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80Main Idea-How To Teach It
Many students struggle with finding the main idea in elementary school. Students tend to confuse the main idea as the summary of a story. When asked for the main idea students tend to retell what a story or...
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84Third Grade Lesson Plans
These are some of my favorite third grade lesson plans. I have homeschooled three children. All of them but one have already graduated. I would have loved to have found free third grade lesson plans when I...
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74The Doublespeak Campaign, The Doublespeak Award, The Orwell Award and the NCTE
I came across an interesting section in a big coffee table-sized book I have had for a while, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of The English Language. It's a cool book, crammed with all kinds of things about the...
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71Read to Your Kids: A Read-Aloud Guide for Teachers and Parents
One of the most rewarding parts of teaching is reading aloud to a captive audience of young children who beg you not to stop and who hold onto every word you say. Reading aloud to children of all ages can be...
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66Romeo and Juliet Lesson Plans
The following Romeo and Juliet lesson plans are mostly for the high school, specifically the ninth grade. Several require internet access, and almost all of the Romeo and Juliet lesson plans cover several...
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79First Grade Lesson Plans
Free first grade lesson plans are rampant on the internet. The problem is the time that it takes to wade through all of the lesson plans. I have homeschooled three children from kindergarten through high...
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67Childrens Literature - Nonfiction Genres
As a third grade teacher, I try to encourage students to read from a variety of genres in order to comply with the California Language Arts Standard of reading and responding to a variety of literature.
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66Techies Come Hither: ELA Lesson - Persuade Me
Grade levels 3 - 5 Planning About five to seven 45 minute lessons Preparation Ensure that you have a projector and have bookmarked the video clip(s) as indicated Provide a t-chart hand out...
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62what is calligraphy...?
Applyed language arts; The pictures represent ambiance as well as depth.
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70How to Teach a Write Aloud
Writing is a complicated thinking process. It requires an enormous amount of multi-tasking, problem-solving, interactivity, and creativity. There is science to effective writing, but there is also art. Unlike...
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