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"Zebra" by Chaim Potok

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Combine art and literature to teach greater themes and symbolic meaning. Using the plan outlined in this resource, expose your class to the story "Zebra" by Chaim Potok, conduct discussions about social issues and nicknames, and ask...
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Bright Hub Education

"Where the Red Fern Grows": A Lesson on Love and Devotion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Where the Read Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls is rich with themes relating to love and family. Help your class to understand these themes with the series of reading activities included in this unit outline. Readers can keep a journal to...
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Rediscovering Forgotten Women Writers

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Women's voices are becoming more prominent in the world of literature, but for centuries, this wasn't the case. Young historians research a woman whose writings are considered to be lost, out of print, or forgotten. They develop an oral...
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Understanding and Using Suffixes to Expand Vocabulary

For Teachers 6th - 8th
After a review of what suffixes are and how they are used, middle schoolers utilize a worksheet that is embedded in the plan to work in pairs to strengthen their understanding and skills in using these very important parts of our...
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Roald Dahl

The Twits - Dirty Beards

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
The problem with beards is that they collect a lot of food. The first lesson in an 11-part unit related to The Twits by Roald Dahl explores the hairy jungle that is Mr. Twit's beard. A concluding project has learners create their own...
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Yellow Bird and Me

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Upper elementary artists create works which demonstrate an understanding of the many elements of theater and the visual arts. This four-day plan combines many wonderful aspects of visual, musical, and theatrical arts into one very...
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Practice Using Lively Language

Practice Using Lively Language

For Students 3rd - 6th
Combine a study of biography writing with some tips for spicing up writing. After reading two passages, one much more descriptive than the other, pupils examine what makes one more interesting. They then brainstorm some ideas for writing...
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Oxford University Press

Language Focus: Interrogative and Demonstrative Pronouns

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Work on who, what, where, and how with several grammar activities. Additionally, kids complete sentences with demonstrative (relative) pronouns based on whether items are close or far away.
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Oxford University Press

Language Focus: Imperatives and Going To

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Study the future progressive tense and other ways to express what will (or won't) happen. After completing affirmative and negative sentences in the imperative form, kids work on different exercises with going to and...
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Oxford University Press

Language Focus: Simple Past Tense, Affirmative and Negative

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Find out what people did or didn't do with a grammar worksheet, which focuses on the past tense of different verbs. After kids use a word bank to complete a paragraph, they use the words did and didn't in several exercises...
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Oxford University Press

Language Focus: Imperative Sentences, Future Progressive Tense

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Finish your homework! Kids work on imperative sentences with a grammar learning exercise, which also focuses on future progressive tense (going to). After they use a word bank to write instructions for a person going on a trip, they fill...
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Oxford University Press

Language Focus: Present Continuous, Imperatives

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
What will your class do in the future? What won't they do? Practice the present continuous form for future arrangements (or future progressive tense) with several fill-in-the-blanks and sentence reordering activities. 
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Similes and Metaphors

For Teachers 4th - 8th
This fantastic presentation on similes and metaphors would be ideal for blossoming writers. Learners receive excellent instruction on these terms and are given a meaningful activity to do in their workbooks at the end of the PowerPoint....
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Triangular Trade

For Teachers 5th - 7th
This activity has it all, primary source documents, an interactive trade game, clear teacher background information, and sailing to the West Indies chance cards. You will play, trade, and live out the experiences of early colonists in...
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We Are Unique - Yet Also Alike

For Teachers 6th
How about four engaging lessons all related to bringing cultural awareness into the classroom through the arts? Sound tempting? Sixth graders will reflect on the art, storytelling, and music of various cultures, and how each transmits...
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Lesson: Uncovering a Mystery: Making a Hypothesis

For Teachers 1st - 6th
The class is presented with an image of a hand-carved leg. They act as art historians and hypothesize as to the purpose, nature, and creators of this amazing wooden leg. They compose journal entries from the point of view of an art...
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"I Can” Common Core! 6th Grade Speaking and Listening

For Teachers 6th Standards
It is important for kids to know exactly what is expected of them academically, but the standards are generally written in teacher language. These printables are available for all sixth grade Common Core standards.
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Scholastic

Writing to a Historical Poet

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Poetry is a very personal and introspective art form. Give your class the opportunity to understand how a poet's voice can speak to them on a personal level, and that every reader can respond to an author differently. After a poetic...
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Semicolons

For Students 4th - 6th
This is a fabulous instructional activity! Grammar enthusiasts practice the art of correctly using a semicolon. They insert a semicolon to combine three independent clauses, three conjunctive adverbs to independent clauses, and to...
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Storytelling: Using the arts to enrich the curriculum

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine storytelling in a cross curricular unit. Language arts, social studies, science and math are all incorporated in this project as well as technology through the use of Hyperstudio.
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English: Level C Lesson 30

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In this on-line language arts worksheet, students complete 20 multiple choice questions that cover many grammatical rules. Answers are available to the student at the end of the worksheet.
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Observing Connections: Art, Poetry, and the Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students write poems. In this language arts lesson, students view the works of Edward Hicks. Students write a poem and illustration based on the style of Edward Hicks.
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Mother Language Day

For Students 5th - 10th
For this Mother Language Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, matching phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, multiple choice, unscramble the words, sequencing, unscramble the sentences,...
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The Rigors of Learning a New Language

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider the immensity of the the task the author undertook to learn Chinese. They examine the rigors involved in learning another language-particularly one as notoriously difficult as Chinese and compare aspects of Chinese...

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