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Readers' theater script, discussion questions, and coloring sheet. Discussion questions are differentiated by grade band.

Joce, this is great! What a treasure! I didn't realized the Antiochians had this resource. Thank you!

Joce, this is great! What a treasure! I didn't realized the Antiochians had this resource. Thank you!

Helpful resources, including readers' theaters scripts from primary sources.

Gettysburg Address reader's theater script and explanation

By Kuhn & Schwanenflugel.

"Our brain uses two different types of cognitive processing when doing these two operations: typing and writing. As tested on a group of undergrads, the research proved that laptop users type almost everything they hear without processing the meaning or devoting much thought to what it is they're taking notes on. Basically, when you type, all you're doing is mindlessly transcribing, and that does not require much cognitive activity."

Student writing samples 1-12. Recommended by Keys to Literacy.

K-12 writing samples from the Common Core website. Recommended by Keys to Literacy.

Student writing samples K-12. Recommended by Keys to Literacy.

Tips for writing conclusions from TFK writers.

Speaking from his home in England, Nicolson describes how being caught in a storm at sea inspired his passion for Homer, how the oral bards of the Scottish Hebrides may hold the key to understanding Homer's works, and why smartphones are connecting us to ancient oral traditions in new and surprising ways.

Norman Shapiro wrote to the geometry newsgroups one day offering to share materials from his Geometry Through Art workshops. We immediately expressed an interest, ever ready to seize an opportunity to bring more teaching materials to the Forum and to build our site with contributions direct from the classroom. As we looked over his handouts and the artwork they can generate, we realized this would be a good moment to experiment with taking someone's lessons and turning them into Web pages that would be useful to others. You will find here a wonderful assortment of lesson ideas, facilitation suggestions, lists of materials needed, and handouts for you to photocopy. Mr. Shapiro focuses on the student as investigator, learning through doing, and using perception to stimulate the motivation for more developed concepts and language. Art is one of the intrinsically interesting applications of geometry and these pages point to a wonderful way in to this topic for children and adults alike.

Math-Kitecture has a number of activities, including "Floor Plan your Classroom," which offer engaging ways for students to study mathematics by doing real-life architecture.

Johnnie's Math Page is the site to find fun math for kids, math games, and even a little math homework help.    Interactive math activities from across the web have been organized by topic to make math learning enjoyable and interesting. These activities have been chosen to represent the range of math learned from kindergarten to middle school.  

Various geometry math lesson ideas

There's lots of information on the Web about fractals, but most of it is either just pretty pictures or very high-level mathematics. So this fractals site is for kids, to help them understand what the weird pictures are all about - that it's math - and that it's fun! Teachers: Every lesson has a print version for classroom use.

Resources for teaching Notice and Note close reading strategies. Scroll to the bottom of the page for text excerpts that showcase the different signposts.

Use to teach the Contrast and Contradiction signpost for Notice and Note.

6-parts; based on the scripture passage

Reader's theatre script from the perspective of OT figures anticipating Christ's birth.