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Writing Prompts for Middle School
Scratching your head when it comes to engaging writing prompts? Check out a list of prompts designed for middle school classes, which includes topics for persuasive writing, expository writing, how-to essays, personal narratives, and...
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Using Textual Evidence to Analyze Literary Responses to Historical Events
Scholars analyze Animal Farm to learn how to add textual evidence into essays to support their ideas. They search for a deeper meaning to the story and how it relates to the text Totalitarianism and Revolutions in Russia. To finish,...
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Income Levels & Social Class: Is It All About Cash?
Students graph data and interpret that data after reading information about lifestyles and income levels. They calculate percentages, set up spreadsheets and calculate columnar data.
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Reading Basketball
Young scholars learn vowel patterns, homophones, and other tricky reading skills. They have to dribble their basketball different ways throughout the gym to the correct hoop, shoot, and return to their space. Switch with another student...
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Meeting and Reading Dr. Seuss
Second graders demonstrate competence in the general skills and strategies of the reading process.
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Circle of Gold: Guided Reading
Students participate in 8 guided reading sessions in which they read the novel, Circle of Gold, by Candy Dawson Boyd. They focus on and discuss characterization, synthesis, analysis, and predicting. They complete journal entries and...
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Daily Writing from Self Selected Reading
Second graders practice their reading comprehension by analyzing stories they read in class. In this children's literature lesson, 2nd graders are assigned to read a book for 20 minutes each day in class and also reflect on it in their...
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Reading the Neighborhood
First graders complete activities with the story One Monday Morning in the Macmillan/McGraw Hill Textbook. In this data instructional activity, 1st graders read the story and gather data to create a picture graph. They read the graph and...
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The Atoms Family Album
In the atom learning exercise, students read a story about the "Atoms Family" and are given descriptions of the structures of atoms through the story. Students interpret the descriptions by drawing the described atom structure, they name...
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Reading A Pay Stub
Students complete the included activity sheet related to reading a pay stub and calculating deductions. Once the activity sheet has been checked, students demonstrate their knowledge of the vocabulary associated with the instructional...
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Level One Fraction Questions- Short Word Problems
In this fraction activity students solve 8 fraction problems. They read a short word problem, solve, and choose the correct answer from four multiple choice answers.
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One Room School House Reading Lesson
Students explore schools during the Colonial period. In this American history lesson, students participate in a simulation of school days in Colonial America. Students visit a museum and use the schoolhouse as a setting for their...
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Read More Than Words
Students, in groups, visually read photographs from the Farm Security Administration taken during the Great Depression. They analyze the photos and present their observations to the class.
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Mother Goose on the Loose: Teaching Reading and Writing in a Way That's Exciting
Students become familiar with the conventions of print as they recognize Mother Goose poems. In this Mother Goose lesson, students follow the words from left to right as they read Mother Goose poems. Students recognize rhyming words and...
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Reading Passage and Verb Tense
In this language arts interactive instructional activity, 3rd graders read a passage about seabirds and answer questions. Students answer 25 interactive online questions.
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Deerfield Visit: Reading a House/Place (Ebenezer Hinsdale Williams House)
Eleventh graders study the relationship between economic level and material culture: markers of gentility (architecture, material goods) as demonstrated by a single structure.
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Reading Help Wanted Ads
Students explore employment by analyzing the newspaper. In this wanted ads lesson, students identify the importance of job selection and job growth while reading entries in the wanted ads for employment opportunities. Students answer...
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Comparing and Contrasting Heroes
Here is a language arts lesson plan that can be used with virtually any grade level. The only thing that changes is the reading level of the books. Learners compare and contrast different heroes and the characteristics they hold. They...
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Narratives
Add to the narrative writing experience. Elementary or middle school writers listen to the teacher read a descriptive passage, then reread the same passage silently. They highlight sensory details and figurative language, then orally...
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Group Meeting Log
Need a meeting log worksheet for a reading group in your class? Use a quick and easy format for your groups to monitor their progress. The questions available cover group accountability, topics discussed, and good things or problems that...
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Basic Story Map
Here’s an all-purpose story map template that readers can use to keep track of books read for class, of independent reading, and even for stories planned. Users identify the title, author, major characters, setting, and events from the...
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Read and Reread
Students practice reading with fluency in this lesson. They listen to the teacher reading quickly, smoothly, and fluently. They then read with a partner. They use a stopwatch to time each other's reading, and chart the results of...
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Reading Faster with Wild Thing
Students practice one-minute oral readings to increase their speed and fluency. They review several reading strategies, and then they read orally with a partner. The partner times their reading with a stopwatch and tracks their time on...
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Flying Away with Fluency
Second graders improve their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing good decoding strategies, 2nd graders complete an initial read of a story. Working with a partner, they complete a timed assessment of...
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