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Grammar On The Go
Help your learners understand the parts of speech with this color-coding activity. While reading a short passage, readers circle the nouns with blue, the verbs with red, and the adjectives with green. When they are done, scholars list...
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A Search for Symbolism in The Great Gatsby
After reading The Great Gatsby, groups return to the text and note passages where Fitzgerald uses symbols and color imagery in his narrative. They then develop a presentation that explains the context, the implications, and possible...
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The Learning Network: More Like Disney
A great source of high-interest reading for the language arts classroom! Meant to be used with an article also available on the New York Times website, this worksheet provides 10 comprehension questions about the reading as well as one...
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Advanced Critical Reading: Salt
In this critical reading worksheet, students read a passage regarding salt then answer three questions based on the reading.
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Paper Dragon Fairy Tale
Imagine a beautiful rainbow-colored dragon flying free in the air. With powerful imagery and sensory language, a reading passage prompts learners to follow the plot of a short story and answer five comprehension questions.
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Visualization
Students practice visualization as a strategy to increase reading comprehension. They practice while the teacher reads a poem to them before reading a poem silently to themselves. Next, they practice making mental images while reading a...
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"Juanita Does the Laundry"
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a short story that describes a woman doing her laundry in a laundromat. Students then answer 10 multiple choice questions.
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The Leaves of Autumn
First graders express the words of Autumn through creative dance movements.
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THE LEAVES OF AUTUMN
Dance gives children an opportunity to express creativity through free flowing movements developed in the mind of the child. Creating these dance movements involves discovery and exploration using different parts of the body in personal...