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Bee Writing Prompt

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
What do your pupils know about bees? Ask them to examine facts and images about three different types of bees and write about one type. Pupils explain why their chosen bee is interesting and back up their ideas with facts and opinions....
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Writing a Political Leader

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students peer edit a letter.  In this editing lesson, students peer edit a letter written to a political figure by another student. Students discuss edits and revisions needed for improvement. This is a continuation lesson that is part...
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Powers of Persuasion

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Did you know that clothing and textiles can be recycled, just like glass, paper, aluminum, and plastic? Pupils are introduced to textile recycling and design persuasive posters or letters that raise awareness about this unique type of...
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Harry Potter: Study Questions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Elementary learners explore fiction storytelling through partcipating in a survey. They identify the characters, themes and plot of the Harry Potter series while discussing their opinions in class. Learners conduct a survey about their...
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Checking for Accuracy

For Teachers K - 5th
Young appreciators of art consider the sculpture, The Things I Have to do to Maintain Myself, by Roxanne Swentzell. Everyone gives their opinion as to what the figure in the sculpture is doing. After they learn that the image portrays a...
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Super Sentences & Perfect Paragraphs

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
An extensive collection of lessons and activities includes many writing, grammar, and proofreading exercises. With templates and worksheets that cover several steps in the writing process, from sentence to paragraph to essay, this...
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Number The Stars

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this chapter eight worksheet, students discuss and brainstorm four literal comprehension questions, two inferential questions and two opinion questions from the novel Number The Stars.
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Unleash the Power of Poetry in Your Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students can gain an appreciation of poetry by being encouraged to express their opinions and ideas.
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POW! A Peanuts Collection

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
Make a study of Charles M. Scultz's famous comic strip Peanuts in your language arts class. Class members read and discuss the baseball-themed book POW! A Peanuts Collection. After talking about themes and vocabulary, they complete...
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The Cay

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Support your instruction of The Cay by Theodore Taylor with this extensive unit of materials. Provided here are prereading activities, worksheets and discussion questions for the entire book, and reading quizzes that you can use to check...
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Skill Building with the Newspaper

For Teachers 5th - 12th Standards
Extra, extra, read all about it! Use a newspaper as the primary resource in a special education classroom to teach reading, writing, and math skills. The activities help class members build their reading skills as well as their knowledge...
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Image Conscious

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students take a stand on the concept of changing their appearance. In this changing of ones image instructional activity, students create a design that would change their image and discuss the age they think they should be to make that...
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Critical Literacy in the 21st Century

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Listen to Sitti's Secrets and have your class discuss their opinions about Arab families.  They will become familiar with the Palestinian /Arabic Culture through a critical literacy focus.  Students will write a persuasive letter on...
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Oreo Cookie Writing

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students explore the concept of response writing. In this writing activity, Oreo cookies are used as motivational tool and writing prompt. Students develop a summary of the events that took place when the Oreos were given out.
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Internet Assignment- Snails

For Students 5th - 7th
In this Internet investigation worksheet, learners research snails, look at pictures, and answer questions about apple snails and garden snails. They write their opinion about keeping snails as pets, describe what affects snail...
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Book Report

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this book report worksheet, students fill in their book's title, author, illustrator, and characters, beginning, middle, and end. Students also write a personal connection, a prediction, and their opinion of the book.
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Checking Account - Reading Comprehension

For Students 4th - 6th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students will read a passage about opening a bank account and then determine the answer to five comprehension questions. In addition students will then evaluate the scenario presented and write...
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Busy Bus Driver

For Students 4th - 6th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students will read a passage about a bus driver, determine the answer to five true or false questions, and then write a short opinion essay explaining how he should solve his problem.
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Grand Canyon

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Grand Canyon worksheet, students answer 5 true or false questions that involve making inferences from a reading passage about the Grand Canyon. Then the students write a short opinion paragraph where they help the family in the...
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Present for Father

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Father's Day worksheet, students read a passage about Father's Day and then answer 5 true or false questions involving inferences. Then the students write an opinion paragraph explaining what the girl should buy her father for...
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House on Fire

For Students 4th - 6th
In this reading comprehension worksheet about firefighting, learners read a passage about firefighting, then answer 5 true or false questions using inferences based on the reading passage. Then students write an opinion paragraph about...
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Mail Carrier

For Students 4th - 6th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a passage about a mail carrier then answer 5 true or false questions that involve making inferences based on the reading passage. Then students write an opinion paragraph suggesting...
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Arriba Amigos!

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore how culture effects our world. In this culture instructional activity, students work in groups to do a web quest. Students gather and analyze information to decide if Mayan ruins should be destroyed to build a shopping...
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Writing a Political Leader

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students investigate politics by writing a formal letter. For this U.S. Government lesson, students discuss political issues they would like to address and research their topic using the Internet. Students locate an appropriate political...

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