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Curated OER

Quick Writes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers write on a variety of topics, maximize creative and expository writing skills, develop focused writing, organize ideas, incorporate detail in writing, and exhibit varied and precise word choice.
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Curated OER

Making a Family Newsletter: Using a Word Template

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students create a one-page family newsletter about a selected person in their family. They bring in a photo or use a digital camera to take a picture of their selected family member, and use a newsletter template to write and publish...
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Curated OER

Publishing: A Persuasive Essay

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders are given an opportunity to create a visual to accompany their presentations of their persuasive essays. They may use the computer or other media as resources.
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Curated OER

Nudging Questions

For Teachers 3rd - 11th
Students choose one topic to write about. They brainstorm ideas about their topic or incident. They use sensory details to visualize their topic. They answer a variety of teacher directored nudging question to help them describe their...
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Curated OER

Thoreau and those he influenced

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders work in groups and research assigned person using the internet and use print resources for DHS media center. They create a poster that shows possible connections to H.D. Thoreau's writings and philosophies, a short...
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Curated OER

the Impact of the U.s. Supreme Court on High School Journalism.

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars study of the First Amendment, Tinker, Hazelwood and the Colorado Student Free Expression Law. They discuss the ramifications on the student press and recite their memorized First Amendment rights. They discover what...
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Curated OER

The Time I Got Lost

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders go through the writing process but substitute paper and pencil with the computer to create a story about "The Time I Got Lost".
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Curated OER

Things About Me

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students watch as the teacher explains how to use a storyboard to plan a PowerPoint presentation. They examine how to use clip art, background colors, and at least one transition before creating a PowerPoint presentation according to the...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Colorful Desert

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson plan, The Colorful Desert, written by Audrey Wood, is used as a mentor text for sentence fluency. The content focus of the lesson is about how sentences build through a "building on" book. Students will use sentence frames...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Oh, Messy Cheetos!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this instructional activity, sentence fluency is the focus. The mentor text entitled Mrs. Wishy Washy is used to help students explore how using repetition techniques can enhance the meaning of a story. After reading the text,...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: We Saw Him at the Zoo

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, the mentor text utilized is Deborah Guarino's book, Is Your Mama a Llama?, with the focus of sentence fluency. Each student will think of an animal that that has the same initial sound as his/her name. Using the...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Reading Connected Text Activities

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Great lesson plans and stories to build reading fluency and accuracy. Choose from beginner readers to 80 word passages.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Sentence Varying=smooth Reading

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A sixteen-part learning module with links to images, videos, websites, and texts about varying sentences to improve fluency.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Phrases: Fluent Phrasing [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
A lesson plan in which students work together to read segmented sentences out loud. Printable materials are provided.
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Y, Ie, Ind, Ild Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading video module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "y", "ie", "ind", and "ild" to form words with the long /i/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Who/what/where/when Game: Wild Weather Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
For this lesson, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this lesson. Brave Irene, written by William Steig, is used as the mentor text of this lesson. Students will develop sentences with...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: I Caught It!

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students read the book I Was Walking Down The Road by Sarah E. Barchas and Jack Kent and study the predictable rhythm and rhyme pattern. Then, students write their own sentences to mimic those patterns.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Different Ways of Looking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students will use the sentence structure from Wallace Stevens' "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Animals Not to [Verb] With

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will create 4 original poems within a particular rhythm and rhyme scheme.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Painting Places With Words

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students learn how to paint a setting with their descriptive choice of words.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Poems of Condition

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this lesson the learners will use the conditional "if" in order to guide their reader to become someone or something.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: How Do I Love Sonnets

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this instructional activity students will learn the meter and rhyme of a sonnet and they will write one of their own using specific word choice.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Five Transition Adventure Planner

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will use transition words and phrases to shift from one idea to another within a story.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Little Toy Friend Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will create a poem from the viewpoint of a lost toy.