Writing Samples
Teacher's Guide for the HBO Documentary, Sergio
Lucid Learning worked with Teaching Tolerance to write this teacher's guide to support the HBO movie Sergio.
Teaching Tolerance Lesson: Cliques in Schools
Lucid Learning worked with Teaching Tolerance to create this lesson.
Teaching Tolerance Lesson: Understanding Religious Clothing
Here is another lesson from the Teaching Tolerance archive.
Improving Paragraphs: Teacher’s Edition
This lesson comes from a program called Focus on Writing (published by Kaplan, Inc. 2008), designed to teach students how to answer essay questions that appear on standardized tests. Each lesson breaks down critical skills and guides students through the steps of writing: prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing.
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New Neighbors
This is an excerpt from the student edition of Focus on Reading (published by Kaplan, Inc. 2007), a comprehensive reading strategy program with fiction and nonfiction passages and standardized test-like questions. One key feature of this program is the leveled text it uses: the same stories and articles are written at several different reading levels so that students of different abilities can all read the same material.
