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Chef Solus Fiber Crossword Puzzle
In this fiber food group activity, students fill in a crossword puzzle as they figure out the answer to 15 clues about fiber going across and down.
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Capital Letters
In this capitalization interactive workhsheet, students read seven sentences and select the proper capitalization for each sentence.
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Animals A to Z: Turkey
In this turkey worksheet, 3rd graders will add pages to their "animal books." Students will read 10 facts to gain an understanding of a turkey and its particular attributes.
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Animals A to Z: Sea Turtle
In this sea turtle learning exercise, 3rd graders will add pages to their "animal books." Students will read 10 facts to gain an understanding of a sea turtle and its particular attributes.
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Animals A to Z: Shark
In this shark worksheet, 3rd graders will add pages to their "animal books." Students will read 10 facts about a shark to gain an understanding of the animal's characteristics.
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Animals A to Z: Octopus
In this octopus worksheet, 3rd graders will add pages to their "animal books." Students will read 10 facts to gain an understanding of an octopus and its particular attributes.
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Animals A to Z: Penguin
In this penguin worksheet, 3rd graders will add pages to their "animal books." Students will read 10 facts to gain an understanding of a penguin and its particular attributes.
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Animals A to Z: Porcupine
For this porcupine worksheet, 3rd graders will add pages to their "animal books." Students will read 10 facts to gain an understanding of a porcupine and its particular attributes.
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Requesting Information
Students create a letter requesting information from a local vocational agency using word processing software. They send the finished letter to the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation.
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Analyzing Persuasion
A reading of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech launches a study of rhetorical devices such as hyperbole, allusion, metaphor, simile, personification, connotative language and parallel structure. Class members then...
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Accordion-Book Summary
Introduce your young readers to the book review. Groups of writers practice the basic steps of writing a book report and complete an Accordion-Book Summary activity. The lesson plan includes book report basics and directions to make...
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Who's Confused? Not Me!
The class works together to tackle easily confused words. Each learner receives a word and he or she must create a flashcard with the following things: the word, its definition, an original sentence that uses the word, and a picture...
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Word Processing Can Be Lots of Font!
Explore the basic functions of word processing programs. Young computer users practice deleting, inserting, and changing text. They experience using computer functions as they copy a required poem and complete various computer exercises....
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Biography: Telling Someone's Life Story
There are many different ways to help your students get excited about writing biographies.
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Present Perfect Progressive
For this verb tense worksheet, students write the correct form of the verbs in parentheses to complete each of 40 phrases in the sentences provided.
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Correct Verb Forms- Time Expressions
In this verb tense worksheet, students write the correct form of the given verbs to complete 10 sentences. They examine the time expressions before deciding to use simple present, present progressive, past, past progressive, future,...
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Present Perfect Practice
In this present perfect verb review worksheet, students fill in the 40 blanks in 9 questions with the appropriate forms of the verbs listed in parenthesis.
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Domestic or Circus Animals
Students categorize animals into domestic and circus animals. Using strips of paper with animal names, they match a photo with the animal's name. They practice their pronunciation by reading sentences they have created to the class.
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Challenging the Human Spirit
High schoolers select a theme-related essay topic from Night, by Elie Wiesel, or The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, and develop an essay that relates the theme to modern-day personal experiences. The essay follows a preset rubric...
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Daily Oral Language Activities in the Classroom
Daily Oral Language is a great way for you and your students to begin the day.
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Defending Great Literature
Students defend Mark Twain and the study of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn using persuasive techniques, appropriate word choice, and correct letter format, in response to a fictional letter by an upset parent.
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The Story of My Life
Learners complete autobiographical writing assignments throughout the school year that they save and rewrite to put into a published book during the last month of class. They include photographs, drawings and mementos of their lives in...
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Writing Bug: A Halloween Who, When, Where
In this creative writing worksheet, students choose one item from each category about who, where, and when and write a creative Halloween story. Students write 1 story.
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Lesson One: The Historian's Craft
Students examine a fairy tale villain (such as the wolf from the Three Little Pigs or the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz). Next, they complete a worksheet considering the challenges presented by historical resources.