Speak English! Literary Elements Through Music Resource Documents I wanted to follow up yesterday's post Literary Elements: Give the Book a Break with a PDF copy of the handout I used when teaching the lesson. I realized in reviewing the document that I also used the song Smokey Joe's Cafe, which is another great song for teaching all of these literary elements. Most importantly, you should notice how I annotated the text. Sight Words Puppy Dash Help your child to develop fluency in reading! This app is perfect for beginning readers. It allows them to practice words most frequently used in the English language, what researchers call “high frequency words”. Learning and memorizing these words help to accelerate your child’s reading development. It’s a race against the clock, and players must tap the word card that matches the word said aloud.
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The Glorious Whitewasher from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (with mini-assessment) Grade 7Relevant for grades 6-8 12-pg docone-day sample lessonfiction Why it matters: These exemplar lessons, created by and for teachers, provide clear demonstrations of the CCSS approach to close reading with text-dependent questions. The sample lessons and assessments include: Readings with teacher and student instructionsText dependent questionsStudent discussion activitiesVocabulary and syntax tasks for challenging words and phrasesWriting-based formative assessmentsFiction and nonfiction lessons and assessment questions*Annotations for teachers *Not all sample lessons have assessment questions.
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This website is a visual dictionary through which students can learn words through videos and picture cards. by aaron_literacy_resources_collection Jun 22
This is a site to learn vocabulary through interactive activities. It also offers vocabulary building practice for the SAT and ACT exams. This is a webpage for advanced students of English Arts or for advance ELLs. It is appropriate for ages +9. Teaching tips: 1. Teacher can create their own vocabulary lists. 2. Teachers can share their vocabulary lists with their students. 3. This website has vocabulary building videos that teachers can use in their lessons. by gabrielapearltrees Oct 26