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Create a PowerPoint:Based on The Giver

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Are you reading Lois Lowry's The Giver in your language arts class? Have your young readers create a PowerPoint presentation about their life, and how they connect to the lives of the characters from the novel. They present information...
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Making Sense of Homographs

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
What is a homograph? Develop your students' vocabulary with a word association tool.   Language arts classes discover what a homograph is and how it can be used as a visual thesaurus. They discover the other uses for homographs...
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Charity Begins at Home

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Build stronger informational comprehension in your language arts class. Learners read a 7-paragraph article about charity, then respond to 6 short answer questions. Vocabulary words and definitions are included.
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What is a Haiku? How Do You Write a Haiku?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Haiku poetry is explored in this language arts lesson plan. Yong readers identify the characteristics of haiku and read several examples. Students make connections between their study of Japan and the poetic form of haiku, and they write...
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At the Crayon Factory: high frequency and spelling words

For Students 2nd - 4th
After reading the story At The Crayon Factory learners complete 4 different language arts activities. They write spelling and high frequency words, fill in the blanks to sentences, answer short answer questions, and write...
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Venn Diagram for Compare/Contrast

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Use this lesson to focus on a compare and contrast writing structure in your middle school language arts class. Here, young writers compare and contrast two texts using graphic organizers. They use a double bubble format for their...
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Dictionary

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Discovering different ways to use a dictionary to find the meaning of unknown words is the focus of this language arts lesson. Everyone reads a story and practices finding unknown words in the dictionary.
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Run On Sentences

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Explore run-on sentences with your language arts class. There is a SMART Board presentation included, but even if you don't have access to this technology, there are several useful pieces here. Provide your learners with the "student...
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House Hunting Guided Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars participate in a discussion about the book House Hunting, review vocabulary words and are instructed to group words to read smoothly. In this language arts lesson, students complete comprehension questions and write...
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Compound Word

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners explore compound words. In this language arts lesson, young readers complete a compound word matching activity. They divide compound words and create compound words.
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Georgia CRCT Online

For Students 7th
Prepare your class for a standardized exam with this language arts practice test. Designed for the Georgia Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT), these fifteen questions would be a great review for your seventh graders. Two...
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Be An Effective Note-Taker

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Guide your middle schoolers through the process of taking notes with this presentation. With tips and suggestions in the first half, the slideshow could be a good way to begin a research unit in your classroom. The second half of the...
PPT
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Sentences and Non-Sentences

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Use the popular theme of sharks to discuss complete sentences and sentence fragments with your language arts class. This is a great, interactive exercise to get all of your learners involved. Consider pairing kids up in teams to create...
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Irregular Words Fluency, Speed Battle

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Let's play a game! Explore language arts by participating in a flash card reading game. Kids utilize flash cards that have a number of irregular words written on them. They collaborate in pairs and compete as they attempt to pronounce...
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The Tangle Box quiz

For Students 4th - 8th
Review The Tangle Box by Terry Brooks in your language arts class. Learners can submit and review simple comprehension questions in an instant. Use this resource to test their independent reading novel.
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Starts with the Letter A

For Students 7th - 12th
Warm up your learners' minds with this short quiz about words that begin with the letter a. There are a total of 10 multiple-choice questions. This is a great worksheet to use prior to a language arts lesson! Note: You can...
PPT
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Writing a Story - How do I Start?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Terrific tips on how to start a story is the focus of this language arts presentation. Tips include: describing what's about to happen in the story, examples of sentence openers, and how to capture a reader's attention right away. There...
PPT
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Prefixes -"re"

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
The prefix, re- is the star of this basic language arts presentation. Learners are introduced to the prefix by reading a variety of words that use it. They discover that it means to do something again. As the PowerPoint goes on, learners...
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Blue Ribbon Readers: Drawing Inferences

For Teachers K - 5th
Model for young readers how to use illustrations, chapter titles, and events in a story to draw inferences and make predictions. Learners then practice these essential comprehension strategies by drawing inferences for another section of...
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National Constitution Center

Address America: Your Six-Word Stump Speech

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Stump speeches are the focus of this exercise that combines politics and language arts. After learning about this type of speech, the class listens to Obama's 2008 presidential campaign stump speech and answers a series of questions that...
Writing
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Snowman Sequencing

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Who knew that building snowmen could be educational as well as a ton of fun! This two-part worksheet first asks learners to cut out and glue in the correct order a series of four pictures showing a child building a snowman. When...
Activity
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Caps for Sale

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Bring to life a class reading of the children's book Caps for Sale with this printable set of manipulatives. Color, laminate, and cut out these pictures of the peddler, his caps, the tree, and the monkeys, using them act out the...
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Manchester University

Where The Forest Meets The Sea

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Join a father and his son as they explore an isolated location off the coast of Australia in the children's book Where the Forest Meets the Sea by Jeannie Baker. Engage young learners in reading this fun story with this series of...
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Large "Wh" Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Help young readers learn which way to pronounce the wh- digraph with this set of word cards. Introduce and sort through these 21 different words as a whole class before having students practice independently or in pairs as a...

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