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Curated OER

Salinger and the Vocabulary of the Vernacular

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Writers explore vocabulary and expressions used in the English language. They use visual word maps to become aware of the different uses of words which will allow them to more readily interpret texts. Then they listen to/read excerpts...
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Curated OER

Managing Medical Conditions

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Your scholoars practice organizing and presenting information through written language. They gather information about a medical condition and share it with someone else. They then use a format where they organize their information using...
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EngageNY

Revisiting Big Metaphors and Themes: Revising and Beginning to Perform Two-Voice Poems

For Teachers 5th Standards
Now that your class has read all of Esperanza Rising, take the time to tackle big metaphors and themes. Pupils will participate in an activity called Chalk Talk, in which they circulate around the room in small groups and add comments to...
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Azar Grammar

Song Lessons: Father and Daughter

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Paul Simon's "Father and Daughter" offers language learners and native English speakers an opportunity to study adverb, adjective, and noun clauses.
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Curated OER

The Talking Stick

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners examine the lives of the Aboriginal peoples of Saskatchewan. In this talking stick lesson, students discover dance, art, music, and traditions of the First Nations people.  Learners design and create a talking stick to represent...
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Activity
Curated OER

Possessive Adjectives

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
You could use this resource with your young native English speakers or your English language learners. They practice using possessive adjectives like my, your, his, her, its, our, and their. First they study a chart that compares...
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21 x 20 Media

A+ Writing Prompts

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
Shake it up! Shake your tablet to bring up a unique writing prompt for journaling or blogging with your class. Shake again and a new one appears. Prompts can come from different categories (sketches, scenes, texts, words, news) to help...
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Write Away!

Voices In the Park

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
Explore the impact a narrator's point of view has on a story with a reading of the children's book, Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne. Written in four different voices, the story is told and retold from different perspectives to...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Vocabulary: Word Meaning, Dictionary Digs

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Young scholars dig through dictionaries to uncover the wealth of information they provide. Using the included graphic organizer, children learn about target words by finding their parts of speech, pronunciation, definition, synonyms, and...
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Handout
Curated OER

Identify the Parts of a Newspaper features of informational text, newspaper format

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Young readers make sense out of the wealth of information in newspapers with this helpful reference document. Pointing out basic features like headings, articles, bylines, and captions this resource is a great tool for introducing...
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Poetry Class

Tackling Climate Change

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Get your kids thinking about climate change with a series of activities that include creating a ditty box poem for the planet, a poem that identifies concepts or objects they would want to preserve.
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Elementary AMC

Earth Day Grammar

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Ensure you have a grammatically correct Earth Day with this series of task cards. Covering topics ranging from parts of speech and alphabetizing, to affixes and complete sentences, these Earth-themed exercises are a fun way for...
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ESL Kid Stuff

Months of the Year

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
What month is it? Language learners engage in a series of activities designed to introduce them to the names and order of the months of the year.
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Worksheet
DePaul University

Seasons on the Prairie

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Fact and opinion passages inform readers about the seasons on the prairie and Zambia in Southern Africa. Then, test scholar's knowledge with multiple choice and short answer questions.     
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Apple State University

Friendly Letter Mini-Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This mini-lesson about informal letter writing is packed with a lot of information about writing a friendly letter. Class members begin by working in pairs to answer questions after reviewing letter models. Then, take part in a grand...
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Worksheet
LearnEnglishFeelGood.com

Using Commas

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Taking the time to write commas is necessary, especially if you want the reader to understand what you are writing. ELLs can practice their sentence writing skills by adding commas as needed on this ten question worksheet.
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Handout
Nosapo

Family Titles, Pronouns, Writing about a Person

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
How is your grandmother related to you? How is your cousin related to your grandmother? Learn about family relationships and pronouns with an activity that guides pupils to write two short narratives about members of their families.
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Worksheet
Prestwick House

Ten Days to A+ Grammar: Verbs

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
What are you doing today? What have you done this week? What will you be doing next month? Focus on verb usage with a series of fill-in-the-black exercises on basic tenses, inappropriate shifts in tense, and active and passive voice.
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Unit Plan
Broadway GPS

ALADDIN: Broadway's New Musical Comedy

For Parents 5th - 9th Standards
Aladdin, Disney's Broadway musical comedy, is a magic carpet ride. Prepare your class for a field trip to the show with a study guide that is a treasure trove of activities, cultural connections, and background information.
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Poetry4kids

Rhyme Schemes Lesson Plan

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Scholars read four brief poems and analyze their word usage in order to identify the rhyme scheme. 
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Comprehension: Narrative Text Structure, Character Consideration

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
An activity work alongside a narrative text of your choice. With reading comprehension at its focus, readers complete worksheets covering character descriptions.
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Comprehension: Monitoring for Understanding, What Do You Know?

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
An activity promotes reading comprehension. Readers analyze a text of their choice while activating prior knowledge and asking and answering questions. Scholars enforce multiple strategies to improve comprehension.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Theater: Create a Script

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Figurative language is the focus in the book Teach Us, Amelia Bedelia. After reading Peggy Parish's book, class members dramatize idioms from the text, using dramatic strategies such as characterization, exaggeration, and improvisation....
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learners match 15 Derbyshire slang phrases with their meanings. When it comes to distinguishing the contexts for formal and informal English, any time you'd use this language, the context is definitely informal.

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