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Write Right!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
After watching part of a Club Write Kids video and discussing the editing process, each group of learners writes a letter to a favorite author. They ask for a copy of a page of manuscript that has gone through the editing process. Prior...
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Doctor DeSoto's Foxy Persuasion

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Who is Doctor DeSoto? Start by playing a video clip (included). Discuss different methods of persuasion, and then analyze two different persuasive letter examples. What should your class be looking for? Send them off to work in groups...
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Writing
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Writing Bug: Creative Writing

For Students 2nd - 6th
Do your writers have the writing bug? Give them this short prompt as today's writing activity. They have to decide how they'd spend $100,000, but they can't spend it on themselves! There's also a rectangular box at the bottom of the...
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Revising/Editing (3-5): Editing Marks. Part II and Literary Tools. Part II

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Familiarize your class with commonly used editing marks. They apply the use of editing marks to a letter and examine different types of literary tools before making a note card resource for the tools. They add their own examples for each...
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Interactive
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Putting Sentences Together

For Students 4th - 7th
In this grammar worksheet, learners use conjunctions. Students use conjunctions to join tow short sentences together into a longer sentence. They are given a list of words to use.
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Developing a Topic for Writing Using an Idea Web

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Teach your upper graders how to use an idea web to develop a topic for writing. After reading a variety of stories about friendship (a list of stories with the theme of friendship is included), model using an idea web. Class members...
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Managing Medical Conditions

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Your scholoars practice organizing and presenting information through written language. They gather information about a medical condition and share it with someone else. They then use a format where they organize their information using...
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Create a Book with Student Treasures

For Teachers 1st - 6th
You can't publish a story until after it has been revised and edited! Budding authors investigate the writing process while drafting an original story. They select a topic, complete a rough draft, edit it, revise it, and finally publish...
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Fabulous, Fractured Fables

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Elementary schoolers develop an awareness of the literary form known as the fable. They explore how authors write fables to pass along moral lessons. After reading and discussing many famous fables embedded in the plan, learners attempt...
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Workbook
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Grammar Practice Workbook

For Students 2nd - 4th
Native speakers and language learners alike will benefit from a 200-page, six-unit grammar workbook that features practice worksheets for everything from the parts of speech to sentence combining to proofreading. Worth a spot in your...
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Printables
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Transitional Guided Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Use a fill-in-the-blank lesson plan template to enhance your guided reading lesson plans with details surrounding decoding strategies, fluency and phrasing, vocabulary strategies, comprehension, and more! 
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Poet Analysis: Ciaran Carson

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students analyze lyrics and narration by reading poetry.  In this language arts lesson, students read and examine the poem Belfast Confetti.  Students discuss the topics and questions asked by the author Ciaran Carson.
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PPT
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Editing - Improving Our Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This short, but informative, presentation does a good job of teaching valuable skills associated with editing writing. Learners practice editing pieces of writing, and are introduced to powerful verbs and adverbs to make writing more...
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Worksheet
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Elementary Reading: Five Passages with Questions

For Students 3rd - 5th
Five brief readings with questions support practice with various literacy skills. In some cases, learners identify whether underlined words are spelled correctly. Other times, they answer reading comprehension questions about the text or...
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The Fisherman and His Wife

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students will conduct a survey, using the information collected they will construct a poster.
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The Story of Me

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students are given the preset graphic organizer using "Kidspiration". They create a graphic organizer about them and then use the graphic organizer to write their personal narrative.
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Writing
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The Best Advice: Writing Paper

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this writing worksheet, students will write about the best advice they have ever received. There are lines on which students can write and tips for good writing at the bottom.
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Writing
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Fame, Money, or Power?: Writing Prompt

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this writing worksheet, students will write about which is most important and which is least important: fame, money or power. Writing lines are provided.
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Writing
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Sensational Colors

For Students 4th - 5th
In this writing worksheet, students prepare to write a poem about a color they have chosen. First students think about descriptive words pertaining to their color and the 5 senses. The students then write the poem and evaluate it using a...
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Worksheet
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Spelling-Silent Letters

For Students 2nd - 5th
Silent letters make spelling and reading an even more challenging task. You class can practice detecting silent letters with this printable handout. Learners can also complete the worksheet as an online quiz. Note: Answer sheet is provided.
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Worksheet
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There, Their and They're

For Students 3rd - 8th
Read ten sentences and choose which word completes each sentence correctly: there, their or they're. Answer sheet is provided.
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Worksheet
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Spelling--Plural Nouns

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learners choose the correctly spelled plural noun for each of 12 examples. They distinguish between possessives and plurals, need to know when to add -s or -es, and may need to change y to i and add -es. Class members can check their...
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Lesson Plan
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Verb Tenses - Present and Past Tense Verbs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this grammar worksheet, students read about the meaning of present and past tense verbs. They replace the present tense verbs in 10 sentences with past tense verbs. They write the sentences over with the present tense verbs but add...
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Change of Perspective

For Teachers 4th - 7th
After reading an example of a Cultural Connection about a particular person, class members are asked to think about what this person might experience on a daily basis. They then craft a narrative from the subject’s point of view.

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