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  • LESSON PLANS

    Activating Prior Knowledge

    A complete collection of resources for applying this critical reading strategy Help your students be good readers with…

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    Summer Reading (Grades 6-8)

    Variety of genres and interesting activities for all reading levels Help your students retain the reading skills the…

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    Earth Science
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    Identify Story Elements Lesson

    The ability to identify the elements of a story (plot, characters, setting, and theme) aids in reading comprehension,…

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    Reading
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    "The Fox and the Goat": A Lesson on Aesop's Fable

    Use a lesson that provides students with an opportunity to learn about the characters in a fable by investigating their…

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    Poetry Lessons & Activities: Gallery of Worksheets (Grades 6-8)

    Poetry lesson plans for Grades 6-8. The study of poetry can lead your students to new levels of creativity and reading…

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    Reading
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  • ACTIVITIES

    Story Quilts

    Students will create a quilt that tells a story. This is a great arts & crafts activity that also ties in creative…

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    Storytelling
    Arts and Crafts
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  • LESSON PLANS

    Skill Builders: Word Analogy Questions, Week 1

    Week 1: Word analogies to sharpen students' thinking skills and prepare them for standardized tests.

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  • African-American Scientist Social Media Profile

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    African-American Scientists: A Comprehensive Social Media Account Project

    In this project, students will research a notable African-American scientist and then create a social media account for…

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    Scientists
    Science Activities and Experiments
    Science
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    Skill Builders: Word Analogy Questions, Week 19

    Week 19: Word analogies to sharpen students' thinking skills and prepare them for standardized tests.

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    Grammar
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    Emotion Similes Writing Project

    Examples of emotion similes, and a writing project for using them Learn about how to convey emotion in written…

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    Poetry
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  • Types of Poetry Activity

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    Types of Poetry

    Students become familiar with the different types of poetry, including clerihew, diamonte, couplet, limerick, list…

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    Reading
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  • A comprehensive multi-day lesson plan for teaching an opinion essay

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    Opinion Writing Lesson Plan: Gender Equality

    This 2-3 class period unit includes lesson plans, graphic organizers, and a rubric for assessment. In the unit, students…

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    Essays
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  • LESSON PLANS

    Create a Hogwarts Floor Plan

    Students learn about the concept of scale and other mapping skills by creating a floor plan of Hogwarts School.

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    Reading and Literature
    Literature
    Teaching Harry Potter
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    Metaphor Unit Poems

    Students learn about metaphors and similes, and write a poem using metaphors.

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    Reading and Literature
    Poetry
    Literary Style and Techniques
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    Readers Theatre

    Readers Theatre is an oral reading activity that invites children to become the characters in favorite books and…

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    Literary Drama
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    Write a Harry Potter Script

    Students learn to summarize one chapter from a Harry Potter book and write a one scene script for it.

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    Reading Comprehension
    Literature
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    Skill Builders: Word Analogy Questions, Week 11

    Week 11: Word analogies to sharpen students' thinking skills and prepare them for standardized tests.

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    Can You Hear a Story?

    Students will explore creating moods with music, analyze a story, and the create a musical composition that reflects and…

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    Reading and Literature
    Language Arts and Writing
    Music
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  • LESSON PLANS

    Student Guide to Web Research Lesson 3: Learning to Read on the Web

    Deliver a lesson plan that will help you teach students to read on the Web, a skill that is different from reading…

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    Reading Instruction
    Reading Comprehension
    Reading
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  • Listening to Poems While Reading Along

    LESSON PLANS

    Listening to Poems While Reading Along

    Choose one of Taylor Mali's poems to use in this poetry lesson plan. You will discuss how the poem changes in perceived…

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    Poetry
    Authors
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  • BOOK GUIDES

    Sign of the Beaver

    Sign of the Beaver, written by Elizabeth George, is a timeless story about a boy in eighteenth-century Maine helped to…

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    Fiction
    Native-American History (American Indians)
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    Inaugural Poetry

    Review poems read at presidential inauguration ceremonies with this lesson plan. After the presidential election is…

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    Literature
    Poetry
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  • GAMES AND APPS

    Make a Harry Potter Board Game

    Students improve their reading comprehension by making and creating a board game based upon the Harry Potter books.

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    Reading
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  • LESSON PLANS

    Readers Theater Sample Script

    This sample script can be used as a basis for a Readers Theater production.

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