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English Exercises: The Plural Poem
In this plurals learning exercise, 4th graders interactively enter 17 words, either singular or plural, to match the picture in the poem of irregular plurals, then find 15 different irregular plural words in a word search grid, with...
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Ornithology and Real World Science
Double click that mouse because you just found an amazing lesson! This cross-curricular Ornithology lesson incorporates literature, writing, reading informational text, data collection, scientific inquiry, Internet research, art, and...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
A World of Animals: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 10)
Animals are the theme of this series of English language development lessons. Scholars take part in grand conversations about woodland, jungle, and grassland animals. They also go on picture walks, read poems and high frequency words,...
K12 Reader
Adventures with Alliteration! - Nouns
Create poetry with a worksheet based on alliterative phrases. After reviewing ten nouns, kids add an adjective to each based on the first letter of the noun. They then rewrite five sentences to involve more alliteration.
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Improving Descriptive Writing: Painting an Original Picture
Descriptive writing is rich in sensory appeals and paints pictures in the minds of readers. Show young writers how to use an on-line thesaurus and a cliché website to create fresh, descriptive writing. The presentation ends with an...
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Haiku Written by Kids
In this Haiku poetry worksheet, students will read 20 examples of Haiku poems written by students. The poems are centered around nature.
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Homer T. Cat, Poem
Students read a poem about a cat. Students discuss how cats behave and examine Homer's life in his environment.
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Weekend With Wendell
Students discuss prior knowledge about mice, and read a mouse poem. They listen to the teacher read "A Weekend With Wendell" and discuss Wendell's possible reaction when coming to visit the school media center. Students compose a class...
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Teaching English: Litter Activity
In this litter/pollution worksheet, students read a poem titled "Litter," then complete a chart matching meanings given to words in the poem, complete short answer questions, answer true/false questions and write their own poem.
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Telling Time, Clocks
Students practice their skills in telling time and reading clock faces by singing simple songs and reading two clever poems.
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Burns' Night and dialect
Young scholars explore poetry and dialect. They research Burn's Night and how people celebrate it. Students examine the Scottish dialect and its similarities to English grammar. Young scholars write their own poetry.
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Mesearch: A Reason for Research
Students complete a research activity about themselves. They access an article on brainstorming and identifying personality traits. Students brainstorm about their personality traits and view a related PowerPoint. Students create their...
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First Letter Changes
Students use the books of Eric Carle to change the first letter in a word to see a new word. In this phonics lesson plan, students change the beginning letters in poems and books.
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The Crooked Man
For this "The Crooked Man" worksheet, students read the poem, review 4 sight words and color and arrange the 10 pictures in chronological order.
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Keeping Safe (911)
Learners explore "emergency safety" rules through a series of activities led by the teacher. In this safety lesson, students practice dialing 911 on a paper or play phone after listening to the interactive book It's Time to Call 911:...
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Final Phoneme CK
Pupils discuss types of rhyme and identify the words in a poem that end in ck. They write their own stories about a mouse and his amazing adventure.
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Hickory, Dickory Dock! Dot to Dot
In this counting to 12 worksheet, students complete a dot to dot picture of a mouse and a clock. The poem "Hickory Dickory Dock" is printed on the page.
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Months of the Year In Haiku
Students type Haiku poetry using AppleWorks, including special holidays or events and famous Americans for the month about which they choose to write.
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Aesop's Fables
Students read a fable about a lion and a mouse. They discuss the differences between the two animals. As a class, they discover the instructional activity of the story. Then they make puppets and reenact the fable.
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Where is the Pet?
Students identify rhyming words and explore the usage of spatial words. In this Where Is The Pet lesson, students listen to a poem, repeat the rhymes within the poem, list various of additional rhyming words that can replace the words in...
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Tongue Twisters
In this oral language worksheet set, students practice saying 16 tongue twisters. They recite the short poems that highlight the sound of different letters of the alphabet. There are no questions related to this worksheet.
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I Saw a Ship A-Sailing
In this language arts worksheet, students read a classic Mother Goose nursery rhyme called I Saw a Ship A-Sailing. Students color the picture that accompanies the poem.
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Fabulous, Fractured Fables
Elementary schoolers develop an awareness of the literary form known as the fable. They explore how authors write fables to pass along moral lessons. After reading and discussing many famous fables embedded in the plan, learners attempt...
University of Arizona
Yoruba Legends: Southern Nigeria
Explore legends and storytelling with your learners. After listening to some legends, pupils work collaboratively and then individually to come up with original legends about animals.