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Ray Charles

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners read the book Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis. For this biography lesson, learners read about the life of Ray Charles. Learners answer pre-reading questions about senses, strengths, and weaknesses they have. The lesson...
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Play Me a Story - Sorcerer's Apprentice

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars explore the story taht accompanies the musical composition, The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Using the 5W-how questions, they explain what is happening in the story as they listen to the musical.
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Teams in the Field

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students conduct team interviews outside the classroom, either within the school or beyond, as part of a fieldwork project. They use reasoning skills as they formulate questions, plan, predict, hypothesize, and speculate about the...
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Journalism 101

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students understand the writing style in a newspaper. In this journalism lesson, students recognize that a newspaper has a catchy headline and objective writing. Students interview someone in an area of interest and write a news article.
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We're off to see the Wizard!

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students explore the process of play and movie making from books. They study the basic elements of drama and write and produce a play based on a chosen theme. Students explain the basic elements of a play by looking at "The Wonderful...
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Daily Routine

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this daily routine worksheet, students listen to sentences and match them to pictures, sequence sentences, and solve a crossword. Students complete 3 activities about a daily routine.
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Kalahari Explorations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research the area of the Kalahari Desert. They use the online and print resources and evaluate the information they find. They present their information to the class.
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Word Meanings from Context 2

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this word meanings from context worksheet, students read 4 short passages that have a word in bold type. From 4 choices, students select the best meaning of each word in context.
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Things People Couldn't Do

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this things people couldn't do worksheet, students read context clues about famous people to determine which words in a word blank complete sentences. Students choose four answers to fill in the blanks.
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Idiom Quizzes - Clothes

For Students 4th - 6th
For this online/interactive worksheet, students choose an idiom to replace the expressions in parenthesis. Students write 15 multiple choice answers.
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Oceans: A Sensory Haiku

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create an ocean haiku. In this haiku activity, students use their five senses to write a haiku. Students watch videos about the ocean, make a sensory portrait, and create a class haiku.
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Beginning Paragraph Correction #12

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this paragraph correction learning exercise, students read a passage and determine the types of errors that are numbered in sentences. Students choose eight multiple choice answers that correct the errors.
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Master Spy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explain that a code is a system of symbols, letters, words, or signals that are used instead of ordinary words and numbers to send messages or to store information. They practice deciphering a variety of secret codes used in...
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Blowin' In The Wind

For Students 4th - 6th
In this song lessons worksheet, students listen to the song by Bob Dylan, "Blowin' in the Wind." They search for key phrases that use the words, "How many," and list each one with the noun that follows the phrase. Students listen to the...
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Phrasal Verbs: Crime

For Students 4th - 6th
In this filling in the blanks online/interactive worksheet, students read incomplete sentences and choose the correct verb phrases to complete them. Students choose 10 multiple choice answers and check them by clicking on the answer box.
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Coffee Houses

For Students 4th - 6th
In this online/interactive recognizing vocabulary usage activity, students use the words and phrases bank to fill in the blanks and complete the sentences. Students write 10 answers.
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Young scholars explore the concept of self-respect. In this character education lesson, students listen to the original "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" story and listen to the song. Young scholars discuss the meaning of the word...
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Sentence Stucture

For Teachers 4th
For this analyzing sentences worksheet, 4th graders identify purpose, combining, types, and grammar. Students answer 10 questions.
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Various 98--Action Verbs in Sentences Quiz

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this sentence completion quiz, students choose the appropriate action verb to use in the ten given sentences. This is an interactive, multiple choice worksheet.
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The First Certificate

For Students 4th - 6th
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the correct prepositions and verbs for sentences and then rewrite sentences. Students complete 35 questions total.
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Present Simple Tense

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this interactive grammar instructional activity, students type in the correct present simple verb tense for each of the given 42 sentences.
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The Burglary - Past Progressive Exercise

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this verbs worksheet, learners fill in the blanks with the passive progressive forms of words when they look at pictures and write what people were doing while a burglary was taking place. Students complete 12 sentences total.
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Self-acceptance

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students assess the importance of acceptance of self and others via the development of self-worth and the looking for the good in others not the bad. They explore the task of looking at the world through the eyes of others. In addition,...
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Vocabulary Meanings

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this vocabulary meanings worksheet, students demonstrate comprehension of vocabulary from a word bank by logically filling in the blanks to complete sentences. Students choose ten multiple choice answers.