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Text Project

Text Project: Fyi for Kids: Vol. 4, Issue 9: Pianos:the Loud and the Soft [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 3rd
Read this magazine article to learn about the piano including what the word means and how it works.
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Article
Text Project

Text Project: Fyi for Kids: Vol. 5, Issue 7: The Art of Recycling [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 3rd
Read this magazine article to learn how recycled materials can be turned into works of art and the statement the artist is making.
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Article
Text Project

Text Project: Fyi for Kids: Changing Lives, One Cow at a Time [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 3rd
Read this article to learn about Heifer International and other organizations who donate farm animals like cows, buffalo, goats, and sheep to poor people to improve their lives. It talks about 2nd graders raising money to help fund these...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Creating Magazine Covers to Summarize Texts

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson, students will examine the ways in which a magazine cover's headlines and graphics express the main ideas of its articles. They will then use an interactive tool to create covers that summarize chapters of informational...
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Handout
Black Past

Black Past: Ebony Magazine

For Students 9th - 10th
In this encyclopedia article, you will read about Ebony Magazine, a publication dedicated to reporting on black culture and achievements of African Americans.
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Website
Other

St Online / Japan Times Ell Newspaper

For Students 9th - 10th
The companion site for Weekly ST, which the Japan Times publishes to help young audiences learn English. You can read articles, some in English, some in Japanese, and listen to the audio version. The English article comes with online...
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Article
Other

Science Magazine: Reading the Signs of Ancient Animal Domestication

For Students 9th - 10th
An article which discusses the size of the first animals domesticated by humans about 10,000 years ago. The author reviewed a study in which it was suggested that size reduction evidence may not be the first sign of domestication....
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Article
Other

Ties Magazine: Model Bridges

For Teachers 9th - 10th
One high school's curriculum tackles the challenge of bridge construction. In this article, you will read one student's thought and design processes as well as some of the leading questions he was asked to consider.
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Website
Scholastic

Scholastic: Questioning the Text

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this magazine article originally featured in Instructor, the reading strategy called "questioning the text" is explained by the renowned literacy consultant and staff developer, Stephanie Harvey. The steps included for questioning the...
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Article
Text Project

Text Project: Fyi for Kids: Vol. 4, Issue 5: Sammy Lee: Olympic Diver [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 4th
This article focuses on Sammy Lee, the first Korean American to win a gold metal.
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Activity
First World War

Satrical Magazines of the First World War

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the "Humor," magazines of the Great War and their role in the conflict. The site includes illustrations from the publications and views of various scholars about them. A bibliography follows the article. Site by First World...
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Handout
Other

American Heritage Magazine: Investigation 1862

For Students 9th - 10th
From a 1954 article in American Heritage Magazine, this interesting account shows how the outcome the Battle of Ball's Bluff had important political implications. Read about how the powerful Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War...
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Article
Archaeological Institute of America

Archaeology Magazine Archive: Who Were the Hopewell?

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this informative article from the Archaelogy Magazine discussing the Hopewell culture, its agriculture and village life, and primarilty the ceremonial earthworks for which the culture is so famous.
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Article
Text Project

Text Project: Fyi for Kids: Vol. 4, Issue 2: Young Inventors: Louis Braille [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 3rd
This magazine article explains how Louis Braille developed a system of reading for the blind which was called Braille in his honor.
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Other

Assistive Media

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource for students and adults with disabilities which make it difficult to read print texts in the conventional manner. Presents hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, clippings, and current and past events in audio...
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Website
Other

Advanced Studio Classroom

For Students 9th - 10th
English language learning site for Chinese speakers -- online companion site to a magazine by the same name. Provides summaries and downloadable copies of some of the articles that appear in the printed magazine, along with access to...
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Website
Other

Chiquinoticias: La Revista Para Los Ninos Y Los Padres

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Online children's magazine with short, illustrated articles on a range of topics -- health, nature, cooking, and more. Changes monthly. In Spanish.
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Website
Other

Arts Journal: Visual Arts Page

For Students 9th - 10th
The ArtsJournal website provides a daily summary of arts and cultural journalism from the English-language press around the world, with links to complete articles for further reading. The visual arts page collects links on a wide range...
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Bab: A Sub Deb by Mary Roberts Rinehart

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of "Bab: A Sub-Deb" by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Follow the hi-jinks of 17-year-old Babs as she chronicles her life in series of diary entries and "magazine articles".
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Handout
Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: H. P. Newquist

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this biography to learn about award-winning author and H. P. Newquist who has written nonfiction books, magazine articles and even film documentaries. Links to his website and a list of his books are provided.
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Activity
Davidson College

Prima: Supreme Court's Response to Nativism in the 1920s

For Students 9th - 10th
This article from a scholarly magazine from Davidson College outlines the legislation proposed and often passed that reflected nativist tenets, especially in state legislatures. Read how decisions of the Supreme Court found most of this...
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Article
New Deal Network

New Deal Network: The Nation: It's War in Youngstown

For Students 9th - 10th
A contemporary article from the magazine, The Nation, which describes the steel strike in Youngstown, Ohio, in June 1937. Read about the background of the strike, and follow the author's ordeal as she was arrested, despite her press...
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Primary
Other

Joseph Smith's History Vault: Mormons in Illinois

For Students 9th - 10th
From the 1850 and 1852 series of articles in the magazine, "American Whig Review," you can read about Mormonism and the Mormons in Illinois.