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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: 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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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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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Adding Up, Taking Away Activity Plan

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this week's Afterschool Adventure, children will practice and explore strategies for solving addition and subtraction problems, such as using counters and rulers, performing mental math, and drawing pictures. As children encounter...
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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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Unknown Type
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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Handout
The Write Place

Literacy Education Online: Comma Rules

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Use this site for recognizing when to use commas. Includes examples.
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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: 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: Aunt Lizzie's Talks About Remarkable Fishes

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1896 publication of Aunt Lizzie's Talks about Remarkable Fishes by S. E. Scholes, a nonfiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Little Clara

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of Little Clara by Anna Bache, 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: 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
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Observing Eye

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1853 publication of The Observing Eye by Anne Wright, a nonfiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Tales for the Young

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1853 publication of Tales for the Young by Emma Catherine Embury, a fiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Wounded Boy, and Other Stories

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1853 publication of The Wounded Boy, and Other Stories by T. S. Arthur, a book of stories for children.