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Join The Circus

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this literacy learning exercise, students use a picture and word bank to draw a picture depicting what they would like to do in the circus, then write about it.
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Community Explorations

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students identify the strengths and weakness in their community. They take a community walk and take pictures of people interacting with the environment and the "green spaces" in their community. They then write a persuasive essay...
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Define Vocabulary

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this vocabulary learning exercise, students define vocabulary items and label animals, clothing, school items, and write sentences. Students complete 6 exercises total.
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My Teacher Acrostic Poem

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this poetry writing worksheet, students create their own acrostic poem. The title is "My Teacher." The first letter of every line is provided.
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Frog Principal Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Pupils read the fractured fairy tale, The Frog Principal by Stephanie Calmenson and compare it to the original version in order to gain deeper understanding of the fairy tale genre. In this fairy tale lesson, students identify and...
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Which Word is Right?

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this days of the week worksheet, students read the list of words for each example and circle the day of the week spelled correctly. Students then write a sentence with the word in it.
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Sentence Building 2

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this sentence building activity, student practice their language skills as they write 8 original sentences using the nouns that are listed.
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Homework Master (Grammar Review)

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this sentence creation worksheet, students practice putting together sentences. Students match the beginning and the end of a sentence and write sentences. There are twelve in all.
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Banana activities

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this banana worksheet, students write, count, color, and sort mini activities involving bananas. Students complete four activities.
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Orange

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this orange learning exercise, learners write, count, color, and sort different things that represent the color and the fruit of oranges. Students complete 4 problems.
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Animals

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this animals worksheet, students look at pictures of animals and decide the correct name of the animal and write sentences that start with "this is a" or "this is an". Students complete 2 activities.
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Check My Writing: Diversity of Learners Adaptation

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore different spellings of the same words within the English language, as well as different words for the same thing with the international pen pal classroom. They become familiar with units of measure and time. Students...
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First Grade Skills Unit 4

For Teachers 1st Standards
Twenty-eight lessons make a unit that focuses on skills practice. Lessons explore r-controlled vowels, past tense verbs, nouns, adjectives, and two-syllable words. Pupils read a story, answer questions, and draft a descriptive essay...
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First Grade Skills Unit 5

For Teachers 1st Standards
Twenty-two lessons make up a unit that focuses on first-grade skills. Scholars examine spelling alternatives—their rules and patterns, practice tricky spelling and high-frequency words, explore plural nouns and sentences, read a...
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Career Education: Office Workers

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Frist and second graders explore career options. First they will watch career videos and then prepare to interview school personnel regarding their job responsibilities. They will then send thank you cards to the interviewed subjects...
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The Sentence Contest

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young writers complete work with sentence structure. Theys go over the definition of a sentence before deciding whether given groups of words are sentences. They view and identify the sentences on a teacher made chart.
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Personal Narrative

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
As a review of the characteristics of a personal narrative, or as in introduction to this type of writing, this power point presentation could help writers better understand narrative writing. You might want to alter or add information...
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Be a Speed Reader

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Young learners speed their way toward fluent reading with a hands-on consonant digraph activity. Using the numbered grid included in this resource, children roll a die and choose a word corresponding to the number they rolled. They...
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Start Writing My Name

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use Crayola Model Magic to create the letters of their names in a three dimensional form. They use upper and lower case letters. They compare their names to the names of their classmates. Finally, they embellish their names with...
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Write to the Author

For Teachers K - 6th
Students orally present information about a favorite book to their classmates. They construct pop-up cards that depict a character in the author's book and include a question for the author written from the point of view of the character.
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Dream Drawing

For Students 1st - 4th
Inspired by the famous quote from Vincent van Gogh, "I dream my paintings and then I paint my dream," young artists are directed to first write about one of their dreams and then draw a picture of it. This learning exercise provides...
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ABC Letter and Word D'Nealian Writing Practice

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this D'Nealian writing practice worksheet, students follow the dotted lines to write the letters and words on elementary lines. They complete a page for each letter of the alphabet.
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Adding Details Using Rainbow Writing

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars use the rainbow technique to add details to their writing. In this writing lesson plan, students practice showing not telling to add visualization to their writing.
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The Writing Suitcase

For Students 1st - 5th
In this literacy worksheet, students are given information to take home ot parents in order to offer scaffolding support for students to complete writing samples for sharing in class.

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