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Comparing Two Improvisations

For Students 6th - 8th
Jazz improvisation can be difficult to listen to for some music enthusiasts, however there are patterns and characteristics that can be analyzed. They use this Venn diagram to aid them in comparing two improvisational pieces, where they...
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The Stranger Redeemed: A Portrait of a Black Poet

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Read and analyze poems by African-American authors. Using the text, they identify the various patterns, subjects, language and dialects used. Then team up to compare and contrast the various authors and define new vocabulary. The lesson...
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I Scream You Scream We All Scream for Ice Cream!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Use letter boxes and example words to help kids distinguish between the sounds for short vowel e and long vowel e. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds, with a particular emphasis on /ea/. They...
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To the Sea

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Improve pronunciation and phonemic awareness in your first and second graders! With this plan, they distinguish between the sounds for short vowel e and long vowel e. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel...
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Shake With A

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Use letter boxes and letter tiles (d,a,y,l,p,w,k,f,r,i,t,s,b,c,I) to help your class distinguish between the sounds for short vowel a and long vowel a. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds, with a...
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How Many Feet Will We Meet?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Emerging speakers distinguish between the sounds for short vowel /e/ and long vowel /e/. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise the long vowel sounds, with emphasis on /ee/. They practice reading and spelling a variety...
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Peachy Teacup by the Stream

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Help your kids distinguish between the sounds for short vowel /e/ and long vowel /e/. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds, with a particular emphasis on /ea/. They practice reading and spelling a...
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Bee a Reader

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Use a fun tongue twister to help your class remember the /ee/ sound! With this lesson, they distinguish between the sounds for short vowel e and long vowel e. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds,...
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Crackled Batik Book Covers

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students measure a cover for a book and design a beautiful and practical book cover. They follow the directions to design a book cover, coloring one side of the paper with Crayola products using traditional batik patterns from various...
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Pop-Up Stepping Stones

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Pupils become aware that humans exhibit a predictable growth pattern and then research their families progression of child birth. They collect their research data and design a keepsake of their milestones in chronological order.
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Start Writing My Name

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use Crayola Model Magic to create the letters of their names in a three dimensional form. They use upper and lower case letters. They compare their names to the names of their classmates. Finally, they embellish their names with...
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Stained Glass Windows

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students create an intricate stained glass pattern. They study the history of stained glass windows, whose use began during the Middle Ages when they were created to teach people about their faith. They recreate a window design found in...
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Alphabet

For Students Pre-K - K
Guide your class in learning the alphabet with this instructional activity. For this alphabet activity, youngsters fill in 15 letters missing in an uppercase alphabet and 22 letters missing in a lowercase alphabet. Use this...
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My Summer Memory

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this writing worksheet, students will write about a summer memory on the pattern of a clamshell. Students will cut out the clamshell and decorate the outside.
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Plurals Assessment

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this plurals worksheet, pupils find the plurals for twenty words on two word searches. Each word search has ten words. A variety of spelling patterns is included such as adding es, adding s, changing f to v, and changing y to i.
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Syllable Activity 5

For Students K - 1st
Use a syllables learning exercise to help learners read nine words, write them onto the line with a division line, and then write the two consonant syllables for the word on the separate lines. They will learn the VCCV pattern with...
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Annotating Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Use text marking and highlighting to explore the structure of a poem. After listening to Allan Ahlberg read "Please Mrs. Butler," learners locate stanzas and patterns on their copy of the poem using the text marking technique. Class...
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Mysterious Plot Problems

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
Your readers explore plot patterns in mysteries by identifying problems first in Two-Minute Mysteries by Donald J. Sobol and then in  The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. To gain access to the worksheets, graphic organizers and...
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English Test

For Students 5th - 6th
In this literary techniques worksheet, students complete a 12 question multiple choice question test. Included are questions about poetry conventions such as repetition, similes, rhyming patterns, alliteration and metaphors.
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Using the Word Ending -ous

For Teachers 3rd
Help your class practice spelling and vocabulary skills using this resource. This presentation leads learners on an exploration of words ending in -ous. Using words, such as famous, generous, and dangerous, they discuss meanings and...
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Goals Books, Sports

For Teachers K - 2nd
Do your kids love football? Discuss goals for your class or for the future with a book template shaped like a football. Kids write down their goals and use the pattern to create a book.
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Apostrophes and Quotation Marks

For Students 6th - 8th
After a brief explanation of two uses for apostrophes (ownership and contractions) learners are asked to choose the correct word in 10 sentences. The same pattern is repeated for the use of quotation marks. The worksheet could be...
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Paragraph Development Exercise: Climactic or Emphatic Order

For Students 9th - 12th
Exercise paragraph writing by focusing on the impact of each statement or idea. For this organizational pattern, writers compose their paragraphs by increasing the force of each idea so that the most important idea is the concluding...
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Printing Practice-- Words with "--ink" Ending

For Students K - 1st
Learners trace, then write four words which end with the rhyming pattern -ink. They use two of the words in a sentence, printing them correctly on the primary lines, and illustrate one of their sentences. Incorporate multiple...