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A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words - IRA/NCTE

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6 to 8
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Improve writing skills while tapping into art and critical thinking skills. This lesson plan takes students to virtual art galleries, guides them through a brainstorming exercise, then...more
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Improve writing skills while tapping into art and critical thinking skills. This lesson plan takes students to virtual art galleries, guides them through a brainstorming exercise, then challenges them to analyze character, setting, situation, and vocabulary, before creating an original story. A nice activity for exploring connections between images and words, and learning characteristics of narrative writing.

tag(s): narrative (16), vocabulary (251), writing (308)

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The Making of Monsters - Kennedy Center

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9 to 12
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Using art, music, and literary classics, students explore the idea of "monsters" in society, analyze how they are portrayed, the purpose they serve, and why they are necessary. After...more
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Using art, music, and literary classics, students explore the idea of "monsters" in society, analyze how they are portrayed, the purpose they serve, and why they are necessary. After an introductory brainstorming activity, students read Beowulf and Grendel, watch and listen to snatches of monster-inspired music (Night on Bald Mountain, Jaws, and others), then apply research skills to design and present their own conceptual monster. Includes an assessment rubric, links to multimedia resources, and extension activities.

tag(s): characterization (17), literature (214), stories and storytelling (76)

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Enhance student learning by having them use Genially, or Canva Comic Strips Template, to create and present their conceptual monster to classmates.
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Absolute Shakespeare

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9 to 12
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This online reference contains nearly everything a student of Shakespeare needs, including a complete library of works, summaries of the plays, a collection of quotes organized by work,...more
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This online reference contains nearly everything a student of Shakespeare needs, including a complete library of works, summaries of the plays, a collection of quotes organized by work, and a useful glossary of words used by the Bard. Also includes information about the controversial authorship debate, a Shakespearean timeline, and biographical information.

tag(s): elizabethan (12), plays (31), shakespeare (98)

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Students seem to be prepared to think reading Shakespeare is hard. Engage them by starting with the summary of the play you plan to read. Next employ Read Ahead, reviewed here, to develop a guided reading activity, Next, enhance student reading by allowing students to highlight parts of the text with the part of the summary as an interpretation. Finally, extend student learning by having student groups create a reader's theater play for Shakespeare you used. Need some help with reader's theater? Take a look at Literacy Connections, reviewed here, many guides for teachers and students about incorporating, writing, and performing a reader's theater play. Find information about reader's theater by scrolling down the main page and finding a menu list on the right.

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National Poetry Month - Pearson Education

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8 to 12
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This site commemorates the month-long observance with a collection of poetic resources including biographies of the world's most beloved poets, samplings of their work, a glossary of...more
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This site commemorates the month-long observance with a collection of poetic resources including biographies of the world's most beloved poets, samplings of their work, a glossary of poetic terms, and several interactive quizzes and puzzles.

tag(s): poetry (195)

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Word in a Word - Interactive Wordplays

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6 to 12
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Test the skills of your most talented wordsmiths with this interactive game. Players are presented with a word, and then have three minutes to form as many 5-letter words as ...more
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Test the skills of your most talented wordsmiths with this interactive game. Players are presented with a word, and then have three minutes to form as many 5-letter words as possible from the letters contained in that word. It's tougher than it sounds and is a great mind-stretcher for those extra minutes at the beginning and end of class.

tag(s): vocabulary (251)

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Word Morph - WordPlays.com

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6 to 12
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This challenging, interactive word game is more than a "just-for-fun" activity. Students must use strategy and vocabulary skills to make changes to a starting word - one letter at a...more
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This challenging, interactive word game is more than a "just-for-fun" activity. Students must use strategy and vocabulary skills to make changes to a starting word - one letter at a time - and form a new word. Each word morph can be solved in 10 moves or less, but must be completed within 5 minutes. A purposeful and competitive "filler" to add to a language arts class.

tag(s): thesaurus (21), vocabulary (251), word choice (12)

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Use this site as a learning station for students who may finish work early, and need something productive to do to avoid bothering other students. To make it competitive, keep a record board near the computer where students can log their high scores. Competing against each other may make students more interested to play for a new minutes at a time, and less likely to disturb others in testing situations.

