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Ink Pot: A Print Literary Journal

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Ink Pot accepts short stories, poetry, and essays. Guidelines for submitting work, as well as samples of previously published entries, are readily available at this site. This site offers a great archive as well.
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Other

Advice for Young Writers: 10 Tips for Students in Writing Biographies

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Children's author, Kathleen Krull, writer of many biographies, shares some tips for making biographies come alive. Perhaps her most interesting tips are to be nosy, and look for juicy details.
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FNO Press

From Now On: Graphical Organizers as Thinking Technology

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
From Now On explains the purpose and advantages of graphic organizers such as converting complex information into meaningful displays, helping students plan their research, and sometimes acting as mind maps. There are several examples...
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Lesson Plan
Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District:teaching Summarization to Struggling Students

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan designed to teach students how to recognize an effective summary. Following the lesson plan, several practice fiction and nonfiction texts are available in both English and Spanish for grades 3, 4, and 5. Answer key...
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Website
Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: World War Ii

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Newsletter lists picture books, fiction, and nonfiction titles on World War II.
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Website
Starfall

Starfall: It's Fun to Read: I'm Reading

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is a collection of online reading stories for beginning readers. These collections include plays, fiction and nonfiction stories, comics, folktales, Greek myths, and Chinese fables. Many of the stories have an option for read alouds...
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Activity
English Worksheets Land

English Worksheets Land: Relationships Between Illustrations and Texts Worksheet

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
When we are reading nonfiction or fiction we can often use a point of reference that drives us to make better conclusions. Illustrations are the perfect media to achieve this. This can help the reader attribute value to a setting, a...
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EL Education

El Education: Insect Bookmarks

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
These bookmarks were created by 2nd graders at the Alice B. Beal Elementary School in Springfield, Massachusetts, as part of a two-month Learning expedition on insects. The learning expedition included field observation and collection,...
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EL Education

El Education: Insect Cards

For Teachers 1st - 5th
These local insect note cards were created by 2nd graders from the Alice B. Beal Elementary Magnet School in Springfield, Massachusetts. The project included field observation and collection, classroom experimentation and research,...
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EL Education

El Education: In the Zone: Where the Land Meets the Water

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This field guide to the marine organisms of the intertidal zone of Casco Bay was created by 7th grade students in Portland, Maine, as part of a Learning Expedition called, "In the Zone." Students were engaged in scientific research at...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Children's Books About the Holocaust

For Students 3rd - 8th
An annotated bibliography of books about the Holocaust. Includes picture books, young adult fiction, and nonfiction including information about Anne Frank.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Children's Books About the Holocaust

For Students 3rd - 8th
An annotated bibliography of books about the Holocaust. Includes picture books, young adult fiction, and nonfiction including information about Anne Frank.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Genres Activotes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is an Activote genre quiz to go along with Genres lesson.

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