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Avoid Mushy Writing: Be Specific

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Replacing, bland, inexact generalizations with specific statement and precise information is the focus of a worksheet that models how to transform general statements into specific ones. After examining four models, learners have an...
Interactive
Curated OER

Present Simple Tense Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this interactive grammar worksheet, students read the 25 sentences and create their own questions about the underlined words. This worksheet is focused on the present simple tense.
Lesson Plan
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Impact of Indian Removal

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders consider how the majority sometimes enforces unjust laws upon the minority. For this Indian Removal lesson, 7th graders research Internet and print sources regarding the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and discuss its...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Circle the spelling word

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this spelling learning exercise, students find their spelling words that are hidden in other words, complete word puzzles, and answer questions about their spelling words. Students answer 18 questions total.
Worksheet
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The Ugly Duckling's Journey to Away - Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this recycling worksheet set, students read about where trash goes in Pinellas county. They fill in blanks in the words reduce, recycle, and reuse. They identify items that can be recycled, make words from the letters in the word...
Lesson Plan
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The Art of Persuasion - Persuading the Audience

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students write an essay or letter that gives three or more specific reasons to persuade the audience.
Lesson Plan
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Mmm, Mmm, Mmm

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify the grapheme and phoneme for M. They practice writing the letter M and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /m/. They associate the phoneme /m/ with its letter representation and identify it in various...
Worksheet
K12 Reader

Alliteration Game

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Practice alliteration with a fun game! Kids match names to a best friend's name, and add something they both like. 
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Family Time: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 5)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Support English language development with a family-themed unit consisting of a series of lessons designed to get your scholars moving, looking, speaking, writing, and listening. Conversation topics...
Lesson Plan
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Introduce Vocabulary: Kindergarten ABC (Rogers)

For Teachers K - 1st
As kindergartners are learning the alphabet, expand their vocabulary in the process using Jacqueline Rogers' book Kindergarten ABC. Each page features a letter and various objects for scholars to locate in the picture, and...
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Nature Walk: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 2)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Reinforce concepts such as long vowels, spelling patterns, sound clusters, double-final consonants, and syllables with a nature-themed unit. Through a series of extra support lessons, learners compare and contrast using a...
Worksheet
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Photo Find- At the Zoo

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this animals word search puzzle, learners locate the names of 14 zoo animals. The puzzle is more interesting because the word bank of animal names includes a close up photograph of each animal.
Worksheet
Teach-nology

Terrible Tuesday

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Who could have canceled Grover's newspaper? Complete a cloze activity in which kids read a short passage about a dog who loves to retrieve the paper, and fill in the blanks using a word bank.
Worksheet
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Write Sentences

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
These short sentences will give your budding writers practice printing whole words and leaving space between them. They copy two short sentences and are instructed to leave a finger space between words. Learners illustrate the first...
Worksheet
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The Atlas Alphabet

For Students 4th - 8th
In this atlas alphabet worksheet, students write the answer to the clue about things found in an atlas that start with each letter of the alphabet. Students write 26 answers.
Lesson Plan
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The Littlest Matryoshka

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students listen to the story The Littlest Matryoshka and sequence the story. In this sequencing lesson plan, students sequence the story and also make little dolls based on the story and write stories about them.
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Just how broken is the Senate?

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders examine the role of the Senate in the United States.  In this American Government lesson, 12th graders read various articles and answer questions to these articles.  Students write a letter to their Senator on a...
Worksheet
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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab

For Students 9th - 11th
In this vocabulary learning exercise, students decipher the correct vocabulary word to complete the sentence. All words begin with the letter "C."
Lesson Plan
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"Aaah" Says the Doc

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of activities as they explore/review the letter 'o' as it makes the short /o/ sound. They recite short /o/ tongue twisters, practice writing the letter 'o', and listen to stories, identifying words with the...
Lesson Plan
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AAA!! The Baby is Crying! AAA!!

For Teachers 1st
First graders take out primary writing paper and review how to form the letter "a". They observe a large picture of a baby crying on the board, discuss it and make the sound a baby makes when it is crying. They listen to some words,...
Worksheet
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Scrambled Letters

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this scrambled letters worksheet, students unscramble groups of words that are categorized. Students determine fifteen words and write in blank spaces.
Lesson Plan
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Letters from the Japanese American Internment

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students delve into primary research. In this Japanese Internment lesson plan, students make deductions about life in an internment camp by reading and comparing letters written to Clara Breed. Along the way, they consider the advantages...
Lesson Plan
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Can you think of pictures that will tell a story about rice?

For Teachers 1st
First graders use pictures and letters to create a rebus. In this writing sentences lessons, 1st graders analyze sample rebuses as a class and read a rice rebus independently. Students make three rebus sentences. Students play a...
Lesson Plan
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Frontier Forts

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders study frontier forts. In this Kansas history lesson, 7th graders research the history and conditions of Fort Leavenworth, Fort Scott, Fort Riley, Fort Larned, and Fort Hays. Students write letters from the...