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Celebrating Hans Christian Andersen - Jean Hersholt

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2 to 8
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April, 2005, marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen, one of the most prolific weavers of folk tales, fables, and make-believe. In his honor, we note ...more
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April, 2005, marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen, one of the most prolific weavers of folk tales, fables, and make-believe. In his honor, we note this site containing the author's complete works in English. It's a resource timely now, and useful as a source for any unit on folk tales, or any teacher in the habit of reading to young children. Enjoy!

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Use this site as a resource to find any and all Hans Christian Anderson stories. During a unit on short stories or folk tales, use these stories as examples. Search the site for a story that will interest students and read it aloud as an example of a folk tale.

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Be the Editor! - Education World

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3 to 6
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Improve student editing skills with this simple lesson plan that challenges them to find the capitalization, punctuation, spelling, or grammar errors in a series of 10 sentences. Print...more
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Improve student editing skills with this simple lesson plan that challenges them to find the capitalization, punctuation, spelling, or grammar errors in a series of 10 sentences. Print out the student worksheet for independent work, or display on an interactive SmartBoard and make it a full-class activity.

tag(s): capitalization (9), grammar (139), punctuation (24), spelling (93)

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Parts of Speech - University of Ottawa

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6 to 9
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Start your next grammar lesson with this interactive, multiple-choice review. Students must correctly identify the part of speech of each highlighted word. A helpful glossary of grammatical...more
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Start your next grammar lesson with this interactive, multiple-choice review. Students must correctly identify the part of speech of each highlighted word. A helpful glossary of grammatical terms is included.

tag(s): grammar (139), grammar review (33)

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Life in Elizabethan England

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9 to 12
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This searchable living history of Elizabethan England provides fascinating information about 16th century games, food, money, religion, fashion, and education. These individual glimpses...more
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This searchable living history of Elizabethan England provides fascinating information about 16th century games, food, money, religion, fashion, and education. These individual glimpses combine to create a meaningful, non-political tapestry of life as lived 500 years ago. Add to a unit on Shakespeare or European history.

tag(s): elizabethan (12), england (49), shakespeare (98)

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Use this site on a projector or interactive whiteboard to discuss and informally assess prior knowledge as you start your study of Elizabethan England. The site provides an array of knowledge about the life of the average citizen in that world, which could be used perfectly to recreate that life in your classroom! Divide students into cooperative learning groups to explore the site. Have them design a themed party that will sport games, food and fashion from Elizabethan times - all of the information can be found on the site!

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Magnetic Poetry - Snaith Primary School

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2 to 4
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This very age-appropriate collection of magnetic poetry exercises challenges students to reconstruct a scrambled poem of choice by clicking and dragging words. After reassembling the...more
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This very age-appropriate collection of magnetic poetry exercises challenges students to reconstruct a scrambled poem of choice by clicking and dragging words. After reassembling the poem, students can practice keyboarding skills by retyping it into the printable workspace provided on each page. For an added challenge, use the "Do it Yourself" feature, which enables students to create their own magnetic poetry activity and share with a classmate.

tag(s): poetry (195)

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Rooting out words - Funbrain

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4 to 6
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Do some quick, interactive practice with prefixes, suffixes and root words. Vocabulary topics include simple words, months, and numbers. Choose from four levels of difficulty. ...more
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Do some quick, interactive practice with prefixes, suffixes and root words. Vocabulary topics include simple words, months, and numbers. Choose from four levels of difficulty.

tag(s): prefixes (10), root words (10), suffixes (8)

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Chaucer Metapage - University of North Carollina

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10 to 12
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If medieval English literature is part of your British Lit curriculum, you might want to send your students to this resource for a sampling of the sounds of "Middle English." ...more
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If medieval English literature is part of your British Lit curriculum, you might want to send your students to this resource for a sampling of the sounds of "Middle English." Selected passages from the Canterbury Tales are read aloud by scholars of 14th and 15th-century English literature. Students can listen while following along with the text. Compare and contrast with modern English translations.

tag(s): authors (114), chaucer (5), literature (214), medieval (38)

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Use the audio portions of this site as a learning center or station during a lesson or unit on Chaucer. Have students listen to the audio portions and respond or decipher their meaning on a graphic organizer. For help making easy graphic organizers, we recommend using Graphic Organizer Maker, reviewed here. Be sure to include headphones at the station to avoid students disrupting others!

