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Edgar Allen Poe
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In this lesson students will develop background knowledge of Edgar Allen Poe.
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Inferencing
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In this online activity students will read a story about a frog named Sniffy and a fish named Fluffy. Used as a whole group activity teacher can prompt students to use appropriate comprehension strategies while they are reading.
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Root Words & English Derivatives
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This activity focuses on student comprehension of Latin root words and English derivatives.
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Making Predictions
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Making good predictions is the first step to becoming a successful reader. Students will look at the pictures of a story to predict what it is really about.
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Rhyme Zone
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Choose words that rhyme.
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Rhyme Zone
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Choose words that rhyme.
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The Nine Planets
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This activity uses an interactive PowerPoint slide show to present information about each of the nine planets.
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Julius Caesar Alpha Box
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This lesson is designed to introduce students to Julius Caesar.
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Plant Parts
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Students will learn about the parts of a plant, including the roots, stem, leaves, flowers, and fruit. They will complete a complex concept map as they read an online text.
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Elements of a Story
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Students will use this activity to analyze the elements of a story.
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Foodwebs
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In this activity, students will read about food chains and food webs. Students will visit websites where they will read about and develop definitions of science vocabulary.
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Sequencing Events
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Students will use this activity to sequence the events of a story.
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Poetry & Word Families
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Poetry is a topic that many teachers are hesitant to teach. When you mix poetry with phonics instruction, both become much easier and more relevant.
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Endangered Animals
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Students will learn what it means for species to be endangered. They will then select and research one endangered animal.
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Minerals & Rocks
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Students will use concept maps to organize information as they explore a website about rocks and minerals.
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Thirteen American Colonies
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This unit of study deals with the Thirteen English Colonies. You will go on a journey to discover what made each colony and each group of colonies unique.
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Branches of Government
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Use Kidspiration and a great government site to teach or review our branches of government.
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Simple Machines
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This simple activity gives students links to several websites with basic information on simple machines.
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Transactive Writing-Feature Article Style
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In this lesson, students will take a written feature article and produce it in a news article format.
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Native Americans
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Students will research Native American Tribes as part of a Social Studies unit.
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Only a Matter of Opinion?
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This lesson introduces students to opinion writing through forms such as editorials, columns and editorial cartoons.
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In The News
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Current events provide interesting and engaging topics for discussion and reading. In this lesson you may opt to use the site, View of the News, in a variety of ways.
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Drippy the Waterdrop
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In this lesson students will be reading a story about Drippy the Raindrop and his adventures through the water cycle.
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Rock Hounds
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These activities will guide students through the rock formation process.
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Online Homophones
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Use an online homophone worksheets and direct students to record their own progress via a word document.
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Frankenstein & Electric Safety
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This lesson is designed to have students focus on using electricity safely. Students will be recording the causes and effects of electrical hazards.
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Basic Comprehension
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Students will answer basic comprehension questions about a story they read (or have read to them).
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Fractions! Fractions!
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This series of webpages walks students through the concepts of adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions.
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Bold Words
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As adults we rarely read informational material word for word when we are looking for specific information. A reader uses scanning skills to get the main idea of sentences and paragraphs.
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Story Teller
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Read or listen to a story and retell the story and provide authentic illustrations as the story is told.
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Syllable Factory
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Students determine the number of syllables in a given word.
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KWL
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A good reader is someone who thinks before, during, and after their reading experience. This lesson is going to provide an opportunity for the reader to interact with an online magazine article about Orcas.
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To, Two, Too Much
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Find synonyms using search engine tool.
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Word Turtle
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Students use a site to create a word search puzzle with spelling words or vocabulary words then solve the puzzle.
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Think Like A Scientist
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Use this short fable-like story to think about the scientific reasoning process.
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Mystery Scrambled Words
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Students unscramble words with the help of using prefix, suffix, other endings, diagraphs, blends and other letter chunks .
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Giggle Poetry
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In this activity, students will use a website to learn about poetry. They will record their poems to post on a class website.
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Magnetic Poetry
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Students interact with this web site to develop syntax and use rhyming skills.
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A Nation Divided
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These activities are presented together to provide students an opportunity through a Jeopardy game to consider questions about the Civil War.
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Greece
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This activity focuses on student literacy skills as they both read and view pictures and drawings. The worksheet guides student through specific websites to locate information about the Parthenon in Greece.
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Developing Vocabulary and Focus
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Develop vocabulary and help focus of writing pieces.
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Car-fari
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This lesson provides students the opportunity to explore the entire car buying process including personal needs assessment, financing, budgeting, and comparison shopping.
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Surviving Solo
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These lesson provide students the opportunity to explore and realistically assess the affordability of moving out on their own and then develop an individualized action plan for achieving this goal.
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Turkey Turkey
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Retell or write a story and provide authentic illustrations as the story is told.
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Voices
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This activity is designed to generate a class discussion to stimulate students' curiosity and interest in further reading they will do about the Harlem Renaissance.
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Credit Cave
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This interactive site guides students through information about the use and abuse of credit, choosing a card wisely, dangers and downfalls of credit, rights, and resources.
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Wild Weather
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Use information from various sites to fill out a crossword puzzle.
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