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Comic Strip Writing Templates
Spark interest in young writers with a three-box comic strip template including speech bubbles. Learners draw and write a sequential comic with boxes that are stacked on top of each other. Using this format or the other templates...
K12 Reader
Comic Page Templates
Looking for a set of comic strip templates? Use a resource with five comic templates complete with writing frames and text bubbles. Not only is it a great tool to have on hand in the classroom, but especially when working on narrative...
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Planning for When to Include Dialogue: Showing Characters’ Thoughts and Feelings
Young writers examine dialogue conventions, including indentation, quotation marks, and expressing thoughts and feelings through a fictional text. By noticing where and when authors use dialogue, they decide how to incorporate dialogue...
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Little Red Riding Hood Worksheet
Designed to be used after a reading of The Little Red Riding Hood, this activity asks kids to match thought bubbles with pictures, to order events, and to form the past tense of selected verbs.
Jen London
Building an Argument
Collect evidence and reasons and fill them in on this page to prepare for presenting an argument. Learners can evaluate what they are missing and make sure they fill in each line and bubble before considering their argument complete.
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Comic Strip Templates
Comic strips are engaging, valuable tools for learners to demonstrate their understanding, convey main ideas and thoughts, and express their inner creativity! Be sure to check out the related materials of this resource, which include...
Illustrative Mathematics
Measure Me!
How many unifix cubes tall are you? If you're not sure, then perform this math activity with your class and find out. Working in pairs, young mathematicians make measuring sticks out of unifix cubes in order to determine the length of...
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"The Three Billy Goats Gruff:" Retelling the Story
Youngsters retell the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff. They write a sentence for speech bubbles for a character in the story, identify the phrases that can be used for retelling a story, and in small groups write a sentence for the...
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Puss in Boots/Jamil and the Clever Cat
Second graders read the story PUSS IN BOOTS identifying main characters, setting, and significant events. They then read the story JAMIL AND THE CLEVER CAT and compare it with the story PUSS IN BOOTS compiling a list of characters,...
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Who's in the Shed?
Second graders examine the cover of the book, WHO'S IN THE SHED? and talk about the animals portrayed and the noises they make. They then read the book as a class, looking through the peepholes and making predictions.
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The Young Basketball Player
Students explore the history of basketball by reading and listening to a book entitled, "The Young Basketball Player." Afterwards, they create a trivia basketball game and write an interview for their favorite player. As a...
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"How To" Speeches Using iMovie
Challenge your pupils with this innovative how-to activity. Instead of simply having learners write an essay describing how to do a particular activity, this activity has them create an iMovie describing a process.
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Fairy Tale Lessons Can Spice Up Language Arts Activities
Fairy tales can be a motivating way to introduce students to a variety of topics, including literary analysis.
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Drawing Conclusions
Students view images and draw conclusions based on what they see happening in the pictures. In this drawing conclusions lesson plan, students also write a paragraph and their classmates have to draw a conclusion based on their writing.
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Reported Speech
Students practice reported speech. For this speech lesson, students discuss the structure of speech and practice writing conversations using images with speech bubbles. Lesson is designed for those whose native language is not American...
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Dazzling Dialogue
Learners practice the proper use of Capital letters in quotes and how to use quotation marks. In this dazzling dialogue lesson plan, students write a draft of a script using dialogue and capitalization. Learners complete dialogue for a...
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Simple Past Practice
In this simple past worksheet, students watch a video, fill in the blanks for the video, complete a word search, and more. Students complete 4 activities.
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The Wind Blew
Learners look at a picture book and observe what the facial expressions show. In this character's feelings instructional activity, students write what they think the character might be saying on each page and the punctuation they use. ...
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A Humanist New Baby Ceremony
In this humanist worksheet, students fill in speech bubbles with sentences, writing what they think people in the pictures are saying about babies.
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Author Study - Mo Willems
Students listen to books written by Mo Willems each day and discuss the story elements of each. In this reading strategies lesson plan, students decide after reading through the whole series of books, what their favorite book is and...
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Frederick Douglass: If There Is No Stuggle, There Is No Progress
Students explore Frederick Douglass's method of resisting slavery. In this Frederick Douglas lesson, students read a speech given by Douglas regarding his theories of resistance. Students discuss the speech and then write their own...
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I Have a Dream...
Young scholars explore the dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. For this civil rights lesson, students utilize their computer skill as they compose "I have a dream" statements.
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Talking Heads
Learners create an imaginary conversation. In this perseverance lesson, students complete a t-chart about words that describe perseverance and words that describe the opposite of perseverance. Learners sketch a "talking heads"...
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Full Stops
For this sentence punctuation worksheet, students read the words in the bubbles and insert the correct punctuation. Students then draw a picture of themselves and write a sentence in the speech bubble.