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Guess What?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students can learn to recognize sentence fragments using these lesson plans.
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Pendemonium: Panic in Paru

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover and practice the use of the three types of pronouns. They view and discuss a lighthearted video that describes the proper uses of pronouns. They also participate in a read aloud of the book,"I and You and Don't Forget...
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Pendemonium: the Ink on the Sphinx

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students review the forms of nouns through a fanciful video and picture book discussion. They attempt to tell a story about their family without using nouns and then create a noun pyramid of common. proper, plural, and irregular nouns...
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Dining Out in Brazil

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learn about Brazilian food and pick up some Portuguese vocabulary along the way. After studying the vocabulary, class members complete the provided worksheets. They then work in pairs to write sentences and play a vocabulary game as a...
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The Princess's Point of View

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Everyone wants to be part of a royal family. Let your pupils experience the privilege of royalty by rewriting the story The Frog Prince from the point of view of the princess. While the story line remains the same, perspective is bound...
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International Day of Peace

For Students 5th - 10th
To recognize the International Day of Peace, pupils complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill-in-the-blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling sequencing, scrambled sentences, asking questions, take a...
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Penguin Presentations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the attributes of penguins. In this penguins instructional activity, students participate in a penguin scavenger hunt and take notes on the information they encounter. Students prepare reports about their findings and...
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Irregular verbs

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this irregular verbs worksheet, students choose the correct irregular past forms of the verbs given to them. Students complete 10 multiple choice questions.
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Maggie's Earth Adventures Unit

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students practice math, science, Spanish, and grammar skills using computer based activities in this unit of lessons. They experience lessons at different levels while tracking their progress using the attached progress chart.
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Finding Errors

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore editing, proofreading and correcting their writing. They discuss the various editing marks. Students practice proofreading, editing and correcting sentences they have written.
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What Does Christmas Mean to Me?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students write an essay entitled "What Does Christmas Mean to Me?" In this writing instructional activity, students express their feelings about Christmas in an essay. Students discuss ways they have given to others during the...
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Will or Going to?

For Students 4th - 7th
In this will or going to worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with the correct form of either will or going to. Students complete 20 multiple choice questions.
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The Posse in Austrailia

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore the use of commas and periods. They compose a friendly letter without commas or periods to give to a partner to revise. In addition, they discuss how these punctuation marks helped readers better understand the...
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Hollywood

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Pupils listen to a play, or perhaps, take turns reading portions of it aloud. Afterward, they thoughtfully analyze and discuss the components of a well-written play. Next, a theme is assigned, and each person writes a play in conjunction...
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Learning About Hurricanes

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars write a research paper on hurricanes. In this weather lesson, students use a science text book to write down facts about hurricanes on note cards and then outline their essay. Young scholars use the outline to create an...
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Interjections

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Teach your class that they can use interjections to make their writing more interesting. Individuals read a selection of sentences from their book using great expression and then explain to the teacher how interjections can make their...
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Pop Concert in Iran

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Read, analyze, and critique a newspaper article about a concert with a Western singer and an Iranian band. Scholars will assess key vocabulary terms within the article, learn how to understand a short news report, and hone in on how the...
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"Jabberwocky" Jive

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils review the fantasy of Alice in Wonderland and discuss the author. After reading the poem, "Jabberwocky," they look up unfamiliar words in the dictionary. Working as partners, they create a list of "protmanteau" or invented words...
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Feelings

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars complete grammar and story writing activities with a theme of feelings. In this grammar and writing lesson plan, students discuss feelings and complete grammar revision for the future tense of verbs. Young scholars read a...
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Class Vacation Book

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students, utilizing technology and its avenues, create, produce and publish a variety of works. They generate a bubble map to brainstorm words that describe a specific vacation spot as well as create a pattern book with graphics about...
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Open Cloze Worksheet 4

For Teachers 5th
In this grammatical relationships worksheet, 5th graders fill in the blanks in eight sentences by choosing the most appropriate answer (one English word) that best completes each sentence.
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Elvis Fanatic in Jail

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students read, analyze and critique a newspaper article about an Elvis fan who stole from her employer to buy Elvis memorabilia. They assess how to understand a short news report and discuss the use of present perfect tense in the article.
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Folktales around the World (Middle, Reading/Writing)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students analyze, synthesize, and use the elements of various US cultural folk tales to describe the elements of fiction in general and in folk tales specifically.
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Symbolic Borders

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore symbolism, visualization of key literary elements