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Informal Writing 1
Students examine characteristics of informal writing. Students read through a class story. They rewrite the story so that it sounds if they were explaining the story to a friend. Students discover the use of apostrophes and...
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Informal Writing 2
Students explore characteristics of informal writing. They read a class story. Students rewrite the story in an informal style. Students discover that contractions and exclamation marks are used in the informal style.
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Write the Sentence Correctly-- Use of Its and It's
In this language arts worksheet, students demonstrate proofreading skills by correcting the mistakes in 15 sentences. All sentences contain the homonym its or it's. Students learn that the contraction form has the apostrophe.
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Confused and Misused Words and Phases
This grammar lesson will definitely help your students ace the next skills evaluation. Provided are several examples of words that are commonly misused, confused, or misspelled. Five different strategies are given to help students avoid...
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Editor Travels U.S. Fixing Errors on Signs
An interesting article on editors helps young writers understand the conventions of written English. They read a news article about an editor traveling America correcting spelling and punctuation errors on signs. They discuss proper...
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Eva's Code
Students understand the importance of punctuation in a sentence. In this codes lesson, students write a pen pal letter using codes for the punctuation. Students send a key to break the code if needed.
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Who? What? When? Where? Asking Questions
Sixth graders interview Veterans or role play to answer who, what, where, when questions. In this Veteran's Day questioning activity, 6th graders learn about the events in the military service of veterans. Students may simulate...
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Guided Reading with Elizabeti's Doll
Practice reading strategies using Elizabeti's Doll by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen. Readers utilize decoding and comprehension strategies before, during, and after reading the story. A detailed list of text features, high frequency words,...
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American Stories: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 2)
Here's a packet designed especially for those kids who need extra support with the basic concepts in the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic units on American stories.
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They're, Their, and They're
Clear up the difference between they're, their, and there once and for all! A reference sheets outlines when your learners can use each word, and ten practice sentences encourage them to fill the appropriate word in the blank. Use this...
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Cleaning Day
Students read "Cleaning Day" by D. H. Figueredo. They predict what they would expect to see the father and child on the cover of the book doing, confirm their predictions after reading the story, and reflect on the relationship between...
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Advanced Phonics Redux Fluency
After being introduced to words with advanced phonics features, the teacher presents the whole class with a stack of cards containing both new and familiar words. As each card is presented, the teacher says the word and recites the rule...
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Grammar Practice: They're, Their, and There
Clear up the differences between there, they're, and their once and for all! A helpful reference sheet clarifies when to use each word, and the next page includes ten practice sentences. A set of answers is available, but it is directly...
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Punctuation
In this punctuation worksheet, students connect 5 labels to the correct punctuation marks to what they show when used correctly in a sentence by drawing arrows to connect each one. Students fill in the missing punctuation marks in 10...
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Pasta Punctuation
Fourth graders put elbow macaroni where commas and quotation marks are supposed to be in sentences. In this punctuation lesson plan, 4th graders use the pasta to define where punctuation is missing in sentence strips.
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Spelling Vocabulary Words with "PH"
In this completing the "ph" words with missing letters instructional activity, students read sentences with incomplete words, use the scrambled missing letters and context clues, and fill in the missing letters to complete the words and...
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Pronouns
Ninth graders define the term 'pronoun', differentiate between personal, possessive, interrogative, indefinite and demonstrative pronouns, and identify the eight parts of speech.
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Welcome to our Classroom
Second graders create a classroom resource book for substitutes to help them feel more comfortable and familiar with faces and procedures in our classroom and school. They develop skill in using a digital camera and computer technology.
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Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
Young scholars read "Green Eggs and Ham" in celebration of Dr. Seuss's birthday and visit a storymaker website. Students create and type a three scene story using characters from Dr. Seuss's books and share their story with the class.
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Fun With Formatting
Students investigate the concept of using a word processing program with the intention of improving formatting skills like centering text. They also highlight different text sections and demonstrate how to save changes made to a document...
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Writing Thank You Notes
Sixth graders write to a veteran. In this letter writing lesson, 6th graders identify the five parts of a letter and discuss the importance of sending thank you notes. Students write a thank you note to a veteran.
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Daily Proofreading: theme 6 lesson 27
In this daily proofreading worksheet, students correct the sentences on their grammar and punctuation. Students correct 5 sentences total.
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Daily Proofreading: theme 6 lesson 28
In this daily proofreading worksheet, students correct the sentences on their grammar and punctuation. Students correct 5 sentences total.
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Daily Proofreading: theme 6 L 29
In this proofreading worksheet, students correct the sentences for grammatical and punctuation errors. Students do this for 5 sentences.