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Mc Graw Hill: Part 1 Reading: Literature: Determine Theme

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Determine the theme of a story with this reading activity. See the model and then practice identifying the theme.
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Mc Graw Hill: Informational Text: Determine Central Idea and Supporting Details

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
To understand a text, you must understand the central idea of the story. Learn how to recognize the central idea and supporting details with this article. Click the links at bottom right.
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Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Author Point of View

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
Learn four questions you can ask while reading an informational text to determine the author's point of view. Includes practice worksheet.
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Mc Graw Hill: Craft and Structure: Point of View

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This learning module focuses on the types of point of view, how the point of view impacts the description of events, and the impact of the types of narrators. It provides an example with an explanation and a practice activity with...
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Mc Graw Hill: Part 1 Reading: Literature: Compare and Contrast Events

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Compare and contrast are skills students need to have to comprehend a text. Learn how to compare and contrast events on this site.
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Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Compare Text Structures

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Compare the text structures in two nonfiction passages in this tutorial.
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Mc Graw Hill: Informational Text: Compare and Contrast Authors' Presentations

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Learn how informational text can be written from different points of view. Includes model texts with practice exercises.
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Reasons and Evidence in Text

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Reasons and evidence are given by the author to support topics or ideas. In this resource, learn about finding reasons and evidence in a text. Includes downloadable worksheet.
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 1 Reading: Literature: Compare and Contrast Characters

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
Learn how to compare and contrast characters on this site. Understand how comparing and contrasting characters is important for reading comprehension.
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Mc Graw Hill: Part 1 Reading: Literature: Compare and Contrast Settings

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
To comprehend a story, students need to be able to compare and contrast the setting. Learn how to compare and contrast setting in this reference article.
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Mc Graw Hill: Informational Text: Determine Meaning of Words and Phrases

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Read about six different ways to determine the meaning of unknown words and phrases, and follow the links to get more information on each way. Includes practice worksheets. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.4
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Mc Graw Hill: Climate Patterns, Causes, and Effects

For Students 9th - 10th
This interesting site examines climatic changes over the last 10,000 years, temperature changes over the last 100 years, causes of global warming, and the effects of global warming.
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Mc Graw Hill: Informational Text: Craft and Structure: Figurative Language

For Students 2nd - 7th Standards
Explains what figurative language is and how to determine its meaning. Also provides a practice exercise.
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Circles of My Multicultural Self a Classroom Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Activity helps students identify what they consider to be the most important parts of their own identity and develop a better understanding of stereotypes.
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The Mc Graw Hill Companies, Inc.: Sense of Smell

For Students 9th - 10th
This informative site provides information on the olfactory receptors, olfactory epithelium, and olfactory bulb. Detailed drawing supplement the text along with an animation that depicts the movement of molecules through the nose.
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Mc Graw Hill Companies: Origins of the Quantum Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
An indexing page for Chapter 27 (Origins of the Quantum Theory) of the companion web site for McGraw Hill's Contemporary College Physics textbook. Includes several worthy pages with chapter notes, simple definitions, online computer...
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Mhhe: Chapter 19 Magnetism

For Students 9th - 10th
A series of pages which define key terms and explain basic concepts related to magnetism. A set of practice problems with answers and solutions are given. Links to related internet resources and a list of animations are provided.
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Mc Graw Hill: Mastering the Common Core Accessing Complex Texts With M. Russo

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This professional development video is instructed by the National Reading Consultant, Marisa Russo. She provides explanations about what makes a complex text, why text complexity is important, and techniques to help student access...
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Mc Graw Hill: Speaking and Listening: Respond to Ideas and Questions

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Excellent guidelines for how to ask and answer questions in order to have a productive group discussion.
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Mc Graw Hill: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Understand Figurative Language

For Students 5th Standards
Explains what similes and metaphors are and how they are alike and different. Provides examples and practice sheets for each.
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Mc Graw Hill: Carol's Classroom: Speaking and Listening: Prepare for Discussions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This video lesson [4:11] focuses on clear communication and active listening, essential social-emotional skills, that help lay the foundation of positive learning environments. They can develop these skills and take responsibility for...
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Economics: Econ Graph Kit

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a graphing tool for economics students that allows you to draw curves, lines, tick marks, etc. Also gives students the ability to label the axis and print the graph. Sample problem included.
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Mc Graw Hill: Colonial Economy and Patterns of Society

For Students 9th - 10th
Although tied to pages from a specific text, these AP study questions allow anyone to consider aspects of colonial economics. (Answers to some of the questions are located at the following link:...
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Mc Graw Hill Higher Education: Old World, New Worlds

For Students 9th - 10th
This article from McGraw-Hill Higher Education discusses European exploration in the late 1400s and 1500s and its impact on English colonization hundreds of years later.