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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Aftermath: African American Women and the Vote

For Students 9th - 10th
Though the suffrage movement failed to exclude African-American women, and many obstacles came in the way of their voting (e.g., poll taxes, literacy tests, etc.), "African-American women were not strangers to community activism." Learn...
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Professional Doc
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Teacher Leaders and Teacher Teams

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Leadership preparation begins with early and meaningful opportunities for teachers to lead. The traditional span of control in schools with one principal supervising scores of teachers is outdated and no longer functional. Distributed...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: K Act. 01: Kindergarten Exploration Tubs

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Early childhood young scholars will develop their understanding of language, letters, numbers, sequencing, print concepts, and phonics. Students will investigate assorted tubs that are filled with items and picture books associated with...
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Huac and Hollywood

For Students 9th - 10th
This video and support materials detail the Hollywood blacklist and House Un-American Activities Committee, chronicling the fear of Communism and resulting blacklist based on political ideology. The video is from the American Masters...
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Huac: Backlash and Implications

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
These videos and support materials explore the intense division experienced by those who testified before and blacklisted by HUAC during the Cold War, focusing on the testimony of Elia Kazan. The videos are from American Masters None...
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Lord Byron, Poe, and Poetry: Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the literature of Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Byron, and "the most poetical topic in the world" in this series of videos from the American Masters film, Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive. Discussion questions, teaching tips, and a student...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Creating a Caring Classroom Community

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Help early learners build healthy social and emotional skills with this special collection on promoting kindness, being just, and creating a caring classroom community! These activities, videos, tips, articles, and guides offer...
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eBook
Starfall

Starfall: A House in a Tree

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is an online children's picture book for early readers. It includes story word list.
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eBook
Starfall

Starfall: Dragon Goes to the Farm

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Dragon Goes to the Farm is an online storybook for the early reader. The site also provides a list of all of the words in the story.
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Interactive
Courseware Solutions

Wordville: Compound Words

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
This interactive language arts skill-building site provides a fun activity for creating compound words. Challenge student understanding of compound words and engage in the creation of compound words.
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Website
Other

Wisconsin State Reading Association (Wsra)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn about the goals, membership, publications, and committees of this affiliate of the International Reading Association. Links also take you to useful reading resources and to its hotline, which allows members to be a part of an...
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Professional Doc
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Building World Knowledge: Informational Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Before, during, and after-reading ideas for introducing students to informational texts in the early-elementary grades in order to boost reading achievement through the upper-elementary grades.
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Website
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers: Episode 6: Empowering Parents

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Empowering Parents, a PBS special hosted by Al Roker, visits schools in Huntingtown, Maryland, and Portland, Oregon, to see how families learn to identify early signs of reading problems and find ideas for getting their kids the help and...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Writing Reports in Kindergarten

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Lesson which provides three types of reports for early elementary students to share. These allow young students to see themselves as writers with something useful to contribute from an early age.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Can We Learn From Pigs?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This thematic language arts lesson plan uses a variety of beginning reading books about pigs to help special education/early elementary students learn about character traits and concepts. The wide use of graphic organizers introduces...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: An Introduction to Tech Prep

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Tech Prep is a planned sequence of study in a technical field that begins as early as 9th grade and extends through at least two years of postsecondary education or an apprenticeship program. Tech Prep programs culminate in students...
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Alphabet Slider Puzzle

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Alphabet Slider Puzzle is an activity for early elementary age children. Students click and drag the puzzle pieces to complete the alphabet pictures. When a picture is complete the letter is pronounced and associated with a word and...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Position Statement on Student Grade Retention and Social Promotion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this statement, the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) identifies the characteristics of students more likely to be retained and the impact of retention at the secondary school level, late adolescence, and early...
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abcteach

Abcteach: Book Units: Vocabulary Enrichment

For Students Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Help to select units of books for student reading that will work to build student vocabulary. Some authors are Caldecott and Newberry winners from the early 20's until 2007. Also included are some...
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Website
Other

Civil Rights Movement 1955 1965: Mississippi & Freedom Summer

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a look at Mississippi in the early 1960s to understand why the focus of African American voter registration targeted that state. Read about the organization and implementation of the Mississippi Summer Project in 1964. See also the...
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Folk Tales

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Five traditional folk tales for early readers to listen to online. The vocabulary for each story is posted below it.
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Professional Doc
Axelson Academy

Axelson Academy:types of Texts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This professional resource will help teachers understand the different types of texts that early childhood students need to know.
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Article
Other

Himama: Early Childhood Education Blog: Creative Expression Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Being able to communicate social-emotional learning visually or through movement, sound and words is not only an essential developmental skill, but it can also be a lot of fun for preschoolers. These creative expression activities for...
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Alphabet Matching

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is a fun educational activity where children must match letter sounds to beginning word sounds. All letters and words are sounded out for children as they play the game.

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