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A Holiday Newsletter In MS Word For Elementary School
Students produce a holiday newsletter using a software program. In this holiday newsletter lesson, students use a software template to write a newsletter. They fill in the template with appropriate information and pictures.
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Silent-letter Word Fluency
First graders practice reading. In this fluency building lesson, 1st graders practice quickly saying words that have a silent letter in them. They work in small groups to read a group of word cards as quickly as they can. This lesson...
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Words That Begin With "SM"
In this phonics word search worksheet, students search for words that begin with "sm" spelled across, up and down, or diagonally hidden in the puzzle. Students find 12 words.
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Words That Begin With "SPR" and "STR"
In this phonics word search worksheet, young scholars search for words that begin with "spr" and "str" spelled across, up and down, or diagonally hidden in the puzzle. Students find 12 words.
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Middle Sound Segmenting Accuracy
Mico the puppet wants to play a game! Can you figure out which picture card he's thinking of if he only says the middle sound? Choose three picture cards from the extensive library provided here, making sure scholars know what word each...
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Cruise the News
Students utilize newspapers as a resource to complete various tasks. They read articles, write summaries, investigate the classified section, write commercials, and circle spelling words.
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Instant Spelling Activity: Unstressed Endings
Seventh graders practice their spelling skills. In this word patterns and analysis lesson, 7th graders examine the unstressed -er, -or, and -ar. Students listen to a mini lesson regarding the endings and then complete a worksheet....
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Spelling Practice: ow and ou Words
Fifth graders complete activities for ou and ow words. In this ou/ow words instructional activity, 5th graders practice ou and ow words by completing the 'instant activity.' Students complete a crossword puzzle activity for ou and ow words.
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Introduction to Dolch Words
First graders are introduced to Dolch words. In this reading improvement lesson, 1st graders use Dolch words to review beginning and ending sounds, consonant blends and sight words.
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Locating Words
Students locate various basic sight words in an article or a story. They read the word list/worksheet, and independently locate and circle each word from the list on the article.
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Macbeth News Broadcast
Here is an authentic assessment task for Shakespeare's Macbeth. Young literature scholars prepare, perform, and record a news broadcast about the major events in the play. For example, groups may choose to report on the death of Lady...
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Go Fish for Antonyms
Third graders, after reading and discussing the book, "One Fish Two Fish," by Dr. Seuss, practice matching pairs of antonyms together with an accuracy of 12 out of 15. They make flashcards in the shape of fish to study with and play a...
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Spell Check: Appraising the Value of Good Spelling
Students examine scenarios in which misspelling words may have unfortunate results. They create tightly written public service announcements convincing others that spelling matters.
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Table This!
Learners create a table in Microsoft Word. In this word processing lesson, students create a table in Microsoft Word. They fill this table in as if it were a BINGO card, but they use their vocabulary words instead of numbers.
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Long u: Cloze the Gap!
In this cloze activity worksheet, 2nd graders complete 12 sentences using long u words from the word bank at the bottom of the page. They read each sentence before adding the word that makes sense.
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The alphabet
Students write words that the teacher spells out orally. In this alphabet lesson plan, the teacher signs the words to music and the students write them down.
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USING MICROSOFT, POWERPOINT, WORD, EXCEL AND THE INTERNET TO CREATE A PRESENTATION
Explore the basic PowerPoint commands and options. They research information (including the WWW) related to an approved topic for presentation development. They create a presentation defined by specific criteria. They document research...
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Focus on Spelling and Reading
Learners participate in a lesson focused on developing spelling and writing skills. They write complete sentences using spelling words. Also a fun activity of solving riddles by using spelling words is included.
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Spelling and Reading
Pupils use their spelling words for the week to solve analogies. In groups, they work together to place the correct word in the correct place in a sentence. They also read a paragraph and determine the meaning of the word using context...
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Spelling Bingo
Pupils write one word in each box on the BINGO card. One student stands and teacher randomly calls out one word from the list to the standing student to spell. If student spells it correctly, the class covers the word on their cards. If...
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Here's an Instant Activity for December 17, 2007
Fourth graders complete a spelling activity to learn how to spell with apostrophes. In this spelling lesson, 4th graders complete an oral spelling activity with their teacher. Students then complete the Instant Activity worksheet for...
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Christmas Words - Worksheet
Students discover that the words in the given list are out of order and they need to unscramble the letters to form words that relate to Christmas. They then work on the worksheet independently.
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Reintroduce /kn/
Students practice reading words with the kn pattern. In this phonics instructional activity, students review the sound kn makes. Students then play a game to reinforce the correct use of the kn spelling pattern.
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Rules for Forming Plural Nouns
For this plural nouns worksheet, students learn rules about plural nouns and then correct noun errors in a three paragraphs through adding 's,' and add apostrophe's to incorrect sentences. Students also read about possessive pronouns and...