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Understanding Adjectives

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars examine adjectives. They discover how adjectives make writing more interesting. Through various activities, students describe objects using different adjectives. Young scholars write sentences on given topics using...
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Transportation Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Learners practice using transportation vocabulary in a foreign language.  In this language arts lesson, students utilize the vocabulary terms for locations in order to give directions and find a specific place.  Learners answer a...
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How Often? Where is it?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore language arts by completing vocabulary worksheets. In this directions lesson, students identify terms and vocabulary words which assist in finding locations and giving directions. Students complete a worksheet about the...
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Poultry

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Here is a simple lesson that combines reading, coloring, and a puzzle for young learners. In it, pupils read the selection Great Pumpkins, then they color in the hen puzzle with colors based on the three distinct categories that the...
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Writing ABC Poetry

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discover the background of alphabet poetry and as a group construct a poem on the board. Using all the letters in the alphabet, they individually create their own poems.
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Get Rid of It!

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars participate in matching game to practice their phonics awareness. They can apply the activity to any curriculum review that is word or vocabulary based.
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Sound It Out

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Unfortunately, the worksheet that is the focus of this lesson is not functioning properly. You can, however, use the Scholastic Children's Dictionary page attached to explore the dictionary with your elementary and middle schoolers. Talk...
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Letter Sound Blending

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students play a game that asks them to blend sounds and differentiate between long and short vowels. They give clues to one student by sounding out all consonants and classifying the vowel as short or long. The student then blends the...
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As Fast As a Mouse!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Teach young learners the benefits of repeated readings. Practice the strategies of repeated readings, timed readings, and one-minute reads to become fluent readers that retain what they've read. They receive a copy of If You Give a Mouse...
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It's All in the Fluency

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Take a trip to the library! Elementary schoolers visit the library and choose books to read independently. They use the cover-up method of deciphering unknown words and use timed-readings to increase fluency. They discuss characters,...
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Bee a Good Reader

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Being able to distinguish between the sounds for short vowel e and long vowel e is an important skill. Young readers are introduced to the /ee/ vowel pattern that makes the long vowel sound. They practice reading and identifying a...
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Complete or Incomplete? That is the Question!

For Teachers 1st - 10th
Students work in small groups to determine factors that contribute to a well-done assignment. They report their findings to the rest of the class.
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On a Roll With Digraphs

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students practice building and spelling words with digraphs. After discussing what digraphs are and how they change the spelling and produnciation of words, they create a dice game and play by spelling words containing common digraphs.
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Odd Words Out

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice identifying the odd word out and then test each other on vocabulary terms already covered in class. They review vocabulary from units one to six and copy and cut out the cards on the worksheet to complete today's...
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Find the Pairs

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners practice finding matching pairs of words to review their vocabulary terms. They complete a worksheet and then cut it up into twenty four pieces to shuffle and then separate into matching pairs with a partner given to them by the...
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Snap Associations

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice reinforcing and recycling a large amount of vocabulary terms by utilizing a set of pictures and then dividing into groups to begin their task for the day. They explain the connections to each other between their terms...
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School Lunches Get More Healthful

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read a story called School Lunches Get More Healthful and answer vocabulary and comprehension questions about it. For this current events school lunch lesson plan, student respond to literature by answering questions, recalling...
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Backwards Day

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Students create ways to do things backwards. In this cross-curriculum lesson, students participate in various backwards activities for an entire day. Students recite the alphabet backwards, spell their names backwards, and read stories...
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The Designed World

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars study the classification system used in a library. In this sorting and classification lesson, students visit their library and define the classification system in place. Young scholars discuss the sorting method and then...
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Here's an Instant Activity for March 3, 2008

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Here are some good spelling activities for 'ou' words. First and second graders complete an oral spelling activity with their teacher and then an Instant Activity worksheet. and spell 'ou' words.
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Here's an Instant Activity for December 20, 2004

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Help learners improve their spelling skills by completing a word analysis activity. They complete the instant activity by finding the hidden words inside each given word. There is a menu of skill ideas and various ways suggested to...
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Introduce -ed =- /ed/ words

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice spelling 'ed' ending words. In this suffixes lesson, 1st graders practice saying and spelling words with -ed suffixes.
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Short Vowel Movements

For Teachers K - 1st
Students use gestures to recognize the short vowel sounds.  In this cvc lesson, students use a cue to recognize the vowel sound.  Students practice various words with the cues. 
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Avoiding Run-ons

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
There are a few different ways to avoid run-on sentences. This worksheet focuses on using conjunctions (and, but, etc.) to correct run-on sentences. There are 10 questions for your youngsters to work with. 

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