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A Look at Realistic Fiction
A Look at Realistic Fiction
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This contains practical suggestions and intriguing activities to help teachers use historical fiction, narrative poetry, and author studies to enhance any area of the curriculum.

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Test Prep Strategies and Practice for Students

ACTIVITIES

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

ASSESSMENT

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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Geography Activities for Middle School

CHOICE BOARDS

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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WORKSHEETS

Library Questionnaire

Find out how much you know about your local library.

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BOOK GUIDES

Schomburg: The Man who Built a Library Teaching Guide

This teaching guide for Schomburg: The Man who Built a Library , a biography of a man who wanted to increase the public...

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CLASSROOM TOOLS

Author Survey

Students gather data and construct a graph about their classmates' favorite authors.

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REFERENCE

A Guide to Library Books: The Dewey Decimal System

Imagine walking into a house where room after room is filled with shelves, all packed with books in no specific order.

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WORKSHEETS

Visiting the Library

Visit the library with your class, and use the activities in this printable to teach your students how to use a card cat...

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DAILY WARM-UPS

Fix the Library Reading Warm-Up

Introduce students to persuasive writing with a reading passage that presents reasons for fixing a school library.

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