Looking for public speaking tips? Learn five ways to help ensure your next speech is a success.

The five tips are:
1. Know your subject and your speech;
2. Know your audience and your space;
3. Never apologize;
4. Imagine yourself giving a great speech; and
5. Focus on your message, not on yourself.

• Covers everything from letters and sounds to reading full sentences.
• Designed in collaboration with leading academics.
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Ditch That Textbook has tons of great ideas to support teachers in their busy classrooms. One of the many resources offered are FREE templates that will save time and engage students in their learning.To access these free templates (Google Slides and PowerPoint) head on over to  https://ditchthattextbook.com/resources/templates or check out the individual sections included in this lesson. 

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Worksheets and exercises on topics such as parts of speech, common errors, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling and capitalization.

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This graphic organizer helps writers to write a descriptive paragraph by focusing on sights, smells, tastes, sounds, and touch.

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Two-Circle Venn
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Half-Pint Kids is a set of materials written by a teacher for teachers. Besides colorfully illustrated decodable stories, you will find links to Teaching Guides, Activity Pages and Literacy Centers.

Table of Contents:
- Level A: Sights & Sounds (Sets 1-6) introduces all the consonant sounds, short vowel sounds and 33 sight words
- Level B: Blends & Ends (Sets 7-12) introduces 16 blends and digraphs, 24 sight words and 4 word endings
- Level C: Moving-A-long (Sets 13-18) introduces the long vowel sounds, 9 blends, 46 sight words, 4 word endings and more.

HippoCampus has free resources for learning English and composition with instructional videos, it’s good for independent learners.

Free help with your algebra, biology, environmental science, American government, US history, physics and religion homework.

Playlists are available for English reading, grammar, writing.

Learn everything from fact vs opinion, interpreting bias to writing and reading effectively at higher levels.

This graphic organizer outlines the difference between a summary and a paraphrase. It also outlines the steps in writing a summary. A short selection is included for practice. This is a good resource for any subject area.

Graphic organizers and worksheets that help K-12 students with their inferencing skills. Inferencing is an important for understanding text as often times authors imply themes and ideas.

Pobble365 helps to keep students writing. Every day, Pobble365 provides a weird, wonderful, and/or thought provoking image to spark ideas for discussions and writing. It is free and along with a different idea-inspiring image every day, Pobble365 provides a story starter, discussion questions, as well as sentence challenges and “sick sentences” to build language skills. If students don’t have online access, images and writing supports can be printed and photocopied.

The activities include a prompt, sentences stems, vocabulary bank, questions, and challenges to help you scaffold your lesson.

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Get your students writing every single day!

Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for elementary students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Try the online interactive activities, or click to find out how to get our engaging 15-minute video programs.

"Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for elementary students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing."