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How to Summarize

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students review techniques on how to read a passage smoothly making the words connect, and with expression. They then read the instruction to the chapter in their science book and answer questions that are written on the board. They...
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Sum It Up!!!

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students main goal of reading is comprehension. They encounter one main strategy of summarization. They comprehend that summarization is the process of finding the most important information from a reading. Students must follow several...
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Can You See It?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders practice visualizing elements from a story. While reading the poem "One Inch Tall" aloud, the instructor models what they see as they read the passage. Students draw a picture of a scene from the story "Everything on a...
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Easy Steps for Summarization

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice techniques and strategies to assess mastery on the concept of summarization. They read, discuss and summarize the story, "How Goose Got Ready for Winter," by David Wingfield. Each student picks out the most important...
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Madagascar-Simply Summarized

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Pupils summarize a selected piece of text nonfiction text. After reviewing the correct way to read silently, students read a nonfiction article. They write a summary paragraph using the four step process outlined by the instructor. ...
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Diary of a Fly, Diary of a Worm, Diary of a Spider

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students read the books Diary of a Fly, Diary of a Worm, and Diary of a Spider and write diary entries about them. In this reading lesson plan, students also draw pictures to go along with their diary entries.
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Songs And Stories About Bees

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students study bees. In this nature lesson, students practice a busy bee song, read poems about bees, and discuss the concept of beekeeping.
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And the Rains Came Down: A South American Rainforest

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners examine the characteristics of a South American tropical rainforest. They analyze maps, develop graphs, listen to the book, The Great Kapok Tree, and create a rainforest mural.
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What's "Out" There?

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate the five outer planets. For this space science lesson, 1st graders read the book Our Solar System and identify the five outer planets. Students create a booklet and write about outer planets.
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The Golden Spike

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate modern transportation in the 19th century by examining artifacts.  In this U.S. history lesson, students read the story Joseph's Railroad Dreams, and discuss the Golden Spike used in the first transcontinental...
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The Grouchy Ladybug

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners learn about sorting and classifying objects by size while reading Eric Carle's "The Grouchy Ladybug". In this sorting and classifying instructional activity, students first listen to and interact with the story. They then look...
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The Mitten

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students read the book, The Mitten and make a list of animals that moved into the mitten. In this literature lesson, students discuss why we like to have nice, warm places to live, and what happens when there isn't enough space for...
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Time & Itineraries Two

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Learners explore time management by participating in clock reading activities. In this itinerary lesson, students define a list of time telling vocabulary terms and practice reading analog clocks with a partner. Learners identify ways to...
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Introduce Word-form Recognition

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students demonstrate automatic word recognition. For this sight word practice lesson, students sound out the words on the board to themselves and then read the word aloud.
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Hanukkah

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students learn about the holiday of Hanukkah by making a milk box dreidel, playing the dreidel game, and lighting a menorah. In this Hanukkah lesson plan, students also read Hanukkah books.
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Essential English: List of Common Homophones

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this essential English worksheet, students will read a list of more than 150 common homophones. The list is an alphabetical order and includes words like blue and blew.
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Walt Whitman: Journalist and Poet

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
Can you love something so much you want to change it? Young patriots investigate Walt Whitman's love of America—and his suggestions to improve it—using primary sources as well as video evidence. Scholars research American issues of the...
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I Hear an "A"

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils explore the long "a" sound. Using the Michigan quarter reverse design, students say the words aloud to discover the long "a" sound. Pupils read given words and identify the long "a."
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Aesop's Fables

For Teachers K
Students read a fable about a lion and a mouse. They discuss the differences between the two animals. As a class, they discover the instructional activity of the story. Then they make puppets and reenact the fable.
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Supreme Court: Background

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explain the role of the Supremem Court under the Constitution. They explore current evetns related to the Constitution and read about the roles of the Senate and President in selecting the next justice. They create a chart about...
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My Memory Box

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students are read the book "Me & Mr. Mah". They discuss what the memory boxes in the story looked like and what was in each one. They create their own memory box out of a shoebox and items they brought from home.
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New York State Testing Program: English/Language Arts Listening Selection, Grade 4

For Students 4th
In this 4th grade English/Language Arts standardized test practice worksheet, students listen to a fictional story that as their instructor reads it aloud 2 times. No questions accompany the worksheet.
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What Would You Do? A Discussion About the Ethics of War

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the process of ethical decision-making during wartime. They read three case studies from World War II, and in small groups discuss, debate, and present their findings to the class.
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Scrambled States

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students read or are read the story "Scrambled States". Using a map, they identify their states and time zones. They predict their states representation in the book and discuss it after the book is finished. They discvor the differences...