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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Teaching Tools to Assist Your Instructional Efforts

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site provide background information for the site Daily Teaching Tools. The author's mission and rationale for the site are included. The author provides 20 categories of materials are connected to this page, each with downloadable...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: 10 Free Reading Tests

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ten free reading comprehension tests with a corresponding answer key and list of reading skills covered. All passages are high interest for middle school students.
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Lesson Plan
American Forum for Global Education

American Forum for Global Education: Talking With Our Hands

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This instructional activity from the American Forum for Global Education is designed to help children understand that using hands to "convey messages" is a form of communication.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Inferences and Drawing Conclusion

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Read a short text and then choose the correct inference or conclusion in this Rags to Riches style game.
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Lesson Plan
Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District:teaching Summarization to Struggling Students

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A instructional activity designed to teach students how to recognize an effective summary. Following the instructional activity, several practice fiction and nonfiction texts are available in both English and Spanish for grades 3, 4, and...
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abcteach

Abcteach: Picture Sentences

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Reproducible worksheets with colorful pictures that help early readers to practice their comprehension by choosing the correct sentence.
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PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: How Can I Find the Theme of a Text?

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Twenty-four slides explaining what a theme is and how it can be identified in a text.
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Activity
Road to Grammar

Road to Grammar: Reading Practice

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Fifty short reading passages, each followed by five comprehension questions.
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Interactive
California Academy of Sciences

California Academy of Sciences: Facial Expressions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Are facial expressions learned or innate? [2:58]
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Activity
English Club

English Club: Learn English: The Lucky Octopus

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
A short story about a little Octopus named Ollie who was teased for having only seven legs. A link to vocabulary and reading comprehension questions is available.
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Activity
English Club

English Club: Learn English: Maxwell Loses a Tooth

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
A short story about a little boy named Maxwell who lost a tooth at school. A link to vocabulary and reading comprehension questions is available.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Space Exploration 5 Paragraph Persuasive Essay

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
Learn to write a five-paragraph persuasive essay by working through six links to videos, graphic organizers, and activities on space exploration.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Ela Theme

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to texts, websites, and videos on determining theme.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Main Idea

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A learning module with six links to images and videos on finding the main idea of a text.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Cause and Effect

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A sixteen-part learning module with links to images and videos about identifying cause and effect.
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Activity
English Club

English Club: Learn English: Too Tiny for Tea

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A short story about a little boy named Marty who gets tired of being too young to do things he wants to do. Includes audio feature. A link to vocabulary and reading comprehension questions is available.
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Activity
English Club

English Club: Learn English: The Chickens Take a Holiday

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
A short story about a Chester Chicken who wanted to take a holiday but soon found out that he was not the only one. Includes audio feature. A link to vocabulary and reading comprehension questions is available.
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Activity
ProProfs

Pro Profs: Main Idea Practice

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This is a five-question multiple choice practice quiz over the main idea; students work with a partner to determine the main idea of each of a set of five pictures.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Cause and Effect

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This elementary flipchart explains cause and effect within the context of literature discussion. Activotes provide student interaction and assessment.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Cause Effect

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses cause and effect relationships and presents a variety of activities to help students understand this concept. Activote questions are included in the flipchart.
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Lesson Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: Storyboard Frames

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
For this lesson plan students will be able to focus on the main events of a book by drawing a storyboard. Lesson plan indicated for 2nd grade and above.
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Other

English learner.com: Reading Comprehension Cloze Test 1

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Students read a short passage with nineteen blanks and choose the correct word to fill in each blank. Answers can be checked when exercise is complete.
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Other

English learner.com: Intermediate Reading Test 1

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Students read a short passage and answer six multiple choice questions to demonstrate comprehension. Each answer is checked when submitted and can be changed if answered incorrectly.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Cause and Effect Context Clues

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
This lesson introduces cause and effect context clues.