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Summarizing: Using Hand Motions for Key Words or Points
Learning to summarize texts takes practice. Jump into the training ring and guide your learners through a summarizing practice session. The classic direct instructional practice of "I do, you do, we do" is used to help them identify key...
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Using Compare and Contrast Key Words
Compare and contrast while challenging your class with this higher-level thinking and reading comprehension lesson. After observing the teacher model comparing and contrasting bats and birds, learners read passages about two towns. They...
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Jump-Starting Research with Visual Thesaurus
Learners navigate the Visual Thesaurus to find keywords for research. Â In this keywords lesson, students use synonyms, hypernyms and hyponyms to find keywords. Learners understand why some searches are effective and some are ineffective.Â
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Fact or Fantasy?
Are we alone in the universe? This brief informational text on extraterrestrial theory has been split into seven sections to help scholars practice note taking. They read the statements, underlining key words. Then, using the graphic...
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Ask Questions About a Topic
Students explore reading comprehension by completing a graphic organizer. In this journalism technique lesson, students discuss important questions they can ask about stories they read to improve comprehension. Students identify keywords...
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Find the Baseball Words
In this baseball words worksheet, students locate, highlight and/or circle eight key words in a word search puzzle associated with baseball.
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Lesson 1: Using Compare and Contrast Key Words
Third graders compare and contrast two things. In this comparing lesson, 3rd graders see vocabulary words used when comparing or contrasting two items. They read the story Alligators and Crocodiles by Trudi Strain Trueit and write a...
Polk Bros Foundation
How to Summarize a Non-Fiction Passage
After reading a text, one way to find out how much your class comprehended is to ask your pupils to summarize. This worksheet helps class members prepare for writing a summary of a nonfiction text. They note down the topic, up to eight...
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What Should I Purchase?
Discuss commercials, advertisements and junk mail and how each can influence their audience. Through these materials, kids examine persuasive writing. Which key words indicate that it's an advertisement? Young learners include these...
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Use Details from Text to Identify Cause and Effect, Draw Conclusions, Compare and Contrast
Third graders discuss research topics and write a paragraph on one of the provided questions. They focus on including key words from charts that the class has been compiling. They underline supporting details within the text they write....
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Lesson 3: Proving Facts and Forming Opinions
Time for Kids: Butterflies is used to model the process of determining if a text is based on fact or opinion. Children are taught how to skim for key words, and use headings or chapter names to locate proof of whether or not what they...
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Combine Sentences
In this combining sentences worksheet, students create sentences using key words. In this short answer worksheet, students write seven sentences.
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Glue
In this writing activity, students review all the uses of a bottle of glue, write the key words associated with glue and then finish each sentence provided with the correct key words found underneath each picture.
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Practice Book O
Whether you need resources for reading comprehension, literary analysis, phonics, vocabulary, or text features, an extensive packet of worksheets is sure to fit your needs. Based on a fifth-grade curriculum but applicable to any level of...
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Report Planning Web
In this report planning worksheet, students use the provided web to organize facts before writing a report. There is room for keywords, and facts.
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Epiphany
In this artistic writing worksheet, students study and discuss what epiphany is and how to illustrate key words to express it on paper as well as tie it to a writing phrase.
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Sounds The Same (2)
In this sounds the same activity, students review and discuss eighteen key words that are spelled differently but sound the same. Students circle each one in a word search puzzle.
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Find a Word--High Frequency Words--Worksheet #3
In this high frequency words worksheet, students locate and circle nine key words that are often used in the English language. Students complete a word search puzzle.
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Find a Word--High Frequency Words--Worksheet #6
In this high frequency words worksheet, learners locate and circle in a word search puzzle ten key words used often in the English language.
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Find a Word--High Frequency Words--Worksheet #7
In this high frequency words worksheet, students locate and circle in a word search puzzle twelve key words used often in the English language.
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Find a Word--High Frequency Words--Worksheet #1
In this high frequency words worksheet, students locate and circle/highlight the following eight key words in a word search puzzle: boy, girl, children, woman, people, baby, the and is.
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Action Time!
In this verbs worksheet, students read 31 sentences that have a missing verb or action word. Students fill in an appropriate verb and locate it in a word search. There is no word bank.
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Role Play Debate
Suggested topics for a role play debate include school uniforms and culpability for drunk driving, but any issue of interest to your class will work. What are the hot issues in your community or on the news right now? Class members...
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Just a Minute!
Students put the standard measure of clock time -- the minute -- in perspective. This lesson can be modified for virtually any grade level. They write about what they learned about a minute as a result of the activities.