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Verb Rules: Must and Have To
The verbs "must" and "have to" are often troublesome. This site gives instructions for their proper use.
Other
Center for the Collaborative Classroom: Integrating Speaking and Listening Ccss
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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Teaching Ideas 4u: Make Synthesizing Easy With These Simple Strategies
Learning to synthesize can be challenging for some students, but there are a few different support strategies that teachers can use in their lessons: REST method, ADD method, and Venn Diagram to teach synthesizing.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Leaders of Our School
In this lesson, students will interview administrators and faculty within the school in order to learn the importance of leadership and teamwork. Then students will create a slideshow using digital cameras and presentation software.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Give Every Student a Stake in Group Work
Can we organize group work so that every student has ownership over their learning? This is a collection of resources that highlight some tips on how to make students' group work more relevant and impactful for everyone involved.
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Take Lessons: How to Read Body Language: Examples From Around the World
This resource provides several examples of different meanings of various types of body language.
Understood For All
Understood: How to Help Your Child Understand Body Language
This article provides tips on how teach children to pick up on social cues.
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Kiddle Encyclopedia: Body Language Facts for Kids
This resource provide a list of common types of body language. Each type of body language is described.
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The Responsive Counselor: Body Language and Tone of Voice Lesson Plan
This blog post from shares several activities that will help students understand how to interpret voice tone and body language.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Story Add Ons
This is a technology-rich lesson plan which allows students to explore proper language conventions while utilizing portable keyboards for word processing.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Tourists!
Write a dialogue for the gulls, who appear to be having some issues with the humans cluttering their beach.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Question Answer Relationship (Qar)
Question-Answer relationship (QAR) is a strategy to be used after students have read. QAR teaches students how to decipher what types of questions they are being asked and where to find the answers to them. Four types of questions are...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Mini Workshop: Building a Setting
This mini-workshop provides step-by step instructions to help learners build a great setting for their stories. Press the instructions button when ready to begin.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Mini Worshop: People to Write About
In this mini-workshop, students are provided step-by-step instructions for writing about important people in their lives that they have not yet written about. Click the instructions button when you are ready to begin.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Subject Verb Agreement Exercises
This resource offers five interactive subject-verb agreement exercises with accompanying printable handouts.
Other
Peer Editing Checklist [Pdf]
An in depth review process followed by a simple checklist to use for peer review of writing assignments.
Quia
Quia: Making Homemade Pizza (9 Steps)
This activity aims to improve student understanding of sequencing. Students put eight actions in order to emphasize understanding and application of sequential order.
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Team Building inc.com: The Miracle of Pittron Steel
The writer reviews the work of Wayne Alderson and claims that a person's beliefs can interfere with reaching consensus. The article uses Alderson's technique as a premise for all consensus building.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: 3rd Grade Conventions Checklists [Pdf]
A series of four checklists, one for each nine weeks, designed to track third graders' focus on usage and mechanics in their writing.
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Grammar book.com: Finding Nouns, Verbs, and Subjects
Notes and examples of nouns, verbs, and identifying subjects within a sentence.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: How to Assign Meaningful Tasks
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides cooperative grouping strategies. Students will be able to communicate effectively with the aid of this resource.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a flexible grouping strategy. An explanation is provided that explains how to use tongue depressers to divide students into cooperative learning groups.
American Forum for Global Education
American Forum for Global Education: Talking With Our Hands
This lesson from the American Forum for Global Education is designed to help children understand that using hands to "convey messages" is a form of communication.
Other
How to Study: Good Listening in Class
Eight tips on how to improve your listening skills in the classroom so that you gain more from lectures and discussions.