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Hey Diddle, Diddle! Generating Rhymes for Analogy-Based Phonics Instruction

<p>In this lesson, shared reading, guided reading, and small, cooperative-group instruction are used in a first-grade classroom to informally....

Whole-to-Parts Phonics Instruction: Teaching Letter-Sound Correspondences

<p>This lesson uses whole-to-parts phonics instruction as an approach to beginning reading. Letter-sound correspondences are taught within a....

Teaching Short-Vowel Discrimination Using Dr. Seuss Rhymes

<p>The study of common rimes, or word families, is vital to students' early reading and writing skills. Through the contrast of short-vowel....

The Cell as a System

In this Science NetLinks lesson, students begin to understand the cell as a system by exploring a more familiar and tangible example of a system--a factory.....

Frosty the Snowman Meets His Demise: An Analogy to Carbon Dating

The purpose of this Science NetLinks lesson is to develop the idea that carbon dating is based on gathering evidence in the present and extrapolating it to the....

Analyzing the Purpose and Meaning of Political Cartoons

<p>The decisions students make about social and political issues are often influenced by what they hear, see, and read in the news. For this....

Creative Communication Frames: Discovering Similarities between Writing and Art

<p>Modest Petrovitch Moussorgsky (1839-1881) wrote, "Art is a means of communicating with people, not an end in itself." In....

Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Narrator

In this lesson, from EDSITEment, students consider a variety of narrative stances in Edgar Allen Poe's short story, "Tell Tale Heart," and....

Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning

<p>The updated edition of this bestseller will help you develop your students into purposeful thinkers and proficient readers by using classroom....


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