Writing
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Understanding Paragraph Basics

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Full of informative, helpful, and accessible activities, a language arts packet is sure to be a valuable part of your writing unit. It's versatile between reading levels and grade levels, and focuses on the most efficient ways for your...
PPT
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Improving Descriptive Writing: Painting an Original Picture

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Descriptive writing is rich in sensory appeals and paints pictures in the minds of readers. Show young writers how to use an on-line thesaurus and a cliché website to create fresh, descriptive writing. The presentation ends with an...
Activity
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Readers Theatre Scripts

For Teachers K - 6th Standards
Engage and entertain young learners with this collection of readers theatre activities. With over 25 different scripts, a wide range of topics are covered from simple counting and rhyming exercises to adaptions of popular children's...
Worksheet
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Reading Comprehension: Fiction and Nonfiction

For Students 1st - 3rd
This resource is made up of a series of reading passages with accompanying questions. On the first page, learners read the definitions of both fiction and non-fiction. They examine four short selections before writing either fiction or...
Worksheet
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Verbs

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this verbs activity, students read a Shel Silverstein poem and fill in 27 missing verbs. Students are given a word box with the missing verbs.
Lesson Plan
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Oklahoma Stone Soup

For Teachers K - 8th Standards
Class members complete activities related to the story "Oklahoma Stone Soup." First, pupils read, discuss, and answer questions about the story. Next, to incorporate math into the lesson plan, learners make stone soup using a variety of...
Lesson Plan
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-Stone Fox

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students read and complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the novel, Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner. Included are reading, math, science, writing, social studies, and library connections. A vocabulary/spelling...
Worksheet
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Singular and Plural Exercise

For Students 4th - 6th
In this singular and plural nouns worksheet, learners fill in the blanks in 23 sentences with the correct forms of the listed nouns.
Assessment
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Halloween

For Students 5th - 9th
In this online interactive ESL worksheet, students respond to 10 fill in the blank questions regarding Halloween. Students check their answers immediately.
Worksheet
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Hamsters

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, learners are given a four-paragraph essay to read about hamsters. Students answer four multiple-choice and one short-answer question about the reading.
Worksheet
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Eating on the Job

For Students 8th - 12th
In this word puzzle worksheet, students match each occupation with a food choice. Food choices are plays on words. An example is a jockey's condiment is horseradish. There are 26 occupations and food choices to match up.
Worksheet
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Slang Quiz: Shortened Words 1

For Students 6th - 8th
In this English slang worksheet, students determine the meaning of various slang terms.  Students then use the meanings of the terms to complete sentences correctly.
Worksheet
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Breaking News English: BBC to Put Programs Online

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English worksheet, students read "BBC to Put Programs Online," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.