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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Cold Faithful

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about ice geysers on Enceladus, one of the moons orbiting Saturn. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Hot for Hybrids

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the pros and cons of hybrid cars. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Machines Can Move!

For Students 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about simple machines used in daily life such as: a pulley, a screw, an inclined plane, a wheel and axle, a wedge, and a lever. A question sheet is available to help students build...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Cool Cats

For Students 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about cheetahs and five cheetah cubs born at the National Zoo in 2005. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Ig Nobel Winners

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Ig Nobel Prizes and some people who have won them. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Forms of Art Watercolor

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage explains the process of watercolor painting. It includes comprehension questions and a teacher guide and can be used as both a read-aloud exercise and an individual practice tool.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Do You Have Good Posture?

For Students 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about posture and problems created by sitting at a computer. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in understanding cause and effect.
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Test Taking Strategies for Three Subject Areas

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This instructional activity offers test-taking strategies that develop vocabulary, reading comprehension, and language arts mechanics.
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Professional Development Tutorial: Increasing Vocabulary

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This tutorial is a sample lesson from a Scholastic Red session on vocabulary development.
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Handout
Scholastic

Scholastic: Eric Carle Biography

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Discover more about your favorite children's author, Eric Carle, when you visit this biography. Students and teachers will gain a new perspective of this author's life and work.
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to use visual, meaning, and structure clues separately and together to determine the meaning of unknown words. Lessons are...
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Activity
Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City:lakewood 1st Grade Vocabulary & Spelling Resources

For Students K - 1st Standards
This site offers 30 vocabulary and spelling lessons. Each lesson provides a word list; when the words are clicked on, it is pronounced and used in a sentence aloud. For the quizzes, the words are pronounced, and the students type in the...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: 2nd Grade Act. 01: Exploration Tubs

For Teachers 2nd
During this language development lesson, 2nd graders will explore tubs with different themes. Students will use these tubs to explore fossils, rocks, reptiles, orgnisms
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Website
Other

English at Home: Learn English

For Students 9th - 10th
Designed for English Language Learners, this site offers a collection of lessons on grammar, vocabulary, tenses, verbs and speaking. It includes sections on idioms and real-life English, as well as quizzes. This can be used as an...
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Website
Other

Focusing on Words

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This site has information that will enhance your English-vocabulary skills. Experience the wonder of words by focusing on the Latin and Greek elements used in English.
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Unit Plan
Language Guide

Language Guide: Mandarin Chinese Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 8th
Useful resource for learning everyday Chinese vocabulary -- roll over each image to hear the correct pronunciation and see how the word is written. Corresponding English section (and other languages) makes this site a useful tool for ESL...
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Unit Plan
Language Guide

Language Guide: Russian Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn everyday Russian vocabulary words by rolling over a word or image to hear pronunciation and see spelling. The Language Guide site also has a corresponding section in English so that ESL students can compare vocabulary in English...
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Handout
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Evaluating the Connotation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on evaluating the connotation of a vocabulary word. It defines connotation and gives an example. It details three steps: read the word in context, determine the tone of the overall reading, and compare the tone with...
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Handout
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Evaluating Possible Meanings

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson explains how to evaluate the possible meanings of vocabulary words. An audio lesson [3:07] and notes are included in this tutorial. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.4
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Vocab Tip: Test Yourself

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A screencast lesson [5 mins, 30 secs] explaining how students can learn new vocabulary words by testing themselves over the words to discover what they know and what they need to know.
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Word Clouds for Kids!

For Students 2nd - 5th
Type or paste a word list into the space provided to create a word cloud. Adjust colors and fonts.
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Word Search Template: Christmas Word Search

For Students 1st - 5th
Vocabulary practice or just for fun, use this seasonal template for creating a word search. Make your search in a small grid or large and select whether the activity will be done virtually or printed out.
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Word Search: Easter Word Search

For Students 1st - 5th
Whether reviewing vocabulary or looking for a light activity during the Easter season take advantage of this Easter word search template. Choose from a ten or fifteen word grid and select paper or virtual.
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Word Search: Halloween Word Search

For Students 3rd - 8th
Whether the class is reviewing vocabulary or just looking for a fun activity put together a word search to be printed or done online. Select the Halloween templates which come in two sizes.