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Unit Plan
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: How to Listen Better

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students read a description of what it means to listen respectively. Then they write a brief action plan for becoming a better listener.
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Professional Doc
Other

Ncsall: Relationship Between Reading and Speaking

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The interview discusses the relationship between reading and speaking.
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Unknown Type
Other

****Story Mapping Strategy

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This accessible explanation features a worksheet to help teach students to use story mapping to identify elements of a narrative.
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Handout
BBC

Bbc Bitesize: Speaking and Listening: Standard English

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Explains what standard English is and when it is used, the difference between formal and informal language, and non-standard forms of English such as those found in dialects.
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Graphic
Other

Lexiconic Resources: 5 W's and How Chart

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This downloadable graphic organizer will assist students in taking notes about a news story. Students will use this resource to identify answers to the following five W's and H questions: What happened? Who was there? When did it happen?...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Leaders of Our School

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
For 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.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: How to Use Different Word Functions

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
Remember that each type of word has a special job or function to be used in a sentence. Subjects, verbs, and objects all have different uses. Remember to use them correctly! [0:33]
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Interactive
Other

Write Words: Phrase Frequency Counter

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A simple writing tool where one can paste in a piece of text, choose how many words a phrase might have, and count how many occurrences of each phrase that length there are. A writer can avoid repetition using this tool to check their work.
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: 5th Grade Conventions Checklists [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th Standards
A series of three checklists for sets of nine weeks, designed to track fifth graders' focus on usage and mechanics in their writing.
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Professional Doc
Auburn University

Auburn University: Developing Reading Fluency

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Auburn University provides great, simple tips for young readers working to improve their ability to read and speak fluently. There are two methods outlined for improving oral fluency: "The direct approach," and "The indirect approach,"...
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Article
Other

How to Study: Good Listening in Class

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Eight tips on how to improve your listening skills in the classroom so that you gain more from lectures and discussions.
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EL Education

El Education: Our Classroom Teacher Mrs. Wong

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Students learn to write and ask interview questions by interviewing their teacher. Students then write and illustrate the answer to each question to create a book about their teacher.
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Professional Doc
US Department of Education

The Partnership for Reading: Childhood: Teaching Approaches: Fluency Instruction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A short explanation of why fluency instruction is important and how fluency develops in a child.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An eleven-part learning module with links to websites, an image, and a video about using questioning skills to research and write about one's family history.
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Handout
BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: Dialogue and Description

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
As part of a revision and writing section of BBC Bitesize, this page provides several tips involved in writing dialogue and description for short story fiction.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Chicken Big

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: 5th Grade: Observation vs. Inference: Proficient: Flashcards

For Students 5th Standards
This set of interactive flashcards focuses on observation and inference. It provides a list of terms with definitions and some examples.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: 5th Grade Text Structures: Test

For Students 5th Standards
This interactive assessment consists of six multiple-choice questions over text structures and patterns of organization.
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Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: 5th Grade Text Structures: Flashcards

For Students 5th Standards
This interactive set of flashcards helps students learn the terms and types of text structures and patterns of organization.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Listening Game

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Students will practice their ability to acknowledge new information expressed by classmates. A good lesson for the first day of school!
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Activity
Other

Skills Workshop: Listening for the Main Points [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A simple exercise where students listen to a reading passage read out loud and identify the key pieces of information.
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Article
Other

Ecg Coaching: Pulling It Out of Thin Air

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An article about public speaking that presents various strategies for recovering when one forgets what to say.
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Lesson Plan
Teachnology

Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Tinker Toy Diagrams

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson students work together in small groups to diagram sentences using Tinker Toys for the lines.