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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Elephant's Child [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A reader's theater script for Rudyard Kipling's children's book, The Elephant's Child, is provided on these pages. Nine character roles are needed in this activity.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring World Cultures Through Folk Tales

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Using international folklore as subject matter, lead your students in a unit to research literary forms and foreign countries. There is a printout available for instruction and assessment.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Qa Rs + Tables = Successful Comprehension of Math Word Problems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for two lessons that explain how to use the question-answer relationship (QAR) strategy to make word problems easier to understand. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: My World of Words: Building Vocabulary Lists

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson has a new approach to vocabulary building where students generate their own vocabulary word lists and research the words' meanings.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Reading, Writing, Haiku Hiking! Class Book of Picturesque Poems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Contains plans for five lessons about haiku using "One Leaf Rides the Wind" by Celeste Davidson Mannis as an introduction and model. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites used in the...
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Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Contextual Clues

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Strategies to help students recognize the meaning of words through contextual clues provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade. Includes strategies such as C(2)QU (See Two Cue You), PReP (Prereading Plan),...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Can You Convince Me? Developing Persuasive Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for four 40-minute lessons that teach persuasive writing to elementary students. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to PDF handouts and links to sites used in the...
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Unit Plan
C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Children's Rights

For Teachers 3rd
A learning module on children's rights that includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include how children's rights are defined,...
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Article
BBC

Bbc Newsround: Dogs Copy Each Other's Emotions

For Students 2nd - 5th
Read about the ways in which dogs express basic empathy and engage in social bonding.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Flicking With Force

For Teachers 3rd
Balls of varying weights are used to discover the results of force applied to an object.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Life in a Native Kentucky Village

For Students 3rd - 8th
The scenes in this rollover interactive depict typical village life of Native American Indians of the Mississippian culture. The village was occupied from 1100 AD until about 1350 AD.
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Handout
McGill University

Mc Gill University: Canadian Biodiversity: Ecozones: Boreal Shield

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Boreal Shield runs from Alberta to Newfoundland. This is a brief, concise description of the location, climate, geology and flora and fauna. It includes a collection of images of the landscape as well as those of animals and birds...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Catastrophes of Apostrophic Proportions

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An interactive exercise where students practice apostrophe use with plural nouns, singular and plural possessives, possessive pronouns, and irregular plural nouns. In each of the six sentences, students choose the correct apostrophe...
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Website
Library of Congress

Loc: The Fifteenth Amendment

For Students 3rd - 8th
A brief description of the 15th Amendment.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Little Minister

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of The Little Minister by James Matthew Barrie, a fiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Hugh's Ancestors

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1895 publication of Hugh's Ancestors by Kate Thompson Sizer, fiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Pets and Playmates

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1895 publication of Pets and Playmates by Edric Vredenburg, a fiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Through the Copse

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1895 publication of Through the Copse by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, a fiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Twilight Land

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1895 publication of Twilight Land by Howard Pyle, a book of stories for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: A World Beneath the Waters

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1895 publication of A World Beneath the Waters by G. Bancks, a fiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Our Horses

For Students 1st - 3rd
A scanned copy of the 1880 publication of Our Horses, a fiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: A Ramble in Autumn

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of A Ramble in Autumn by Charles Alexander Johns, a nonfiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Rose Tremaine

For Students 2nd - 4th
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of Rose Tremaine, a book of stories and poems for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Fairy Godmothers

For Students 2nd - 4th
A scanned copy of the 1851 publication of The Fairy Godmothers by Alfred Gatty, a fiction book for children