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Curated OER

Kids Health: What Should I Do if My Family Fights

For Students 9th - 10th
When the people in your family are fighting, it's hard to figure out what to do. You may be feeling sad, ashamed, or even angry when it happens. Whatever your feelings are, what you probably want most is for the fighting to stop....
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Talking to Your Parents or Other Adults

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Making Conversation with the same people that put limits on your freedom can sometimes be a difficult task. It can however help you better understand where they're coming from and that they don't want to control you, just provide...
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Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: When You Are a Twin or Triplet

For Students 3rd - 8th
"Have you ever wondered what it feels like to be a twin?" KidsHealth considers the types, troubles, and terrific things about twins and triplets.
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Website
American Academy of Family Physicians

American Academy of Family Physicians

For Students 9th - 10th
Home page of a professional organization of family doctors. Contains information related to issues in family practice medicine, including a search engine for research. Professional and educational resources and many related Web links are...
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Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: We Are Family, Grades 4 8

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
How can you introduce a unit on families with upper elementary and middle school students? This site provides lessons, activities, themes and more for accomplishing this task.
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Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: We Are Family, Grades 2 3

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Check out these cross-curricular activities for second and third grade teachers focused on the family. This site provides lessons, activities, ideas, reproducibles and more.
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Other

Awesome Library

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Awesome Library's searchable database is full of resources in all subject areas. It also provides information to parents, students, teachers, principal, family, and community.
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Read Works

Read Works: Shave Like Daddy

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about little girl named Crystal who pretends to shave like her dad. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Trouble at Reading Railroad

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about two cousins who disagree over a game of Monopoly. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: What's for Breakfast

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Daniel who gets blamed for something he didn't do. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Phonograph

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Adam who finds a secret place to escape family tension. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Lessons From Fishing

For Students 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a story about Morgan who grew up fishing with his father and grandfather. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Big Hike

For Students 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Tamara who goes on her first hike with her family. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Summer at the Polka Dot Cafe

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Alice who finds help in dealing with her parent's divorce. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Facs: Communication

For Teachers 6th Standards
This lesson will engage students in discovery learning. Through various tasks, 6th graders will learn the characteristics and challenges in daily family life that may be experienced when living independently. Communication skills are...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Family Responsibilities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson that helps students understand that people share responsibilities. Students discuss the jobs families have to do around the house and identify who in the family does each job.
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Other

Legal Guide for Immigrants to Maine

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive but easily understood legal guide for noncitizens in Spanish and English. Though directed to immigrants to Maine, the basic principles apply to immigrants to any state in the United States.
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Article
Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Texas Almanac: Italian Texans

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the rich and varied history of Italian people who in Texas. The pillars of Italian cultural identity in Texas have been principally food, faith, and family.
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Website
Other

Divorce Source

For Students 9th - 10th
This site lets the visitor choose the state they need information on and tailors the links provided to that state. This is a helpful feature as state laws differ on divorce.
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Lesson Plan
Yale University

Yale: Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Journey of Discovery

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This site features three novels and uses them to show students that reading can be fun and useful. Students and teachers will benefit from this informative resource.
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Unit Plan
Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Family (La Familia) Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th
Great tool for teaching Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELL). This vocabulary lesson focuses on family vocabulary. A variety of interactive, self-correcting exercises are provided to reinforce the material presented. Audio is...
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Family (La Familia)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Extensive site focusing on Spanish-speaking ELL. This section practices sound recognition - contrasts short "e" and "i" sounds as in "bill/bell". Great interactive listening comprehension exercises reinforce teachings. Site has a...
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Unit Plan
Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Martha's Family

For Students 9th - 10th
Wonderful, extensive site for Spanish-speaking ELL. In this section, students listen to a couple of short audio clip dialogs in English and then answer interactive comprehension questions. Several activities provided - instructions in...
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Website
Kidsource OnLine

Kid Source: Building Self Esteem

For Students 9th - 10th
KidSource offers a brief article with useful tips for parents on how to help a child with low self-esteem.