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Macmillan Education

Celebrations: St Patrick’s Day

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a couple of fun English language exercises. After first activating students' prior knowledge about Ireland and Irish culture during a class discussion, learners work in pairs or small groups to...
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Curriculum Corner

Riddle Cards

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
What better way to introduce making inferences than with riddle cards? Young readers practice making inferences through riddle cards and other types of reading, while filling out graphic organizers. The resource even comes with...
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K5 Learning

Clara Barton: Civil War Hero

For Students 4th Standards
Gain information about Clara Barton, a Civil War hero, and enhance reading comprehension skills with a worksheet that challenges scholars to read an informational passage and answer five short answer questions.  
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K5 Learning

Luke, Jay and Zach's Winning Game

For Students 4th Standards
There's nothing like the thrill of winning the big game! Fourth graders practice reading comprehension skills with a short story and series of questions.
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Nosapo

Reading Activity: Circle the Right

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
Fables can teach us about life's morals, but they are also helpful for reviewing verb tense, spelling, and word choice. Three reading passages feature well-known fables, each with several opportunities for students to circle the correct...
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Nosapo

Reading, Vocabulary, Comprehension

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
Whether you teach mainstream elementary classes or older English learners, a set of reading comprehension resources is a great addition to your language arts curriculum. Ten activities each include a reading passage and set of...
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K12 Reader

Little Women: Helping Father

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Jo's decision to sell her hair to bringing her wounded father home is a pivotal and poignant scene from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. Class members read the excerpt and answer four questions about the details, vocabulary, and plot...
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News Literacy Project

Democracy’s Watchdog

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed Standards
As part of a study of the importance of the First Amendment, expert groups research different historic case studies of investigative reporting, and then the experts share their findings with jigsaw groups. The case studies include Nellie...
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Learning for Justice

Marian Wright Edelman

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Marian Wright Edelman's 2014 Commencement Speech at Lewis and Clark College serves to inspire young scholars to investigate a problem in their community, to determine why the problem is important, and then to develop a plan for one thing...
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Curated OER

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students define from a word list for a literary selection. Using the literary selection, they read the vocabulary in context. They determine the definition of the word as used in context and create a crossword puzzle using the...
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Curated OER

Using the News in Class

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students listen to international news stories. Students use context clues to determine the meaning of vocabulary words from context, then complete a matching exercise to see if their vocabulary definitions were correct. Students...
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Curated OER

Homonym Game

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use structural analysis and context clues to determine meanings of words. They play a game to decode, read, and comprehend written text . They treat others with kindness and fairness and include others in learning and play...
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Curated OER

Word Structure 2 - Suffixes

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders identify suffixes in unfamiliar words. They identify vocabulary words as nouns or adjectives using context clues and suffixes. They review the definition of a prefix, along with examples of prefixes and explain the...
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Curated OER

Vocabulary Review

For Students 4th - 6th
In this vocabulary review, students use context clues to choose answers to complete sentences. Students determine a word or words to logically complete seven sentences.
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Curated OER

Vocabulary Meanings

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this vocabulary meanings worksheet, students read for context clues, determine meanings, and select correct words or phrases to complete sentences. Students complete eight sentences.
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Curated OER

Things People Couldn't Do

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this things people couldn't do worksheet, students read context clues about famous people to determine which words in a word blank complete sentences. Students choose four answers to fill in the blanks.
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Curated OER

End Blends

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this word ending blends worksheet, students use words in a word bank, context clues, and pictures to add ending blends to words in sentences. Students complete five words.
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Curated OER

Prepositions

For Students 4th - 5th
In this recognizing prepositions worksheet, students use context clues in sentences, select prepositions from a word bank, and complete sentences. Students write five prepositions.
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Curated OER

Fun With -ing Verbs 4

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this recognizing -ing words in sentences learning exercise, students read sentences with two boldfaced -ing words, use context clues, and underline the correct word. Students identify 15 answers.
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Curated OER

Fun With -ing Verbs 3

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this recognizing the appropriate -ing words in context learning exercise, students read sentences and choose the bold faced words that correctly complete the sentences. Students underline 15 answers.
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Curated OER

Verbs: Simple Present Tense

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this using simple present tense verbs instructional activity, students use context clues to complete sentences with the two verbs in each word bank. Students choose 14 words.
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Curated OER

Present Tense Verbs

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this recognizing present tense verb usage worksheet, students complete sentences using the verbs in the word bank, applying context clues, and writing them in the correct form. Students write 12 answers.
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Curated OER

Intermediate Vocabulary Practice

For Students 4th - 6th
In this recognizing vocabulary words in context worksheet, students read sentences and choose the vocabulary word in parenthesis that correctly completes the sentences. Students choose 12 answers.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Written Conversation

For Students 4th - 6th
In this recognizing meanings of phrases worksheet, students use context clues and the word bank to complete conversation sentences. Students fill in 6 blanks.

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