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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Descriptive Writing

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
This is a comprehensive article about what descriptive writing including what it is, why to teach it and strategies to teach it. It also features two videos Five Senses Graphic Organizer and Writing Poems as well as an annotated list of...
Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Idea Game for Kids

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
How can using your five senses help you tell a better story? Young writers brainstorm three sensory details about a personal topic before writing a story about it. If they need help with ideas, they can click the magic button for story...
Lesson Plan
John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Oceans: A Sensory Haiku

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson plan, students use the ocean and their five senses as inspirations to create their own unique haikus. Lesson provides assessment criteria and a list of sources.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: The Art of Observation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A instructional activity in how to write accurate, critical observations that involve using the five senses and unambiguous language.
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of a Composition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Writing a Paper? Here at the Capital Community College is everything you could ever ask for while preparing your essay. This site includes the writing process, structure, thesis statement, transitions, the computer as a writing...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Compare and Write Inequalities Between Quotients of Decimals

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students use their number sense when looking at equations where decimals are being divided and fill in the blanks with >, <, or =...
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Other

The Math Learning Center: Math Tools Number Frames

For Students 1st - 5th
Number Frames help students structure numbers to five, ten, twenty, and one hundred. Practice counting using these interactive number frames. Tap a frame to add it to your workspace, or design your own frame, then drag and drop counters...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Compare and Write Inequalities Between Products of Decimals

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students use number sense to compare the products of two combinations of decimal numbers without calculating and state which product would...