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Word Review Card Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Pupils play a card game where they match the meaning of the word to the word or its prefix/suffix. They listen for the teacher to call out the definition and, with two players facing off, the first one to slap the correct card wins! Kids...
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Growing Poems

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students write garden inspired poetry. In this poetry lesson plan, students go out into the garden and write poems about how they feel, what they see, and what is going on in the garden.
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Accentuate the Negative

For Teachers K - 8th
Learners explore negative numbers, In this accentuate the negative lesson plan, students manipulate calculators to demonstrate negative numbers.  Activities are differentiated for K-2, 3-5, and 4-8 grade levels to ensure that they are...
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Building Vocabulary with Word Fun

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discover palindromes. In this vocabulary skills lesson, students participate in 3 palindrome activities that require them to read and create number and word palindromes.
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Alphabet Organizer

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students practice organizing their vocabulary words in an online organizer tool. In this vocabulary lesson, students read a text and take notes. Additionally, students organize their vocabulary words into an online "Alphabet Organizer"...
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Language Arts: Guided Reading with Fancy Dance

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Young scholars participate in a guided reading of Leslie Johnson's, Fancy Dance and discover how to sequence events. This lesson plan stresses word recognition, suffixes and prefixes, and sentence structure. Cross-curricular activities...
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ABCs in English

For Teachers K - 4th
Students name the letters of the alphabet. In this ESL lesson, the teacher introduces the letters of the alphabet or their sounds, then the class plays games to practice the letter names or sounds.
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Phonics Word Search #35- Rhyming Words That End With -ill

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this rhyming words worksheet, students locate 12 rhyming words that end with -ill that are hidden in a word search puzzle. They locate words such as chill, still, quill, and drill.
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Phonics Word Search #34 Rhyming Words That End With -est

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this rhyming words worksheet, students locate 12 rhyming words that end with -est that are hidden in a word search puzzle. They locate words such as chest, pest, west, and jest.
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Lights, Camera, and Action!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
These activities center around acting out a play to help create fluent readers who use expression and emotion. As readers work through the play the first time, they also practice decoding strategies. In small groups of four, they then...
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Vocabulary through Text

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Explore word meanings. Sixth graders identify examples of words with affixes while listening to the story Paul Bunyan by Steven Kellogg. They participate in the game "Pass the Parts" and practice separating given words into their root...
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Spelling with /ou/ Sound

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders recognize spelling words with ou and ow sounds. In this spelling activity, 4th graders begin with ground and town and build lists of words with similar spelling. Students complete a worksheet with antonyms and synonyms for...
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The Art of Chess

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students discover the history of the most popular board game in the world, chess.  In this model building lesson, students create their own chess pieces using a theme they have decided on and clay modeling pieces.  Students investigate...
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Art-itecture

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students envision their dream house. In this architecture lesson, students imagine their dream house. Students are encouraged to think about their family, lifestyle, and how they would like others to see them. Students make drawings of...
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Sudoku!

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students practice their math skills by playing the game Soduku.  In this numbers game lesson, students discover the rules to the game Sudoku and the different techniques to play the game.  Students investigate several Sudoku resource...
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The Words that Surround Us

For Teachers 2nd - 11th
Students investigate writing that we read daily by analyzing advertisements and articles.  In this language arts instructional activity, students discuss the images and writing they see daily, where it comes from, and what it represents....
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A Light in the Night

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Learners investigate fireflies by reading children books.  In this art lesson, students examine the images from the book The Very Lonely Firefly, and discuss the contrast of the artwork.  Learners utilize colored pens and glitter to...
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Life Sentence

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate a vocabulary word by holding a fake auction.  In this word visualization lesson, students are assigned a vocabulary word through a class auction and must illustrate its meaning and find its definition.  Students...
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How To Teach How - To Writing

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice their writing skills by creating "How To" articles.  In this journalism instructional activity, students grab tasks from a hat and are asked to explain orally how to complete these activities.  Students complete flow...
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All About Me Unit

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners engage in an "All About Me," series of activities in the beginning of the year. All sorts of ideas are in this lesson plan to help students express themselves and get to know their classmates.
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Crying Baby

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students practice techniques and strategies with phonics, spelling and word recognition with the sounds of /a/. They read and work on this task with the book, "Cat Nap," and the tongue twister "Alice asked if Annie's active animals were...
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Rhymes

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students complete rhyming word activities. In this rhyming words lesson, students play an online game for rhyming words and recite a well known nursery rhyme as a class. Students pick out words from the poem that rhyme and brainstorm...
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Using Dictionary Entries

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Work on word pronunciations by exploring the dictionary. Learners complete a worksheet containing questions about dictionary entries. They review how to use a dictionary, identify syllable breaks, parts of speech, and word pronunciation.
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Spell, Shoot, Score!

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Games are great ways to motivate. The class is split into two teams; each team earns points by correctly spelling given words. To score bonus points, teams get to shoot baskets with a small ball. Tip: This game could be used to reinforce...

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