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Your Year Covered

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Feeling stuck? Want to energize the class? Use activities such as quizzes and fill-in-the-blank worksheets to get class members' attention with a year's worth of holiday celebrations. From Mother's Day to Robert Burns's birthday,...
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"All Day Nightmare"

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars read an "All Day Nightmare" by R.L. Stine. They use the interactive book to choose the plot at the end of each chapter. They also complete an open-ended story.
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Spider and Fly Maze

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this maze puzzle worksheet, students show hand eye coordination and problem solving skills by tracing a path from the fly to the edge of the web, avoiding the spider.
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Create a Holiday

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students create their own holidays, describing them in booklet form. They develop the holiday's name, symbol, colors, food, and historical significance.
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The Carving of Old Jack

For Teachers 3rd
In this comprehension worksheet, 3rd graders read directions on how to carve a pumpkin. Students answer questions related to sequencing, definitions, and understanding of the story to demonstrate comprehension.
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Simple Past

For Students 2nd - 5th
An interactive online instructional activity for practicing simple past tense verb forms features cute pictures, and offers a decent challenge with three exercises. First, learners choose the correct form of a verb from a drop-down menu...
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What is a Noun? & When To Capitalize Nouns

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Nouns are the focus of this language arts PowerPoint. Pupils will see that there are five categories of nouns: person, place, thing, idea, quality. The last two are not usually taught, but they are legitimate categories. When to...
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Using a Dictionary

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this dictionary usage worksheet, students read facts about the dictionary and practice using a dictionary page to answer questions. Students write four short answers.
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Seasons--Autumn (fall)

For Students 3rd - Higher Ed
As part of a discussion of seasonal words, class members identify words relating to autumn and then identify the language used to describe what happens during this time of year. 
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Seasons--Winter

For Students 3rd - 4th
This well-designed seasons worksheet has students look at 33 words, circle the words that are associated with winter, and complete 8 sentences by circling the multiple choice words that completes each sentence correctly. Students...
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A Fall Festival with Grandma

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a page long story and answer 5 multiple choice comprehension questions. 
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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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Kids Collect LEGOs for New Orleans

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students read and discuss a news article about children that collected 1.5 million LEGO bricks for kids in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. They complete a fill-in-the blank activity, answer article comprehension questions, solve...
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LA CENERENTOLA (Cinderella)

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students work in groups to create a map key. The map key represents the diversity of each of the Cinderella stories previously read. They explore the cultural dimensions and contributions of the arts.
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Jelly Beans for Sale

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students connect literature (story Jelly Beans for Sale by Bruce McMillan) to math concepts. In these estimating and money lessons, students work with jelly beans, unifix cubes, pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, to estimate and make...
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Categories

For Students 3rd - 6th
For this identifying categories worksheet, students examine 15 groups of 3 words that hold something in common. Students identify a name for each of the 15 groups of words.
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Pronoun Agreement exercise 1

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this pronoun usage worksheet, students read sentences with pronoun errors that are underlined and write their corrections. Students write twenty short answers.
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Create a Word Graveyard to Teach Synonyms

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore descriptive writing by creating headstones. In this memorial lesson, students utilize an 11" x 17" piece of paper to create a cemetery headstone memorializing a word rather than a person. Students decorate their...
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students read Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm by Jerdine Nolen Harold. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the study of balloons. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social studies, and library...
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Witches Galore

For Students K - 3rd
In this artistic witch drawing worksheet, students view twelve pictures of witches, color all the pictures, cut them out and then play "play memory" with them.
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Reading Comprehension Activity

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this reading comprehension instructional activity, students listen to a story titled, "Winnie The Witch," and complete follow-up comprehension questions.
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Will the Pumpkin Sink or Float?

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students participate in a sink or float activity using pumpkins.
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Hairy Monster Stories

For Teachers K - 8th
Students work together to create a hairy monster. They discuss the elements of a character sketch. They use a rubric to guide them as they write a sketch of their hairy monster.
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Spook Walk

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners work together with a partner in which they blindfold. With their partner, they must communicate directions to them that allows them to make it across the spook walk. To end the activity, they discuss the communication skills...

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