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Activities: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - TeachersFirst
Grades
4 to 8tag(s): harry potter (9)
In the Classroom
Share the link on your teacher web page or in a parent newsletter, if you don't have time to do all the activities at school. Challenge students to design similar activities to accompany other Harry Potter (or other favorite) books.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Activities: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - TeachersFirst
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4 to 8tag(s): harry potter (9), reading strategies (98)
In the Classroom
Share the link on your teacher web page or in a parent newsletter, if you don't have time to do all the activities at school. Ask students to design similar activities to accompany other Harry Potter (or other favorite) books.Comments
Very good way of planning.kel, GA, Grades: 3 - 5
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French and Family - National Endowment for the Humanities
Grades
6 to 8tag(s): family (52), french (74), vocabulary (236)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the free lesson plan offered on this site - Foreign language teachers will appreciate this one.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The First Amendment: What's Fair in a Free Country? - National Endowment for the Humanities
Grades
3 to 6tag(s): bill of rights (28), freedom of speech (13), speech (66)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of this free lesson plan about the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights! To help ELL students, consider using a guided reading activity and vocabulary tools found at Read Ahead, reviewed here, share the vocabulary with them beforehand, OR make and print out easy to understand definitions of words that these students may have trouble with. Be sure to save this site as a favorite to allow for easy retrieval later on.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Where Did That Pencil Come From? - National Council on Economic Education
Grades
3 to 5tag(s): conservation (86), natural resources (38), resources (88)
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Take advantage of the free lesson plan on this site about Natural Resources. Be sure to save this site as a favorite on your classroom desktop to allow for easy retrieval later on!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Expository Escapades - Detective's Handbook - IRA & NCTE
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6 to 8tag(s): process writing (38), reading comprehension (142), writing (317)
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Acid Rain Students' Site - EPA
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4 to 6In the Classroom
After learning about acid rain, challenge students to create their own activities using one of the followig tools: Some tool suggestions are (click on the tool name to access the review): Adobe Creative Cloud Express for Education, Vevox, Animatron, Renderforest, and Canva Inforgraphic Maker.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Cook it Quick - University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): nutrition (135)
In the Classroom
Look through the newsletters to find a theme or recipe that will fit into a unit you are studying or a novel your class is reading. You may find several recipes. Challenge students to choose one and cook it at home, documenting their efforts with photos and family quotes about the dish. Enhance learning by having students use a blog tool such as Penzu, reviewed here, to share the photos and theirs and their families' thoughts about the dish with others.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Al-Islam - Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project
Grades
9 to 12In the Classroom
This site would be extremely useful in an upper-level course, in which teachers are comfortable with the student's reading ability. Some of the articles explain the background of Islam in a way that is both easy to understand and concise. Use the articles to supplement the textbook! This site would also be great for students working on research projects about Islam. Post the site on the teacher wiki or web page to allow them to access it both in and out of the classroom.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Absolute Shakespeare
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): elizabethan (13), plays (27), shakespeare (93)
In the Classroom
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.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Andersen Fairy Tales - EnTechneVision
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K to 2In the Classroom
Share these books as a reading center after showing students how to operate the site on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Be sure to point out the advertisements to avoid! Parents would also appreciate this link for some at-home reading fun. Share it on your class web page.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Bitesize French - BBC
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9 to 12tag(s): french (74)
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The Rituals of Choosing a Pope - BBC
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6 to 12tag(s): religions (77)
In the Classroom
Use this site in your history classes when studying Rome, or in religion classes. There will be new vocabulary so you may want students to use an online tool like Wordsift, , reviewed here, or Academic Word Finder, , reviewed here. Pair students for reading and have them make flashcards using Flashcard Stash, reviewed here, to quiz each other later on their new words.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Celebrating Hans Christian Andersen - Jean Hersholt
Grades
2 to 8In the Classroom
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.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Dolch Sight Words
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1 to 3tag(s): sight words (22)
In the Classroom
Share the Dolch Words story on an interactive white board of projector, and allow students to take turns reading the lines. Be sure help your weaker readers and ESL students by sharing the vocabulary words prior to reading, either on a handout or by projecting on an interactive whiteboard and highlighting them in the text as you come to them. Practicing saying the words out loud can help students spot them quicker in the future. You can also use the printables of flashcards in a learning center or station, allowing students to practice with them individually or in groups.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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SAT Preparation Center - The College Board
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7 to 12Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Underground Railroad - National Geographic
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7 to 12tag(s): abolition (7), slavery (76), underground railroad (12)
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Introduce the site on the interactive whiteboard or projector before allowing students to complete it in pairs or individually. Enhance learning using Read Ahead, reviewed here, as a guided reading activity at a learning center or station during a unit on slavery in the colonies. This article provides good background information on slavery and the Underground Railroad.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Children's Literature - Web English Teacher
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1 to 8tag(s): book lists (162), literature (218), reading lists (79)
In the Classroom
Save this site as a favorite and use it as a resource in a literature class. Before introducing a new book to the class, check this site first for information under the author's heading. There you'll find lesson plans, resources, activities, etc. Great for teachers using a new novel or in need of some fresh ideas on teaching an old lesson.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Iraq Elections - Christian Science Monitor - Christian Science Monitor
Grades
9 to 12In the Classroom
While this is no longer a current event, this article does a great job of explaining the roots of the problems that continue to plague Iraq to this day. Either print or display the article to students on the interactive whiteboard or projector. (students could also read this for homework) Either way, this article provides enough background information that it could lead to an excellent discussion of the Iraqi conflict. Be sure help your weaker readers and ESL students by sharing the vocabulary words prior to reading, either on a handout or by projecting on an interactive whiteboard and highlighting them in the text as you come to them.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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A Tale to be Told - Martha Sullivan/Missouri Schoolweb
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4 to 7In the Classroom
Use this web-quest as a hands-on practice activity for students following a lesson on folk tales. Have students complete the activity in cooperative learning groups on classroom computers. Be sure to help your weaker readers and ESL students by sharing the vocabulary words prior to reading, either on a handout or by projecting on an interactive whiteboard and highlighting them in the text as you come to them. English teachers will like the interactive part of this site, and students always enjoy a chance to work on computers!To make it more interactive, have students create and illustrate their stories on an online book-maker, such as Bookemon, reviewed here. Teachers can post the stories on the class webpage, allowing parents to get to see the finished products!
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