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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc Skillswise: Listening for Specific Information

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial presents a video, factsheets, and worksheets for learning how to listen for and understand information. It looks at how to handle different situations, e.g., arranging a delivery, asking questions about a product before...
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Lesson Plan
Other

Nsw Department of Education and Training: Picture This [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Reading unit plan focusing on picture books. It contains ten days worth of teaching suggestions that use a variety of reading strategies including modeled as well as independent reading and writing. Also includes five printable...
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Word Grammar: Connectives

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
A short video introduces the concept of joining sentences using connective words. Includes three downloadable factsheets and five worksheets.
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Speaking and Listening: Formal and Informal Speaking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Skillswise site focuses on formal and informal speaking. Included are a video about how to decide whether to use formal or informal speech, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction. The Skillswise sites from BBC are geared to...
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Dictionaries and Indexes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Skillswise site focuses on using dictionaries and indexes. Included are a video about why using these tools is important, fact sheets and worksheets about using them, quizzes on the information presented, and a dictionary game. The...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Exercise in Writing Concise Sentences

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Practice rewriting each of these twelve sentences in a more clear and concise manner. Check each sentence against the answer provided to see how well they match up.
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Handout
English Plus+

Grammar Slammer Glossary: Prepositions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers a basic definition of prepositions, along with a chart of the most common ones. Some of the prepositions listed serve as a hypertext link to more detailed information on that specific word.
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Unit Plan
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Definition of a Sentence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Guide to Grammar and Writing defines many of the terms common to sentence development, such as the parts of speech, or provides links for those definitions. Discusses strategies for adding variety to sentence structures. Includes...
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Lesson Plan
Hopelink

Hopelink: Writing Lesson Idea: Self Editing

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This writing lesson teaches students how to become self-editors by learning to judge and critique their work.
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Prepositions Locators in Time and Place

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is prepared by Professor Charles Darling of Capital Community College and breaks down prepositions by time, place, and movement.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Challenge Board: Verb Tense

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
In this one or two player game, students select categories (past, present, future, past progressive, present progressive) and point values for each question. After the selection, they type in the required tense to fill in each sentence...
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Handout
SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Italics & Underlining

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains information regarding the correct use of italics and underlining, along with many examples.
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Inferential Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Teaching students to "read influentially" helps them learn how to read more strategically. This technique is derived from the teaching model that learners develop knowledge via the process of interpreting new information in light of past...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Effective Reading Programs Grades 6 12: A Best Evidence Synthesis

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Many reading programs claim to boost student performance, but how is that measured? Johns Hopkins University examined more than 200 published studies to create this quick guide to programs.
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Comprehension strategies are conscious plans - sets of steps that good readers use to make sense of text. Comprehension strategy instruction helps students become purposeful, active readers who are in control of their own reading...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: For Middle Schoolers: Activities to Build College Level Reading Skills

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
ACT has developed this list of activities to help middle-school students improve their reading ability. Parents and educators can use this information to help ensure that these students are on target for college and career readiness.
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Developing "Student Owned" Vocabulary

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students should learn specific vocabulary and academic language to comprehend content text, but they should also become independent in understanding and owning vocabulary. This article offers tips for developing students' "vocabulary...
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Handout
University of Richmond

University of Richmond: Putting Voice Into a Paper

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides tips and activities to help students develop voice in their writing. The tips are brief and direct and, if followed, should help a writer improve both voice and confidence.
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Handout
University of Richmond

University of Richmond: Writer's Web: How to Make Sentences Clear and Concise

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Four simple rules for students to follow when editing sentences to make them more clear and concise. By looking at the use of prepositions, verb choices, active voice, and more, students can learn to improve their sentence writing...
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Savvas Learning

Pearson Education: The Longman Vocabulary Website: Synonyms

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
The focus of this site is to help students review and strengthen their knowledge of synonyms. This site has beginner, intermediate and advanced sections of exercises.
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Savvas Learning

Pearson Education: The Longman Vocabulary Website: Antonyms

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This site features antonym exercises. These exercises are divided into beginner, intermediate and advanced levels.
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Handout
University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Writing About Literature (Fiction)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students are instructed in a nine-step process of how to write a literary response paper that includes a thesis, strong ideas, and specific supporting details from the text. W.11-12.9a Amer Lit 18th,19th, 20th cen/Analy
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Handout
Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Comma

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This entry focuses on the rules for comma use including listing the uses, explaining the rules, and providing detailed examples.
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Unit Plan
Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Self Teaching Unit: Pronoun Antecedent Agreement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on pronouns including personal pronouns, singular and plural personal pronouns, indefinite pronouns, and pronoun-antecedent agreement. It provides examples of each, explains types of errors and how to correct them,...