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Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Reading With Cups, and More! [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will explore how music and language arts naturally overlap to promote literacy as they cultivate their creative and critical thinking.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Syllable Map It [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 7th Standards
A lesson plan in which students use phoneme-grapheme mapping with a list of words. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Tp Castt

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of poetry to meet reading expectations, engage in group conversations to meet speaking and listening expectations, prepare for writing about texts, and engage in language analysis...
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Annotating Text

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations and prepare for writing about texts.
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Article
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Road to Representation Creating the Crunchy Life Kid's Series

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This blog focuses on a teacher's need to fill in the gaps for reading strategies and the priority to improve comprehension and overall reading development. She explains the strategies to meet the above goals.
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Handout
Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Stanza

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for "Stanza" including the definition of the term.
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Website
Los Poetas

Los Poetas: Nezahualcoyotl

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read the biography of the Mexican poet Nezahualcoyotl and his poems.
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Website
Los Poetas

Los Poetas: Ignasio Mauel Altamiro

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read the biography of the Mexican poet Ignasio Mauel Altamiro and his poems.
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Website
Los Poetas

Los Poetas: Amado Nervo

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read the biography of the Mexican poet Amado Nervo and his poems.
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Website
Los Poetas

Los Poetas: Manuel Acuna

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read the biography of the Mexican poet Manuel Acuna and his poems.
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Website
Los Poetas

Los Poetas: Gutierre De Cetina

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read the poems and biography of the Spanish poet Gutierre de Cetina.
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Website
Los Poetas

Los Poetas: Baltazar De Alcazar

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read the poems and biography of the Spanish poet Baltazar de Alcazar.
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Website
Los Poetas

Los Poetas: Bartolome Aregensola

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read the poems and biography of the Spanish poet Bartolome Aregensola.
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Unit Plan
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Reading Comprehension: Carnivorous Plants

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
A complete reading comprehension activity with the nonfiction text, and several interactive questions as follow up. Press the "play" button to access the material.
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Unit Plan
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Text Structures

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
A complete reading activity covering text structure with several interactive practice questions. Press the "play" button to access the material.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Text Structure Practice Part #1

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
After reading key words and phrases, determine the correct text structure in this Rags to Riches style game.
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Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Blank Verse

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This brief site provides a definition of the term blank verse, a short description of its history, and an example of its use from a poem.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Cincinnati Arts Association: Poetry in Motion [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This study guide focuses on the preparation behind a poetry slam. In addition to discussing the history of a poetry slam, the study guide features various methods and exercises to get involved.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: 10 Free Reading Tests for Comprehension Practice

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ten short reading comprehension quizzes. Students will be able to write a sequence of events more efficiently by using this tool. All questions are skill-based and vary in levels of readability.
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Activity
Application Magazine

Aplicaciones: Ortografia Del Quijote

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
There are thirty exercises with texts from Don Quixote. You can test your spelling and reading comprehension knowledge.
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Activity
Application Magazine

Aplicaciones: Redaccion Interactiva

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Here you will find eighteen different set of exercises so you can test your reading comprehension.
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Activity
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Poetry Analysis Tpcastt

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
11 slides demonstrating poetry analysis using the TPCASTT format: Title, Paraphrase, Connotation, Attitude, Shift, Title, Theme.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Reading Strategies for Complex Texts

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A nine-part learning module on reading strategies including links to videos, images, websites, and activities.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Poetry in the Classroom

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An eighteen-part learning module with links to images, videos, websites, and slides about poetry, writing poems, and students presenting original poems.