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Learning Objectives

  • collaboration (2)
  • Comprehension (3)
  • critical thinking (4)
  • digital literacy (3)
  • Grammar (1)
  • inquiry / research (7)
  • listening (3)
  • literary analysis (1)
  • Media literacy (3)
  • metacognition (2)
  • multicultural awareness (1)
  • multimodal literacy (1)
  • oral communication (4)
  • phonological awareness (2)
  • print awareness (1)
  • reading genres (2)
  • Spelling (2)
  • text structure / story structure (1)
  • Vocabulary (4)
  • writing genres (7)
  • writing process (4)

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  • nonfiction
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Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
My Life/Your Life: A Look at Your Parents' Past
Past and present come together when students interview their parents and create a skit that compares their parents' experiences as middle schoolers with the students' own lives.
Grades
3 - 5
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Go Wild with Webcams!

Can't make it to a zoo? After reading a book about apes, observe animal habits and habitats using one of the many Webcams broadcasting from zoos and aquariums around the United States and the world.

Crossword Puzzles
Grades
K - 12
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
Crossword Puzzles
This tool allows students to complete crossword puzzles on a variety of grade-appropriate topics, and also create and print their own crossword puzzles.
Grades
K - 2
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Let's Go on a Reading Hunt!

In this activity, children go on a hunt for places where they can read and enjoy books: on a family road trip, at the pool, at the doctor's office.

Grades
9 - 12
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Comic Book Show and Tell

This activity will help pairs or groups of teens explore a hands-on approach that lets them become both comic book writers and comic book artists.

ABC Match
Grades
K - 2
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Student Interactive
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Learning About Language
ABC Match

ABC Match is a game that has students practice letter-recognition fluency while honing their memories. Students match initial letters with pictures, playing either with a timer or without.

Grades
3 - 5
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Star Light, Star Bright: Reading and Writing about the Nighttime Sky

Children watch the nighttime sky come alive as the read a book about fascinating elements in the night and write a poem/story about the things they learn!

Grades
3 - 5
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Exploring the Library

Plan a visit to a library to discover more about this magical place.

Alphabet Organizer
Grades
K - 12
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
Alphabet Organizer
Students use this online tool to create an alphabet chart or pages for an alphabet book.
Grades
K - 2
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Watching a Garden Grow

When you plant a garden, involve children in the process by writing down questions and observations on the garden's growth in a garden journal.

Grades
3 - 5
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Create Trading Cards for Favorite Characters

Use the online Trading Card Creator tool to have children make cards describing their favorite characters from the books on their reading list.

Grades
5 - 10
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Make a Magnetic Poetry Set

Let children practice using different types of words in a fill-in-the-blank-story game before making their own word list for a magnetic poetry set.

Grades
9 - 12
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Soundtrack for My Life

In this project, teens create autobiographies, adding music selections to their life stories.

Grades
K - 2
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Take a Closer Look: Write Around the Room

With a piece of paper and a pen, kids can learn anywhere! This activity gets kids writing, looking closely at letters, and learning some new words in any room of the house.

Grades
7 - 12
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MyTube: Make a Video Public Service Announcement

Invite teens to explore issues that are important to them, and then write a script and film a video public service announcement.

Grades
3 - 8
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Amazing Biographies: Writing About People Who Change the World

After reading about historical figures and other important people that have changed the world, children choose someone that they consider to be "amazing"—either someone they've heard about or someone they know—and create a book page that highlights this person.

Grades
9 - 12
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Telling Good from Bad in Movies and Television

In this activity, you can discuss with teens how they can tell the "good" characters from the "bad" ones by watching for clues that the movie makers have left.

Exploring Careers Using the Internet
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Exploring Careers Using the Internet
Doctors, astrophysicists, and daycare providers are only some of the careers that will be explored in this lesson in which students research careers and publish occupational summaries about them.

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