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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Homeless

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils explore homelessness through the reading of "Homeless" by Anna Quindlen. They discuss their thoughts about homelessness and how they feel about the problem. They complete a reader response sheet.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tropical Herpefauna

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils explore tropical herpefauna. They discuss the story "Tropical Herpefauna...Tropical What?" by Lori Bruckeim. Students discuss any concepts of the essay that need clarification and they predict, visualize, question, and summarize.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Eruption Simulation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students conduct research and teach each other about the eruption of Mount St. Helens and identify the major components of the eruption, their characteristics and their effects. They simulate the eruption dramatically.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Memories, A Connection to the Past

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read four books related to the past and memories. With a partner, they complete a graphic organizer for each story in English or Spanish. To end the lesson plan, they write a short paper summarizing the material and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Erie Canal: Journey Back in Time

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read the novel, The Eric Canal, identifying the characters and setting. They respond to daily reading by writing in journals and complete a short answer test upon completion of the novel.
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Handout
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory

North Central Regional Educational Laboratory: Reciprocal Teaching

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site offers a comprehensive description of reciprocal teaching.
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Reciprocal Teaching

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Reciprocal Teaching is a strategy that asks students and teachers to share the role of teacher by allowing both to lead the discussion about a given reading. Reciprocal Teaching involves four strategies that guide the discussion:...
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Unit Plan
Other

Strategies for Reading Comprehension:reciprocal Teaching

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this page to understand the reciprocal teaching strategy that includes the role of the clarifier in student groups.
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Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Main Idea With Supporting Details

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Strategies to help students recognize main ideas and supporting details provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade. Includes strategies such as Main Idea Pyramids, Number Notes, QAR (Question/Answer...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Show and Teach

For Teachers 2nd Standards
This lesson plan engages students in classmates sharing their talents. Students will communicate information about their talent and then teach their classmates.
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Website
Other

Reading Quest: Making Sense of Social Studies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Teaching students to read well in areas other than language arts requires teaching and reinforcing the kinds of reading strategies taught here. There are 27 strategies, ranging from brainstorming to word mapping. The site includes PDF...
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Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Speaking and Listening in Content Area Learning

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Oral language development facilitates print literacy. In this article, we focus on the ways in which teachers can ensure students' speaking and listening skills are developed. We provide a review of effective classroom routines,...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Monitoring/clarifying

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The Monitoring/Clarifying strategy teaches students to recognize when they don't understand parts of a text and to take necessary steps to restore meaning. This technique is a component of the Reciprocal Teaching model in which teachers...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Comprehension Strategies With Elie Wiesel's Night

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Working in small groups, young scholars read and discuss Elie Wiesel's memoir Night and then take turns assuming the "teacher" role, as the class works with four different comprehension strategies.RI.11-12.4 Word meaning, RI.11-12.10b...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Interventions for Struggling Adolescent Readers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article presents a round-up of intervention initiatives aimed at struggling adolescent readers. It provides a snapshot of program characteristics and research findings for Reciprocal Teaching, Apprenticeship in Reading, Read 180,...

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