Key Literacy Strategies

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RESOURCE	GRADE LEVEL	MEDIA TYPE
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
Building the Erie Canal In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students look at how the construction of the Erie Canal brought about major changes within United States, particularly in New York City, upstate New York, and the Midwest.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
Bullying In this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students think about the impact of bullying on individuals' rights in a democratic society.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
The Columbian Exchange In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore the movement of plants, animals, and diseases that characterized the Columbian Exchange and learn how it changed the world.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
Continental Drift: What's the Big Idea? In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how the theory that explains the position of Earth's continents was established and later modified, and gain important insights into how science and the scientific community operate.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
Florida's Everglades: The River of Grass In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the unique environment of southern Florida's Everglades and gain insights into the interrelatedness of living things, nonliving things, and climate.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
Multiplying Fractions by Whole Numbers: Recipes In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine how to multiply fractions by whole numbers in the context of a recipe.	5-8	Self-paced Lesson
Nutrition: What Your Body Needs In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine the nutritional content of different foods and learn about the health benefits and risks associated with the food choices they make.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
Powering Your Body with Exercise In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the positive effects that exercise has on the body and some activities they can do to improve their health.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
The Powers of Government In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how power is divided and shared among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the U.S. government.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
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
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
Tiktaalik: A Fish Out of Water In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn that transitional fossils provide scientists with evidence to establish how major animal groups are related to one another.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
Trail of Tears: The Cherokee Fight Against Removal In this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students examine the struggles of the Cherokees to remain on their land in the early 1800s.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
Understanding Character: The Life of Percy Julian In this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students learn about the character of chemist Percy Julian through his struggles with racism in his education, work, and community.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson