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Fluffy's Valentine Day
In these reading comprehension worksheets, students will read "Fluffy's Valentine Day" and work towards vocabulary development and story recall. Students unscramble 15 vocabulary words followed by a word search, a 12 sentence completion...
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The Last Word: Using Critical Thinking and Analysis to Reach a Decision
Want to explore the process of writing a persuasive essay and tie it in with the upcoming elections? Class members use Venn diagrams and the hamburger model of persuasive writing to write a five-paragraph essay on elections and...
Fireflies Mudpies
Valentine's Day Activity Pack
Complete your Valentine's Day class party with a fun activity pack. The four-page packet includes a word search, a roll-and-cover game, tic-tac-toe, and a matching card game.
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Onomatopoeia Poetry Lesson Plan
Two exercises boost scholars' knowledge of a onomatopoeia with excerpts from famous poems. In exercise one, participants circle onomatopoeia words. Exercise two challenges writers to choose three words to use in an original poem.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Nature Walk: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 2)
Walking in nature is the theme of a unit designed to support English language development lessons. Scholars look, write, speak, and move to explore topics such as camping, woodland animals, instruments, bodies of water, things found at a...
Teach It Primary
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Six tasks make up a lesson plan designed to reinforce comprehension and language skills using the poem "The Pied Piper" by Robert Browing. Scholars discuss and define unknown words, identify adjectives and onomatopoeia, review complex...
K12 Reader
Collective Nouns: Animal Match
Discover the collective nouns of 10 animals with a learning exercise that asks scholars to match a singular noun to its corresponding plural form.
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Letter A Word Search
Students practice their handwriting and word recognition. In this letter A activity, students identify eight words with pictures as they use lowercase letters to complete an elementary word search.
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The Tell-Tale Hearts of Writers
Knock, knock, knock...Creep out your class with a critical thinking lesson plan focused on word relationships in Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." They investigate the relationship between word choice, mood, and interpretation of...
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Remembrance of Things Past
Engage critical and social thinking by exploring the value of language and word choice. The class considers the article "The Silence of the Historic Present" and analyzes several presidential speeches. They engage in class discussion,...
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A Positive Spin
Study word choice and connotation in advertising. Readers examine campaign ads, both negative and positive, from the 2006 mid-term election before discussing an article and analyze a campaign of any candidate they choose. Finally, they...
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Creating Scrolls Based on the Illustrated Tale of Genji
Now these are learning activities full of fun, art, and cultural exploration. Kids consider the art of storytelling through comic book images. They then look at the Tale of Genji as it was written in the 11th century. They discuss...
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Music in Words
Your class can build strong, well-represented opinions about the music they hear. They listen to, and share thoughts about, a piece of classical music. Then they write a piece of music or a poem, and analyze their peers' work and their...
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The First (and Last) Words
What does "freedom of speech" mean to your class, especially in the context of Internet communications? In round-table discussion format, middle and high schoolers address the issues discussed in "State Legislatures Across U.S. Plan to...
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Who Could Have Been Who
Can word choice affect a candidate's likeability? Use a New York Times lesson to explore how a presidential candidate's likeability factor can fluctuate in public opinion polls. Young readers choose a presidential election from their...
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"U" Word Puzzle
In this "U" word search, students identify words that begin with the letter "U." A list of 20 words is provided to assist students in their search. Words range in length from one-syllable to three-syllables.
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"J" Words Puzzle
In this "J" word search puzzle, students identify words that begin with the letter, "J." Examples include jacket, jelly and joy. A list of 18 words is provided to assist students in their search. Word length ranges from one-syllable...
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Words Beginning With DR
In this words beginning with dr instructional activity, students put words with dr in alphabetical order, unscramble the words, and find them in a word search. Students complete 3 activities.
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Words That Sound the Same
In this word search instructional activity, students solve a word search by locating forty words that sound the same as other words. The word list includes close and clothes.
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Words That Sound the Same
In this word search worksheet, students solve a word search by locating forty words that sounds the same as other words. The word list includes flour and flower.
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"K" Word Puzzle
In this word search puzzle, students identify "k." A list of 60 words are given to assist students in their identification. Words range in length from one syllable to three.
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"L" Words
In this "L" word search puzzle, students identify words that begin with "L." Words are one-syllable to three-syllables in length. A list of approximately 40 words are given to assist students.
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"W" Words Puzzle
In this "W" word search puzzle, students identify the names of words the begin with the letter "W." A list of 18 words are provided for students to identify. Words are all one and two-syllable.
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Spelling Level 4 Unit 1 My Spelling Word List and Work Sheet Set
In this set of spelling worksheets, student complete 5 pages of worksheets based on the word list that is on the first page. They complete a word search, complete sentences, add endings, and write words in alphabetical order.