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Pre Reading Strategies
Students use their journals in order to predict what will happen in a text for a prereading strategy. In this prereading lesson plan, students list the 5 strategies they learn and use them before they read.
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Luisa Diogo
In this famous person activity, learners read a passage about Luisa Diogo and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym matches,...
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Sunny Times News: Movie Guide for Local Theaters
In this movie review worksheet, students read through a movie guide and review. They then answer 6 questions about the information they reviewed.
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Flip Camera Activity: Being a Good Citizen
Learners make a video. In this citizen lesson, students discuss what a good citizen is. Learners define what rights Americans have and write paragraphs about our rights and responsibilities. Students videotape their partner as they read...
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Project H.O.P.E. (Highlighting Opportunities for Potential Employment)
Students explore career paths by creating a job scrapbook. In this employment lesson, students discuss what types of skills employers look for in the job market. Students decide on a career they would like to explore by...
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A Book a Day Will Keep the Teacher Away
Young scholars work in cooperative groups to read a book in a day. Each group is assigned a portion of the book to read and uses the jigsaw learning strategy to review the book as a whole class.
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Movie Analysis
Fourth graders discuss main concept, supporting details, plot, setting, major events, problems, conflicts, and resolution in two short stories. They apply these terms to a movie of their choice. They compare analysis of movies to...
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Friends Helping Friends
Students practice effective communication skills by giving a speech on emotional health topics researched on the Internet.
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Boo-ographies
Students read biographies of famous people and create a presentation where they become the characters they have read and researched. They create tombstones for the people they have researched.
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Legend Reading With Rain Sticks
Students study copies of the Wy'East legend. They use these as a choral reading, take a different paragraph and read them in unison. They assemble their rain sticks and use the rain sticks and percussion instruments with the reading...
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Exploring our World through Video
Student develop their technology skills. In this video production lesson, young scholars create a movie featuring their day-to-day lives. Students use flip video cameras to film the movie and use software editing programs to prepare it...
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No Need To Be Puzzled About Me
Fourth graders investigate acrostic poetry by researching the Internet. In this poetry writing instructional activity, 4th graders complete a worksheet detailing their personal activities and interests. Students view the form...
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Key to Good Health: Sleep and Mental Relaxation
Students investigate the effect good sleep and rest has on the human body. In this health lesson, students discover the different stages of sleep and discuss ways they can ease their own tension through exercise or meditation....
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Decision-Making Model
In this decision making learning exercise, learners fill out the choices, skills, cost, and more when making decisions. Students fill out 25 boxes total.
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Spanish Phrase Picture Dictionary
Students illustrate Spanish phrases. For this Spanish language development lesson, students work in pairs to illustrate phrases, then copy the phrase in Spanish and English. The class uses the illustrations to create a dictionary.
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Possible Causes
Students review any materials from two previous lessons on emissions. As a class, they use a graphic organizer to review their stakeholder's hypothesis. They identify possible causes of global warming and discover how to solve this problem.
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Building God's House
Students explore identifying some basic areas and items within the church and their importance. They participate in a church tour, building an interior and exterior model of a church with grounds (parking lot, cemetery, etc.), a church...
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Making Handbound Books
Students make handbound books. In this book making lesson, students make handbound books by following the 7 steps. Students may use the books for a variety of subjects.
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Choose a Book You'll Like
Learners discuss reasons we choose the books we want to read and their own personal reading preferences. They complete class and personal charts that help them select books to read.
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Lights, Camera, Action!
Students participate in an alternative reading assessment using a video camera and script. In this alternative reading activity, students work as a group to perform their reading story. students memorize their lines and film their play.
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Enhancing Social Skills and Vocabulary through Photography
Students in a special education classroom identify pictures of various living things. In groups, they role-play different roles to help them with their social and communication skills. To end the lesson, they take pictures of different...
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Paper Mache Caterpillar
Students read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, and practice fine motor skills by using scissors and newsprint strips, and balloons to create paper mache caterpillars.
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Literature: "Harriet the Spy" By Louise Fitzhugh
Students examine websites about the book, "Harriet the Spy." There are suggested classroom activities, such as having students keep a journal of their observations. Also includes tips on how to teach students to use descriptive writing.
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Pookie's New Home Reading Comprehension
For this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a selection entitled, "Pookie's New Home" before answering 6 multiple choice questions.