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District Resources (downloadable lessons in alpha order by strand)
Listening & Speaking |
District Focus/Resource |
Listening
Speaking |
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Reading |
District Focus/Resource |
Vocabulary
Fluency
Variety of Texts
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- Alphabet letters for word walls
- Analogy Graphic Organizer
- Book Chat 1, 2
- Bookmatch
- Buddy Reading
- CD Map
- Choosing, Chatting and Collecting: Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy
- Different Perspectives Graphic Organizer
- Everyone Loves a Mystery: A Genre Study
- Exploring and Sharing Family Stories
- Expository Escapades
- Focusing Reader Response through Vocabulary Analysis
- Flexible Grouping
- Generating and Organizing Ideas for Story Writing
- Guided Reading in Grades 4 - 12
- Hypertext Lesson 1, 2, 3, 4
- Imagine That!
- In the Poet's Shoes: Performing Poetry and Bldy. Meaning
- Inner-Outer Circle
- Internalization of Vocabulary through Use of a Word Map
- Literature Circles Roles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Literature Circle Role Cards
- Listening Rubric
- Name Meanings Chart
- Performance Reading
- Quad Card 1, 2
- Reader Response
- Reading Log
- Reading Survey
- Robert Frost Prompts the Poet in You
- SSR Management
- SSR (Sample Class Guidelines)
- Getting Ready for College CR
- Six Steps to Vocabulary Development
- Strategic Reading
- The Reading Challenge of Content Vocabulary ( Alpha Organizer mentioned in the article)
- The Reading Performance: Understanding Fluency. . .
- Thinking Maps: Bridge
- Timed Reading Chart
- Vocabulary Assurance Cards
- Word Family Tree
- Word Up!
- Word Wall
- Word Wall Activities
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Comprehension
Literary Response
Text Structures
Research
Culture
Comprehension
Literary Response
Text Structures
Research
Culture |
- A Graphic for Literary Test (PDF)
- A Way with Words: Exploring the Roles of Fact and Opinion in Relaying the News
- Inventing and Presenting Unit 1: Analyzing Nonfiction and Inventing Solutions
- Be a Reading Detective: Finding Similarities and Differences in Ideas
- Believe it or Not
- Blending Multiple Genres in Theme Baskets
- Book Chat Questions--Fiction (Word) (PDF)
- Book Chat Questions--Non Fiction (Word) (PDF)
- Book Chat Score Sheet
- Buddy Reading
- Black and White in United States History: A Gray Area
Comparing Old and New Accounts of Thomas Jefferson’s Life
- Career Cruiser CR
- Cause and Effect Questioning Frames
- Cartoon Comprehension
- Character Analysis Grid
- Character Sociogram
- Choosing a Career CR
- Compare and Contrast Electronic Text With Traditionally Printed Text
- Comparing and Contrasting: Picturing an Organizational Pattern
- Considering Setting
- Cooperative Learning Guidelines
- Critical Literacy: Point of View
- Critical Thinking
- Cuisine Art: Exploring Ethnic Culture Through Food
- Culture Shock
- Diction in Literary Works
- Discussion Web
- E-Pals Around the World
- Elements of Myths
- Flexible Grouping
- Forms of Poetry
- Four Categories of Reading
- Generalization Lesson
- Grammar Blast!
- Graphic Life Map
- Guided Comprehension in Action: Teaching Summarizing With the Bio-Cube
- Guided Reading in Grades 4 - 12
- "I Have a Dream" Speech
- Identifying Character Traits
- Improving Writing with the Six Traits
- Inner-Outer Circle
- K-W-L
- Letters and Learning Genre
- Literature Circles Roles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Literature Circle Role Cards
- Literary Devices
- Literary Terms
- Literary Terms for MLK's Speech
- Make a Date
- Media Awareness
- Metaphor for Egg
- Modeling Reading and Analysis Processes with the Works of Edgar Allan Poe
- Open Mind Diagram
- Organizational Patterns
- Planning For My Future CC
- Portfolio Development in Guidance Central CC
- Previewing the Text
- Press Conference for Bud, Not Buddy
- Proposition/Support Outline
- QAR Questions by Category (WORD) (PDF)
- QAR1, QAR2, QAR Spanish, FQR
- Question Matrix
- Questioning the Author
- Reading Analysis of Multi Genre Texts
- Reading Literary Texts
- Reading Process
- Reader Response
- Reading Strategies for Test Success
- Reciprocal Teaching
- Scaffolding Comprehension Strategies Using Graphic Organizers
- Shared Spelling Strategies
- SMART
- Socratic Seminar Instructions
- Socratic Seminar Instructions 2
- Socratic Seminar rubric
- Socratic Seminar Questioning
- Sound and Music: The Power to Enhance Story
- Stickman Notetaking
- Story Map
- Strategic Reading
- Strategies to "Fix Up" Confusion
- Summary, Symbol, and Analysis in Bookmark
- TAKS OER Rubric
- TAKS OER Rubric--Crossover Question
- "The Impossible Dream"
- The Pentad
- Thematic Links Questions
- Thinking Maps: Circle, Bubble, Double Bubble, Flow, Multi Flow, Tree, Brace, and Bridge
- Thrills and Chills
- Tiered Cause and Effect Examples
- Vignette: Teaching the Passive Voice
- Why Literature Circles?
