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Theme 1


The Best School Year Ever


The View from Saturday


Knots in my Yo-Yo String


The Marble Champ


Darnell Rock Reporting

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The Best School Year Ever

Vocabulary: Flashcards - Crossword - Words with Definitions

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The View From Saturday

Vocabulary: Flashcards

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Knots in My Yo-Yo String

Vocabulary: Flashcards - Words with Definitions

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The Marble Champ

Vocabulary: Flashcards - Words with Definitions

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Darnell Rock Reporting

Vocabulary: Flashcards - Words with Definitions

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Theme 2


Number the Stars


The Summer of the Swans


Old Yeller


Saving Shiloh


Flood: Wrestling with the Mississippi

Vocabulary Review

Number the Stars

Vocabulary: Words with Definitions

Weblinks:


Children of the Holocaust

a brief history with photos

Quiz: Number the Stars
How well do you remember the book?

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The Summer of the Swans

Vocabulary: Words with Definitions

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Old Yeller

Vocabulary: Words with Definitions

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Saving Shiloh

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Flood: Wrestling with the Mississippi

Vocabulary: Words with Definitions

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Harcourt Game - Practice summarizing and paraphrasing

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Theme 3


The Stone Age News

Ancient China

Pyramids

Look into the Past: The Greeks and the Romans

The Skill of Pericles

Vocabulary Review

The Stone Age News

Vocabulary: Picture Flashcards - Words with Definitions

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Reading Skills Rocket - Compare and Contrast

Reading Skills Rocket - Text Structure

Test Tutor - Fact and Opinion

Test Tutor - Locating Information

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Ancient China

Vocabulary: Picture Flashcards - Words with Definitions

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Building Background - Daily Life in Ancient China

Building Background - Ancient Civilizations: China

Computer Station - China Maps

Test Tutor - Compare and Contrast

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Pyramids

Vocabulary: Picture Flashcards - Words with Definitions

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Look Into the Past: The Greeks and the Romans

Vocabulary: Picture Flashcards - Words with Definitions

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Building Background - History for Kids

Reading Skills Rocket - Text Structure

Test Tutor - Text Structure

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The Skill of Pericles

Vocabulary: Picture Flashcards - Words with Definitions

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Test Tutor - Prefixes, Suffixes and Roots

Building Background - Pericles the Leader

Reading Skills Rocket - Prefixes, Suffixes and Roots

Computer Station - Using the Internet to Learn about Faraway Places

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Theme 4


My Side of the Mountain

Febold Feboldson

The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle

A Do-It-Yourself Project

Catching the Fire: Phillip Simmons, Blacksmith

Vocabulary Review

My Side of the Mountain

Vocabulary: Words with Definitions

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Febold Feboldson

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ePostcard: What a Character! - Online writing activity from Houghton Mifflin's Education Place

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The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle

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A Do-It-Yourself Project

Vocabulary: Words with Definitions

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Building Background - Young Inventors Award Program

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Catching the Fire: Philip Simmons, Blacksmith

Vocabulary: Words with Definitions

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Building Background - Thinking about your future career

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Theme 5


Seventh Grade

Fall Secrets

Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille

Anne of Green Gables

Cowboys: Round-Up on an American Ranch

Vocabulary Review

Seventh Grade

Vocabulary: Flashcards - Words with Definitions

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Harcourt Test Tutor

A Carousel of Tenses - at Harcourt Grammer Practice Park

Go for Grammar Gold - Comparing with Adjectives

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Fall Secrets

Vocabulary: Flashcards - Words with Definitions

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Building Background - Disappointment and solutions

Principal Parts Picnic Basket - a Harcourt Grammar Practice Park game

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Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille

Vocabulary: Flashcards - Words with Definitions

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Harcourt Test Tutor

Name That Verb - a Harcourt Grammar Practice Park game

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Anne of Green Gables

Vocabulary: Flashcards - Words with Definitions

Weblinks:

Virtual photo tour of the Green Gables farmhouse

Read the whole story online: Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Perfect Tense Matching - a Harcourt Grammar Practice Park game

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Cowboys: Roundup on an American Ranch

Vocabulary: Flashcards - Words with Definitions

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Progressive Verb Forest - A Harcourt Grammar Practice Park game
eWord Game - from Houghton Mifflin's Education Place
Harcourt: Building Background - Horsemanship Tutorial
Cattlepages: Photo Gallery
Cattlepages: Cowboy Poetry
Cowboy Photographs
Cowboy and Rodeo Glossary
- Learn new words to sound like a true cowboy or cowgirl!
Horse Diagram - Learn the body parts of a horse

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Vocabulary Review - Theme 5

Vocabulary from Theme 5 (categorized by story)

Vocabulary from Theme 5 (alphabetized)

Vocabulary Definitions from Theme 5

MOVIE: Theme 5 Vocabulary Review (Created with Photostory by Miss Boldt)

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Theme 6


The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane

I Want to be an Astronaut

Voyager: An Adventure to the Edge of the Solar System

Cybersurfer

The Fun They Had

Vocabulary Review

The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane

Vocabulary: "I Have, Who Has?" Game (Printable resource for teachers)

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Garden of Praise: Biography for Kids

Discovery Kids: First in Flight

PBS Kids Go!: Wright Flight

Kids Konnect (Lotsa Links!)

VIDEO: First Successful Airplane Flight

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I Want to Be an Astronaut

Vocabulary:
Words with Definitions
"I Have, Who Has?" Game (Printable resource for teachers)
Space Word Find (printable)

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Harcourt Test Tutor - I Want to Be An Astronaut

Space Vehicles - :Printable Clip Art/Coloring Pages

Solar System Coloring Book (printable)

Solar System Model (for you to make)

Fix the Mission - fix the Hubble Telescope and find out cool facts about it!

Adventures of the Agronauts - Fun way to learn more about the Solar System

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Voyager: An Adventure to the Edge of the Solar System

Vocabulary: Words with Definitions - "I Have, Who Has?" Game (Printable resource for teachers)

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View Cities Around the World from space

Make a Comet - SO COOL!!!!

Awesome photos from outer space!

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CyberSurfer

Vocabulary:
"I Have, Who Has?" Game (Printable resource for teachers)

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Harcourt Skills - Building Background

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The Fun They Had

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Harcourt Skills - Building Background

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Vocabulary Review - Theme 6

 

 

 

 

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