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School District No. 71

Adding Written Detail: Using Jane Yolen’s Owl Moon as a Mentor Text

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
Access your senses with a worksheet on sensory language. Based on Owl Moon by Jane Yolen, the worksheet prompts kids to find examples of each of the five senses, as well as phrases for inner emotion. 
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Consulate General of Ireland

St. Patrick's Day - Lá Fhéile Pádraig

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Youngsters use their imaginations and the story of St. Patrick to design original artwork for the holiday, by portraying where they think St. Patrick would have visited in the United States or illustrating what St. Patrick's Day...
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Curated OER

Educator's Guide: Holes

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
You'll be a star at your next grade level meeting with an educational unit on Louis Sachar's Holes. Based on both the novel and film, the lessons include applications to language arts with character studies and movie reviews; social...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Tone Is in the Fear of the Beholder:using Multimodal Mentor Texts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A demonstration lesson presented at the 2014 Write for Texas Summer Institute. It provides a snapshot of a four to five week unit that engages students in the reading and writing workshop model.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Teaching Simple and Compound Sentences in Context

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and four videos demonstrating how to teacher sentence structure through mentor sentences.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Snowball Note Making and Summarizing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will engage in this post-reading strategy for a nonfiction or a fiction piece. Each student will take notes on a four-square square graphic organizer about something they already knew, something they found...