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Fcat Express: The Inverted Pyramid
A short explanation of how newspaper writers construct their articles. Review questions at the end are corrected for you, and model answers are shown for the short answer questions.
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University of South Florida: Fcat Express: Practice Test: The Florida Panther
The Florida panther is the subject of the short article, with accompanying questions for assessing reading comprehension.
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Fcat Express: "Zinnia and Her Babies" by M Bianco
A charming story about Zinnia, the cat. Comprehension questions follow, with immediate feedback if done online. Teachers, go to the site map, and under PRINTABLE MATERIALS, you will find the story, the quiz, and the answer sheet.
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Fcat Express: Death Valley
This newspaper article deals with a curious geological phenomenon which occurs in Death Valley. After you read the article, test your understanding by answering the multiple choice questions.
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Fcat Express: Droughts May Have Killed 1st Colonists
For advanced readers, this newspaper article on the "Lost Colony" and Jamestown, is followed by questions with immediate feedback. It can be printed for class use.
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Fcat Express: Scrub Jay Gains Favor
After reading this Tampa Tribune article by Jan Hollingsworth, respond to the multiple choice questions to see if you have understood. Immediate feedback.
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Fcat Express: The Virtues of Venom
Snakes scare people, but some snake poison may help prevent heart attack and some cancers. After reading the newspaper article you can assess your understanding with the self-test. Immediate feedback.
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Fcat Express: Author's Purpose
Learn about author's purpose and then answer some self-assessment questions after the lesson. Continue clicking the next button to get to more information.
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Fcat Express: Cause and Effect Activity
Learn about cause and effect, and then answer some self-assessment questions after the lesson.
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Fcat Express: Cause & Effect Tree
Strategy to help students recognize cause and effect relationships provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade. Includes simple instructions and a visual.
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Fcat Express: Compare & Contrast
Strategies to help students recognize similarities and differences provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade. Includes strategies such as Character Frames, Character Mapping, Semantic Feature Analysis,...
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Fcat Express: Author's Purpose
Some author's purpose teaching ideas from a standardized test preparation site (Fourth Grade Reading Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test). Aligned to Florida standards, four ideas are provided including "Author's Grab Bag," "Author's...
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Propel: Social Studies Education Geography
Geography studies the relationships between people, places, and environments by mapping information about them into a spatial context.
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University of South Florida: College of Education: Geography
Definitions of the terms used in geography. Understand different types of landforms, regions, human-environmental relationships, and places.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Lit2 Go: Aesop's Fables
This collection of "Aesop's Fables" is accompanied by information about reading level and state standards addressed, and the texts of the stories are downloadable MP3s. Many also have downloadable student activities.
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Fcat Express: Chronological Order Worksheet [Pdf]
This Chronological Order graphic organizer allows students to order events from text they are reading.
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Fcat Express: Graphic Organizer [Pdf]
From FCAT Express, this site provides a chart in pdf format of a graphic organizer. Included on the graphic organizer is a space for overall result along with four spaces for causes and their details.
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Fcat Express: Question/answer Worksheet [Pdf]
This is a worksheet in a pdf format on Question/Answer Relationship. The worksheet is divided into four columns under the headings right there, think/search, author/you, and on my own.
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Fcat Express: Semantic Feature Analysis Worksheet [Pdf]
This is a worksheet in a pdf format on Semantic Feature Analysis. The worksheet, or matrix, is divided into boxes in three rows with four columns across.
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No Strings Attached: Shapely People
This lesson on shape has students using the program Kidspiration to create a digital person. The lesson is simple but allows for student imagination. Could be a great introduction to observational drawing.
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No Strings Attached: Geometric Figures
Students will prove their knowledge of geometric shape by capturing photographs of examples within their environment.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Bombardment of Fort Henry
An interesting drawing of the Union ironclads bombarding the Confederate-held Fort Henry. Also included are the official comments of Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote, who accepted the surrender of the fort.
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Lit2 Go: Sidney Lanier
A brief biographical line, and the texts of several of Sidney Lanier's poems, including: "An Evening Song," "From the Flats," "Tampa Robin," and "The Mockingbird." Texts can be viewed online or downloaded as either PDF or MP3 files.
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University of South Florida: Moon Rocks Through the Microscope (Image Gallery)
Examine some of the rock samples gathered by the Apollo lunar missions.