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Dr. Seuss Theme Unit Activities, Lessons, and Printables - abcteach

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Use the materials on this site to celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday on March 2. ...more
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Use the materials on this site to celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday on March 2.

tag(s): dr seuss (12)

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Have students write "Seuss" poems on the Hats. Create a class book of "Seuss" poetry. Have students draw a Seuss picture illustrating a scene from one of their favorite Seuss books.

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TEFL Games

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1 to 12
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This collection of interactive matching games addresses general knowledge (including currency, animals, foods, and geography), phrasal verbs, synonyms, antonyms, and some challenging...more
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This collection of interactive matching games addresses general knowledge (including currency, animals, foods, and geography), phrasal verbs, synonyms, antonyms, and some challenging "mystery" topics that cover information vital for students who are learning the English language.

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Use these matching games as learning centers or stations for students in an ELL classroom. Have students work on the games individually, allowing them to pace themselves. Be sure to mark the site on computers for students, making it easier for them to navigate there.

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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 (32)

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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 (140), 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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What Makes A Compound Word? - Education Development Center

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5 to 8
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This interactive tutorial introduces compound words and strategies for revealing their meanings. Includes an instructive slide show followed by some completion, click-and-drag, and...more
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This interactive tutorial introduces compound words and strategies for revealing their meanings. Includes an instructive slide show followed by some completion, click-and-drag, and reading comprehension activities. Preview content and difficulty level before turning your students loose on this one.

tag(s): word study (58)

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Do You speak American? - PBS

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9 to 12
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This one is quite a bit of fun for the English language enthusiast. Explore the origins of hundreds of words and expressions, participate in some online exercises to determine which...more
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This one is quite a bit of fun for the English language enthusiast. Explore the origins of hundreds of words and expressions, participate in some online exercises to determine which kind of speech is preferred, tune into radio stations from all 50 states to follow the rich regional variety in American English, and follow the mispronunciation debate. A thought-provoking and enlightening side trip for your AP students.

tag(s): grammar (140), pronunciation (33), slang (16)

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World Myths and Legends in Art - Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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9 to 12
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Explore how myths and legends have taken visual form in the works of artists with this online gallery of 26 masterpieces from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Apart from ...more
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Explore how myths and legends have taken visual form in the works of artists with this online gallery of 26 masterpieces from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Apart from the art, students can learn about what a myth actually is and read about multicultural mythological themes. Includes a glossary, bibliography, and teaching materials.

tag(s): art history (105), museums (55)

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Use this site as a learning center or station during a unit on myths & legends. This would be a great introductory activity, as a lot of the content is defining and providing examples that differentiate the two. This would be a great resource for a Language Arts teacher.

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The Polar Express Teacher's Guide - Children's Library Lady

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Use these creative ideas to explore this award-winning children's book with your students. Activities and discussions include predictions, cause-and-effect, and character analysis....more
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Use these creative ideas to explore this award-winning children's book with your students. Activities and discussions include predictions, cause-and-effect, and character analysis. Guiding questions for teachers to generate rich discussions in class are included.

tag(s): polar (11)

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Prediction progression as tied to illustrations, character map ideas, and linked cause-and-effect drawings offer learning assessment ideas.

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Words: Grammar - BBC

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2 to 6
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Grammar really can be fun! This extensive collection of interactive activities gives students a chance to play with the concepts they learned in class, and earn a printable certificate....more
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Grammar really can be fun! This extensive collection of interactive activities gives students a chance to play with the concepts they learned in class, and earn a printable certificate. Topics include making sentences, using apostrophes and commas, personal pronouns, and noun-verb agreement. Each topic includes a fact sheet that introduces the concept, an interactive quiz and game, and a printable worksheet with answer key.

tag(s): grammar (140), punctuation (23), sentences (22)

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Mathematical Fiction

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9 to 12
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This rather unusual annotated list of books and stories was created for people who want to read about math from a literary perspective. Browse by topic, genre, motif, or medium. ...more
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This rather unusual annotated list of books and stories was created for people who want to read about math from a literary perspective. Browse by topic, genre, motif, or medium. These are not children's books, but serious selections for the true math nerd.

tag(s): literature (214)

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Christmas Around the World - northpole.net

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Click on the name of a country to access several facts about holiday celebrations there. These brief descriptions of Christmas observances in more than a dozen countries can easily...more
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Click on the name of a country to access several facts about holiday celebrations there. These brief descriptions of Christmas observances in more than a dozen countries can easily be incorporated into a Web search activity for younger elementary students.

tag(s): christmas (31), holidays (280), Research (89)

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You may want to use eMargin, reviewed here, with these articles as a guided reading activity for younger students. Read Ahead is perfect for introducing any reading passage to struggling readers, special education students, and ENL/ESL learners. Older students can pick a country and find more facts about other holidays celebrated in their chosen country. Have them find out informaion about those holidays like traditional food, songs, and activities.

