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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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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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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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Popular Family Printables: Grades 4-8

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Oscar Wilde Biography

WriterBorn: 16 October 1854Died: 30 November 1900Birthplace: Dublin, IrelandBest known as: The author of The Importance ...

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10 Tips for Motivating Students

Top 10 Classroom Tips for Motivating Students If you sometimes strugglewith motivating students to learn, practice go...

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Interview with Kate DiCamillo on How The Magician’s Elephant Began

In this video interview (10:09), author Kate DiCamillo explains how she came up with the idea for her book The Magician�...

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Kate DiCamillo Reads Chapter One of The Magician’s Elephant

Listen to Kate DiCamillo read chapter one of The Magician's Elephant in this video (5:04).

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Interview with Gregory Maguire About What-the-Dickens

Author Gregory Maguire talks about his novel What the Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy in this video (5:12).

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