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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Write Talks: Students Discover Real Writers/audiences/purposes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
There's a world of writers out there, and in this instructional activity students discover them as they listen to presentations from local writers and learn about what, why, and how they write in their day-to-day lives.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Lesson Plan: Reading Fluency Through Oral Interpretation

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
An online instructional activity for middle school young scholars concerning learning reading fluency through oral interpretation. Students read poetry aloud in presentation-form and work together at interpreting the poem, increasing...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Oral Presentation Rubric [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
This reproducible resource provides an assessment rubric to be used with students' oral presentations. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.4
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Alone: Research for Survival

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This role-playing lesson enhances students' creativity and develops critical thinking skills. Small groups of students conduct Internet research on the skills necessary to survive when marooned on a Pacific island. Groups present their...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Gossip to Learn: A Juicy Approach to Research

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Though teachers might use this student-centered, technology-based, one or two-day research project to introduce any author, English 12 teachers may wish to use the lesson to jump-start a unit on British literature from the Romantic...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Powerpointing to Your Career

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This exercise is used as the culmination of a career research project. This is a technology-based, interdisciplinary project which requires students to do Internet research and prepare a slideshow presentation. If a career is not used as...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Appreciation of Literature Through Newbery Books

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students will select a Newbery Medal Award book to read. They will complete one of three projects to reflect understanding of the chosen book. Their projects will be presented to the class in an effort to entice other students to read...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: And Then There Were None: Casting the Characters

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will work in pairs to cast their own movie version of the novel. Students must have a knowledge of the characters and setting from the novel. Casting of the characters must correlate with the character traits mentioned in the book.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Movie Madness

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
This language arts projects motivates students through being a movie-based project. This lesson will have a duration of five days. The students will view a movie of their choice and analyze the movie to complete a chart listing literary...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Challenges of the Great Plains Farmer

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will work in groups of four to create presentations using their research on a particular farming invention that was created from (1837-1867) and also research specific elements about life on the Great Plains. Each group's...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A Long Way From Chicago: Web Search

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Used as an introduction to the reading of Richard Peck's book, A Long Way From Chicago, this lesson is designed to familiarize students with topics that help them to better understand the setting of the novel. Students search the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Me in a Box

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this lesson, students identify personality traits and collect items that represents these traits. Students guess the items that belong to each student and then give oral presentations to reveal their items to the class.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Oral Presentation of Favorite Celebrity

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Using the Internet to research facts about a favorite celebrity, students gain the organizational and oral presentation skills needed to successfully deliver an effective speech and slideshow presentation.
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A to Z Teacher Stuff

A to Z Teacher Stuff: Family History (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this A to Z Teacher Stuff instructional activity, students research information about their family history, record it, and then present it orally to the class.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Parts of a Presentation Class

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A twenty-one-part learning module including links to texts, images, and websites on how to give a presentation in class.
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Other

How to Study: Study Skills Topic Pages

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Frustrated with study habits that don't work? Change your approach in a few easy steps.