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Idioms

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This lesson plan is structured to help teach idioms to upper elemenatary school students with related IEP goals. Lesson can be used over 3-4, 20-30 minute sessions depending on student ability and attention span. 

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Tracy Janes

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Utah's Online Library Research

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In this lesson plan series, students will practice using Utah's Online Library to research about Utah Counties in a nearpod activity. This will prepare them to research a county of Utah of their choice.  Students will then choose a county to research and create a slideshow using the template provided them. One slide of the template has the link to the Utah County section of Utah's Online Library.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Jolene

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Descriptive Writing Snapshot

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Students will use what they have learned about descriptive writing--show don’t tell, vivid verbs and adjectives, sensory details, and figurative language--to write a snapshot detailed description of a picture they find or create.  Students select a picture of their choice and then write an extended paragraph. 

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Elisabeth

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How to Evaluate Online Sources Using the CRAAP Test

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This lesson ties into both ELA and Journalism standards asking students to critically analyze online news sources. Students will read Stephen Glass's famously fabricated article "Hack Heaven" and use their understanding of the methods of the CRAAP test to analyze its overall credibility. This lesson can be used in-person and online, synchronously, as well as asynchronously, and ties into a research project where students conduct research to research, report, write, and edit their own news article on a topic of their choosing.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Alex Floch

Discovering Idioms

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This lesson is a fun and engaging way for students to learn about idioms. There are activities that incorporate group work, as well as independent work. Students will illustrate their chosen idiom with the literal meaning and then explain the intended meaning in small groups. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson, Reading

Author: Caroline Judd

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Making Inferences

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This is a comprehensive lesson plan to teach 9-10 grade students about making  inferences and gives them practical practice. It also includes formative and summative assessments. Preview image is "thinking cap" by Joe in DC

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Cynthia Barney

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Creating fractions 1/2 and 1/4

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This lesson plan will cover in part standard 2.G.3. We will introduce the terms "half" and "fourths". Students will discriminate between equally divided wholes and nonequally divided wholes. Students will be assessed to determine if they can accurately identify and divide into halves and fourths.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Crescent