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Curated OER

Famous Black Americans

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students recognize famous Black Americans and their roles in America's society. They create a database and slideshow presenting famous Black Americans and relevant facts of their lives.
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Curated OER

Book Report Database and Author E-mail Project

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students read a number of books by a given author and input information into a database. They e-mail information about their favorite author to other students. They focus on story elements and ask questions or make suggestions for future...
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Curated OER

Detroit Science Center Presentation

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students brainstorm what they learned while at the Detroit Science Center while the teacher records their thoughts on the whiteboard. They create a PowerPoint presentation using to the class using the information on the white board.
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Curated OER

Awesome Animals

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students collect data from classmates about their favorite animal. They use the ClarisWorks graphing program to enter data, graph results, and interpret data.
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Curated OER

Plant Parts with Sequencing Cube

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders listen to the story, Jack's Garden by Henry Cole. They learn the parts of the plant by looking at live plants.
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Curated OER

Adventures in Wonderland: A Genre Study

For Teachers 3rd
Students explore the concepts of fantasy writing through this nine lessons unit. The unit presents semantic mapping, discussions, comparisons of various works of fantasy, and the opportunity to create their own fantasies.
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National First Ladies' Library

Fitness for Life

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students discuss their favorite activities and determine which activities are suitable for older people. In groups, students research the benefits of aerobic exercises and the equipment needed. Students share their information with the...
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Curated OER

Discover the Planets

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders research the planets. In this science activity, 3rd graders create PowerPoint presentations over a planet. Students present their findings.
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Curated OER

Re-telling The Tale

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars retell a fairy tale by writing on the computer. In this writing lesson plan, students draft, revise, edit, and publish their retelling of the story.
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Professional Doc
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Determining Importance & Summarizing Informational Text

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
These teacher resources focuses on why it is important to teach elementary students to determine the importance and to summarize informational text. It leads an activity to help teachers experience when and how we use these strategies.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension: Summarizing

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Lesson that introduces students to the comprehension technique of summarizing. Students learn using the QuIP (questions into paragraphs) method which involves organizing information and putting it in writing.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Summarizing

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
A twelve-part learning module with links to videos, images, websites, and text about summarizing a text.
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Education Development Center

Tune in to Learning: Summarizing

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Series of interactive activities for practicing skills in summarizing information, in identifying main points and ideas, and in sorting lists into meaningful categories.
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Handout
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Summarize

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Learn how to summarize a text based on the main idea and supporting details you found.
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Summarize

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Learn how to summarize a section of a text with this site.
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Professional Doc
Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: Summary of Fiction and Nonfiction Text [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This 31-page document focuses on teaching summarizing strategies for use with fiction and nonfiction texts. This series of lesson plans starts with fiction summarizing strategies such as "Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then" and "Story Arch."...
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Classify and Summarize Information [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
This learning module contains a link to graphic organizers that will help students categorize content and comprehend short and extended texts. The graphic organizers are designed to be applied to reading nonfiction passages in science...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Summarizing Mathematical Learning With the Important Book

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown is used as a mentor text. Students will create an illustrated paragraph about a particular math topic. Students will use the mentor text and attempt to adapt the author's style to...
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Activity
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 1 Reading: Literature: Summarize

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Summarizing is a key skill needed in reading comprehension. This page describes how to summarize main ideas in a text. Click on Model button for a model with explanation and then click on Practice (Bottom Right)
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Other

Reading Quest: Strategies for Reading Comprehension: Summarizing

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Teach students to summarize nonfiction text with these lesson plans. Includes worksheets and activities that can be downloaded and printed.
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PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: 3rd Grade Summarizing and Paraphrasing

For Students 3rd
A slide show with eight slides with explanations and examples of paraphrasing and summarizing a text.
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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 lesson plan designed to teach students how to recognize an effective summary. Following the lesson plan, several practice fiction and nonfiction texts are available in both English and Spanish for grades 3, 4, and 5. Answer key...
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: What Is a Fable? [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
"What is a Fable?" is a one page, nonfiction passage about what a fable is including animals that talk and a lesson learned. It is followed by an open-ended question which requires students to provide evidence from the story; it includes...
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Prairie Ecology [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
"Prairie Ecology" is a one page, nonfiction passage about the tallgrass prairie ecosystem and how it works using three animals: the skipper butterfly, ground squirrel, and the bison It is followed by an open-ended question which requires...

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