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New Zealand Ministry of Education

Nz Ministry of Education: Survival of the Fittest

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will gather, select, record, interpret, and present information on survivors and their survival strategies gained from reading the novel Hatchet and true life survival biographies. They will produce a piece of comparative...
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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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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Compara Y Contrasta [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
Students will compare and contrast information with the aid of this Venn Diagram that has been translated into Spanish. Students will answer a guiding question to help them summarize the content of the diagram.
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Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: A Fishy Tale

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A delightful anecdote sure to spark the thoughts of all students as you teach compare/contrast skills through a text to which they can relate. Site includes printable worksheet and answer key.
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Other

Fondation Beyeler: Ornament and Abstraction

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents a scholarly comparison of non-Western styles of ornamental art with modern and contemporary abstract works by Western artists.
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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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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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Georgetown University

Georgetown University: N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) (B. 1934)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A Georgetown professor's perspective on teaching Momaday's work, focusing on "Rainy Mountain." Offers insights on form/style/artistic conventions, and major themes/personal issues/historical perspectives.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Parallel Structure in Pairs

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson discusses the importance of parallel construction in pairs and comparisons or contrasts. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
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Activity
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Grade 10: Comparing Play and Film [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent student model for tenth-graders of the comparison between a play and a film, this one for "A Streetcar Named Desire." Provides good writing style and structure, and also includes notations and helpful student aids for...
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Handout
Indiana University

Indiana University East: Writing Center: Transitions: Understanding Signal Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource page provides nine lists of signal words and what they mean. Covers words that show time, addition, contrast, comparison, illustration, location, cause and effect, conclusion or summary, and emphasis or clarification.
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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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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Three Voice Important Book Passages

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
A lesson plan made for young scholars to write from various perspectives regarding the same topic. The mentor text entitled The Important Book is used, as students become more familiar with voice, point of view, persuasive techniques and...
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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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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Write Talks: Students Discover Real Writers/audiences/purposes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
There's a world of writers out there, and in this lesson students discover them as they listen to presentations from local writers and learn about what, why, and how they write in their day-to-day lives.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Discovering Similarities Between Writing and Art

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Contains plans for three 50-minute lessons that ask young scholars to use the writing process to write about a piece of visual art. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites...
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Other

English Companion: Reading Expository Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Taken from "Reading Reminders: Tools, Tips, and Techmiques," the information on this website provides advice on how to read, understand, analyze, and write expository texts.
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Handout
Scholastic

Scholastic: Judy Blume's Biography

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discover more about the life and work of Judy Blume with this resource. Students and teachers will gain a different perspective of this author after exploring this resource.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Critical Reading: Logic and Structure

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This instructional activity focuses on structure and logic including types and purposes of essays, organizational patterns, argumentative writing, and logic and fallacies.
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eBook
University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh: Mythology Electronic Texts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a handy site from the University of Pittsburgh for making comparisons in the folklore of different cultures. It is organized by themes. For instance, you could scroll down to the theme "Man and Serpent," click on that and read...
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Lesson Plan
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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English for Everyone

Reading Comprehension Assessment: "A Streetcar Named Desire" [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Read Theory provides a free reading comprehension assessment that is designed for middle grade students. Five multiple choice questions and two extended inquiries are included on this nonfiction reading assessment that addresses two...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure Worksheets

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides several assignments and graphic organizers related to identifying text structures. Analyzing the following types of text structures are provided: main idea and supporting details; cause and effect; chronological order;...

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