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Media Literacy Discussion Guide

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine and analyze visual media and its messages critically. They determine whether specific media messages inform, entertain, or persuade and what factors influence the media. Using primary sources, they participate in...
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Thinking Skills: Connecting shapes

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this thinking skills worksheet, students draw a line connecting each blue figure without touching any other color. Students connect 4 figures.
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Creating a Persuasive Travel Brochure

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars create a county and develop an illustrated travel brochure to persuade elementary students to visit their county.  In this persuasive writing lesson, young scholars use descriptive language effectively in a travel...
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Message in a Bottle

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders write a short story about being stranded on a deserted island. After a brief geography review of locations at various latitudes and longitudes, 6th graders draft their story about being stranded. They use sensory and...
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Eudora Welty Internet Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students use the Internet as a research tool. they read, comprehend, identify, evaluate, and select the correct answers to contextual questions.They write a rough draft, edit/revise, and a final draft summarizing the information located.
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Who Rocks Your World?

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students develop their writing skills. In this business letter lesson, students write a letter of nomination to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame regarding a music artist of their choice. Students read their finished letters to their peers.
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American Beginnings

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders examine the role of historians.  In this American History lesson plan, 11th graders analyze document based questions.  Students write a summary of these documents. 
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Expository Writing

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create Inspirations webs with graphics, and write five paragraph essays.
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Beginning, Middle, Ending (2)

For Students 3rd - 6th
For this story structure worksheet, students use a story map and write down the beginning, middle, and ending of a story they know.
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Beginning Sentence Completion Exercise 17

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this beginning sentence completion exercise 17 worksheet, students complete 10 sentences interactively by choosing the correct word(s), with immediate feedback online.
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Beginning Sentence Correction 16

For Students 3rd - 5th
Even though a short activity, it provides a good review of verb tense. Students could use this a quick, 6 question, review of skills. A teacher could augment the activity with questions or an assignment in which student write their own...
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Beginning Analogies 4

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this analogies learning exercise, students study the pairs of words and choose the answer that best expresses a relationship similar to the original pair. Students complete 12 problems.
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Book Letters

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students study language. In this writing lesson, students listen to a story and then compose a friendly letter, about the  book, to a friend. They work independently to compose their letter depicting what happened in the story, their...
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Writing As Criminal Evidence

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars research 2 famous forgery cases. In this forensics lesson, students are introduced to the methods of handwriting and paper analysis. They then use the Internet to study the cases of the Lindbergh baby and Howard Hughes'...
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Write the Question that Fits the Answer

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this asking and answering questions learning exercise, learners write an appropriate question for each of 8 answers. Students may write any question that fits the given answers.
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Complex Sentences Made Easy

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Support scholars' ability to write complex sentences with a two-page worksheet designed to inform and reinforce. Here, learners obtain a brief overview of what a complex sentence is and how one is made; then apply their new-found...