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Reggie Loves to Rhyme - Scholastic

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1 to 2
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Choose a setting for your online adventure (the supermarket, a restaurant, or the zoo), click on a picture, and try to find a rhyming word that matches that image. Each ...more
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Choose a setting for your online adventure (the supermarket, a restaurant, or the zoo), click on a picture, and try to find a rhyming word that matches that image. Each set of correctly matched words is read aloud, so plan to have headphones handy.

tag(s): rhymes (24)

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Wizarding World - J. K. Rowling's Originals - J. K. Rowling

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3 to 8
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J.K. Rowling's site is a welcome change from the standard publisher's fare, offering an assortment of Harry Potter trivia and many interesting facts about how the stories came to be...more
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J.K. Rowling's site is a welcome change from the standard publisher's fare, offering an assortment of Harry Potter trivia and many interesting facts about how the stories came to be and have evolved. While it's not strictly instructional, this one would be a great source of facts for a Harry Potter webquest.

tag(s): harry potter (9)

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Citation Maker - Secondary - Oregon School Library Information System

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6 to 12
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Secondary students will appreciate this user-friendly bibliography helper. They still have to do the work of collecting all of the necessary information, but after entering it into...more
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Secondary students will appreciate this user-friendly bibliography helper. They still have to do the work of collecting all of the necessary information, but after entering it into the site, a citation with correct MLA format and punctuation is created for them. The citations can then be copied and pasted into a word processing document.

tag(s): citations (34)

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Have a student demonstrate how to use this tool on a projector or interactive whiteboard. Share this link on your class web page for easy use any time students have a research project. Model ethical use of resources by using it yourself to cite sources on handouts, etc.

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Poetry Express

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6 to 12
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Jumpstart your students' creativity with this helpful guide to writing poetry. Hatching a good idea is the toughest step in the process. This site provides fifteen suggestions for poetic...more
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Jumpstart your students' creativity with this helpful guide to writing poetry. Hatching a good idea is the toughest step in the process. This site provides fifteen suggestions for poetic activities with links to explanations, examples, and definitions of poetic terms. Visit the Reader Response Guidelines and "Revise" links for great advice on making the most of peer-editing sessions.

tag(s): poetry (195)

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Brainchild Online Assessment - Brainchild

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5 to 7
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Simulate a reading comprehension assessment with this interactive quiz. Multiple-choice questions follow short texts. After completing the activity, students can view a summary report...more
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Simulate a reading comprehension assessment with this interactive quiz. Multiple-choice questions follow short texts. After completing the activity, students can view a summary report that provides links back to missed questions. Click on the "Study" buttons to practice specific areas of weakness. A great prep activity for state assessment testing.

tag(s): assessment (143), reading comprehension (146)

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Amazing Vocabulary Machine - English-Zone.Com

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4 to 12
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Students can practice the formation of adjectives and adverbs, check their answers, and keep track of right and wrong responses with this interactive quiz. Accurate keyboarding skills...more
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Students can practice the formation of adjectives and adverbs, check their answers, and keep track of right and wrong responses with this interactive quiz. Accurate keyboarding skills are a plus for this activity. Also useful for ESL students.

tag(s): grammar (139), verbs (25)

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Use this site as a learning center or station for higher achieving ELL students who will be able to grasp these grammar concepts. Be sure to mark the site on classroom computers, making it easier for students to navigate there.

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Feast of Homonyms - Quia

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2 to 5
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This matching game helps students recognize and remember dozens of homonyms. Teachers can preview the list of terms used in the game. After a round is completed, students can click...more
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This matching game helps students recognize and remember dozens of homonyms. Teachers can preview the list of terms used in the game. After a round is completed, students can click "start over" for a brand new set of words.

tag(s): homonyms (8)

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