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Organizer
Curated OER

Speaking and Listening

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this speaking worksheet, students write an outline for giving a presentation. The outline includes an introduction and three main points, each with two examples.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Times of Shakespeare

For Students 4th - 6th
In this listening comprehension interactive learning exercise, students watch the included video about Shakespeare and complete a cloze listening activity. There are eighteen fill-in sentences to complete.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Breaking English News: Children Into Computers Younger Than Ever

For Students 9th - 11th
In this ESL/ELL reading and listening comprehension worksheet, students read or listen to an article entitled, "Children Into Computers Younger Than Ever." They complete discussion activities, and matching, true or false, fill in the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

ESL/EFL Lesson Plan - Longevity Blood Tests - By Sean Banville

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students read the article Blood Test Predicts When You'll Die. In this reading comprehension lesson, students read the article and complete a variety of activities. They work individually and in pairs to complete questions dealing with...
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Lesson Plan
Pennsylvania Department of Education

Speaking Skills

For Teachers Pre-K
Students listen to The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and use a teacher created puppet for a listening activity.  In this Hungry Caterpillar lesson, students recall the order of events in the story with the puppet and cards of the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Picture Dictations 1

For Students 4th - 5th
For this language arts worksheet, students collaborate with a classmate in a speaking and listening exercise. Student A looks at the provided picture and describes the scene as clearly as possible for Student B to draw. The roles are...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Roots of Prohibition: Examining the Effort to Prohibit Alcohol in America

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Five segements from Ken Burns' documentary series Prohibition, easily accessed on the PBS website, are at the center of a terrific short unit on the roots of America's ambivalent relationship with alcohol. Engage your secondary class...
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Lesson Plan
SoundTree

When The Saints Go Marching In: A Lesson for Middle School Keyboard Lab Students

For Teachers 6th - 8th
After listening to a variety of interpretations of "When the Saints Go Marching In," partners compose and then perform their own renditions of this classic before joining a full-class jam session.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

SIGHT READING RHYTHM PATTERNS

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
The perception of rhythms by reading and the ability to auditorily discriminate these rhythm patterns by listening to them performed by the teacher is practiced here. your students will work to create an eight-beat long rhythm pattern.
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Perkins School for the Blind

Integrated Skills - Laundry

For Teachers 6th - 12th
I hate doing laundry, even if it is an independent living skill that requires me to count money, follow a sequence, and sort clothing by color. Learners with multiple disabilities discuss what laundry is, why they need to do it, and how...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

MUSICAL ELEMENTS OF THE LITTLE PRINCE

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students demonstrate knowledge of musical instruments and the families of the orchestra. They acknowledge different voice types found in opera. Students interpret emotional expressions through listening. They compose sounds to express...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Movies That Rock": Moulin Rouge

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Upper graders explore musical film and the Bohemian lifestyle common in Europe during the turn of the century through the musical Moulin Rouge. After listening to (or viewing) songs from the movie, they discuss the Bohemian era and how...
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Explore Literary Devices in Popular Lyrics

For Teachers Pre-K - 9th
Bring literary devices to life by listening to popular song clips and studying their lyrics.
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Transportation and Environmental Sustainability

For Teachers 1st
After listening to the book, We All Go Traveling By, 1st graders discuss different modes of transportation that they see out in the world, and the environmental impacts of each one. Kids work together to create a list of the types of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Producing Beats

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Turn your classroom into a music studio as groups work together to determine why music sounds different when performed live versus a recording. After listening to some different music, each group picks a poem, creates a recording, and...
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Dr. Seuss Enterprises

Dr. Seuss in the Classroom

For Teachers 6th Standards
Explore the works of Dr. Seuss, such as Horton Hears a Who, Horton Hatches and Egg, The Sneetches and Other Stories, The Lorax, The Butter Battle Book, and Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories. Each story lesson includes reading...
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Lesson Plan
Federal Reserve Bank

Turn Your Radio On

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
After listening to and analyzing a series of FDR's Fireside Chats, groups create their own recordings, and using New Deal programs, address a current economic condition.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Listening and Speaking

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders practice the elements of narration. In this narration lesson, 9th graders complete learning profile activities to address kinesthetic learners, artistic learners, musical learners, and interpersonal learners. Students work...
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Lesson Plan
August House

A Tale of Two Frogs

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Ribbit ribbit! Hop through a series of activities based on A Tale of Two Frogs. Kids read the Russian folktale and answer reading comprehension questions before working on phonics exercises, tracing dotting lines to make a path between...
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Assessment
California Education Partners

Eleven

For Students 7th Standards
It is difficult to articulate how growing up feels as accurately and beautifully as Sandra Cisneros does in her short story "Eleven." After seventh graders read the story and note the author's use of figurative language, they respond to...
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Lesson Plan
British Council

Forced to Wear a Skirt

For Teachers 6th - 11th Standards
What's the dress code? Scholars read brief texts about school uniforms and discuss opinions for and against them. Pupils then work with a partner to role play a conversation about school uniforms. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Comprehension Skills: Evaluate Using Fiction Stories and Aesop's Fables

For Teachers K
Primary readers investigate several comprehension skills in the ten lessons of this unit. Forming opinions about stories, comparing stories to each other, using Venn Diagrams, and applying the ideas from a story to real life situations...
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Interactive
Mr. Nussbaum

Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension—The Presidential Years (Part 3)

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery and led the Union out of the most tumultuous time in American history. An informative passage and paired questions evaluate learners' understanding of main ideas, supporting points, and domain-specific...
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Lesson Plan
The New York Times

The One-Question Interview

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Generate interest in current events, the theme of a new unit, or a research project. Individuals select a question from the list generated by the class, conduct one-on-one interviews, analyze the responses, draw conclusions based on...

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