In this lesson, students review examples of misinformation, identify a rumor pattern …
In this lesson, students review examples of misinformation, identify a rumor pattern and create a list of red flags to watch out for. Then students will create a social media post warning others to be on the lookout for this type of misinformation and directing them to credible sources about the subject. Finally, students will discuss the impact of misinformation on a democratic society.
In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore brain injuries …
In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore brain injuries called concussions: what they are, how they occur, the challenges in diagnosing them, and ways to protect yourself from them.
Family Storytelling Bingo will include a range of thematic learning opportunities for …
Family Storytelling Bingo will include a range of thematic learning opportunities for children to choose their own learning adventure. Students can use storytelling cards and sentence starters to develop personal narratives.
Near the frontlines in Eastern Ukraine, a safe haven provides refuge for …
Near the frontlines in Eastern Ukraine, a safe haven provides refuge for children who have been temporarily separated from their parents. A House Made of Splinters chronicles three displaced kids who, despite the perils surrounding them, find moments of joy and friendship, with the aid of dedicated social workers who work tirelessly to protect them from harm.
In this lesson, students will explore how people define a family and a home in the aftermath of war?
Where does your food come from? Farmers, of course! Hear a famous …
Where does your food come from? Farmers, of course! Hear a famous poem about the hard work of growing food in A Farmer's Tale, the latest episode of YourClassical Storytime, featuring traditional Chinese folk tunes and original illustrations by Nancy Carlson.
The Science of Reading has identified features of effective instruction that work …
The Science of Reading has identified features of effective instruction that work in combination and are the basis of high-quality reading instruction for all students. This PDF provides an overview and characteristics of each feature of effective reading instruction, including a scope and sequence, systematic instruction, explicit, scaffolded, and differentiated instruction. These evidence-based features work together to form the essentials of reading success.
Annie Finch is a contemporary American poet whose work is deeply engaged …
Annie Finch is a contemporary American poet whose work is deeply engaged with the connection between feminism and formalism. This essay, “Female Tradition as Feminist Tradition,” which was published in her essay collection The Body of Poetry (2005), traces the historical and psychological paths that have drawn contemporary women poets toward the use of traditional formal structure, despite a lack of critical and theoretical attention.
Social injustice occurs every day all over the world. In this lesson, …
Social injustice occurs every day all over the world. In this lesson, students research a few historical examples of social injustice, including the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, and Japanese internment.
In this filmmaker spotlight, we have Jerusha Hess, the writer/director known for …
In this filmmaker spotlight, we have Jerusha Hess, the writer/director known for Austenland (2013), the cult classic Napoleon Dynamite (2004) and most recently, the Academy Award-nominated short film Ninety-Five Senses (2023).
English language learners (ELLs) may have some difficulty identifying the main idea …
English language learners (ELLs) may have some difficulty identifying the main idea when they are reading a paragraph. Teaching students how to paraphrase can help them learn to pick out what is important in the material that they read.
Children will learn to use writing materials. Multiple opportunities to develop drawing and …
Children will learn to use writing materials. Multiple opportunities to develop drawing and writing skills is important at this age. As children are ready, encourage them to create simple strokes after a model. Their abilities will increase as they are ready.
In his essay “The Fire,” Blaser writes, “the real business of poetry …
In his essay “The Fire,” Blaser writes, “the real business of poetry is cosmology.” He discusses poetry and the quality of its connection to the world, a world that is entered by the poet’s writing: “the processional aspect of the world has to be caught in the language also.
Family Literacy Videos targeted for families with first grade students. The videos …
Family Literacy Videos targeted for families with first grade students. The videos show families engaging their child in evidence-based literacy activities. The video playlist and corresponding document outlining the topics align with IES Practice Guides "A Kindergarten Teacher's Guide to Supporting Family Involvement in Foundational Reading Skills" and "Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten through Third Grade."
This resource from the Institute for Education Sciences helps teachers and parents …
This resource from the Institute for Education Sciences helps teachers and parents build children's phonemic awareness by having children identifying the sound and its' position within the word that is the same in two pictures (ex: dog and duck have the same sound in the initial position of the word). This resources provides directions on how to engage in this phonemic awareness activity with children.
This is a teacher-created fluency passage to help with reading fluency. The …
This is a teacher-created fluency passage to help with reading fluency. The lines are numbered with the word count and there is a scoring sheet attached. The topic is Geography.
Formative assessment can be a powerful day-to-day tool for teachers and students. …
Formative assessment can be a powerful day-to-day tool for teachers and students. This article discusses formative assessment as an approach to teaching and learning that uses feedback as its centerpiece in a supportive classroom context. Formative assessment is a practice that empowers teachers and students to give their best to enable learning.
Reading: Literature Standard 6Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, …
Reading: Literature Standard 6Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.Students will practice point of view by changing the characters and setting in the original story of The Three Little Pigs.
FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early …
FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains, Intervention A, a 40-week scope and sequence of primarily phonological awareness and phonics activities that can support and supplement a typical kindergarten or first grade "core" or "basal" program.
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