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This unit plan from the Academy of American Poets encourages students to explore poems by historical and contemporary poets. |
The world abounds with stories that tell us who we are. Scholastic's "Myths, Folktales, and Fairy Tales" project provides students with the opportunity to study and create original work in each of these important literary genres |
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Dramatic play, group time, and literacy development activities that focus on the theme of transportation. |
Lesson plans, assessments, extension activities, and other resources for using the "World War II Remembered" student activity in the classroom |
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Grades:
9–12
Features a variety of resources to encourage reluctant students to get in the habit of lifelong reading. |
Follow a step-by-step lesson to help even shy students find their voice and make a story their own. |
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Take an imaginary class trip with these purposeful activities on Japanese language, culture, and life |
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A thematic, interdisciplinary curricular unit that presents pumpkin-themed lesson plans in language arts, mathematics, and science. |
Veteran teachers share their best teaching ideas and thematic lessons for all grade levels and a variety of subjects. |
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Grades:
6–8
Students gain insight about the Holocaust with the use of a KWL chart and literature circles. |
Grades:
3–5
In this unit, students act as reading detectives to discover the elements of a mystery. |
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In this unit, students are paired with similar readers in their class to engage in meaningful reading partnerships. |
Grades:
3–5
Students use a mystery planning sheet to map-out and eventually compose an original mystery that contains all of the ingredients of a mystery. |
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Grades:
3–5
Student act as reading detectives and complete assignments in their Detective Case Files that will help them solve the mystery in their book. |
These seven lessons and seven reproducibles provide teaching strategies to help students make all three levels of connections -- to their life experiences, to other texts, and to events and issues in the world around them. |
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Grades:
6–8
Presents organized steps to providing thorough, hands-on lessons in literary analysis, including research, discussion, graphing, and writing. |
Grades:
3–5
This reader's guide, which focuses on the book A Dog's Life by Ann M. Martin, challenges students to create stories from a first- or third-person point of view, make plot decisions, and examine the author’s writing process. |
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Grades:
3–5
The interactive elements of this Flashlight Readers session and the lessons in this teacher's guide reinforce and build readers'vocabulary and comprehension skills. |
Grades:
PreK–K
An activity that introduces students to the food pyramid, food groups, and the relationship between nutrition and a healthy body |
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Grades:
1–2
Travel Pals: A Journey of Learning is a 9-month long project, which teaches students about U.S. geography and historical landmarks. Students make real-world connections to places and people around the U.S. by tracking the adventures of a class stuffed animal, or Travel Pal. The Internet, educational programming and digital cameras are used throughout this entire project. |
In these engaging lessons, students develop ideas to improve their local community; take positions to actively influence community decision making and development; and consider one or more of these issues from local, national and international perspectives. |
