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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Venn Diagram Rubric

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A printable three-leveled rubric for evaluating a Venn diagram in the areas of test support of comparisons, placement of statements, and number of quality statements. Directions on how to use this rubric as well as lists of teaching...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Context Clues Intro

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses context clues and how they are used to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. There is sufficient material for several lessons on this topic. Included are activities and...
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Unit Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Snowflake Bentley

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this ReadWorks read aloud lesson, students will describe Bentley's environment and his interactions with it. Students will evaluate the impact a person's environment can have on life. Then students...
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Transitions Between Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial teaches writing students how to share convincing in well-written sentences that are connected from one to the other--that is, they exhibit transition. W.9-10.1c cohesion/clarity/reason, W.9-10.2c cohesion/clarity/trans
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Developing Vocabulary Context Clues

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This interactive whiteboard lesson is designed to help students develop their vocabulary by recognizing and analyzing context clues with unfamiliar words.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Whose Piece Is Larger?

For Teachers 4th Standards
Fourth graders are always concerned about whether they get their equal piece when things are divided. In this instructional activity, 4th graders will use fraction bars to visually see how to compare fractions
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Common Sense,independence

For Students 9th - 10th
Discussion of comparison and contrast of Declaration of Independence and Common Sense. If you click the "documents" link in the sidebar, you can also access the text of Common Sense.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Introducing the Venn Diagram in the Kindergarten Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for short lessons that introduce the use of Venn Diagrams to kindergarten students. Uses interactive Venn Diagram exercises to make the concept easy to understand. In addition to objectives and standards, this...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Test 9: Ben's Harmonica

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a reading assessment passage. This passage contains a brief biography about Ben Franklin and a few of his inventions.
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Lesson Plan
Teachnology

Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Point of View

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
In this lesson, students compare/contrast two versions of "The Three Little Pigs" including the traditional from the pigs' point of view and "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith version as told from...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: 3 Voice Storyboard: Feeling [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this PDF lesson, students study topics on which people might have differing feelings; they then create three dialogue bubbles that represent three different viewpoints: one that loves the topic, one that dislikes it, and one with a...
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Activity
University of Virginia Library

Prism: "What Mitosis Has to Do With Families" Visualization

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have ReadWorks' "What Mitosis Has to Do with Families." Text details related to descriptions are blue, definitions/examples are red, and comparisons/contrasts are green....
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Activity
Harvey Mudd College

Claremont Colleges: Writing an Argument

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Brief handout describing different forms of argument for writing.
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Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Venn Diagrams

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
The point of this lesson is to introduce children to the idea of comparison through Venn diagrams. Children will compare two stories using the Venn diagram.
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Handout
US Department of Education

Literacy Information and Communication System (Lincs): Signal Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource page provides twelve long lists of signal words and what they mean. Covers signal words for continuation, change of direction, sequence, time, illustration, emphasis, cause of condition or result, spatial,...
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Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Building Background Knowledge

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
The importance of background knowledge is especially salient in the age of Common Core. This article offers practical classroom strategies to build background knowledge such as using contrasts and comparisons and encouraging...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Contemporary Nonfiction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson is an introduction to contemporary nonfiction including the definition, types of nonfiction: biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, essays, speeches, and diaries, examples of authors and types, key terms, essential questions,...
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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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Cengage Learning

Heath Online Instructor's Guide: James Wright (1927 1980)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Contains useful information for teaching the Ohio poet James Wright. Includes sections called "Classroom Issues and Strategies," "Major Themes, Historical Perspectives, and Personal Issues," "Significant Form, Style, or Artistic...
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Cengage Learning

Houghton Mifflin: Gwendolyn Brooks, Literary Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
Here you will find theme, perspective, form, style, and contrast comparison. Good research material!
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Lesson Plan
Georgetown University

Georgetown University:bay Psalm Book (1640) and New England Primer (1683)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Essay discussing the Bay Psalm Book (1640) and the New England Primer (1683). Topics include: Classroom Issues and Strategies; Major Themes, Historical Perspectives, and Personal Issues; Significant Form, Style, Artistic Conventions;...
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Lesson Plan
US National Archives

Docsteach: The Suffrage and the Civil Rights Reform Movements

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This short comparative analysis activity involves comparing and contrasting two images of marches for freedom - a 1917 march of suffragists and the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom by Civil Rights leaders. Students will...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Understanding Relevant Laws in the Workforce

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After learners read and take notes from lecture on human relations, students will compare and contrast labor laws before the 19th Century to the present. Learners will key comparison of laws in MLA report format. This is a Commerce and...
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The Book Report

Kids reads.com: The Fudge Books by Judy Blume

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This comprehensive site features activities, reviews, and more for Judy Blume's "The Fudge Books." Come and explore this educational gold mine.

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