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Final Reports

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students write reports, including a summary of their research findings and their historical journal entries, to be shared with friends and families, and publish their reports.
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Here Ye! Here Ye! Read All About It!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the internet to find articles to read. In this reading comprehension lesson, 4th graders take notes on articles found on the internet. Students use the writing process to summarize the selected articles. 
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Of Mice and Men: Persuasive Paper

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students write a four paragraph persuasive paper on Of Mice and Men. In this Of Mice and Men activity, students take a position on whether or not George should have killed Lennie. Students are given a paragraph-by-paragraph guide to...
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Short Story Inspiration

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders write an original story using a picture of a scene inspiration. For this short story lesson, 10th graders write short stories using a picture.
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Comic Book Project

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners write a fictional story into a comic book format. In this creative writing lesson, students analyze example comics and discuss the format. Learners create a comic book using imaginary characters that find a solution to a problem.
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Homophones

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars draw a sketch of each homophone and write sentences with homophones in them. For this homophones lesson plan, students also match homophones in a picture form.
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Types of Sentences

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify and write different types of sentences. In this sentences lesson plan, 4th graders use pictures and animation to write declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences.
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The Young Writer's Workshop: Let's Argue

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers practice writing using a guided writing worksheet that helps them examine problems of human space exploration. They isolate lexical chunks used for writing about problems and write paragraphs of their own. Students write...
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Constitutional Rights Foundation

If Men Were Angels: Teaching the Constitution With the Federalist Papers

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Much like the methods of group work, the writers of the Federalist Papers worked together to advocate for their viewpoints against the anti-federalists. The resource enables learners to break into small groups and conduct research before...
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How Does Your Garden Grow?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young gardners read and listen to books about seeds, plants, and the growing process. They plant seeds in plastic cups to observe the process of root-growing and plant formation. The whole class walks through a field to collect seeds...
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Those Baffling Bibliographies!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Are you working on a research and citation unit? Have your young writers listen to a lecture on how to cite research sources correctly and how to distinguish new information that requires citing. They compile a list of works cited from...
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Grammar Review

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Review grammar rules for simple and compound sentences. Learners diagram sentences and identify conjunctions, interjections, and prepositional phrases. As a class, they study their notes and complete pages in their grammar book to...
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Speaker Report

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Fifth through eighth graders think of themselves as newspaper reporters as they listen to a presentation by a guest speaker. As reporters, they take notes during the presentation. Using these notes, they create a rough draft and then a...
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Techno Author

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Here is a great way to explore language arts by completing a computer activity with classmates. Youngsters read a fairy tale in class and analyze where the beginning, middle and end are. They create their own story using clip art and...
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Maine Content Literacy Project

Introduction to Literacy Criticism

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
As learners continue to examine a short story of their choice, they take some time to look at analysis completed by others on the same story. In the eleventh lesson in a series of fourteen, pupils explore various sites for literary...
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The Yo-Yo Problem

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What do yo-yos and pennies have to do with linear equations? Learn about writing and solving linear equations while considering the Yo-Yo Problem and Penny Pattern Exploration from the High School Math Project. Learners utilize algebra...
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Economic Causes of the March on Washington

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Money can't buy happiness, but it can put food on the table and pay the bills. The first of a five-lesson unit teaches pupils about the unemployment rate in 1963 and its relationship with the March on Washington. They learn how to create...
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Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discover the process of writing,. including the different steps to be taken in accomplishing the writing process to come up with the final published pieces.
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Advocacy Through Letter Writing

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Pupils develop an advocacy plan to address a health-related need for a local, national or global health problem. Students write a detailed letter as part of their advocacy plan.
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Travlin' Through the Basin: Guided Imagery

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students listen to a story. In this imagery lesson, students listen to nature sounds of the Everglades, water and forest. Students listen to a reading of the Tangipahoa River guided imagery passage. Students share their feelings inspired...
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Writing Prompts: Prose, Pamphlets and Poems

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students practice reading an atlas and writing prompts. They use graphic organizers to construct their writing prompt. They use the Internet to do their research.
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Writing: Lesson 2

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders examine the English Language Arts Writer's Checklist. They practice prewriting techniques. Students use clustering as a prewriting tool. They discuss how a checklist is a lot like a map in that it guides you through the...
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Global Warming: A Cause and Effect Writing Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice cause and effect writing skills on environmental topics.
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How to Write a Bill

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers view video excerpts from, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" and discuss them to brainstorm how to write a bill. They divide into two groups representing senate committees to participate in a mark-up session where they read...

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