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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Picture Prompts and Story Starters

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains a collection of 55 picture prompts and story starters. Also includes other writing aids, including a rubric, graphic organizers, the writing process, etc. Questions provided by...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Suggestions for Memoirs: A Letter & Memoir About a Teacher

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
After reading the book, Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Palacco, which is about a teacher helping a student overcome a long struggle to learn to read, young scholars write a personal thank you letter to a teacher who helped them. Then...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Story Starters: Powerful Sentences

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, students will click a button that will help them generate ideas for story development. Students can click several times, if needed, until one of the ideas is interesting to them. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Literacy Head

Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: I Know Here

For Students 3rd - 8th
Enjoy this collection of images that invite us to reflect upon the important places in our lives. Students can practice articulating and writing about their personal sense of place in the world using these images to spark their...
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Literacy Head

Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Text to Self Connections

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Enjoy with your students this collection of images that invite them to make personal connections. Students can practice articulating and writing about their personal connections using these images, a nice scaffold for later connections...
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Other

Write a Goofy Story: The Sequel

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
In this activity, students will complete humorous fill-in-the-blank prompts. After students complete each blank, students will view an automatically-generated story that contains their sentences organized ways that will be funny.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Literature Library: "Tuck Everlasting" Study Guide [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
Reading guide on Natalie Babbitt's "Tuck Everlasting" with a variety of resources, discussion and writing questions, and brainstorming activities. Provides pre-reading material, such as an author biography, novel introduction, and...
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Other

New York Public Library: Early New York [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A teacher package explaining how to use the included primary resources with students. Questions and writing prompts accompany original images of early New York, Henry Hudson's experiences, colonial leaders, and people who lived in New...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Literature Library: "The Slave Dancer" Study Guide [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
Great study guide for Paul Fox's "The Slave Dancer," complete with pre-reading materials, including an author biography and vocabulary preview, brainstorming activities, thought-provoking questions about plot, theme, and character, and...
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Other

Wisewire: Grade 3 Playlist: Identifying Real Life Connections Between Words

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Often, without even realizing it, readers are connecting the words they read to their everyday lives. The human brain is moving so fast that even while reading, behind the scenes, readers are making connections to their real lives and to...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Glorious Empty Page

For Teachers 1st - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart prompts us to get excited about the possibilities of the blank page. Read the article by Peter Reynolds and begin to,"light the flame" of your own creativity. This is the time to play,...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Check out this site to learn more about the 1936 Newbery award-winning book Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink. This site provides a description of the book, a discussion guide, a writing prompt, and more.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Island of the Blue Dolphins

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Find out more about the book Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell through this informative site. This resource provides a description of the book, a writing prompt for the book, an extension activity and more.
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Handout
Scholastic

Scholastic: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

For Students 3rd - 5th
Have you ever read the Newbery award book Number the Stars by Lois Lowry? This site provides discussion questions, a writing prompt, an extension activity, and more.
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Getting Along With Parents

For Students 3rd - 8th
Getting along with your parents can be difficult at times. Learn how to improve your relationship with your parents and family members by discussing your problems and needs with your classmates. This website includes several discussion...
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Preventing Conflicts & Violence

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how conflicts arise, how to prevent conflicts, and how emotions and attitudes affect conflicts. Also, learn how to speak out against violence with the help of the discussion questions, activity ideas, and writing prompts provided...
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Saying No to Alcohol and Other Drugs

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discuss negative peer pressure and learn about the harmful ways that drugs and alcohol can affect your body and mind. This website provides several discussion questions, writing prompts, and activity ideas through which you can talk and...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Johnny Tremain

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Come and discover more about the novel, "Johnny Tremain," by Esther Forbes. This site features a discussion guide, writing prompt, vocabulary builder, extension activity and more.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Guggenheim Museum: Looking at Art: Art Investigations: Community

For Students 3rd - 6th
Examine Faith Ringgold's "Tar Beach" with the help of discussion/writing prompts and a short essay that sheds light on this piece of artwork as well as quilting in African culture.
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Respecting Others

For Students 3rd - 8th
How can you treat others with respect, particularly those who are different from you? Discuss this question with the help of writing prompts, activity ideas, and more.
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Handling Emotions

For Students 2nd - 8th
Know that it is normal to experience different emotions and learn positive ways to deal with your emotions. This website, which is meant to accompany a video on emotions and good character, provides questions for discussion, activity...
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Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Lyddie

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
What do you know about the characters and setting of "Lyddie," by Carol Hurst? Gain insight into the characters through the discussion questions found a this site.
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Assessment
Quizlet

Quizlet: 4th Grade Q. 1: Main Ideas and Supporting Details: Test

For Students 4th Standards
This interactive assessment features 9 matching questions and eight multiple-choice questions over 17 terms having to do with main ideas and supporting details including types of writing and the writing process with their definitions.
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Trustworthiness

For Teachers 4th - 8th
A collection of writing prompts, activities, and discussion questions which teach students the importance of trust.

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