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The Age of Sailing Songs

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore various genres of spoken and written expression. While considering the era of the shipyard and sailing, students describe and document a favorite ship, captain, crew, or life of a sailor. Using this information, they...
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Earth Connections

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the concept of the planet Earth and its connection to the Native American traditional beliefs of 'Mother Earth.' Students describe and illustrate the Native American beliefs for 'Mother Earth.' Students interpret words...
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Two Part Verbs- Helping Verbs with Past Participle

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students write the missing two-part verb in each of 15 sentences. Each will have the helping verb "has" or "had" and a past participle.
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Sounds of Poetry

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders read "Tunnel Music" and then explore how words and spacing in a poem affects how the poem sounds.
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Chinese Shadow Puppets

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore the art of Chinese shadow puppetry. They create puppets, develop and rehearse scripts and perform a show in front of the class.
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Video Poetry

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students analyze a poem of their choice to find the meaning. They break the poems into sections and add images and sounds to make it into a video. They show their video to the whole school if possible.
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Video Poetry

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students analyze a poem to find meaning by breaking it into scenes and supporting the text with appropriate images and sounds. They use Frames to create their video poem. Once students have an image, place them all into one folder. ...
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Reading a Book

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this reading a book worksheet, students answer ten short answer questions related to when, what, and how they read a book. One example is where do you like to read?
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Good Advice 2

For Students 4th - 5th
In this language arts worksheet, students match questions with logical answers and advice. Students read 20 questions and match them to the good advice answers.
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The Cinquain

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore writing a cinquain. Students engage in a pantomime experience. They observe and describe bubbles. Students compose a cinquain and illustrate their work with bubble art.
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Barnyard Riddles - A Class Project

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Pupils choose and animal about which to research or compose a riddle. They organize and develop a slide show in which they create a background, import graphics, clip art, kid pix stamps, photos, and type their riddle.
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Edit a Friendly Letter

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this letter editing instructional activity, students read a letter to "mom," then recopy it on another sheet of paper and correct all errors found. 
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Using the News

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Pupils give oral predictions to news articles. They discuss and revise their interpretations of the content material.
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Expressing the Future Resource Sheet

For Students 5th - 8th
In this expressing the future resource instructional activity, students examine the use of present simple, present continuous, be going to, and will words. They see examples in each of four boxes that example the use of words to express...
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Super Bowl Games of 1990's Crossword

For Students 5th - 7th
In this crossword puzzle worksheet, students read the clues about the Super Bowl games during the 1990's and complete the crossword puzzle.
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London Mail

For Students 5th - 6th
In this research skills instructional activity, students read through the questions related to the London Royal Mail and the history of the post office. Students do independent research to answer 10 questions.
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Beginning Analogies 10

For Students 4th - 5th
In this analogies worksheet, students read the pairs of words and select the answer that best expresses a relationship similar to the original pair. Students complete 12 examples.
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Various words: 18

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this various words worksheet, students choose the correct answer based on number of years, prepositions, and completing sentences. Students complete 7 problems.
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An Opening Time Line Project

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create a time line of their life starting at birth and each year after that up to their current age. They write and illustrate one important thing for each year, and place their time lines on poster board.
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Haiku

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students study various forms of poetry and the culture of Japan. They are introduced to a haiku- a traditional form of poetry and an art form in the Japanese culture. They write a haiku and create a student haiku booklet with the classes...
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Santa Claus Quiz

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students investigate Santa Claus. In this traditions lesson, students listen to Christmas songs and answer questions based on the music. Students complete a quiz about Santa Claus.  Students explore verb usage in Christmas related...
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Yes But Dialogue Game

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners work cooperatively to explore and practice dialogue improvisation.
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Line Breaks with Roethke

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore line breaks and write father poems. They write about something they have done with a family member.
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TIGERS AT TWILIGHT

For Students 5th - 6th
In this crossword worksheet about tigers, students are given 10 clues. They must find a word which matches each clue and insert it correctly into the crossword puzzle.