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Help students build their reading comprehension or prewriting skills through organizing main ideas and supporting details on this fishbone map graphic organizer.

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Concepts and Challenges Life, Earth, and Physical Science
Concepts and Challenges Life, Earth, and Physical Science
From Pearson's Concepts and Challenges Life, Earth, and Physical Science.

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Geography Activities for Middle School

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Geography Activities for Middle School

Help students explore the world and develop their geography knowledge with this packet of geography activities for middl...

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Test Prep Strategies and Practice for Students

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Test Prep Strategies, Tools, and Practice Questions

Help set your students up for academic success with this packet of test-taking tips, test preparation strategies, and pr...

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Exit Tickets for Middle School Classrooms

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Exit Tickets for Middle School Classrooms

Exit tickets are a form of assessment that are often used informally to assess how well students grasped a lesson, what ...

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Questions Before, During, and After Reading

Asking Questions Before, During, and After Reading To aid their comprehension, skillful readers ask themselves questi...

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Main Idea: Chrysanthemum

Objective This lesson is designed to introduce primary students to finding the main idea as a reading-comprehension stra...

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Main Idea: The Great Kapok Tree

Objectives This lesson is designed to continue working with primary students to find the main idea as a reading comprehe...

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Establishing the Main Idea

Establishing the Main Idea What Is It? An important task of reading comprehension is to determine the importance and mea...

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Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One and Aunt Isabel Makes Trouble

Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One and Aunt Isabel Makes Trouble by Kate Duke For Grades Pre-K - 5 Lesson Plan 1 Less...

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Main Idea: Animals Born Alive and Well

Objective This lesson is designed to help primary students continue working to find the main idea as a reading-comprehen...

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