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Education.com

Education.com: Peer Conferencing 101

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] At the completion of this lesson plan, students will be able to use the peer conference format to provide feedback to a peer.
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Other

Centervention: Body Language Activities Using Telephone Game

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
In this activity, students will play the game of "Telephone" in two different ways. Students will first play "Telephone" with the traditional version of the the game and then only communicate via their body language.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Moving Shapes [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
These activities will allow learners to discover the concepts of geometry through shape exploration and the creation of choreographic sequences.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Guess What's in the Bag a Language Based Activity

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for a language activity called "Guess What's in the Bag." Students try to guess the object in a bag in order to develop descriptive language, listening, and problem solving skills. In addition to objectives and standards,...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Doing Our Jobs

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will learn that there are rules to be followed or jobs to be done in the classroom. Students will also learn how to listen and speak to others.
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Read Works

Read Works: Snow Science!

For Students 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how snow forms and about different types of snowflakes. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Whoop It Up!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about s scientist who work to teach cranes to migrate. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Whale Watch!

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how different types of whales eat, breathe, breach, and communicate. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Unit Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Oral Histories

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Intended to support elementary students' reading comprehension, students will learn about jobs that require them to conduct interviews to collect oral histories. Questions that assess multiple reading...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Chunk Lesson Ide

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use literature and the Whole-Part-Whole Method to teach individual word chunks. This flipchart focuses on the -ide word chunk.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Chunk Lesson Am

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use literature and the Whole-Part-Whole Method to teach individual word chunks. This flipchart focuses on the -am word chunk.
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Drawing Conclusions Kindergarten Unit: Verbal Cues

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan asking students to use verbal cues in the form of yes/no questions to guess an item inside a bag. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included....
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Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Interactive Journals [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about interactive vocabulary journals, engaging instructional strategy tools. They will learn how to implement interactive jounals, understand how to measure progress with interactive journals, find research...
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Read Works

Read Works: The Grey Sheep [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This nonfiction narrative entails a young girl describing her family's grey sheep on the farm activities related to raising them. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works:tough Talkin'!: Discussing Bullies and Other Problems

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the importance of talking about bullying. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.
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Success Link

Success Link: Inside Outside Show and Tell

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A different take on Show and Tell that emphasizes speaking and listening skills and will engage all the students in this kindergarten tradition.
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Professional Doc
Other

New South Wales Educational Resources: Talking and Listening in K 6

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Lists developmental characteristics of speech and listening of K-6 children. Excellent educational site from New South Wales.
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Article
Other

Encourage Play: Two Fun Ways to Practice Conversation Skills

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Listening and responding on topic during a conversation is a skill our kids need to practice and learn. Here are two fun ways to practice this skill. You can do these activities with groups of kids, or pairs of kids. If you are working...
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Education.com

Education.com: sl.k.5 Lesson Plans

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from four quality lesson plans to help students practice the Common Core Standard of adding drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
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Article
Other

Center for the Collaborative Classroom: Integrating Speaking and Listening Ccss

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Integrating speaking and listening builds a positive classroom community with less bullying, increased self-confidence, and greater independence, along with the ability to work with all students. This article gives ideas for projects or...
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Handout
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Examples of Open Ended and Closed Ended Questions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explains the difference between open and closed questions. Gives examples and situations where each might be used.
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Other

Morningside Center: Active Listening

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
In this activity, students practice active listening by paraphrasing what they hear. Students will practice listening to one another and repeating what they heard. Various listening activities are included in this activity.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Speaking and Listening: Collaborative Conversations

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Your children will gain practice recalling details from what they read in the text.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Friendly Controversy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
How do I convince others to understand my side of the story? Second grade students conducted shared research activities and participated in a Socratic Seminar practicing the techniques of persuasive reasoning.