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Re-telling The Tale

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students retell a fairy tale by writing on the computer. In this writing lesson plan, students draft, revise, edit, and publish their retelling of the story.
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Journalism - The Attention Grabbing Topic Sentence

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students act as journalists to grab audience attention with the topic sentence for their writing. They write paragraphs in quantities appropriate to grade level.
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Jesse's Ice Cream Stand

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students evaluate the best price to scoop size combination for profit. They complete a poem on the concept of profit for earning money and calculate profit in several situations.
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Literature: "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students examine websites about the fourth book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
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Tick Tock /t/

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students review letter recognition for the letter /t/ and the sound of the letter /t/. They write an upper- and lower-case /t/ and recognize the sound of t as well as the letter when combined with other letters in the form of a word.
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The Icky Sticky Igloo

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students focus on the correspondence i=/i/. They explore the sound and spelling of /i/ and discover vowels are used to spell all words in our vocabulary, so therefore it is important for students to understand the phoneme and grapheme of...
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Cloudy With a Chance of...

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students listen to the story, "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs". Then the class creates their own version of the story with a theme of their choice. In small groups, they write and illustrate a paragraph for the class book.
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Spell Check - Live!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create vocabulary words and a variety of spelling exercises, using the H.I.P Pocket Change website.
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Picture Cards

For Students 1st - 4th
For this alphabet awareness worksheet, students match twenty seven picture cards to twenty seven word cards for mastery of memory retention.
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Folklore Festivities: Exploring Short Stories

For Teachers 3rd
Students explore the stories of "William Tell, The Husband Who Was to Mind the House, The Little Match Girl, and Three Words of Wisdomare" in the five lessons of this unit. The understanding of folktales is highlighted in this unit.
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Heartmines

For Teachers 3rd - 10th
Students think about danger and resolving conflict. They compare and contrast our lives with those of people in different countries. They access a website imbedded in this plan which leads them through a simulatiojn/roles play.
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Family Picture Sentences 1

For Students 3rd
In this picture sentence multiple choice worksheet, 3rd graders look at the small pictures that are shown to the right of four sentences in 5 examples. They circle the letter in front of the sentence that correctly describes the picture.
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The Tattle Tail Tale

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Pupils determine if something is a tattle or a report.
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Spot the Anagram - Dolch Spelling Test 6

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this Dolch spelling worksheet, students analyze the original word and then the four mixed up words in each example. Students underline the mixed up word that contains all of the same letters as the original word to answer the 10...
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Verbal Spin-Off

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this making sentences worksheet, learners use spinners to determine sentence patterns and write them with correct verb tense.
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Which One Doesn't Belong?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify words that are related with 80% accuracy. Given a list of four vocabulary words, 3rd graders identify specific relationships between three of the four words. They also identify which of the four words are not...
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Sentences: Edit and Correct

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this sentence worksheet, students draw lines under correctly written sentences, then fix an additional set.
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Initial Consonant Clusters -1

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this literacy learning exercise, students find the words to complete the crossword puzzle. They are focusing on the concept of consonant clusters.
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Far and Near

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students, after listening to A Country Far Away, by Nigel Gray, draw a picture and write a sentence showing how his or her life is similar to that of children in Africa.
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Hunting and Gathering in the African Rain Forest

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students demonstrate their knowledge of the Mbuti people hunting and gathering in the African rain forest by writing a story about a Mbuti hunting or gathering food.
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Adding Punctuation

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore using correct punctuation in their sentences. they discuss the various punctuation rules. Students practice putting the correct punctuation in a list of sentences.
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Preposition Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this preposition worksheet, students circle the preposition in each sentence that tells where the subject or noun is located. Students complete 7 sentences.
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Compound Nouns

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this compound nouns activity, students choose the correct words from the compound nouns and use the clues for help. Students complete 25 exercises.
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Summer Fun: Word Search

For Students 1st - 4th
In this word search worksheet, students search for a list of 12 words in a "summer fun" word list. Words are can be horizontal, vertical, diagonal, forward or backward.