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Aggravating Adverbs Too

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore how to use the correct forms of adverbs to compare actions.
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Looking at Portraits: Reading Poe

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare the daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe by an unknown photographer with Poe's writings in an effort to discover the character of this mysterious author.
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Challenging Regional Stereotypes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze the regional stereotypes that exist in Whales and formulate personal opinions about these views. Students discuss the impact of adjectives used to describe people from different regions of the U.K.
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Factors To Consider When Looking For Housing

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students discuss their housing options and factors which affect housing costs. Using the newspaper as a resource, students compare and contrast the prices of housing options. Working with partners, students compare and contrast their...
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Reading and the Appreciation of Style

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to hurricanes by answering questions. They practice using new vocabulary words. They work together in pairs to compare the words used in different levels of the text.
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Creative Dialogues en Espanol

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students create a character that could be included in a dialog from stories about Isabel. They use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the characters. Students work in groups to create a new character and draw an illustration. They...
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VH1 Driven: Jamie Foxx, Lesson 2

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students compare and contrast classical piano style with jazz piano style. They watch a segment of the video, "VH1 Driven: Jamie Foxx," participate in a class discussion of the music from the video, and develop a list of adjectives for...
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Changing Lives

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students compare and contrast rural lifestyles and urban lifestyles. They describe pictures and postcards of various settings, list adjectives that describe their lifestyle, list the advantages of living in rural and urban areas, read a...
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S-O-I-L Soil

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research soil, its nutrients, and plant growth. In this soil lesson, 5th graders create soil journals, trace flowers, and include nutrient information on each petal. Students read an excerpt from "McBroom Tells the Truth."...
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Who? What? When? Where? Asking Questions

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders interview Veterans or role play to answer who, what, where, when questions. In this Veteran's Day questioning activity, 6th graders learn about the events in the military service of veterans. Students may simulate...
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Lesson: A Garden Party of My Own

For Teachers K - 5th
Kids look at a beautiful work of art to practice grammar, make connections from life to art, and sketching. They identify all the parts of grammar they see in the image, discuss what they see and do on a picnic, and then draw an imaged...
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Leading into Good Writing

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Discuss the importance of a lead in writing with your upper graders. They examine several examples of leads from literature and practice writing leads for pieces of artwork. They then select a topic from a list and write an introductory...
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A Nice Story

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
Explore word choice in writing. Your class listens to a short story entitled "A Nice Day" (included) and discusses how the story could be improved. Pupils replace the word nice throughout the story with various synonyms, then reread the...
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Macmillan Education

Know Yourself

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
After completing a short self-assessment, partners use the provided questions and take turns acting as life coaches.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Journeys: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 1)

For Teachers 4th
Kids who need extra support mastering the concepts in the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic units on journeys, will benefit from the exercises and activities contained in this 40-page resource packet.
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Curriculum Corner

“I Can” Common Core! 3rd Grade Language

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Support third graders with developing their language skills using this Common Core checklist. With each standard written as an I can statement, children are given clear learning goals to work toward throughout the year.
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Teaching the Language of Thinking

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Use explicit instruction of academic language to strengthen student comprehension
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Scholastic

Quick as a Cricket Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Teaching young learners about similes is easy as pie with this primary grade language arts lesson. Following a class reading of the children's book, Quick as a Cricket by Audrey Wood, young readers learn the definition of a simile as...
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Biographical Poems

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students write a biographical poem about themselves. They observe a teacher-led demonstration, write an autobiographical poem and a biographical poem about a famous person using a template form, and display the poems side-by-side.
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Punctuation Game

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify and use hyphens, dashes, and semicolons. Using teacher created cards, they correct sentences written on the board by the instructor.
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Achievement Strategies

ACT College Readiness Standards

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Here is a template offering a comprehensive outline of ACT skill categories, what standards are expected to be mastered, and blank spaces for you to include how you plan to address those standards within your curriculum.
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DK Publishing

Big, Bigger, Biggest

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Which water creature is the biggest? Youngsters look at an image of a big shell, then draw a bigger shell next to it. They do the same for a big fish. Next, learners practice with the superlative as they circle the biggest duck and frog....
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Ubi Est Mantua?

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students chose Latin authors, their birthplace, life and works. They examine pictures of an Italian city and decide which Latin author it could be related to. They answer questions in Latin.
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ESL Kid Stuff

Measuring Parts of the Body

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
"How tall are you?" "Who has the longest arms?" As part of a study of the names of various body parts, language learners use rulers and tapes to measure parts of the body.

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