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Who/Whom
Mixing up who and whom is a common mistake made by young writers. After a lesson on the topic, assign the activity provided here for practice. There are 10 sentences on the page. Class members circle who or whom to make each sentence...
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Story Starters: Keyboarding
Students use all the alphabetic keys to create stories using their own imaginations and story prompts. They practice proofreading skills.
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Sorting Out Homophones in Roald Dahl's
Students explore the concept of homophones. In this homophone lesson, students use a selection from the book Matilda to review homophones. Students use a web to identify homophones.
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Language Experience Approach
The students learn to identify the different steps of ironing a shirt in English and practice by doing simple Phonics tasks, writing activities, etc.
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Create Your Own Homophone Worksheets
Students develop their own homophone worksheet. They practice the spelling and using the different homophones. They participate in a homophone bee to end the lesson.
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Reading - Identifying Skill Requirement
Students discuss the different types of reading styles. They are then given situations in which they are to assign it a reading style.
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Muscle Flexibility and Strength
Fourth graders listen to the definition of muscle strength and observe the teacher demonstrate how to do an abdominal crunch. They then do abdominal crunches for 20 seconds. They gather information about flexibility and strength and...
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Reading Comprehension - Scanning
Students use scanning as a comprehension skill when reading certain types of publications. They compare the reading technique used when reading in their mother language to those used when reading English.
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Prepositions Used as Adverbs
Sixth graders discuss with the teacher what a prepositional phrase when used as an adverb describes. They then understand that adverb phrases will answer the questions: where, when, in what way, or to what extent. They then do student...
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Grandpa Ed
Learners engage in an emergent literacy lesson that focuses on phonemic awareness. For practice they become more comfortable with a short vowel phoneme, which can often be the most difficult to identify, by learning it in isolation.
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Quel temps fait -il?
High schoolers converse about the weather in French focusing on the conjugation of the verb "faire". They identify types of weather using French vocabulary while viewing a weather video then complete a set of four practice activities.
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The English Club
Students explore the English alphabet. In this English skills lesson, students participate in activities to help them learn and retain the English alphabet.