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Breaking News English: Chocolate Drought

For Students 5th - 10th
In this chocolate learning exercise, learners read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write,...
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Beginning Paragraph Correction #3

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this beginning paragraph worksheet, learners read a passage and determine corrections to the underlined errors. Students choose corrections from eight multiple choice answers.
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Separation of Church and Class?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the changing socioeconomic status of the evangelical Christian population in the United States. They discuss the relationship between class and religion in American society.
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Extra, Extra Read All About It

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Looking for an interactive roll playing lesson? Young actors practice reading and rereading decodable texts with expression. They interact with the play, "The Boy Who Wanted the Willies," by Aaron Shepherd within this lesson. An...
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"Faster, Faster, Red Riding Hood!"

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars practice becoming fluent readers by recognizing words accurately, rapidly and automatically. They read and reread the book, "Red Riding Hood," by James Marshall and "Frog and Toad Together," from Scholastic, in pairs and...
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Breaking News English: Wikipedia

For Students 5th - 10th
In this Wikipedia worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write, and...
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A Day in the Life

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars write an essay. In this comparison lesson plan, students read about a child's typical day on a fair trade cocoa farm in the Dominican Republic. Young scholars write about a typical morning of a child in the US and make...
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A Teeth Changing Experience

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students research human health by reading an educational story in class. In this oral health lesson, students identify the importance of brushing their teeth and consuming calcium. Students read the book A Teeth Changing Experience...
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Wonderful Wintertime

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students explore the seasons and how to describe them with adjectives. In this lesson about winter and descriptive language, students develop an understanding of the seasons specifically winter, and become equipped to describe them with...
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Drawing Plants with Plant Studio Freeware

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students identify parts of plants by name and the relationship among these parts as they use Plant Studio Freeware Wizard and tools on the computer to draw a particular plant from life or from a picture.
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Slanted Sentences

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine biased words in news articles, suggest synonyms, then rewrite the sentences to demonstrate how word choice can alter meaning.
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Kicking It Around

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students analyze the recent boom in women's sports, focusing on the Women's World Cup Soccer tournament to examine various people's views about women athletes. They write a newspaper article summarizing what they learned in their...
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50 States: New England States

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students discover where certain states are located and what the look like. They look for their information on a web site. Each student is assigned a state which they must research then present to the entire class.
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What Do You Want to Sell?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars explore how companies describe their products and services. They write business plans for companies based on their interests or needs.
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User Friendly

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore how consumers have become as proficient in computer technology as specialists were a decade ago. They create and conduct a test to determine the proficiencies of people in their school community.
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Talking About a Resolution

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore Nobel Prize winning economist Thomas C. Schelling's strategic egonomics theory as it applies to making new year's resolutions. They make their own resolutions and develop plans to keep them using Schelling's strategies.
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Ghosts of Holidays Past

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students write in their journals to analyze the use of nostalgia. After reading an article, they identify aspects that are universal for holidays. They describe and examine their own memories of a specific holiday and interview someone...
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Expression!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students organize ways of reading expressively as well as fluently. They encounter books by Dr. Seuss within this lesson plan. Practice, practice and more practice makes perfect. Punctuation marks are reviewed for accuracy.
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"Fast As Fast Can Be..."

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice strategies on becoming better fluent readers by repeated readings and by becoming phonemically aware of reading whole sentences with expression and emotion. They read the books, "The Skeleton on the Bus," "Don't Worry,"...
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Verbs in Past Tense

For Students 7th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students fill in the correct form of the verb in parentheses in past tense in thirty sentences. Students check to make sure each one is grammatically correct.
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Verb Forms Worksheet 1

For Students 8th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate verb form in parentheses to complete twenty-five sentences grammatically correct.
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Subject-Verb Agreement

For Students 4th - 6th
In this grammar worksheet, students underline the subject in twenty-five sentences and then circle the correct verb in parentheses that makes each one grammatically correct.
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The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Aftermath of Reconstruction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the Reconstruction Era. In this American history activity, students explore the condition of the United States following the Civil War as they read statistical data. Students analyze the Reconstruction policies to...
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Reading Comprehension

For Teachers 3rd
In these two reading and comprehending a friendly letter worksheet and a poem about a Frog worksheet, 3rd graders read a letter from a third grader and answer questions about it. Students answer 11 multiple choice questions.