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George Washington Story Starter
Imagine traveling back in time and having the opportunity to meet the very first president of the United States, what would you do? Challenge the imagination and creative writing skills of young learners with this fun writing prompt.
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St. Patrick's Day 4 Leaf Clover Story Starter
What if four leaf clovers really did bring good luck, how would they change people's lives? This fun creative writing activity asks children to tap into their imaginations as they explore the possibilities of this interesting superstition.
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Printable Story Starter: Grandmother's Cottage
This writing prompt provides students with an introduction paragraph about a trip to Grandmother's house for Thanksgiving. Students can finish the story in a creative writing exercise. The prompt could be a good addition to a...
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Paying Attention: an exercise in mindfulness
Fifth graders use a simple poem that introduces a clear, structured writing exercise about 8.
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ESL Grammar: Have + Noun
In these English Language grammar worksheets, students learn when to use have or has with a noun. Students complete several writing exercises that help them combine has or have with a noun in descriptive sentences.
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Literacy through Photography
Pupils photograph scenes from their lives and use the images to become a catalyst for related writing exercises. They explore the themes such as self portrait, family, community, visual storytelling, and dreams to encourage them to find...
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ESL Comparative Adjectives
In these English Language adjectives worksheets, students complete several activities that help them identify comparative adjectives that end in 'er.' Students complete both conversational and writing exercises for the comparative...
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Coaching, Conferencing, and Correcting
Learners, after revising their writing and identifying their strengths and weaknesses, edit their writing incorporating teacher feedback and examples from class exercises. In addition, they continue working on individual writing...
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Creative Writing
Fourth graders participate in an observation hike in this instructional activity. They orally share observations from their hike, and develop a paragraph in a shared writing exercise. Finally, the write their paragraph about process...
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Celebrating the Smithsonian's Birthday
Students examine online objects from the Smithsonian website and use them as subjects and inspiration for creative writing exercises.
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ESL Grammar: Past Tense
In these English Language grammar worksheets, students complete several activities that help them identify and use the past tense form of verbs. Students complete several speaking and writing exercises for past tense verbs.
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ESL Grammar: Future Tense
In these English Language grammar worksheets, students complete several speaking and writing exercises that help them learn to use the future tense of verbs.
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ESL Galaxy.com
On this ESL website, teachers have access to a variety of ESL lesson plans and worksheets. Teachers can print games, crosswords, pronunciation worksheets, songs, and reading or writing exercises.
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Homeschooling through the Holidays
Use your unique flexibility to help your family explore the holiday traditions of various cultures.
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The Fisherman and His Wife
Engage conversation and explore the journey as you challenge young readers to interpret the german folktale, "The Fisherman and His Wife" written by literary brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
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Charlie Brown and Friends
Charles Schulz' Charlie Brown and Friends, a collection of Peanuts comic strips, provides young readers with an opportunity to engage in full-class discussions, work in groups to examine how Schulz develops his characters, and...
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What Can I Do?
Young scholars identify how they are feeling and deal with feelings constructively. In this conflict resolution lesson, students explore their feelings through discussion. Young scholars read and complete the What Can I Do? e-sheet....
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Remembrance of Things Past
Engage critical and social thinking by exploring the value of language and word choice. The class considers the article "The Silence of the Historic Present" and analyzes several presidential speeches. They engage in class...
Student Achievement Partners
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm - "The Fisherman and his Wife"
Help young readers learn to read and interpret complex text independently. Teach young children to ask interpretive questions and use the text itself to answer them. Use art, word play and drama to provide a deeper understanding of...
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Talking to Teens About Money
Your teenagers are probably very good at spending money, but how good are they at managing it? Teach class members about banking, checking accounts, interest rates, car insurance, and many other relevant concepts with a series of...
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Dante's Peak Movie Review
Middle or high school volcanologists watch the 1997 film, Dante's Peak. They make observations as they watch and then write a movie review, focusing on what was accurately represented. They also point out what facts were stretched by...
Poetry Class
How to Make a Poem
Even reluctant writers will be able to craft poems using the poem making kit provided by this resource.
21 x 20 Media
A+ Writing Prompts
Shake it up! Shake your tablet to bring up a unique writing prompt for journaling or blogging with your class. Shake again and a new one appears. Prompts can come from different categories (sketches, scenes, texts, words, news) to help...
University of North Carolina
Anthropology
Anthropologists ask the question that everyone wants answered: what does it mean to be human? An online handout provides a brief introduction to the study of anthropology and outlines three common types of anthropology writing...
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