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Individual Student Project For Lowry's The Giver
This story provides a wonderful opportunity for middle schoolers to explore the idea of utopia while creating an original response book of their own investigation.
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LEP and ESOL Strategies in the Mainstream Class
Mainstream teachers can help all students succeed by incorporating ESOL strategies into their daily lesson plans. Here are some suggestions to ensure all students learn.
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First Day of School Introduction Activities
Self-reflection is a wonderful way to help students dig deeper and reveal more about themselves to their classmates. These questions will stimulate class conversation.
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Classroom Management Tips for New School Year
What are some tips to help teachers develop strong classroom management strategies this fall? Here are some teacher suggestions to keep in mind this school year.
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Preparing Materials for the New School Year
Finding efficient ways to distribute and organize lesson materials, worksheets and handouts can be a challenge. Here's a simple solution for savvy teachers.
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Plan Group Discussion about a Novel
Group discussion often devolves into a teacher-led question and answer session with three students while the rest tune out. How can you encourage active participation?
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Character Analysis Topics for Things Fall Apart
High school teachers often struggle to motivate students to write analytical essays, but there is a simple way to combat their literary ennui: give them choices.
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Literary Elements in Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Teaching the application of literary elements is an effective way to help high school students learn how to analyze literature. Here are examples from Things Fall Apart.
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Introduction Activity to Teach Things Fall Apart
Here are some lesson initiating activities to help prepare your students to read this important contribution to world literature.
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Introduction Activities to Teach The Outsiders
This classic tale of teenage loneliness and isolation resonates with both middle and high school students. Here are some ideas to introduce its themes.
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How to Plan to Read a Shakespearean Play
When first reading Shakespeare, students often feel disoriented. Teachers can alleviate this by first introducing the language, culture and plot of Elizabethan England
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Teach Julius Caesar Character Analysis Essay
One way to enhance student understanding of Shakespeare's play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, is to assign a character analysis essay early in the play.
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Teach Characters in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
If you want your students to enjoy reading plays by Shakespeare, teach them to analyze his complex and intriguing characters. Here are some suggestions to guide students.
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Characterization in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
When teaching Julius Caesar, teachers often struggle with strategies to help students own the material. Here is a lesson to help immerse students in the 17th century.
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Improve Study Habits Student Questionnaire
Use this comprehensive questionnaire in your next study skills lesson to help high school students reflect on their current study methods. The results may surprise them.
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How to Write an Effective Conclusion Paragraph
Since the conclusion paragraph is the last part of the essay readers will digest, writers must make a strong summary statement to leave a memorable impression.
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How to Write a Strong Introduction Paragraph
Since the introductory paragraph is the first readers will digest, writers must make a strong statement to attract attention. Here are some tips to help you do just that.
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How to Improve Study Skills in High School
Teaching study skills to high school students can pose a significant challenge. High schoolers often feel that they have heard everything before, but here's a new twist.
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Teaching Tips to Help Reluctant Writers
Are you struggling to motivivate your high school students to write their next essay? Solving this problem may be easier than you think. Here are simple suggestions.
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Ground Rules for High School Academic Discussion
One of the pitfalls of student-led discussions is that without mediation they can quickly digress into personal scenarios or even disintegrate into personal attacks.
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Example Thesis Statement for a Persuasive Essay
Teaching your students to write a thesis statement is easier once you explain to them that they can use a similar approach regardless of the type of essay assigned.
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Writing Effective Thesis Statements for Essays
Here are several examples of thesis statements for expository, persuasive, and literary analysis essays. Weak and strong thesis statements are compared to help students.
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Example Model for Writing Thesis Statements
Since students often learn best by example, here is a sample thesis statement constructed using Kurt Vonnegut's short story, "Harrison Bergeron".
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How to Write Thesis Statements for Essays
Teachers who provide students with clear guidelines & specific checklists empower students to independently write solid thesis statements to their five paragraph essays.
