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Grade 2 Daily Language Review Worksheet
Help your second graders with their editing skills in this language review worksheet. After editing two sentences, they circle the best multiple choice word to complete four additional sentences. Another activity prompts them to choose...
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Be Your Own Chief Editor
The value of this punctuation and grammar lesson is in the SMART board presentation, which takes pupils through the proofreading process. It would be a good way to introduce the idea of proofreading in your class before beginning a unit...
Autism Speaks
Supporting Learning in the Student with Autism
Learners with autism face many challenges. Help them to meet these challenges with a packet loaded with practical suggestions, activities, and materials.
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Daily Oral Language Activities: Idioms
Third graders examine the use of idioms. In this vocabulary and reading instructional activity, 3rd graders explore what idioms are and make their own idiom cards to help them understand the use idioms in language.
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Daily Lesson Plan for a Struggling Reader
Strategy-based programs that are executed with consistency are the best for achieving growth in any learner with a learning disability. Here is a seven-step lesson plan that is highly structured and is intended to help learners with...
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Using Aphorisms to Help Dealing with People
Here's a formal plan for what many effective teachers already do: Provide a week's worth of aphorisms and have learners choose one to write about in their journals each day. They reflect on the meaning of each aphorism and project how it...
College Board
2005 AP® Psychology Free-Response Questions
How can diagnostic labels help children? Is hypnosis a useful tool or a fraudulent practice? An examination prompt explores controversies in psychology. A second, structured inquiry unpacks perception—and its various influences.
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Through Their Eyes: Video Taping Oral History
Students identify the stereotypes they are faced with on a daily basis. In groups, they use this information to identify the ways stereotypes are portrayed in movies and television. They use a video camera to record oral histories of...
Alvord Unified School District
Taking Good Care of Ourselves: Personal Hygiene
Freshen up your classroom (and students) with this personal hygiene presentation. Colorful images and clear language help adolescents learn about the changes their bodies are undergoing and the things they can do to ease the transition...
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Ancient Egypt
Pupils complete a series of activities to discover life in ancient Egypt. They create want ads for pyramid workers, design vocabulary flash cards and dictionaries, and research famous Egyptians. They also research the "Curse of the...
Smithsonian Institution
Mary Henry: Journal/Diary Writing
A great way to connect social studies with language arts, a resource on Mary Henry's historical diary reinforces the concepts of primary and secondary sources. It comes with an easy-to-understand lesson plan, as well as the reference...
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Health Education: Brushing Teeth
Second graders explore dental health as a topic. In this personal health lesson plan, 2nd graders demonstrate the proper technique for tooth brushing and describe the benefits of good dental health.
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Reading Vocabulary Definition Test Week 4
In this identifying vocabulary words from definition clues worksheet, students listen to the oral definitions and write the correct words, using the words in the word banks and then create sentences using them. Students write 25 answers.
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Reading Vocabulary Definition Test
In this vocabulary definition test worksheet, students listen to oral definitions and write the words and then create sentences using given words. Students write 25 answers.
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Reading Vocabulary Definition Test
In this recognizing definitions of daily vocabulary words worksheet, students listen to oral clues or definitions of their word lists from Monday through Thursday, write the correct words in the numbered columns, and create sentences for...
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Keyboard Buddies in my Community
Second graders utilize Microsoft Word to create stationery and letters to send to other children in their school building, expressing experiences in their daily lives. As the unit progresses, they create documents to send to other second...
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Help Wanted
In this factual text worksheet, 6th graders read through several want ads and then answer the detailed questions that follow to check their reading comprehension skills.
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Media Lessons Help Students to Better Understand Persuasive Language
Beginning a media unit by taking a closer look at advertising, and persuasive techniques can keep students engaged.
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Special Accommodations
This accommodations template provides a checklist of special accommodations that may be required for special needs learners in six areas: attention, academic, behavior, testing, speech/language, and OT/PT. Space is also provided for...
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ReQuest and Motor Imaging with My Side of the Mountain
Fifth graders read "My Side of the Mountain." They create a pantomime using vocabulary words from the story. Students create three questions about the reading. They discuss the passage they read and act out words to help them better...
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Celebrate Reading!
Students improve their reading skills by completing at home reading assignments. In this reading skills lesson, students participate in a bulletin board competition to help them track and progress with their daily reading. Students...
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Reading Vocabulary Definition Test : Week 1
In this reading vocabulary test learning exercise, students identify the 28 daily terms their instructor defines. Students also write 4 sentences that include the 4 specified vocabulary words.
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Reading Vocabulary Definition Test Week 3
In this reading vocabulary test worksheet, students identify the 7 daily terms their instructor defines. Students also write 4 sentences that include the 4 specified vocabulary words.
K12 Reader
Customs and Traditions
Here's a two-part reading comprehension instructional activity that asks kids to read a short passage about the customs and traditions of Native American tribes and then to answer a series of questions based on the article.