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What's the Big Idea? Exercise 2
In this online interactive categorization worksheet, students examine 12 groups of 4 words each. Students identify a title for each set of words.
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Homophones and Rhyming Words
First graders explore homophones. In this spelling pattern lesson, 1st graders are led through a discussion on homophones and words that rhyme with homophones. The teacher leads the class in sorting these rhyming words based upon their...
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Branches of Earth Science Wordle
Acquaint your class with the 4 branches of earth science with this visual representation of the different branches. Using 4 different colors, learners categorize the provided words into the separate branches of earth science:...
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Sorting
A lesson on classification and sorting is here for you. Elementary schoolers participate in an interactive computer game in which they sort books by theme. They take a trip to the library to observe and discuss how books are sorted, and...
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The City and the Country
In this categorizing worksheet, students examine 29 words and phrases. Students determine whether each word or phrase describes the city or the country.
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Categorizing Adjectives
In this categorizing adjectives worksheet, students fill the titled boxes of a graphic organizer with the correct adjectives from the word bank. Students also respond to 1 short answer question that requires them to use a thesaurus.
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The Pronunciation of the Past Simple and Past Participle of Regular Verbs
In this words with -ed endings worksheet, students put words with -ed endings into categories. Students classify 33 words into 3 separate categories.
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Star Words
Students identify and categorize apostrophes. They create maps of the solar system and write simple sentences using apostrophes that describe each planet's characteristics.
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Open Word Sort: Black Hockey Players
Learners categorize relative phrases from a word bank, then analyze and discuss an article on the subject.
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Word Lists
In this Language Arts worksheet, students read 5 lists of three to six letter words. The words are categorized according to their vowel group.
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Britain and America in the 1920's: Word Search
For this word search worksheet, learners find a total of 11 words related to Britain and America in the 1920's, then categorize them into either "prosperity" or "poverty."
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Comprehension: Text Analysis, Compare and Contrast
Grab any two topics, some index cards, and a couple of kids, and you're ready to compare and contrast! The resource provides instructions for this method and three graphic organizers in addition to or in place of the index cards.
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Forest Activity: Leaf Collection and Creating a Herbarium
Students identify and categorize leaves. They collect leaves from trees, research the leaves using field guides and the Internet, press, label, and display the leaves, and discuss how the leaf reflects adaptation to its environment.
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Amazing Birds!
In this science/bird worksheet, students research, analyze and illustrate how to categorize birds, list facts about birds, and draw a picture of a bird.
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Scrambled Letters
In this scrambled letters worksheet, students unscramble groups of words that are categorized. Students determine fifteen words and write in blank spaces.
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What's the Main Idea?
In this main idea worksheet, students read 3 different words or phrases. Students then need to decide what they have in common or what the main idea is. There is a word bank to help.
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Scramble
For this literacy worksheet, learners sort the letters to determine the correct spelling of the words. The answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Hairy Bear Scramble
In this literacy worksheet, students unscramble the words in order to find the correct spelling and rewrite them in the spaces provided. The answers are found by clicking the button found at the bottom of the page.
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Scramble
In this literacy worksheet, students practice unscrambling the letters for the new words that written in capital letters. The answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Whose Feat?
Play a vocabulary game with words from an article about Savion Glover's contribution to the film "Happy Feet." Then, small groups of students design and create original movie advertisements using vivid vocabulary to give Glover the...
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Plant Parts and their Function
Discover why plants are important to our world. View plant parts and categorize them as stems or buds. Students do a cut and paste of pictures of plants into correct categories. Students also plant a carrot top,and record...
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Rhyme Groups 5
In this rhyming words worksheet, students use a word bank to categorize the list of words into four groups of rhyming words, adding one additional word of their own to each group. Students group sixteen rhyming words.
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Mid-Unit 2 Assessment: Inferring About the Silversmith Trade in Colonial Times
The seventh lesson plan in this unit on colonial trade assesses fourth graders' ability to use details from an informational text to make inferences and create a piece of informative writing. The included assessment begins with learners...
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How to Speak Monkey: The Language of Cotton-Top Tamarins
Tamarin monkey language can be categorized by stem upsweep, duration, peak frequency, and frequency change. Although other complex terminology is used to describe the 38 calls of this species, the video is easy to follow and a...