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How To Teach Literary Elements in High School
Students often have difficulty making the leap from comprehending literature to analyzing it. These tips show the interrelationship at play between the two and examples.
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Novel Project Ideas for The Outsiders
S.E Hinton's cherished book has been taught in classrooms for years. Below are new and creative projects that students can complete to showcase their understanding of the
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Mad Libs Activities
Mad libs are a wonderful teaching tool to highlight the parts of speech. Mad libs are an engaging activity to assist students to master parts of speech.
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Preschool Architecture Activity
Explore architecture in the preschool classroom! This lesson plan for early childhood educators includes learning objectives, steps, and enrichment activities.
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Amelia Earhart Lesson Plan Ideas
Featured in two major motion pictures in 2009 and shrouded in mystery, Amelia Earhart is a great way to get students interested in history.
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Spelling Lesson Plan Ideas
Creating weekly spelling activities is an easy task when fun activities are offered. Spelling words become second nature and skills improve dramatically.
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Games to Teach Grammar to Junior High Students
Kinesthetic learners are abundant in the classroom. Accordingly, active lessons/activities should be present to foster students' growth in the Language Arts classroom.
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Social Studies Cultural Unit Lesson Plan
As part of an exciting social studies curriculum, have students learn about different cultures by arranging a lesson plan that includes a cultural feast.
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The Best International Holiday Unit
Students know all about the winter holiday that their family participates in. This unit plan will get them thinking about other winter holidays.
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Advertising Activities for Kids
Students are bombarded with media images and messages everyday. Engage them in advertising activities to develop their media literacy skills.
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Classroom Suggestions for Veteran's Day
Other than an occasional mention on the news about the President laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, students may lack information about this holiday.
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Lesson Extensions for the Paper Lantern Activity
Creative folding activities such as the paper lantern exercise can lead the Montessori preschooler to cultural experiences of New Year celebrations across the globe.
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Montessori Colour Box 3 Extensions
Children who can grade colours using the Montessori Colour Box 3 tablets can further practice this skill even in practical life activities.
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Preparing the Young Child for Colour Grading
Young children need many activities to help them be more aware of colour values and intensities, which prepares them for colour grading.
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Funnel Activities for the Montessori Preschooler
A host of activities from across the curriculum can be planned in the Montessori preschool classroom to introduce and engage the young child with the funnel.
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Teaching the Industrial Revolution Through Film
The Industrial Revolution is an important theme in the high school Social Studies curriculum and movies are a great way of engaging students learning about the era.
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Creative Writing Activities for Kids
Use these writing activities to improve writing skills on children in a more meaningful way.
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Author Studies in an Elementary Classroom
Studying authors' lives and works helps students read with better understanding, write with more purpose, and realize that inspiration for both comes from daily life.
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Extensions of Montessori Size Activities
Children gain a deeper understanding of the Montessori size materials by working with activity extensions.
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Olympic Games Geography Lesson Plan Ideas
On February 12, 2010 the 2010 Winter Olympic Games will begin in Vancouver, Canada. Geography teachers can easily incorporate the Olymipc Games into their classrooms.
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Choose Your Own History Adventure
Capture student's attention through role playing. Let students choose their own history adventure in the classroom and make learning come alive!
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Elementary Weather Lesson Plan
Primary grade students can learn about meteorology and weather forecasting with an elementary weather lesson plan about fronts, air pressure, and air moisture.
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Refining the Senses in Paper Folding Activities
The young child who has been introduced to folding can find many opportunities to apply the newly learnt skill in the Montessori Sensorial activities.
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Teaching Students to Write Metaphor Poems
Writing is a building process. In order to teach students to write metaphor poems, teachers need to model each step and provide examples and non-examples.
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A Lesson Plan for the Personal Essay
Teachers can help high school students write effective narrative essays for exit level tests by following this lesson plan.
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Teaching Students to Write Simile Poems
To teach students to write a simile poem, the teacher should model, model again, and then guide students through the writing process as they write poetry of their own.
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