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Have middle schoolers improve their writing, critical thinking, and reading skills with these activities, which include creating a word cloud and summarizing informational texts.

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Have high schoolers analyze a poem, summarize an informational text, and write effective arguments with this week's downloadables activities.

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Have your children in Grades 3-5 explore traditional tales with free reading lessons.

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Sharpen your writing, language, critical thinking, and reading skills with these instructional resources for Grades 6-8, including a poetry scavenger hunt.

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Have high school students analyze news stories, poems, and short stories with these instructional resources designed for remote learning.

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Using stories to teach children math is a fun way for them to learn math vocabulary.

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Teach high school students about precision and accuracy, significant digits, and errors in measurement with these downloadable activities.

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Explore five days of reading lessons designed to engage your child in an exploration of the animal world.

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Vamos a proporcionarles lecciones de lectura que duran cinco días, y las cuales servirán para explorar el mundo animal con su hijo.

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Vamos a proporcionarles lecciones de lectura que duran cinco días, y las cuales servirán para explorar el mundo animal con su hijo.

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Vamos a proporcionarles lecciones de lectura que duran cinco días, y las cuales servirán para explorar el mundo animal con su hijo.

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Give your kids an inside look at the animal world with five days of reading lessons for first and second graders.

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Have your children in Grades 3-5 explore the animal world with free reading lessons, updated throughout the week.

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A linear equation in two variables describes a relationship in which the value of one of the variables depends on the value of the other variable.

Richard Blankman
Shaped Executive Editor

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With schools closed, ICLE's Weston Kieschnick offers tips to keep the academic momentum going and ideas on what to focus on as children learn at home.

Weston Kieschnick
Associate Partner, ICLE

Earth day lesson plans

Use these Earth Day lesson plans to teach your students about the environment and sustainable practices in their daily lives.

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Schools that integrate social-emotional learning into instruction equip students to persevere and master rigorous content. Start with these five tips.

Brenda Iasevoli
Shaped Executive Editor

How to calculate social media engagement

Download these free math activities for students to teach them how to calculate the engagement of both real and fictional Instagram users.

Ally Zmijeski
Associate Learning Architect, Math

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