This resource offers possible mentor texts to use with students to inspire writing with explicit purpose in mind.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Author:
- Jeanne Wolz
- Tara Brown
- Date Added:
- 09/28/2021
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This activity “Becoming aware of the Japanese American Internment Camp Experience” is intended to help students become aware of, and sensitive to, the Japanese American interment camp experience. They will develop a sense of empathy by simulating the situations which Japanese American children faced.
- Subject:
- Arts Education
- Social Studies
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson
- Provider:
- Smithsonian Institution
- Provider Set:
- National Museum of American History
- Date Added:
- 09/28/2004
Movement game kits (hot potato, charades, etc.) for many of the Comox Valley Schools (SD71, B.C.) middle-grade Core French units (also searchable on the Resource Bank). All would be adaptable for younger and older students. There are also flash card sets with the units themselves!
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Ces jeux sont destinés aux élèves de Core French, mais seraient également très utiles pour susciter la participation à l'oral dans les cours d'Immersion! Des cartes flash sont aussi disponibles avec chaque unité (recherchables dans la Banque de Ressource).
UNIT THEMES (those with flash cards and games, searchable on the Resource Bank):
-Greetings & letters (saluer & alphabet)
-Numbers & calendar (chiffres & calendrier)
-Who are you? (Qui es-tu?)
-Body parts & monsters (le corps & les monstres)
-Clothing (les vêtements)
-Sports (les sports)
-Hobbies (les passe-temps)
-Animals (les animaux)
-High-frequency words (Les mots de haute fréquence)
-Food (la nourriture) - unit 2/2e unité
- Subject:
- French
- Language Education
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Game
- Author:
- Comox Valley Schools
- Learn71
- Beth Peddle
- Date Added:
- 03/07/2024
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Judy Moody is on a mission to save the rain forest. Not only has she chosen to make this her mission, she is also determined to make it the mission of her unknowing family.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- Basal Alignment Project
- Provider Set:
- Cincinnati District
- Author:
- Megan McDonald
- Date Added:
- 09/01/2013
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This document map is meant for students to use and interact with as they move through their ELA courses. It enables them to keep track of the outcomes as they meet them on their personalized journey through the courses
- Subject:
- Education
- Elementary Education
- English Language Arts
- Material Type:
- Assessment
- Date Added:
- 05/17/2019
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This document map is meant for students to use and interact with as they move through their ELA courses. It enables them to keep track of the outcomes as they meet them on their personalized journey through the courses
- Subject:
- Education
- Elementary Education
- English Language Arts
- Material Type:
- Assessment
- Date Added:
- 05/17/2019
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Re-telling an event
Inside Outside Circle Strategy
News Plan Graphic Organizer
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Teaching/Learning Strategy
- Date Added:
- 03/11/2019
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This is a story about Saruni, a young boy, and his family, who are both consumers and sellers in a market in Tanzania. There are many enticing items at the markert, but Saruni decides to save his money so he can buy a bike to help his mother take heavy loads to sell at the market.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- Basal Alignment Project
- Provider Set:
- Lincoln Parish District
- Author:
- Tololwa N. Mollel
- Date Added:
- 09/01/2013
In this lesson by Creative Educator students explore and analyze familiar heroes and villains, develop their own superhero, and introduce this new hero to the world through an ID card and comic.
For students in grades 3-6.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Assessment
- Homework/Assignment
- Lesson
- Author:
- Creative Educator
- Date Added:
- 04/29/2021
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In this folktale, the town of Barletta faces destruction until Zia Concetta asks the towns giant statue for help. With a clever idea, help from the townspeople and an onion, the giant outwits the army and restores peace
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- Basal Alignment Project
- Provider Set:
- Anchorage District
- Author:
- Tomie DePaola
- Date Added:
- 09/01/2013
This site is for the young writer who is itching to write a novel … in 30 days. Lesson plans from prewriting to publishing help kids to develop and fine-tune their writing skills. This is a great resource for students who are up for using their imagination to create another world or simply tell their story. From lower elementary to high school.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Homework/Assignment
- Author:
- National Novel Writing Month
- NANOWRIMO
- Date Added:
- 03/23/2020
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Students apply the knowledge gained from the previous lessons and activities in this unit to write draft grant proposals to the U.S. National Institutes of Health outlining their ideas for proposed research using nanoparticles to protect against, detect or treat skin cancer. Through this exercise, students demonstrate their understanding of the environmental factors that contribute to skin cancer, the science and mathematics of UV radiation, the anatomy of human skin, current medical technology applications of nanotechnology and the societal importance of funding research in this area, as well as their communication skills in presenting plans for specific nanoscale research they would conduct using nanoparticles.
