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Types of Nouns: Common & Proper Nouns
Elementary school students often falter when asked to distinguish between a common and proper noun. Even older students may not be sure. This presentation provides a comprehensive review of nouns. Great fun!
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St. Patrick's Day Nouns: Common or Proper?
Is leprechaun a common or proper noun? This is just one of the nouns that learners must identify as common or proper for this St. Patrick's Day-themed exercise.
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Noun Activity
In this noun worksheet, students look at a picture and write down all nouns they see, categorizing as a person, place or thing. A reference web site is given.
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The Magic Apple
First graders read The Magic Apple and complete interdisciplinary activities related to the book. In this folktale lesson, 1st graders answer comprehension questions, recognize and record short /i/ sound words and complete worksheets...
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Winter
Students explore the concept of hibernation. In this winter lesson, students read Time to Sleep by Denise Fleming and discuss the content of the story. Students participate in classroom activities that require them to develop their...
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Mr., Mrs., and Dr. Too
Pupils use abbreviations correctly in everyday situations. Activities include introductions to abbreviating names, titles, months, and more.
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The Gift of Community
Students explore the diversity offered in communities. For this Teaching Tolerance lesson, students read The Gift and then interview people within their school community regarding the gifts they receive in their community.
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Valentine's Day Poems
Roses are red, violets are blue, poems are sweet, and educational too.
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The Bernstein Bears Celebrate 100 Days of School
In this Bernstein Bears celebrate 100 days of school worksheet, students record what they have learned in 100 days in school. Students list 100 new words, decide how they would spend $100, draw a picture of themselves at 100 years old,...
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Calico Watercolor Cats
A fun art project, this lesson incorporates math and listening skills as young artists play with a new painting technique. First the teacher models how to draw a cat using shapes, an oval for the body, triangles for the ears and so on,...
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Collocation Pelmanism
Students read and analyze the article, "Lexical exploitation of texts," and become aware of the concept of recycling new words. They practice this concept several times in class before they take on the memory game pelmanism in the follow...
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Learning About Our World
Pupils explore their world using the book "This is the Way We Go to School." They predict information about the story based on the title and pictures. Students label a world map with the names of continents and oceans. They write a set...
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The Red Wheelbarrow
Pupils explore an imagist poem. In this poetry lesson plan students write a poem in the imagist's style using "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams as an example. The poems are read aloud and discussed.