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Brainy Quote: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Excellent online collection of quotes categorized by topic or speaker. BrainyQuote also offers a very helpful quote search engine and an interesting quote trivia section.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Reference Materials Printed and Electronic

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find out how to use dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauri in order to determine meanings of words and phrases, including their denotations, connotations, and etymologies.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Reference Materials Printed and Electronic

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn how to use dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauri in order to determine meanings of words and phrases, including their denotations, connotations, and etymologies.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Reference Guides (English Iii Reading)

For Students 10th - 12th
Use reference guides to help you understand the meaning of unfamiliar words.
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Other

The Awesome Library: Math References

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Awesome Library lets you pick your subject and then gives you additional sites and information on your topic. Need help in Math? Pick your age group and subject and you can do worksheets and examples on the computer.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Reference Materials: Printed and Electronic

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You will learn how to use dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauri in order to determine meanings of words and phrases, including their denotations, connotations, and etymologies.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Reference Materials: Printed and Electronic (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on using resources such as dictionaries, thesauruses (or thesauri), and glossaries to find and use words that will improve not only your reading skills but also your writing skills. L.11-12.4c References
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Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Reference

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Site provides links to a wide variety of reference tools, including encyclopedias, dictionary, thesaurus, quotation books, and guides to English usage. L.11-12.1b Usage issues
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Reading the Research

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students review reference materials looking for answers to specific questions. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Information Location Mini Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson introduces using the print encyclopedia for grades 3-5. Students are assigned a topic which is selected from their social studies curriculum. Small groups are sent to the reference shelf to select the correct encyclopedia...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Using an Almanac

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students will work in groups to learn appropriate uses of an almanac and how to find information in it efficiently and effectively. Each group will be responsible for explaining the steps taken to complete the task. This lesson is best...
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Handout
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Homework Helper: Math

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is provided for by DiscoverySchool.com. A ten-year-old boy and his father found over 625 links to educational sites. Need help with homework ask B.J.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Reference Resources 3.4g, 3.7a

For Students 3rd
A twelve-part learning module with links to images, videos, websites, and a quiz about different types of reference resources.