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CommonLit

Common Lit: Water Scarcity: A Global Issue

For Students 7th - 8th

CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...

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Common Lit: Who Gets to Be President?

For Students 7th - 8th Standards

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Common Lit: "Who Was Anne Frank?" by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

For Students 7th - 8th

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Common Lit: Where the World's Refugees Are

For Students 9th - 10th

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Common Lit: Want to Get Into College? Learn to Fail by Angel B. Perez

For Students 9th - 10th

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Common Lit: "Sometimes, History Is Sadness" by David White

For Students 5th - 6th Standards

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Common Lit: Outpouring of Support for France

For Students 5th - 6th

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Common Lit: Lin Manuel Miranda

For Students 7th - 8th

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Common Lit: "Propaganda: Battling for the Mind" by Shelby Ostergaard

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

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Common Lit: Financial Literacy

For Students 7th - 8th Standards

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Common Lit: Election Choices: 2008

For Students 5th - 6th Standards

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Common Lit: Duck & Cover: School Drills During the Cold War

For Students 5th - 6th Standards

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Common Lit: "Egyptian Mummies" by Us history.org

For Students 7th - 8th

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Common Lit: I Am Not an Inmate I Am a Man. And I Have Potential

For Students 7th - 8th Standards

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Determining Importance & Summarizing Informational Text

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards

These teacher resources focuses on why it is important to teach elementary students to determine the importance and to summarize informational text. It leads an activity to help teachers experience when and how we use these strategies.

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Texas Gateway: Analyze Thesis, Purpose, Textual Elements in Informational Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on how to locate the controlling idea or thesis and specific purpose in a text and analyze the roles they play in understanding what you read. You will...

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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement:portrait of a Hero

For Teachers K - 1st

Discussing real life heroes and heroines and viewing their pictures will help students learn about reading and writing biographies. A writing rubric assessment is included in this series of activities designed to teach about heroes and...

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Teachers Network: A Trip to Baseball Hall of Fame (Writing a Persuasive Letter)

For Teachers 9th - 10th

This lesson plan focuses on improving students' persuasive writing skills. Students reseach baseball and then write a persuasive essay to convince the baseball coach that a trip the Baseball Hall in Fame would be beneficial to the...

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Common Lit: Developing Civilization in Ancient Egypt

For Students 7th - 8th

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Common Lit: "Emmett Till" by Jessica Mc Birney

For Students 7th - 8th Standards

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Common Lit: Duke Ellington

For Students 7th - 8th

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Corwin Press: Chapter 7: Informational Text Lessons in First Grade

For Teachers 1st Standards

This chapter provides guided informational text lessons for first graders. Differentiation and management tips are provided, along with steps to use while implementing these lessons.

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Use Evidence to Show How a Writer Supports

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer for students to use when analyzing the evidence that authors use to support a claim. RI.9-10.5 ideas/claims developed. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.8

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Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Why Did the Author Write That?

For Students 5th Standards

This tutorial explains point of view in informational texts. Students will learn how to analyze multiple accounts of the same topic or event and identify similarities and differences in different points of view.

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