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Wonderful Words for Writing!
Twenty slides make up a set of festive, May-themed writing prompts designed to grab scholars' attention and warm-up their writing skills. Prompts include story starters, holidays, research questions, the five senses, and more!
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Flying Freudian Fun: A Look At Ethical Decision Making
There are not many more apt examples of ethics gone awry than William Golding's Lord of the Flies.. Ninth graders focus the ethics of decision making with the examples provided in the plot. They focus on the concept of the psyche and how...
DK Publishing
Money Word Problems #2
Are you experiencing money problems? Here are some more! Young mathematicians practice their addition and subtraction skills with money values in these word problems and number sentences. Some of the 25 questions prompt scholars to...
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Transition Words in Writing
Transition words in writing are the focus of the language arts lesson presented here. In it, learners cut out the word-sort cards (embedded in the plan), and put them into four categories: time, examples, space, and summary. They find a...
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PE Word Wall
Increase your middle schoolers' physical education vocabulary and knowledge of the rules of different sports by posting on the word wall. You will have to do all the work and remember to laminate things, so you only have to do it once. A...
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Homophones and Homographs
Getting tired of correcting to, two, and too? What about weather and whether? Use a thorough lesson on homophones and homographs to clear up those differences. Fourth and fifth graders identify which words sound the same and are spelled...
Hawaiʻi State Department of Education
What’s My Vocabulary Word?
The elements of dance can be used to communicate thoughts and, in this case, words. In small groups, the class first creates a set of movements to show a single word. Then, they extend their movements to show a three-word phrase....
EngageNY
Analyzing Powerful Language: Learning to Read
The power of a word. Readers learn the importance of word choice in shaping a text by using a Powerful Language T-chart to separate strong words and phrases from those that are more bland. They then complete a third read and question set...
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Words Really Matter: Examining Language at School
Help your students gain sensitivity and become aware of the implications of the words they see, hear, and use about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. After making lists of words or phrases they hear or use in school...
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Spelling Connections Grade 2: "ng" and "nk" Words
Young readers practice those pesky -ng and -nk endings in this fun worksheet. They unscramble 10 words, each presented in its own picture of a car. Then your little alphabetizers number each car according to ABC order to find out which...
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Narrative Writing: Using Exact Words
Review the narrative writing process with your emerging story writers. They read a sample narrative and identify five vague verbs that could be replaced with a more exact, exciting verb. Then they write a personal narrative making sure...
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Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words, Memory
Engage your class in a game where they look for matching rhymes. They will flip over cards and look for rhyming words. If the words match they keep the cards. If they words do not match they turn the cards over. Additionally, they will...
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Train Phonics - /an/ Words
Follow the phonics train and get your special needs class on the reading track. To promote the /an/ sound and phonemic awareness, each page contains an image of a train, and each car contains an item. The word representing that item is...
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Weather Words
Weather and the days of the week are the focus on a fun kindergarten activity. Using a word bank with weather words, kids match the pictures of snow, wind, rain, and sun to their correct terms. They then draw a picture for the weather...
Night of Mystery
Pirate Words and Phrases
Avast, ye mateys! A full dictionary of pirate phrases and words is sure to get your little pirates in a mood for sailing, reading, or writing. It features a basic list of terms as well as a more extensive dictionary for your class to be...
Scholastic
What’s the Good Word? Etymology Project Guidelines
Who named the shapes, or the days of the week? Should words be removed from the dictionary if they're no longer commonly used? Are there too many words in the English language? Language arts students explore these and additional...
EngageNY
Speech Writing: Identifying Reasons, Evidence, and Linking Words
Enjoy the view. Scholars continue viewing a video of an opinion speech, this time identifying the supporting evidence the speaker employs. After watching, they work in small groups on their shared writing projects, crafting a body...
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fr Word Search
Eleven words are provided that use the digraph fr. Can your learners find all eleven words in the crossword puzzle? Consider having them use a highlighter or a thicker marker to make it easier to locate the words.
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The Word Factory
Here is a clever way to help your 3rd and 4th graders add -ing to verbs. A list of 10 action verbs is given, and learners must adjust the spelling of each verb to accept the -ing ending. This would be an excellent choice for a homework...
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Making 100 By Adding
In this addition activity, students create number problems that equal 100. In this fill in the blank activity, students generate ten addition problems.
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Intermediate Making a Formal Argument: Practice
Does practice really make perfect? What is perfect, and how is it measured? Your aspiring writers will respond to the adage "Practice makes perfect." There's an example answer provided, but consider removing it to see what reasoning they...
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And 1 More Makes...
If we add one more, how many will we have? Beginners to addition practice this skill using images and counting as they draw one more sock to each set and record the new total. There are three of these followed by four more similar...
Illustrative Mathematics
Making Hot Cocoa, Variation 1
Dividing with fractions can be a confusing task to some, but the activity illustrates how to make groups out of the problem and look at it visually. Use this problem with the lesson plan in the Additional Materials section to practice...
Salt Lake City School District
Two-Step Word Problems
Learners model a real-life scenario by writing a two-step algebra equation and solving it, as they complete this activity. Ten practice word problems on one piece of paper are nicely prepared just for your young algebra learners.
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