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Vocabulary Lesson (Color Words) Using Various Books by Eric Carle and Internet Sites

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars investigate color words. In this vocabulary, high frequency words, and technology lesson, students visit various websites to practice reading color words. Young scholars listen to Eric Carle books and observe the...
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Spelling Practice

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this spelling crossword worksheet, students practice their spelling words by completing a crossword puzzle. Students are given eighteen clues which they are to solve.
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Space Spelling Worksheet

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this spelling skills worksheet, students examine 12 letters and read a clue to use some of the letters to spell a space-related word.
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Counting Apples Booklet

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this word and color recognition booklet template, students follow the textual clues to draw and color their own apple pictures in order to create an apple counting booklet.
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One-Word Rebus

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this work puzzle learning exercise, students solve a rebus puzzle that has four clues but only a one word answer. They can color the puzzle.
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Places in a City

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this city worksheet, students look at a map of a city and write direction words to where places are, answer short answer questions, and fill in a crossword. Students complete 3 activities.
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Life Cycle of Frog Crossword

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this creating a crossword puzzle worksheet, students list vocabulary words about the life cycle of the frog, fill in grids on a grid paper, and write clue words going across and down. Students create a 10 word puzzle.
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Word Ladders - Initial Sounds

For Students K - 2nd
In this phonics worksheet, students build word ladders with the words cat and hog. Clues are given for each new word. No directions are provided.
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Figurative Language

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Here's a richly detailed unit, designed for second graders, that focuses on decoding figurative language, including similes, metaphors, personification and idioms.
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"The Glorious Whitewasher" from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain with Mini-Assessment

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
It's the classic scene: Tom Sawyer is whitewashing a fence. Expose your learners to Mark Twain's humor while reinforcing reading comprehension. Eighth graders are encouraged to read and reread, achieving as much exposure to the text as...
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Shizuko’s Daughter: Knowledge Rating Scale

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
How well do your kids know key terms from Shizuko's Daughter by Kyoko Mori? Have them review a list of words that they will encounter in the novel, and mark which words they know well, which words they've seen before, and which words...
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Identify the Homographs

For Students 6th - 8th
To conduct an orchestra, a conductor’s conduct must be above reproach. What fun! Light a match under your readers by having them read a series of definitions and find the homograph that matches. If learners don’t contest, you could...
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Beowulf: Songs of Ancient Heroes

For Teachers 12th
Introduce your class to epic heroes with these activities for Beowulf. After watching a video clip, taking notes on heroes, and tracking characteristics of heroism throughout Beowulf, class members retell an episode of Beowulf using a...
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Making Connections

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate visual imagery to aid reading comprehension. In this reading strategies lesson, 4th graders discover how visual imagery helps in comprehending a story. Students use a reader's notebook to record connections.
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Maus: Bingo Vacabulary Strategy

For Teachers 10th - 12th
The definitions for unfamiliar words drawn from Art Spiegelman graphic novel memoir, Maus, provide the clues for a vocabulary bingo game. 
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Novelinks

The Grapes of Wrath: Vocabulary Activity

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Readers locate unfamiliar words in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and teach these words and their meanings to class members.
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How Many Languages Do You Speak When You Speak English?

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
What do the words pizza, broccoli, and ciao have in common? Why they are all English words that originally came from Italian. Ask your middle schoolers to guess the origins of a list of words by matching the word with the language from...
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You Don’t Know How to Drive?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
A cloze reading passage about getting a driver's permit at an older age prompts kids to use context clues as they read. They can use the word bank below to fill in eight blank spaces throughout the story.
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Fewer or Less?

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
When do you use fewer, and when do you use less? Learn the difference between the two words with a fill-in-the-blank worksheet that asks readers to make their choice based on the context clues in the ten sentences.
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Participles Used As Adjectives

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Is a movie interesting or interested? Use context clues to decide which participle would be the most appropriate in each of ten sentences.
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Georgia CRCT Online: 8th Reading Quiz B

For Students 7th - 9th
Practice for a standardized test or reinforce reading comprehension with this practice test, designed for the Georgia Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT). Twelve reading questions about two short passages (one fiction, one...
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Monster Vocabulary

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Challenge language arts learners with a crossword puzzle that focuses on vocabulary words from Walter Dean Myers' Monster. After kids read the clues at the bottom of the page, they complete the puzzle with their newly defined words.
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Webbing Context Clues

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore strategies for identifying the meaning of unfamiliar words. In this vocabulary lesson, 5th graders apply a think aloud strategy for unfamiliar words. Students use context clues to identify unfamiliar words and write...
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Colors, Characters, & Clues: White Socks

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars examine the process of making inferences. They define inference, view a Powerpoint presentation, and as a whole group locate clues in the pictures of a short story, locating written clues to reinforce their conclusions.

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