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Around the World
Students play an Around the World game in order to read Dolch words. In this Dolch words lesson plan, the teacher holds up a Dolch word card and the first student to say the word moves on. This is played in pairs.
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Blending Bumper Cars
First graders practice blending words with the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern. Given a card with a decodable word part, 1st graders add an initial consonant sound and blend the sounds to read the new word. They practice reading a...
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There Was An Old Lady...
Students participate in various activities using the story There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. In this reading fluency instructional activity, students read the story and then practice comprehension, fluency, and writing. An...
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Story Solutions
Reading and writing are like peanut butter and chocolate, they just work better together. Stimulate those budding authors with a fun worksheet that requires them to read three story starters. The stories have been left incomplete; the...
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Among the Hidden Reflection Sheet
Fifth graders read the book Among the Hidden and practice their reading strategies. In this reading strategies lesson plan, 5th graders demonstrate their comprehension by presenting book projects to the class.
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Muggie Maggie: Lesson 8
Students predict a chapter from a book while learning new vocabulary words. In this reading comprehension lesson, students read the book Muggie Maggie, and predict what will happen in the upcoming chapter. Students read and...
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Snowflake Bentley
Students read books and draw pictures about what a scientist does. For this scientist lesson plan, students brainstorm together of all the things a scientist does.
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Homonyms
In this homonyms worksheet, students read the sentences and underline the 2 homonyms in each sentence. Students complete 16 sentences total.
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Spenser, Shakespeare, and the "Blazon": Lesson 4
Students discuss the meaning and tone of Shakespeare's Sonnet 130. In this sonnets lesson, students compare Spenser's sonnets to Shakespeare's. Students discuss specific words that add to the humor in Shakespeare's sonnet,...
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Punxsetawney Phil
Students read books, learn about the letter g, and complete coloring pages all to learn about Groundhog Day. In this Groundhog Day lesson plan, students also sing songs, and discuss the history of Punxsetawney Phil.
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How to Add Fractions-Sheet 2
In this fraction addition worksheet, students read and see examples of how to add fractions with unlike denominators and problems where one denominator is a multiple of another.
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How to Add Fractions-Sheet 3
In this adding fractions worksheet, students read information and examples about how to add fractions. Worksheet is a generic information reference source with no associated problems.
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Teaching Strategies: The Word Wall: A Tool for Beginning Readers and Writers
Students participate in various activities through the school week involving the high-frequency words on their word wall in order to increase familiarity with reading and spelling the selected words. In this word wall lesson, students...
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Getting the Gist and Determining Word Meaning: Paragraphs 12–14 of Steve Jobs’ Commencement Address (and connecting to Chapter 8)
Groups use a Venn diagram to compare the theme of love and loss in Steve Jobs' 2005 commencement address to Stanford University students and Christopher Paul Curtis' Bud, Not Buddy.
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Melodic and Harmonic Intervals
If you are teaching music and need a resource to demonstrate melodic and harmonic intervals, you're in luck. This hand out describes and shows what melodic and harmonic intervals look like on a staff.
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The Secret Garden - Punctuation 2
The second in a brief series of worksheets that focus on punctuating paragraphs about Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel The Secret Garden, this resource requires learners to add in capital letters and periods. Pupils will need to read...
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CVC Words
Practice simple sight words. Focusing on words such as bat, run, and sun, learners explore reading and spelling skills. It is a quick and easy way to review this topic. A teacher could add words to the presentation to make it a richer...
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The Ocean Floor
Practice reading comprehension by approaching oceanography through 2 pages of informational text. The text compares the ocean floor to the Grand Canyon to gives students perspective, and gives a brief coverage of the earth's crust and...
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Ivan the Incredible
What happens when Ivan the wrestler can't wrestle anymore? Read a short passage that provides six blank spaces for kids to add the correct word, based on context clues.
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Count on Tens to Add: Homework
In this counting on tens worksheet, students use the hundreds chart to help add the problems. Students complete six addition problems and one word problem.
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Guided Reading using Gail Gibbon's book Frogs
Students read to locate information about the stages of a frog's life and organize on a chart.
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Read and Write Numbers to 100
In this early childhood math practice worksheet, learners use their problem solving skills to solve 6 story problems that require them to add or subtract.
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Add Fractions with Unlike Denominators
In this adding fractions worksheet, students solve 10 problems in which simple fractions with unlike denominators are added. Students read the examples to learn how to find a common denominator.
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"Ramon Makes Stew" Reading Comprehension- Short Stories
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students first read a passage about a boy who cooks dinner for his family. Students answer 5 comprehension questions and 5 multiple choice vocabulary questions.