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31. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    She Did What? Revising for Connotation
    Did she walk, skip, amble, dance? In this minilesson, students explore connotation by acting out and revising the simple sentence "She walked into the room."
32. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Slipping, Sliding, Tumbling: Reinforcing Cause and Effect Through Diamante Poems
    Writing, revising, and publishing are just a few of the tasks students will complete in order to take their cause-and-effect diamante poems from an idea to a reality.
33. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Solving Word Meanings: Engaging Strategies for Vocabulary Development
    Vocabulary gumshoes use context clues and semantics to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
34. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Spelling Patterns "Go Fish" Card Game
    Students use sets of words that share a spelling pattern to create a card game like "Go Fish" and then play the game in groups, helping them improve their spelling.
35. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Supporting Vocabulary Development with EASE
    This lesson allows teachers to enrich students' oral and written vocabulary using the EASE sequence of instruction: Enunciate, Associate, Synthesize, and Emphasize the words you want students to use.
36. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Swish! Pow! Whack! Teaching Onomatopoeia Through Sports Poetry
    Students explore poetry about sports, looking closely at the use of onomatopoeia. After viewing a segment of a sporting event, students create their own onomatopoeic sports poems.
37. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Textmasters: Shaking Up Textbook Reading in Science Classrooms
    Engage students in content area reading with the Textmasters strategy, which allows students to collaborate with their peers in different roles that enable better understanding of the content.
38. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    The Big, Bad Wolf...Is This a Fact?
    Reading is revamped in this lesson in which students use a multimedia approach to study the books by Seymour Simon.
39. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    The Magnetism of Language: Parts of Speech, Poetry, and Word Play
    What wonderful ways words work! The parts of speech are the highlight of this lesson in which students identify parts of speech in a nonsensical poem and then create their own wild and wacky rhymes.
40. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Using a Word Journal to Create a Personal Dictionary
    Students will be the definition of vocabulary experts as they use the skills they learn in this lesson to track, define, and ultimately master unfamiliar words.

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