- Subject:
- Health Science
- Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- TeachEngineering
- Provider Set:
- TeachEngineering
- Author:
- Amber Spolarich
- Michelle Bell
- Date Added:
- 10/14/2015
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Narrative Writing Lessons and Resources includes Sun West lesson plans, resources, and assessments for grades 1-12! Teachers in the 2019-2020 Writing Alignment PLC created these ready to use materials for educators. We hope you find them useful!
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Material Type:
- Assessment
- Lesson
- Teaching/Learning Strategy
- Unit of Study
- Date Added:
- 03/09/2020
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Detective Nate the Great searches San Francisco for a lost joke book. He discovers that the wrong place can be the best place to look for a lost item.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- Basal Alignment Project
- Provider Set:
- Newark District
- Author:
- Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
- Michael Sharmat
- Date Added:
- 09/01/2013
This downloadable resources offers 10 weeks of daily plans you can assign with a click! Each day of mix-and-match activities includes skills practice, informal writing, and essay writing.
Sign up for a free account with NoRedInk to get access!
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Homework/Assignment
- Lesson
- Author:
- NoRedInk
- Date Added:
- 03/01/2021
Keep your writing skills sharp with daily practice. Take the challenge to write for at least 15 minutes every day!
- Subject:
- Creative Writing
- English Language Arts
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Homework/Assignment
- Author:
- noredink
- Date Added:
- 04/07/2020
In this packet, you’ll find unit plans that remotely guide students to craft a formal essay over the course of two weeks. Plans include two weeks of pre-made assignments, with a mix of pre-writing, targeted skill development, and scaffolded essay drafting. Choose from the following genres:
● Persuasive
● Argumentative
● Literary Analysis
● Expository/Informational
● Narrative
● Rhetorical Analysis
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Homework/Assignment
- Author:
- noredink
- Date Added:
- 04/07/2020
No Red Ink is an online site that helps students specifically with grammar. It gives quizzes and exercises tailored to that students’ interests (sports, celebrities, etc) and offers a number of different differentiated platforms and games.
You have to sign up to use this for your students. Some features are locked for paid accounts, but that being said, there are a number of excellent activities for free as well!
Students complete a diagnostic test, do the practice and then write an assessment.
*grammar
*writing prompts
*skill building
*reading response
*bell ringers
*exit tickets
*fluency
*persuasion
*informational texts
*novel activities
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Assessment
- Lesson
- Author:
- noredink
- Date Added:
- 04/09/2019
'Students have an opportunity to learn about Christmas in French. During the learning activities, students will become familiar with Christmas vocabulary, explore what Christmas means to them, discuss ways Santa knows their behaviour during the year, and what they would like for Christmas. They even invent a toy-making machine. For the experiential goal, students will write a letter to Santa and present their letters to the class.
'The teacher’s guide includes learning objectives, a list of resources and step-by-step suggestions on how to teach the unit. In addition, the guide includes answer sheets, suggested vocabulary and motivational games, supplementary activities, flashcards, model letter to parents, evaluation grids and activities, and website addresses.
'The student workbook includes the necessary student activity sheets, vocabulary lists, and teacher, peer and self-evaluation grids. '
*Most instructions are in English, except for a few of the worksheets.*
- Subject:
- French
- Language Education
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Assessment
- Diagram/Illustration
- Game
- Lesson
- Unit of Study
- Author:
- Ministère de l'Éducation de la Saskatchewan
- Roxanne Arams
- Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation
- Stewart Resources Centre
- Date Added:
- 01/16/2024
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This thematic unit from Comox Valley Schools (SD71) in B.C. is aimed at Grade 5 Core French students, but is suitable for younger grades and would be easily adaptable for older ones. It is focused on oral practice and participation and would also be useful in primary French Immersion classes!Content Authors: Comox Valley Schools, Learn71, Beth Peddle
- Subject:
- French
- Language Education
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Diagram/Illustration
- Game
- Lesson
- Primary Source
- Reading
- Unit of Study
- Author:
- Inari Vaissi Nagy
- Date Added:
- 03/05/2024