- Write Away
- Yearlong Concepts
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Writing |
District Focus/Resource |
Purposes
Penmanship/
Mechanics/
Grammar/Usage |
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Process
Evaluation
Research
Connections
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- Alternative Ways of Assessing
- Audience, Purpose, and Language Use in Electronic Messages
- Biography Project
- Books for Teaching the 6 Traits
- Books for Teaching Voice
- Books to Use to Support the Content Areas
- Clocking Sheet
- Commenting in Word
- Conference Sheet
- Creative Communication Frames: Discovering Similarities between Writing and Art
- Electronic Message Rubric
- Flexible Grouping
- How to Write a Survey 1, 2, 3, 4
- Magnify the Focus
- Make a Date
- Mini Lessons for Drafting
- Mini Lessons for Writing
- Organizational Patterns
- Peer Revision
- Peer Revision - Show not Tell
- Periodic Portfolio Questions
- Process Reflection
- Portfolio Questions
- QAR1, QAR2, QAR Spanish, FQR
- Qualities of Good Writing
- Revision Self Evaluation Rubric
- Sample Criteria Charts and Rubrics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7and 8
- Sample Essays
- Show Not Tell
- Six Traits Rubric - Student Friendly
- TAKS Essay Rubric
- TAKS OER Rubric
- TAKS OER Rubric--Crossover Question
- Traveling the Road to Freedom through Research
- Verbal Recreations
- Versions in XP
- Voice
- What's in Your Heart?
- Write From the Heart (Heart Mapping)
- Writing Process
- Writing Process Wheel
- Writing Record
- Writing Survey
- Writing Log
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District Focus/Resource |
Interpretation
Analysis
Production
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- Administrative Produre I - M
- Attributes of the 21st Century Learner CC
- Casting a Wide Net: Writing and Producing a Class Podcast
- Critical Media Questions
- Critical Media Literacy: TV Programs
- Growing with Media: Dilemmas
- History Behind Song Lyrics
- Hypertext Lesson 1, 2, 3, 4
- Media Awareness
- Permission to Use Media
- The Write Site
- Thinking Maps: Circle, Bubble, Double Bubble, Flow, Multi Flow, Tree, Brace, and Bridge
- Timelines and Text
- Using Media Flexibly to Compose and Communicate
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Web Resources |
URL/Web Address |
General Sites |
pblmm.K12.ca.us/PBLGuide/Activities/Activities.html
eteach.esc13.net/t_lang_arts.htm
www.readwritethink.org/index.asp
rubistar4teachers.org
www.pics4learning.com
www.freeplaymusic.com
www.brainpop.com
www.enchanted learning.com
www.factmonster.com
www.mybookmarks.com/PISDIT |
Vocabulary |
www.dictionary.com
syndicate.com
www.vocabulary.co.il |
Text Structures |
www.planetesme.com/dontmiss.html |
Grammar |
webnz.co.nz/checkers/grammar2.html
englishplus.com/grammar
www.grammarbook.com
english-zone.com/index.php
www3.uakron.edu/noden
www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/2692/grammarlink.html
Sentence Structure
wwwnew.towson.edu/ows/sentencestruct.htm
www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/rvsntstr.html
Sentence Combining
leo.stcloudstate.edu/style/sentencev.html
www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/4/81.04.06.x.html
www.sanmarcos.net/ana/Class/Notes/CombSen.html
pigseye.kennesaw.edu/~slamos |
Writing |
www.discover-writing.com
www.readwritethink.org
www.englishcompanion.com
writingfix.com |
Research |
www.newseum.org
www.pics4learning.com
eduscapes.com/tap/topic20.htm |
Viewing/ Representing |
www.medialit.org
www.pbs.org
medialit.med.sc.edu
www.medialiteracy.net
www1.medialiteracy.com/home.jsp
www.pbs.org/teachersource/media_lit/media_lit.shtm
Media Literacy | Media Education | Questia.com Online Library
www.ianjukes.com (teaching the 21st century learner) |
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