Students read Raymond Carver's story "A Small, Good Thing," focusing on characterization in order to develop one of the static characters: the hit-and-run driver who causes ScottyŐs death: more fully.
Students will love unwrapping this lesson about before, during, and after reading activities based on Margaree King MitchellŐs book, "GrandaddyŐs Gift".
Students analyze their past readings and use that knowledge to create reading plans for the future.
Student pairs aim to be the first team to call out "bingo" in this lesson in which they use skimming and scanning to locate information about ancient Greece and Rome.
Lights, camera, action, and a bit of mystery! In this lesson, students use mystery props in a skit bag to create and perform in short, impromptu skits.
ŇThatŐs my position and IŐm sticking to it!Ó After reading about the Korean War, students will take a position in response to an open-ended question, support their position, and evaluate that support.
Students collaboratively interact with a variety of texts as they define reading and develop their own ReaderŐs Profiles modeled after online social networking sites.
Using the guiding question, "What is reading?" students interact with a variety of texts as they uncover the skills necessary to interact with texts and develop a definition of reading.
Readings and resources to help adult learners.
Students compare the traits fact and fiction by using a Venn diagram to compare fiction and nonfiction books about Native Americans.
Diane Nash was a college student when she started leading sit-in demonstrations to protest discrimination. In this interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, Nash describes her role in the Civil Rights movement.
' Listen to the audio file... The first reading will be at normal conversational speed; the second reading will be slower so that you may properly [record] the sentence.
'Record your dictation in the text field...
'When you are finished, click the button at the bottom of the page to submit your finished text for automatic evaluation.
'The evaluation will check and correct your text, if needed.'
*The reading speed can be adjusted on all parts of the site where oral readings are available (mostly the Listening and Dictation exercises).*
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« Ecoutez le document audio. L'orateur français effectue une première lecture du texte à une vitesse normale. Il fait ensuite une lecture plus lente, en dictant les mots.
« Ecrivez ce que vous entendez dans le champ de texte...
« Une fois que vous avez terminé, vous pouvez envoyer votre texte...
« Vous obtiendrez immédiatement la correction de votre dictée, vous pourrez ainsi repérer vos erreurs et voir votre note finale. »
*Le débit de lecture peut être réglé pour tous les extraits lus à l'oral (qui se trouvent principalement parmi les exercices d'Écoute et de Dictée).*
Use as a dictonary, to do word of the day with students or a thesaurus. It also has games.
This is an activity about creating impacts on sandy surfaces. Learners will use trays of sand and a variety of solid objects to model the effects of "impactors" on the surface. This is activity 6 of 9 in Mars and Earth: Science Learning Activities for After School.
Learners will use trays of sand and cups of water to recreate surface features seen in images of Mars. This is activity 5 of 9 in Mars and Earth: Science Learning Activities for After School.
This is an activity about modeling the effect of wind on a sandy surface. Learners will use trays of sand and straws to recreate surface features of images of Mars. Participants test their ideas about how some of the features on Mars might have been produced. This is activity 4 of 9 in Mars and Earth: Science Learning Activities for After School.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about determining time changes in 5-minute intervals.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders about solving for beginning time in 5-minute intervals - word problems.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about ending time in 5-minute intervals - word problems.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders an overview of subtraction (numbers to 1,000).