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Rumpelstiltskin, Private Eye

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students prepare a classroom theater presentation of Rumpelstitskin in which the narrator is a private eye. They write the defense of one of the characters who conspired against the king and play a vocabulary game.
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Ace Inquirer

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students use game simulation software to increase their reading comprehension. They work in teams to determine whether statements are fact or opinion. They complete a Fact/Opinion Scavenger Hunt. They simulate that they are part of the...
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Wagon Train

For Teachers 3rd - Higher Ed
Learners use educational software to examine the hardships and problem solving skills needed by the pioneers as they endured frontier life. They work as teams while using the game simulation. They work a number of project while not on...
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Good Knight Alphabet Quest

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students will learn new words by using their favorite books. They will examine fiction and nonfiction works to differentiate types of literature. The lesson engages learners because it is using the format of a game to deliver instruction.
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Our Friends b and d

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice a variety of techniques and strategies to assess the differences between the lowercase letters b and d. They listen to and identify the letters b and d in the book, "Bud the Sub," and then play a game to master this skill.
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Hit a Homerun with Reading Speed

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students review basic reading decoding/comprehension. They read passages and see how fast they can read the pages. In a baseball-like game, they try to read faster and faster. If they improve their fluency rate, they increase their...
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Word Play

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students recognize the parts of a sentence while working on their locomotor skills. Students, in teams, race to words on index cards. The team collecting enough cards to create a complete sentence wins. Additional variations on the...
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Letter and Word Scramble

For Teachers K - 4th
Students engage in a instructional activity designed to encourage the identification of letters and their characteristics, as well as moving them using a variety of locomotor skills. This done using the instructional strategy of playing...
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Homophones Word List

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this homophones worksheet, students analyze 100 pairs of common homophones. This list may be used in many ways: spelling, sorting, word games or sentence writing.
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Get a Clue Spelling Cards

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this get a clue spelling cards worksheet, students cut out the 8 clue cards in order to play a spelling game. Students play by using the 3 clues that accompany each word as hints to get their partners to guess and spell the 8 words.
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Down By Two With Minutes Left

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this story starter learning exercise, students read the sentence that will begin their story about a close game in ice hockey. Students write the rest of the story on the lines.
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What's in the shoebox?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a game to build self esteem, self awareness and listening skills. In this citizenship lesson, students search for representations of their favorite things in the classroom, hide them in a shoe box and lets the...
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Cinco De Mayo Bingo

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this Cinco De Mayo game worksheet, students use a card with words and phrases about the holiday to play Bingo. Students play with 1 card.
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Volleyball

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this volleyball worksheet, students read 20 words in a list that pertain to the game of volleyball. Students alphabetize the words. Some will begin with the same letter.
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Spelling Practice (Consonant Sounds k & s)

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this spelling learning exercise, students explore words with the consonants k and s. Students practice their spelling by writing each of the twenty words and playing a game with the syllables of each of the words.
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Words With Multiple Meanings #7

For Students 1st - 4th
In this words with multiple meanings #7 instructional activity, students use 4 pairs of words with multiple meanings in a vocabulary game.
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Writing Instructions

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this writing instructions worksheet, students rearrange 10 instructions for making tea, so they are in the correct sequence. Students choose a game or activity and write their own instructions to see if a friend can follow them.
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Verbs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play a game. In this grammar lesson, students play charades where they must act out a verb that has been written on a piece of paper.
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Test Your Spelling Skills-- Months of the Year

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this language arts worksheet, students locate the names of all 12 months in a word search puzzle. There is a word bank provided.
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Finish the Sentences 1

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this language arts worksheet, students analyze 20 beginnings of sentences. Students write an appropriate ending to each sentence to make it complete.
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Using Adjectives 1

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this language arts learning exercise, students analyze 14 incomplete sentences with an adjective missing. Students insert any appropriate adjective that fits the sentence.
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Favorite School Activities

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this language arts worksheet, students examine the choices of favorite school activities and write a choice in the lines provided.
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Introduce Vocabulary: The Subway Mouse

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore language arts by reading a children's book in class. In this story vocabulary lesson plan, students read the book The Subway Mouse and identify the use of specific vocabulary words. Students define the selected...
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Irregular Word Fluency

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars explore language arts by participating in a word fluency activity. In this irregular word lesson, students discuss the sounds that are made from different words as they read them from flash cards. Young scholars shuffle...