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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Developing Possible Solutions

For Teachers 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about solving problems. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Get in the Loop!

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the steps of recycling and tips for reusing and recycling. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Activity
Other

Dltk's: Coloring Pages for Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site provides printable color pages on a vast array of topics including the alphabet, holidays, shapes, countries, etc. It also offers puzzle pages such as color-by-number, connect the dots, and hidden pictures.
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Graphic
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Ace: Reading Mathematics [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site includes a graphic organizer to help students use the ACE acronym to help them read word problems with high comprehension. In the graphic organizer, students' reading of word problems requires them to "ask" [A], "choose" [C],...
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Graphic
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Ace: Writing Mathematics [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this graphic organizer, steps for solving word problems are included. Questions for students to ask themselves for what to do to "answer" [A], "computer" [C], "check" [C], and "explain" [E] are included. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Graphic
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Ace: Reflecting on Mathematics [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This site includes a graphic organizer of the ACE steps that will assist students in reflecting on their answers to word problems. The steps include having students "analyze" [A], "communicate" [C], and "extend" [E]. [Requires Adobe...
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Unit Plan
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Sample Lesson Plans for 7th Grade Computer Terms

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This site offers links to a list of computer terms middle schoolers need to know; it also offers links to lesson plans teaching things like using spreadsheets.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Sat Writing and Language Test: The Passages

For Students 9th - 10th
The SAT Writing and Language Test asks you to edit and revise passages written by an anonymous author. You will encounter a variety of passages from four content areas: Careers, History/Social Studies, Science, and Humanities. Each...
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Professional Doc
Childnet

Childnet: Online Safety: Embedding Online Safety

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Looking for ways to weave in online safety messages across your school curriculum? Visiting a topic in different subject areas offers a creative way for pupils to bring their learning to life by making links to the world around them. We...
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Professional Doc
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Content Area Literacy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Content area lessons require specific techniques and knowledge that help students navigate different types of texts. Here you will find articles, videos, teaching strategies, webcasts, and research reports.
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: For Teens, Phonics Isn't Enough

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Schools often struggle to find appropriate materials and approaches to support adolescent literacy. Strategies that work for children can ignore teens' existing skills, knowledge, and life experience, and exclude them from the critical...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Poor Children's Fourth Grade Slump

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Teachers have often reported a fourth-grade slump in literacy development, particularly for low-income children, at the critical transition from "learning to read" to "reading to learn." This study uses Chall's stages of reading...
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Article
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas: The Core of Improvement

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Every content area, from chemistry to history, has unique literacy demands: texts, knowledge, skills. But how are these critical literacies learned, let alone taught?
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Word Girl: Printables: Mom and Dad Color Book [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Print and color Mom and Dad's coloring page.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Word Girl: Printables: Tj Color Book [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Print and color TJ's coloring page.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Word Girl: Printables: Bampy Color Book [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Print and color Bampy's coloring page.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Word Girl: Printables: Sonny Days Color Book [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Print and color Sonny Days color page.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Wacky Frame of History

For Teachers 1st - 9th
Inspired by Barry Lane's book 51 Wacky We-Search Reports, in this cross-curricular instructional activity students learn to present researched material in a collage format.
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Article
Text Project

Text Project: Fyi for Kids: What's Out There? [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an article about Voyager I and II including when and why they came about and what information they have provided.
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Interactive
BioMan Biology

Snurfle Meiosis and Genetics 2: Diversity and Dihybrid Crosses

For Students 9th - 10th
This biology game assesses understanding of "crossing over", "independent fertilization", and "random fertilization" in the study of genetics.
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Graphic
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Acrostic Poem

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
With this printout, simply choose a one-word topic, write each letter of the word vertically in all capital letters, and then write words or phrases that describe the topic and begin with each letter of the word. It could be adapted for...
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Article
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Content Area Literacy: Literature

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Reading complex literary texts offers unique opportunities for students to wrestle with some of the core ethical dilemmas that we face as human beings. The growth of ethical reasoning is one of the most compelling reasons for schools to...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Graphic Organizer: Fishbone

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a graphic organizer that uses the fishbone technique to help students see root causes and outcomes and identify the details leading up to each.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Writing for Math Class: Creative Math Equations

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this activity, the mentor text called Mathematickles by Betsy Franco is used. Students will use the language of mathematics to demonstrate their understanding of the topics about which they write. Older students should use humor and...