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Utah Education Network

Uen: Third Grade Writing Lesson #1/ Descriptive Prompt

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Given a descriptive writing prompt, 3rd graders will include precise word choices and sensory language in a piece of writing about their favorite place.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Visual Pathways in the Brain, and What Happens When They Break

For Students 9th - 10th
"Sensory processing and vision" questions are provided on this resource. This study resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for the MCAT.
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Article
Harold D. Underdown

Derailed by Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A helpful site for writers which gives the proper perspective in assessing the detail involved in your writing. Provides examples of how to include exciting, relevant details when writing fiction.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literary Text: Imagery, Metaphor, and Simile

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Writers use sensory imagery ("smelled the salty air"), similes ("like a strong man playing tug-of-war"), and metaphors ("the waves roaring in my ears") to capture the reader's imagination. In this lesson, you will learn how to identify...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Wordly Wise

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will learn how to use better word choices by completing a cloze activity, listening to A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle, and completing a word web.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Spring

For Teachers 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Four three-lined poems describing the spring season. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Peanut/peanut Butter

For Teachers 5th - 6th
During this instructional activity students navigate the Internet to learn about the accomplishments of George Washington Carver. Students explore the history of peanuts and sample different types of peanuts. They use their five senses...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: Modernism: William Carlos Williams

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on William Carlos Williams and his poems using images of everyday life including "The Red Wheelbarrow" and "This is Just to Say."
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Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: A Writers' Notebook

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
Virtually participate in a workshop of four high school teachers led by a renowned author. There are eight topics including "Hiding and Revealing with Language," "Using Sensory Description," and "Writing a Picture of Me".
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Brain: Teaching Modules

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of 32 video learning modules on everything to do with the brain.
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Activity
University of Washington

Neuroscience for Kids: Worksheets

For Students 9th - 10th
This university site contains lessons, games and worksheets that are ready to print out.
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Handout
Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Imagery

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry that defines the term "Imagery."
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SEDL

Sedl: Five Senses

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Elementary students will gain great insight into the workings of our five senses through this collection of detailed, integrated lesson plans for grades K-3. Each lesson contains a list of needed materials, hands-on explorations...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Descriptive Papers

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces descriptive papers.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Descriptive Papers: Key Elements: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over words, phrases, and key elements that are included in descriptive papers. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Descriptive Papers: Key Elements."

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