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Analyzing and Comparing Perspectives on Issues - Gorillas

Analyzing and Comparing Perspectives on Issues - Gorillas

Students compare and contrast their perspectives on raising gorillas in captivity with their peers and with scientists. They summarize their perspectives and the perspectives of others.

5-12

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Analyzing Information - Can Pigs be Pets?

Analyzing Information - Can Pigs be Pets?

Students identify a main idea as well as analyze, evaluate and interpret new information, personal experiences and prior knowledge to form an opinion which they then write about.

3-5

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Blue Ribbon Readers: Determining Important Ideas

Blue Ribbon Readers: Determining Important Ideas

In this WPSU lesson Determining Important Ideas, elementary students explore how to become better readers through the identification of main ideas, supporting details, and author’s message. The lesson is part of the Blue Ribbon Readers collection.

K-5

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Blue Ribbon Readers: Drawing Inferences

Blue Ribbon Readers: Drawing Inferences

In this WPSU lesson Drawing Inferences, elementary students will practice drawing inferences or making predictions before, during and after reading, and then validating them. The lesson is part of the Blue Ribbon Readers collection.

K-5

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Blue Ribbon Readers: Making Connections

Blue Ribbon Readers: Making Connections

In this WPSU lesson Making Connections,elementary students will move toward understanding and comprehending text more effectively by making connections with their own background knowledge. The lesson is part of the Blue Ribbon Readers collection.

K-5

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Blue Ribbon Readers: Monitoring and Repairing

Blue Ribbon Readers: Monitoring and Repairing

In this WPSU lesson Monitoring and Repairing,elementary students will identify words that are not known to them and decode or replace them in a variety of contexts. The lesson is part of the Blue Ribbon Readers collection.

K-5

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Blue Ribbon Readers: Questioning

Blue Ribbon Readers: Questioning

In this WPSU lesson Questioning, elementary students explore how to become better readers through questioning before, during and after reading stories. The lesson is part of the Blue Ribbon Readers collection.

K-5

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Blue Ribbon Readers: Synthesis

Blue Ribbon Readers: Synthesis

In this WPSU lesson Synthesis, elementary students will explore how to become better readers by using contextual clues to predict an outcome, putting stories in order and assembling sentences. The lesson is part of the Blue Ribbon Readers collection.

K-5

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Blue Ribbon Readers: Visualizing

Blue Ribbon Readers: Visualizing

In this WPSU lesson Visualizing,elementary students will practice creating vivid sensory images, a critical key to reading comprehension. The lesson is part of the Blue Ribbon Readers collection.

K-5

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The Buzz about Fact and Opinion

The Buzz about Fact and Opinion

Students differentiate between fact and opinion on a handout with statements about bees.

3-5

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Character Development - Nanavi, A Girl from Benin, West Africa

Character Development - Nanavi, A Girl from Benin, West Africa

Students use a chart to track character development and write a statement to express the ways in which a particular character from West Africa has changed.

5-8

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Compare and Contrast - City Pigeons and City Parrots

Compare and Contrast - City Pigeons and City Parrots

Students take notes on similarities and differences between two types of city birds using a T-chart and then construct a Venn diagram to compare and contrast them.

4-8

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Compare and Contrast Information from Multiple Sources - Wolong's Pandas

Compare and Contrast Information from Multiple Sources - Wolong's Pandas

Students compare and contrast information from three sources to determine the reasons that contributed to panda population decline.  They draw conclusions from these sources by writing their own paragraphs.

5-7

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Comparing and Contrasting Information and Forming an Opinion - Santiago and Morris

Comparing and Contrasting Information and Forming an Opinion - Santiago and Morris

Students use a T-Chart to take notes and then write a compare/contrast paragraph about a therapy dog.

5-7

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Comparing Education Around the World

Comparing Education Around the World

Students compare and contrast the circumstances surrounding two boys’ experiences at schools in different countries.

3-5

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Connections to Personal Experiences - Bees? Yikes!

Connections to Personal Experiences - Bees? Yikes!

Students make connections between a video about bees and their own personal experiences through a poem written for two voices.

5-7

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Creating Literary Texts - Finding Homes for Pets

Creating Literary Texts - Finding Homes for Pets

Students write and illustrate a persuasive book to convince readers to adopt a pet.

5-7

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Describing Characters - Cloud Grows

Describing Characters - Cloud Grows

Students learn about characterization by studying and taking notes on the growth of a white stallion.

5-12

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Designing a Poster to Communicate Information: Yellowstone National Park

Designing a Poster to Communicate Information: Yellowstone National Park

While watching a short video segment about Yellowstone National Park, students take notes they later use to create an interesting and infomative poster.

3-6

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Determining Main Idea and Supporting Details - Wild in the City

Determining Main Idea and Supporting Details - Wild in the City

Students use a graphic organizer to record important details and determine the main idea of a video segment. They use the organizer to write an informational paragraph about parakeets in the city.

4-7

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