Curated OER
Summer Fun! Vacation Destination Postcards
Students design a postcard with a graph and text. They research their favorite vacation spot. Pupils write a friendly letter to their parents requesting to visit this vacation destination. Students use a Circle Map, to help fill in their...
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Pre-writing activities for improving students' connections to literature
Students, while reading a novel together in class, jot in their journals any connections to their own lives they can make between the text and self, text to text or text to the world. Various themes are connected to open more doors to...
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Literature Circles
Students respond aesthetically to a piece of text. They give book talks about a picture book their small group read and rate it. Each student has a different job in the literature cirlce during the discussions. Finally, the students...
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Language Arts: Solch Sight Words
First graders recognize Dolch sight words on cards and texts. They practice the selected words by creating short sentences. After reading different fables, 1st graders create their own illustrations to accompany the stories. Once they...
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Hard Edge Painting
Learners study the history of hard edge painting and discover demonstration techniques using a variety of fonts and discuss lettering. They present a number of abstract works of art with hard edge technique and works of art with text.
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Contour Hand Gestures with Text
Students examine different types of hand drawings. They create their own 3-D contour drawings. They also discuss the use of symbolism in art.
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Learning Plot
Tenth graders identify certain literary elements such as conflict, and exposition within the text of a variety of studenT books. Aspects of literary elements such as theme, and allusion are explored in this lesson.
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Reading: Text Reconstruction
Students read a paragraph and reconstruct it based on the instructions from the teacher. After summarizing the article, students discuss the process in a large group setting.
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Literature Response for Home-School Connections:
First graders explore learning skills that can be practiced at home in the ten lessons of this unit. Oral reading, letter formation, fairy tale identification, and phonic awareness exercises are provided in this unit.
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Writing Block Buster
Students interact and strive for personal-best keyboarding speed in a competitive setting. Then they, using a common text copy and computer station, the first student takes a seat and keys the first line in the twenty-seconds clocked by...
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Lesson Plan for Day Two Part One of Unit on Bless Me, Ultima
Tenth graders prepare to read Bless Me, Ultima as they study the Southwestern region of the United States. They examine the characters, setting, and culture by using context clues, and participate in a jigsaw activity.
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Preformatted Text
Students examine how to create a table of aligned text. They apply tabs and spaces to control the placement of text on a page.
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Doing it with Style
Students examine the HTML tags for text styles: bold, italic and typewriter. They apply these types of text styles in an HTML document and view the changes that appear in their web browser.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Paragraph Stats: Writing a Java Script Program to 'Measure' Text
This is a challenging first-time programming project. You'll learn how to use JavaScript to create a simple program to analyze one or more paragraphs of text. Your program will count sentences, words and letters, and report the resulting...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Font and File Size
What is your favorite font? In this experiment, you will test how the font style of the letters (or characters) in a file might change the size of the file.
Tufts University
Primary Text Index: Latin Texts
An index of authors and their famous works. Contains the texts in Latin and English.
University of Michigan
American Verse Project: Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Part of the Humanities Initiative American Verse Collection, this resource offers links to more than fifty poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion
Full text of Shaw's play remade into the musical My Fair Lady in which Professor Henry Higgins tutors the very Cockney Eliza Doolittle, not only in the refinement of speech, but also in the refinement of her manner.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Citing Textual Evidence: Changing Oceans
Learn how to cite evidence to support ideas presented in a science article about oceans.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: The Blue Hotel
This University of Virginia Library site provides the text of Stephen Crane's "The Blue Hotel".
Rice University
Galileo Project: Isaac Newton
This site from the Galileo Project of Rice University is a sort of encyclopedic entry that outlines important information about Newton's life and work. The information is presented in a list format and is worth checking out.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: From Print to Digital: Technologies of the World
Uncover new resources to better illustrate the changes that have evolved in the world of the printed word in the 1450s to that of the present digital word.
Other
A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email: Intonation
A good site as a resource for changing tone and voice in the written medium of email. Discusses asterisks, capital letters, punctuation, whitespace, and lower-case letters.
Eserver
E Server: The Thoreau Reader: Introduction to the Works of Thoreau
An excellent article detailing the major events of the life and works of Henry David Thoreau. Complete with links to Thoreau's most famous works and interesting details about his life.