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Comparing Comfort
Explore how two texts use tone and imagery to convey comfort and resilience, then apply these techniques to create an original haiku.
Teaching Materials
These research-based resources and lesson plans are designed for a variety of audiences to contribute to Pennsylvania and national core curriculum in support of the Pennsylvania Center for the Book's mission to promote books and literacy to the citizens of the Commonwealth.
Lesson Plans
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Context Clues
Determine the meaning of unknown words and phrases by using sentence-level context clues and knowledge of root words.
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Explicit vs. Implicit Meaning
Learners analyze explicit and implicit meaning in a poem and apply these skills to revise workplace communication.
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Fetching the Central Idea
Adult learners identify the central idea or theme of a text with two essential questions.
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Mid-Autumn Festival
Ask who, what, where, when, why, and how questions to identify key details in nonfiction texts.
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Research and Notetaking
Develop notetaking skills by researching dinosaurs in this engaging lesson for adults.
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Shop Smarter
Empower participants to sort, organize, and create their own efficient grocery lists with ease.
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SOLVE Framework
Use After the Fall to explore problem-solving strategies and resilience in personal, professional, and community contexts.
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Venn Diagrams
Build compare and contrast skills by creating a graphic organizer to illustrate the similarities and difference in two texts about trees.