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Lord of the Flies Unit, Lesson 8: In The End

For Teachers 9th Standards
To end the unit, groups use the Honeycomb Harvest strategy to show connections among a character, symbols, and themes in the novel and then create an Anchor Chart for the character that includes a symbol that best represents him. They...
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"The Story of an Hour" Lesson 4: Teacher's Guide and Notes

For Teachers 8th Standards
Learning how to summarize can be a challenge. Guide your writers through the process of summarizing a story using the children's tale; I Want My Hat Back for practice. Class members then use this "Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then"...
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Say It with Style: Syntax and Parallel Structure

For Teachers 9th Standards
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech provides the text for a lesson plan that introduces scholars to the significance of syntax. After examining several types of clauses, phrases, and structures, class members use the...
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Presenting with Confidence: Speech and Debate

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Stage fright? Class members learn strategies to overcome stage fright and develop confidence when giving speeches and engaging in debates.
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Compare and Contrast: School Photographs

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Separate and very unequal! An interactive presents learners with two images: a photograph of a boys' bathroom at a school in Gloucester County, Virginia, and a second of a girls' bathroom at a different school in the same county. The...
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Gaining Understanding and Information from Introductory Material, Headings, and Other Division Markers in Texts (English III Reading)

For Students 11th Standards
All teachers are teachers of reading! The 13-part interactive series ends with a lesson that teaches learners (and their instructors) how to approach reading their textbooks. After learning about several strategies, users test their...
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Active Reading

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this active reading worksheet, students develop strategies to make text relevant to their own lives and experiences. Students make a list of active reading objectives and then list strategies to use to reach the objectives.
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Question - Answer

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students use the comprehension strategy question-answer to improve reading comprehension. They read a passage out of their textbook, and the teacher models the question/answer strategy by asking about key points mentioned in the reading.
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Read and Remember - Story Grammar

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners use the Story Grammar strategy to outline the main elements of the story which will help them with free recall and cued recall. The strategy includes: identifying the main characters in the story, recalling where and when the...
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Reader's Workshop: Julius

For Teachers 1st
First graders use prior knowledge and reading strategies for the story (Julius).  For this reader's workshop lesson, 1st graders use elbow buddies to discuss parts of the story during guided reading.  Students review reading strategies.
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The Estimation Station

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars challenge "common knowledge" against newly learned estimation strategies and put those strategies into use. They consider variables in estimating different groups of objects and practice skills of representing numbers.
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Addition

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this addition worksheet, students enhance their simple addition skills using addition strategies to solve the two worksheets of addition problems.
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Number Lines

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine the number line as an addition strategy. In this math instructional activity, 1st graders create a number line and use it to help them solve addition problems.
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Prereading

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in think-pair-share reading strategy in this lesson. They identify their purpose for reading as well as purposes for reading fiction/nonfiction. They list and discuss several prereading activities, and then...
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Reciprocal Teaching: Eddie Miranda Looks at New York

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use the strategies in Reciprocal Teaching: predicting, clarifying, questioning, summarizing, and visualizing. They utilize these reading strategies when reading "Eddie Miranda Looks at New York."
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Night of the Twister

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use reading strategies for Night of the Twister. In this reading strategies lesson, students name five major catastrophes and books about each. Students complete a vocabulary section, make inferences and predictions, read the...
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Reading and Responding -- Lesson 13

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders work independently or in a small group to (1) read a fictional passage, (2) use context to define unfamiliar vocabulary, (3) use comprehension strategies, and (4) make inferences. Reading passage and teacher script is...
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Reptile and Amphibian Defense Strategies

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students study the stages of the Eastern newt either by collecting a live specimen or from pictures. They note the colors of the eft stage before reading the "Eastern Newt Species Account" that shows the newt's life stages, migration,...
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Reciprocal Teaching: The Migrants

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use techniques involved in Reciprocal Teaching: predicting, clarifying, questioning, summarizing, and visualizing. They use these reading strategies while reading "The Migrants."
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Reading for Information

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore different strategies for reading with a purpose utilizing information before, during and after reading selections. They find out about a topic of interest and then find a text that contains that interest and analyze that...
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Persuade Me

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students develop their writing skills. In this writing strategies lesson, students examine persuasive writing techniques on order to write persuasive mailers.
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Service Learning--A School Violence Prevention Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze school violence issues. In this service learning lesson, students listen to their instructor present a lecture regarding school violence issues. Students examine service projects to prevent school violence.
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Among the Hidden Reflection Sheet

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders read the book Among the Hidden and practice their reading strategies. In this reading strategies lesson plan, 5th graders demonstrate their comprehension by presenting book projects to the class.
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Kumara From the Farmer's Field

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss the essay, Kumara From the Farmer's Field and examine strategies for organizing facts for future reference. In this reading comprehension lesson, students pretend they are advertising executives who must create a grocery...

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