writing after completing research on the subject.  In this journalism lesson, students read a story of an important person's life and discuss the important moments along the way.  Students utilize...
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The Desert Alphabet Book

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore world geography by researching a science book with their classmates. In this desert identification lesson, students utilize a U.S. map to locate the geographical locations of deserts. Students create an oral report based...
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Writing Up a Spanish Storm: Using Creative Thinking for Creative Writing

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners in a Spanish class are introduced to the techniques of creative writing. In groups, they focus on the pre-writing section of creative writing and keep a folder of their works throughout the lesson. They end the lessons by...
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Writing (and Rewriting!) History

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers differentiate between fiction and non-fiction, discuss historical fiction, which combines both genres, choose historical novel from list and read independently, and write original short stories that combine elements of...
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Fiction Organizer

For Students 1st - 3rd
Teach your youngsters about the elements of plot with this handy graphic organizer. Pupils note down the main character, the setting, the problem, and the solution of any fictional story they read.
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Events From a Story Graphic Organizer

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Here is a well-designed graphic organizer which should help your readers organize the sequence of events from any story they read. The organizer should help any pupil who is trying to piece together events from a story for a book report.
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Collaborative Book Club Groups

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in book club forums where they write descriptive, evaluation, analysis, synthesis, or inference essays. They take on the role of a character in their bok and publish a web page.

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