Key Literacy Strategies

Using Background Knowledge

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American Stories: Teens and Immigration

American Stories: Teens and Immigration

In this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students explore the experience of four teen immigrants to the United States.

5-12

Self-paced Lesson

Energy Transfer in a Roller Coaster

Energy Transfer in a Roller Coaster

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine energy forms in moving objects and discover how changes from one form to another move cars through a roller coaster ride.

5-12

Self-paced Lesson

Ratio and Proportional Reasoning: Food Labels

Ratio and Proportional Reasoning: Food Labels

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how to use fractions to interpret the nutritional information contained on food labels.

5-8

Self-paced Lesson

The Story of Pocahontas

The Story of Pocahontas

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore what may have happened when Pocahontas and John Smith met by comparing popular and historical versions of the famous story.

5-12

Self-paced Lesson

Surviving Winter

Surviving Winter

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the varied physical and behavioral adaptations that animals rely on to help them survive changing environmental conditions, such as the arrival of winter.

5-12

Self-paced Lesson

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