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Teach Text Features & Read Nonfiction
Elementary schoolers examine the components of reading nonfiction. They use think-alouds to help them complete reading the selected sections. They also identify text features as they read.
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Close Reading: Excerpt 2 of “The Digital Revolution and the Adolescent Brain Evolution”
Help scholars comprehend a challenging text. Using the resource, pupils read excerpts from an article about the digital revolution and adolescent brain development. As they read, they answer text-dependent questions and complete a close...
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Digging Up Dinosaurs
In this dinosaurs activity, students read a nonfiction book about dinosaurs and then answer 6 comprehension questions and present an oral presentation.
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Digging Up Dinosaurs
In this report writing activity, students prepare to write a dinosaur report by selecting and reading a nonfiction book. Students choose one dinosaur and write a report following the specific guidelines on this page.
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Nocturnal vs. Diurnal Animals
First graders identify nocturnal and diurnal animals. In this animal instructional activity, 1st graders discuss the differences between animals that are active during the day and those that are active at night. Students write summaries...
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Shopping Smarter
Students read a book about money and smart shopping to learn about debt, advertising, and the use of credit cards. In this consumer math lesson, students read the book The Kids' Money Book and discuss economic concepts. Students complete...
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I Hate My Sibling?
Third graders read the book Jacob Have I Loved, then ask themselves whether they can truly hate their siblings.
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Night by Elie Weisel
Students read "No News from Auschwitz" and answer the study questions as an introduction to the novel. They record reactions to the essay and compare with reactions after reading "Night".
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Adventures in Alice
Young scholars create a haiku and illustrate it on the computer. In this haiku lesson plan, students review the history of the haiku while they are outside and then write their own. Young scholars then use a computer program to...
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Mobile of Information
Students create a mobile of various geometric designs to be usend to display information from a variety of texts. They add graphics as well as graphs and charts, color, design and artwork to express the ideas learned through the...
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Kinder-Pictionary
Students create their own dictionary. In this spelling activity, students make a dictionary with just words and pictures. They use these dictionaries when they are writing to remember how to spell words.