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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Concepts and Characteristics

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides graphic organizers. Students will be able to take notes via different concept maps.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Things That We Read

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ways to motivate middle school students to read. A link is provided that contains 25 graphic organizers related to reading and note-taking.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Guided Reading/listening Ques: Nonfiction[pdf]

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
This graphic organizer will assist students with taking notes connected nonfiction content. After taking notes with the graphic organizer, students will ask guiding questions listed on the sheet.
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Other

Lexiconic Resources: 5 W's and How Chart

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This downloadable graphic organizer will assist students in taking notes about a news story. Students will use this resource to identify answers to the following five W's and H questions: What happened? Who was there? When did it happen?...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Structured Notetaking

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Structured Notetaking is a strategy that helps students become more effective note takers. Using graphic organizers specific to a particular text, structured notes assist students in understanding the content of their reading.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Elephant or Donkey?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will visit the websites for the National Republican and National Democratic Party. Students will choose topics of interest to them and compare the positions of both parties on the topic. Students will complete a graphic...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Summarizing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Summarizing teaches students how to take a large selection of text and reduce it to the main points for a more concise understanding. Upon reading a passage, summarizing helps students learn to determine essential ideas and consolidate...