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Cause and Effect with the Treasure of Green Lake

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students, after reading the book, "Holes," answer questions about the story's plot, make decisions about game play that involve cause and effect relationships and utilize problem-solving skills and hand-eye coordination to navigate a...
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Spelling Showdown

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this spelling showdown worksheet, students play a spelling game where they write a word with the correct spelling on a whiteboard. Students collect beans if their answer are correct. The student with the most beans wins.
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Winter Olympics

For Students 4th - 8th
In this winter Olympics worksheet, students fill in the blanks to a paragraph that talks about the winter Olympics. Students fill in the blank for 24 winter Olympic words.
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What's My Pronoun?

For Students 6th
For this what's my pronoun? worksheet, 6th graders identify singular and plural pronouns and use them in sentences in a card game format (pronoun descriptions must be first written on index cards).
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Past/Participle Verb Forms 1: Irregular verb forms

For Students 5th - 10th
For this past and participle worksheet, students write the past and participle form for each verb in the sentences. Students complete this activity for 25 sentences.
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It's a Small World After All

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners link important individuals who shaped the news in 2002 by playing a variation of a game based on the idea that all people can be connected with 6 or less associations between them. They propose appropriate New Year's resolutions.
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Strong Feelings

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore how emotions affect the decision-making of peacekeepers and design simulators for training emergency-response personnel.
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Spam University

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read a New York Times article in order to consider the dissemination of information. They investigate the need for privacy as opposed to the need for information by looking at mass on-line and postal mail distributors.
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Grammar Football

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Pupils explore the ruloes for the correct usage of grammar. The game of football is played by classroom teams to acquire points each time an error is corrected by a member of the team.
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Integrated Skills and Speaking: Blankety Blank

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students are given a list of vocabulary words and asked to divide them into positive and negative feelings. They play a game using the vocabulary words.
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Spelling Lesson Plan: Make a Word Race: Class Teams

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students practice their spelling words. In this spelling skills lesson, students play a game that requires them to race to the front of the classroom to spell their spelling words before the other team does.
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Comments

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students evaluate newspaper articles. In this newspaper article lesson students compare newspaper articles. They  comment on headlines, language choices, quality and clarity, and impact on the reader.
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American Literature Unit Four

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students prepare for and respond to literature selections. This package includes twelve lessons from the American Literature, Regionalism and Realism: 1865-1910 series, each covering a different reading selection. Pre-reading and...
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Planning a Community Service Project

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students practice using a new language to plan a community event.  In this civics lesson, students practice writing a proposal for a community project using their target language.  Students brainstorm in small groups what their...
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Royal Shakespeare Company's New Theatre

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students brainstorm the names of Shakespeare's plays and read an article about a new theatre. They complete worksheets about the plays. In groups, they play a game where they give clues about films or plays and others try to guess the...
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Apostrophes - possession

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Learners examine the use of apostrophes. From a given reading, students locate all words with apostrophes. Using these words as examples, learners discuss rules for using apostrophes. Students match a person an an object from a list...
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Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Exercise

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this grammar worksheet, students correct or revise any ambiguous or inappropriate pronoun-antecedent errors found in the sentences given. They review the attached sheet for assistance with the activity. There are 20 sentences to fix.
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The Peerless Tunes of Busted

For Students 5th - 8th
In this peerless tunes of Busted worksheet, students identify the answers to fifteen cryptic clues on the lines provided for mastery of recognizing phrases and their meanings.
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Common Idioms 5

For Students 4th - 6th
In this writing idioms activity, students define what an idiom is and then match ten common idioms with their keywords for mastery.
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Test Your Grammar Skills

For Students 5th - 6th
In this grammar worksheet, students complete a table giving the adverb form, noun form and verb form for a listed adjective. Forty adjectives are listed.
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Fears and Phobias 1

For Students 5th - 6th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students explore the Greek names for fears and phobias by reading 15 fears and phobias. Students do Internet research to find out the official names. Example: fear of fire (pyrophobia)
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The Classic Hits of S Club 7 and S Club

For Students 6th - 9th
In this song riddle activity worksheet, students examine 15 song title clues and identify the song titles that each of them stands for.
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Goal Keeper Word Challenge

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this word challenge game instructional activity, students list as many words as they can from the letters in the word goalkeeper. The instructional activity includes 14 hints for words the students may use.
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Active Listening

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students talk with a partner. In this listening activity, students play a favorite colors listening games, review a checklist for active listening and practice active listening with a partner.