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Good Old Earth Materials

For Teachers K - 4th
Students investigate different types of building structures and how they are able to stand up to earthquakes. Through comparison they determine which buildings are better able to handle earthquakes than others. They create a building,...
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Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Photo Chart

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Have fun with student photographs in this phonics activity! Learners sort their classmates' photos by initial sound on a large poster board with the alphabet written vertically down the left side. Also provided are various pictures...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Segmenting, Phoneme Counting Sort

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Pre-readers use the provided cards to say and sort based on the number of phonemes in each word.
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Fluency Passages, 4th Grade

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Support your fourth graders on the long and difficult journey to fluent reading with this collection of reading passages. Designed as fluency assessments, these short texts help students of varying abilities improve their reading skills.
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Creative Writing Prompts For Every Season and Month

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Winter, spring, summer, and fall! Every season is covered in a 14-page list of writing prompts. Included are story starters, reflection questions, poetry topics, and more.
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Iggy the Penguin

For Teachers K - 1st
Take your young word detectives on a hunt for the /i/ sound. Use the tongue twister about Iggy the penguin to help learners identify the target sound. Then learners are given several words, and they have to use their detective skills to...
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Last Sound Segmenting (Mico Version)

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Get your scholars excited about phonemes using Mico the puppet; they use the picture cards to examine three words at a time. Mico says the ending sound of one of the words, and learners determine which of them is a match. You'll want to...
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Icky Sticky Fingers

For Teachers K - 1st
Practice recognizing the short vowel /i/ in written and spoken language. Introduce the target sound with a fun tongue twister about Lizzy the lizard. Through matching and listening activities, learners discriminate the vowel sound /i/...
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Fairy Tale Alliterations

For Students 4th - 5th
Fairy tales are the perfect way to focus on alliteration. Learners complete activities relating to alliteration and similes using a fairy tale theme. Then, they complete an acrostic poem using the words fairy tale.
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How New Words Are Created

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
How are new words created? Study the list of ways a word can be created, and then have your class attempt to define a list of words. Word examples include snail-mail, coffee-matic, teleshopping, etc. More words and their definitions are...
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The Cold War: Chapter 9: Lesson 1

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Used as a quick review of the Cold War, Korean War, and Cuban Missile Crisis, this presentation could be in many scenarios. However, the graphics and question types seem more appropriate for younger students, while the content is geared...
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Would You Rather?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Break the ice with a series of silly questions. This slide show asks 10 different, would you rather, questions. Each question has three silly answers to choose from. Great for classroom fun, the first day of school, or as a way to take a...
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Introduce Last Sound Segmenting (Mico Version)

For Teachers K - 1st
What is Mico trying to say? Use a puppet to make this final-phoneme activity more engaging for kindergartners. Using three picture cards at a time (included), they listen to him say a final sound. To which of the three images is he...
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Native American Homes

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research and create a model of a Native American home. In pairs, they conduct research on a selected type of Native American home, then draw designs for their building construction. Students then construct their model...
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January: Following Directions

For Students 4th - 6th
For this January icebreaker worksheet, students reveal their personal preferences and experiences. There are bubble letters at the top spelling the word January. There are 8 directions below. Students color the letters in response to the...
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Printing Practice Letter P

For Teachers Pre-K - K
For this printing worksheet, students trace 4 uppercase letter P's. The first box provides arrows that guide students in tracing the letter.
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Biome Bazaar

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers construct 3-D biomes. The ultimate goal of this activity is to allow students to be official tour guides and to teach one another about biomes, environmental responsibilities, habitats, and human roles in the various...
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Cruzin' to the Arctic

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students, in groups, study life in the Arctic Region and connect their own life experiences to the experiences of students in the Arctic.
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Types of Houses

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students orally name the kinds of houses in which people live. They name materials used in building houses in other countries. They construct a house.
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Iggy is Icky Sticky

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore short vowels and their help in the development of phonemic awareness. They gain experience of the correspondence /i/. Students illustrate the correspondence by using memorable techniques used in showing /i/ in...
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Giving Students a Little Latitude

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use a world outline map to locate places using coordinates of latitude and longitude. They answer questions about places based on their knowledge of the map and on their research and make up more questions of this sort for each...
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The Rock and Fossil Record-Science Puzzlers, Twisters & Teasers

For Students 5th - 8th
For this earth science worksheet, students complete 12 questions about rocks and fossils in the form of anagrams, riddles, sequences, and brain teasers.
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Scan It

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this reading strategies worksheet, learners will learn how to scan for information. Then students will scan a non-fiction passage about weather and complete 4 short answer questions.
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The Smallest Object I

For Students Pre-K - K
In this language arts instructional activity, students circle the smallest object in each box. The objects in each box all begin with the letter I.

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