You will learn how to use context (e.g., cause and effect or compare and contrast organizational text structures) to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar or multiple-meaning words.

You will learn how to determine or clarify the meaning of words using context within a sentence and in larger sections of text.

This lesson offers a list of 17 downloadable tasks for high school algebra students to practice interpreting expressions that represent a quantity in terms of its context. Interpret parts of an expression, such as terms, factors, and...

In this third module of a course on Digital Photography, students learn about subjects and context, portraits in photography, and studying landscapes. Includes embedded links to external resources, learning exercises, and a glossary of...

In this Boundless Communication presentation, students will learn about contexts to consider when preparing a speech including physical, the psychology of audience, audience opinion of you and topic, and audience knowledge of the topic.

This unit plan can be used as a whole, or any of its three parts. Plenty of resources for the context of the novel, and the literary concepts of realism and regionalism are provided.

This 2008 brief discusses how RTI can be adapted for English Language Learners (ELL). It provides an initial framework in the use of RTI that considers students' life experiences, including their language proficiencies in their first and...

This literature review provides a brief history of curriculum-based measurement (CBM), clarifying its relationship to curriculum-based assessment, a summary of the primary features of CBM, and a rationale for its design. Extensions of...

A look at the history of still-life painting through a printable catalog of multiple example works of art. Images are accompanied by descriptions and detailed examinations of their elements, meanings, and context.

Interactive quizzes to help develop skill using suffixes in vocabulary. After a short introductory slide show, students are asked to identify the meaning of words in context that use similar suffixes. Next, students fill in the...

This lecture outlines the events of the Greek revolution and war for independence from Turkey, which began in 1821 and lasted through 1829. It covers Greek history as well as international political and economic context for the war.

This is a set of problems involving the concepts of integrals in context. The problems are similar to those encountered during the fourth quarter of a typical calculus course.

In this educational research article, the use of reading partnerships in the context of classrooms where some students are learning a second language. The first part of the article discusses the benefits of adding extensive reading to...

Find dependent probabilities like P(A | B) or P(B | A) for a variety of contexts. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

Given the graph that models a real-world context, answer a question about the periodicity of the graph. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

This multi-task lesson asks young scholars to look at the DREAM Act in the context of immigration reform and also to reflect on blogging as civic engagement.

Find relationships among primary and secondary sources of information that identify where information from different sources converges and where it differs.

Discover more about the history of the English language when you visit this informative site. Students and teachers will benefit from this educational resource.

Check out this site featuring lesson plans and other teaching ideas for William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." This site offers several links to informative resources.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the Pledge of Allegiance and what it means. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

How can you define phonics? Take this opportunity to learn a little more about phonics and its relationship to letters and sounds.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans, based on David Shannon's books No, David!, David Gets in Trouble, and David Goes to School. Students learn how to utilize text and picture clues to determine and describe...

In this lesson, students create future-self plans. When presented with the idea of future possible selves, students have the opportunity to identify who they want to be.

Explore effective interview questions. By choosing questions that are open-ended and important to them, students can learn great interview skills that can be helpful in future college and job interviews.