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Sneetches: Diversity of Learners

For Teachers K - 2nd
For Learners wanting to practice verbal/linguistic intelligence, any Dr. Seuss book is an excellent text for examining rhyming words. They explore words that rhyme with bully, mean, snooty, nasty, tease, harass, hurt.
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Introduce Vocabulary: Ruby the Copycat (Rathmann)

For Teachers K - 3rd
Have your scholars ever known someone who was a copycat? Approach this issue as you study vocabulary in context by reading Peggy Rathmann's book Ruby the Copycat. Proposed focus words are: recite, murmur, plop, and coincidence. Go over...
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Study Guide for Island of the Blue Dolphins

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Dive your class into a reading of Island of the Blue Dolphins with this in-depth study guide. Breaking the novel into three parts, the resource begins each section with a focus activity that identifies a specific theme or question to be...
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What's A Word?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students listen to the story "Wilfred Gordon Mcdonald Partridge" and brainstorm about memories. They write a story describing what they would put in a memory basket when they are 80 years old.
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Family Picture Quilt

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners explore family backgrounds and traditions while discussing how memories are preserved. In this patchwork quilt activity, students create a keepsake by compiling pictures, drawings, and magazine clippings of things that are...
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Remembering How to Remember

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students develop study skills related to creating a better memory. This lesson has the intent of giving the teacher and student information about memory and comprehension. It can be used in the lower and upper grades.
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Coming to America

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students present tableaus showing scenes from The Memory Coat,  a book about immigration. For this tableau lesson, students examine the cover of the book and make predictions about what is happening and who the people are. They create...
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Boost Your Brain for Ever

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students read an article about memory and discuss it.
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Babushka Baba Yaga

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read books by the author Patricia Polacco and complete different activities for the 4 books. In this language arts lesson plan, students read the books Babushka Baba Yaga, Boat Ride With Lillian Two Blossom, Pink and Say, and...
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Cool Words to Share

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use teacher-selected vocabulary to present a written story to a first grade student. The book include a glossary of terms and illustrations of the terms. This is a great instructional activity for big/little buddies to do...
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A Picture is Worth a Million Words

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students practice composing digital photographs by documenting activities in their lives.  In this photography lesson, students utilize digital cameras to create beautiful art from things they find around the campus or at their home....
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Owls

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, learn about the letter o, and sing nursery rhymes all to learn about owls. In this owls lesson plan, students also make owls out of their hand prints.
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Preserving the Past with Oral History

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students research history by interviewing people in their community. They create a list of questions and record their responses. They end the project with some type of final product which might include a memory book.
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Wrapping Up the School Year

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students complete a variety of writing and yearbook activities to complete the school year. They write a letter to the student that will sit in their desk the next school year, and a letter to their next year's teacher. As a culminating...
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Memories of School Days

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students interview, record, and retell school stories of a family member. They research, document, and describe how schools have changed over time.
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My Best Handwriting Book 2 Pre-Cursive

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this printing letter F worksheet, students learn to form upper and lower case DeNelian letter Ff. Students trace letters and words before practicing their own letters.
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1st Grade Memories

For Teachers 1st
First graders record their 1st grade memories. In this photo album lesson, 1st graders capture school year activities on digital cameras and create a photo album with captions.
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Record Memories of Earlier Times

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify ways in which the women's rights movement influenced a woman they know, and then document the important events in her life. Each student interviews an oldere woman. They compile their interviews into a class book.
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Order of Events

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Read the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar and put the events of the story in order. Each event is written on a sentence strip and while the teacher reads, listeners can arrange the strips inthe correct order. After reading, reshuffle the...
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Who I Am

For Students 6th - 12th
Getting to know your class—and letting them get to know each other—is easy with an icebreaker worksheet. Topics include favorite food, subject, color, and book, as well as their birthday, role models, and favorite memories.
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What is Your Story?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars listen to Picnic In October and Memory Coat to explore the concept of memoirs. They interview a family member and write a personal memoir that reflects their own family history.
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Making Words

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young writers identify and generate words using the strategies of phonics on the Making Words computer program. Words are typed instead of having to use tiles or paper. Extension activities such as playing the memory game, drawing...
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Descriptive Prompt: Precise Language

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Incorporate sensory details into a piece of descriptive writing. First, elementary and middle schoolers improve a piece of writing by using precise, vivid language, as well as appropriate word choice. They then listen to a variety of...
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Map Maker, Map Maker

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Map maker, map maker, make me a map! Your class can sing this tune as they work to create their own regional maps by taping paper to the wall, projecting an overhead transparency image, and tracing. Where this lesson plan intends for the...

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