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A Teacher's Guide to the Signet Classics Edition of Jack London's The Call of the Wild

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
The Yukon provides plenty of opportunity for adventure. A study guide for The Call of the Wild by Jack London, also the author of White Fang, helps readers navigate the novel which is set in Yukon, Canada. Chapter summaries give a...
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Lesson 9 - Contractions

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Is it do'nt or don't? How about doesn't or does'nt? A lesson on contractions helps learners identify, form, and use contractions. Components within the plan include direct instruction on decoding and encoding contractions, as well as...
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Lesson 7 - Letter Combinations

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Individually, letters have their own sounds, but when combined with other letters, those sounds completely change. Introduce letter combinations with a lesson that asks learners to search for combinations in familiar words and use oral...
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Take Me Back to the Ball Game!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the role of sports in American society, analyzing both positive outcomes and its exclusive nature. They reflect on how the lessons that they participate in as students may carry with them into their adult lives.
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Getting Adults and Children to Talk

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students engage in activities to practice their speaking skills. They role play, tell stories, use puppets and props, play games and solve puzzles. They sing songs and use rhymes to practice repetition. They read and respond to articles...
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Stone Passing Game with Calabash Song

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discuss games and their use around the world in many different cultures and how music and games are related. They discuss the rules of West African game then play a game from West Africa and review and learn the "Calabash" song...
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Vocabulary Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students define vocabulary words prior to reading "The Most Dangerous Game" in this interactive language arts lesson that effectively integrates technology. This lesson requires internet access, a mobile computer lab, and an instant...
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Polite or Impolite Sentences- Buying a Ticket at the Train Station- Vocabulary Skills

For Students 5th - 7th
In this language arts worksheet, students make each sentence that is a polite sentence and a cross out those that would be considered impolite. They match 12 sentences; one polite with one impolite.
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Hotel Anagrams

For Students 5th - 6th
For this language arts and social studies worksheet, students examine 30 scrambled words and phrases all pertaining to staying in a hotel. Students unscramble the words in this challenging puzzle. Example: heskupenieog (housekeeping)
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Advanced Homophones 4

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students discover homophones, or words that sound alike but are spelled differently. Students read 15 words and write the homonym on the line.
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Test Your Lateral Thinking! Word Puzzles 1

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts activity, students examine 10 word puzzles. Students work out the clues to reveal some well known words and phrases. Example: GSGE (scrambled eggs)
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Adjectives- Group 1-- Comparative And Superlative Forms --Tough Version

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students analyze 40 adjectives and generate the comparative and superlative forms to fill out this chart. Example: rough (rougher, roughest)
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Hurling

For Teachers 5th - 6th
For this language arts worksheet, students listen to a podcast of an article about Hurling. The transcript of the podcast is included as an option. Students label 7 sentences as true or false. They answer 7 comprehension questions and...
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Fears And Phobias 2

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students demonstrate Internet or library research skills by finding out the names of 15 phobias. Example: fear of men with beards (pogonophobia).
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Elementary Homophones 3

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students examine 15 words in a word bank. Students write a word that is a homophone, or word that sounds the same but is spelled differently.
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Positive And Negative Words 2

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts instructional activity, students investigate if words have positive or negative connotations. Students analyze a list of 20 words and mark them with a P or N according to whether they are positive or negative.
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Nouns and Verbs

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students discover that some words can be used as both nouns and verbs. Students look at 10 words and write sentences using them as both nouns and verbs. Example: smell
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The Very Quiet World of Silent Letters

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts and spelling worksheet, students learn that the English language contains words with letters that are spelled but not pronounced. Students analyze 30 words and fill in the missing silent letters.
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Produce a Nonfiction Text

For Students 6th - 8th
In this language arts learning exercise, students look for the facts and create several nonfiction texts while including useful information for the reader.
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Improving Editing and Proofreading Skills

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars explore language arts by correcting grammatical errors. In this proofreading activity, students identify the importance of editing their own writing and demonstrate their proofreading abilities by correcting several...
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My Pocket IT Glossary-- A-Z of Computer Words (Nouns)

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts activity, students learn the meanings of 12 computer technology vocabulary words. Students examine 12 small boxes with one word in each. There are no directions but students could write definitions or sentences.
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My Pocket IT of Computer Words- Nouns

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts and technology learning exercise, students become familiar with 12 nouns pertaining to computer technology by making a pocket glossary.
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Using Present Perfect Tense 1

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students analyze 15 sentences with missing past participles. Students read the sentences and make the verb tense correct. Example: I've (be)____ to France twice.
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Polite Or Impolite Sentences-- Matching Activity

For Students 5th - 6th
For this language arts worksheet, students cut apart 14 pairs of cards: one polite sentence and one matching rude sentence. Students mix them up and match, identifying which one is polite or rude and why.

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