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A Christmas Carol - GradeSaver

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6 to 12
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Supplement a unit on Dickens and the Victorian novel with this site that focuses on A Christmas Carol. Highlights include brief overviews of the major themes, discussions of the ...more
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Supplement a unit on Dickens and the Victorian novel with this site that focuses on A Christmas Carol. Highlights include brief overviews of the major themes, discussions of the characters, biographical information about the author, summaries and analyses of each stave, and links to related resources. Use the interactive quizzes as a review after reading the novella or viewing a film adaptation in class.

tag(s): christmas (31), dickens (8), england (49), holidays (280), victorian (13)

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Though the top of the page says "Buy the Study Guide" you can access a lot of it on this site. Engage students by showing them the 5+ minute animation of A Christmas Carol listed in the left menu. Give the students background information using "About the Study Guide." You may want to use eMargin, reviewed here, with this article as a guided reading activity for younger students. eMargin is perfect for introducing any reading passage to struggling readers, special education students, and ENL/ESL learners. Often showing segments of the film adaptation before and after the reading of several staves, will help with student comprehension. Have students compare and contrast the film and the written staves online using 2 and 3 Circle Interactive Venn Diagrams, reviewed here.

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Solar Folklore - Stanford SOLAR Center

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5 to 7
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Make the connection between scientific understanding, literature, and cultural diversity with this fascinating collection of myths and legends that reflect our human attempts at explaining...more
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Make the connection between scientific understanding, literature, and cultural diversity with this fascinating collection of myths and legends that reflect our human attempts at explaining the sun in terms of our own world views. Solar tales from the indigenous peoples of Australia, the Americas, and Mesopotamia are included, along with Judeo-Christian views and observations of ancient astronomers.

tag(s): planets (124), solar system (125), sun (87)

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Take advantage of the free and interactive lesson plans and classroom activities hosted on this site! Under the "educators" section are plenty of ideas, categorized by grade level and subject. Be sure to save this site as a favorite to allow for easy retrieval later on.

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In Focus - Tate Gallery

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8 to 12
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This unique online gallery provides in-depth commentary on artistic works, artists and subjects. Of particular note is the exhibit of American landscape painting from 1820-1880 which...more
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This unique online gallery provides in-depth commentary on artistic works, artists and subjects. Of particular note is the exhibit of American landscape painting from 1820-1880 which draws connections between the paintings in the collection and the literature that inspired them. Another impressive feature is the i-Map Project which provides an interactive, multimedia exploration of the works, ideas and innovations of Matisse and Picasso.

tag(s): painting (49), picasso (4)

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Use the learning tools within each subheading to scour for ideas on how to use these resources in your classroom. The learning guides typically have lesson plans, games and classroom activities accompanying the textual information. Be sure to save the site as a favorite to allow for easy reference later on.

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Grammar Gorillas - Pearson Education

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2 to 8
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Select from two levels - beginner or advanced - and practice parts of speech with this interactive game. When students successfully complete a round of questions by identifying the...more
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Select from two levels - beginner or advanced - and practice parts of speech with this interactive game. When students successfully complete a round of questions by identifying the correct word in each sentence, the grammar gorillas receive bananas. Very appealing.

tag(s): grammar (140), parts of speech (39), speech (66)

In the Classroom

Use this during station rotation time in your classroom. Put a link on your website for students to use at home.

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Grammar Bytes

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4 to 12
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Who said that grammar can't be fun? This user-friendly site provides an easy to navigate glossary of common grammar terms, downloadable handouts, helpful tips and rules, and a great...more
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Who said that grammar can't be fun? This user-friendly site provides an easy to navigate glossary of common grammar terms, downloadable handouts, helpful tips and rules, and a great collection of interactive exercises. Complete a free registration to access more of the site's special features.

tag(s): grammar (140), parts of speech (39), speech (66)

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Fall Word Search - primarygames.com

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3 to 5
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This interactive find-a-word puzzle uses vocabulary words with an autumn theme. ...more
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This interactive find-a-word puzzle uses vocabulary words with an autumn theme.

tag(s): fall (12), halloween (46)

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Use with student who finish before others or for an entertaining rainy-day recess.

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