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Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Minilesson
To, Too, or Two: Developing an Understanding of Homophones
The classroom becomes a stage in this interactive lesson in which students sing, act, and design comic strips to learn the meanings and spellings of common homophones.
Reading Movies and TV: Learning the "Language" of Moving-Image Texts
Grades
5 - 12
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Minilesson
Reading Movies and TV: Learning the "Language" of Moving-Image Texts
Introduce students to the idea that movies and TV have their own language and grammar, which gives them special ways of telling their stories.

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