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How To Reignite Their Desire to Read

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Promote independent reading by hosting a book tasting in your classroom where kids can sample new books and hear your personal recommendations.
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How To Use the Six Traits of Writing

For Teachers K - 7th
Use these reference tools to plan and organize the Six Traits of Writing Program.
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Temperature Stories

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students create a story that matches the provided temperature data. They use graphed temperatures as the plot for their creative writing story.
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Fantasy Fusion

For Teachers K - 12th
Students create a fantasy/fairy tale book, with them and their reading buddy as the main characters. Using the Olympus digital cameras available, the older students photograph the younger students and have pictures taken of them reading...
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Journalism - The Attention Grabbing Topic Sentence

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students act as journalists to grab audience attention with the topic sentence for their writing. They write paragraphs in quantities appropriate to grade level.
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Things Are Looking Up

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars write a description of a person in their community. They brainstorm a list of role models and what qualities make a role model. They interview a panel of role models.
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The Dictionary Game

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Pupils play The Dictionary Game--also called Balderdash as a way to learn new vocabulary words.
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Past or Present Perfect

For Students 4th - 5th
For this grammar worksheet, students read the sentences and then write past or present perfect on the line to show the correct verb tense.
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I Am A Musician- Interview A Musician

For Teachers K - 8th
Students, as a class, interview musician to find out more about him/her as an individual. Students then write thank you notes and include, by naming or drawing, one fact learned about the musician.
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Prairie Voices...Making a Living

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore the many ways people support themselves and their families. In this economics lesson plan, students review newspapers and compare types of jobs. Students create daily schedules for an adult worker and role play job...
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Special Delivery-Opinion

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to the concept of global climate change. Using data, they determine how much of the world is being affected by the increase in temperatures. They complete a worksheet and consider the evidence giving to them and...
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Photo-Based Reading Projects

For Teachers K - 12th
Students practice using a digital camera and identify the various parts. As a class, they review recent vocabulary and signs used in their community. In groups, they take pictures of various items and write complete sentences describing...
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Prepositions of Place and Time

For Students 5th - 7th
In this prepositions of place and time worksheet, learners choose the best preposition to complete the sentence. In some sentences, no preposition is needed.
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Vocabulary Practice: Completing Sentences

For Students 4th - 5th
In this vocabulary activity, students use a word pool to fill in blanks and correctly complete a set of 10 sentences. Word bank contains 12 words, 2 will not be used.
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Life In A Castle

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use the internet to examine life in a castle. They examine pictures of castles and describe them. They write to someone close to them explaining their life in a castle.
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The Teaching Challenge: Lynne Truss

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students watch movie featuring Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves, and scour community pointing out bad punctuation to shopkeepers and restaurateurs.
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Get a Clue: What is There and What Isn't

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students practice the ability to examine and analyze evidence and extract information that eventually leads to deductive conclusions. After evaluating the objects discovered in a box, students write a one-page reflection paper of their...
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Verb Review: Mixed Including Passive

For Students 4th - 5th
In this verbs worksheet, students fill in the correct form of the verb in parentheses in a three paragraph text about visiting Vancouver.
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Gerunds and Infinitives 12

For Students 5th - 6th
In this gerund and infinitive worksheet, students complete a set of 10 multiple choice questions, choosing the correct answer and clicking on a "check" button for immediate feedback.
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Baked Polymer Clay 3D People Portraits

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Learners discuss methods of building forms with clay (ball and variations, snake, flat sheets). They draw a stick figure of what their sculpture may look like, including correct figure proportion.
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What Makes a Cat a Cat?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the lives of pets by videotaping them.  For this animal life lesson, students videotape a cat and other pets using school cameras in a computer lab.  Students review the footage from the cat and other...
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Reading Genres Fortune Teller

For Teachers 4th - 11th
In this reading genres fortune teller, students remember all the reading genres by making a fortune teller. Students use the pattern (on another page) to fold the movable flaps. The directions for the game are provided.
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Prefix-Suffix Concentration

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students correctly match prefixes or suffixes with their appropriate meaning. Prefix-Suffix Concentration is a game that allow students to practice and review prefixes and suffixes and their meaning.
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The Use of Articles Resource Page

For Students 4th - 6th
In this use of articles resource worksheet, students receive help in determining the proper use of articles in their writing. They read about the proper use of the, a, and an.

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