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Learn the Steps to Clear Essay Writing!

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Introduce your young writers to the five-paragraph expository essay format with a four-page worksheet that uses color codes to model for writers how to craft the essay. Although designed to prepare writers for the GED, the approach can...
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Conjugating Verbs in Spanish

For Teachers 6th - 12th
It's time to conjugate! If your class doesn't really know what that means, use the materials provided here to build understanding. The resource covers verbs, infinitives, the different Spanish verb endings, conjugation in the present...
PPT
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Punctuation: Periods. Commas,

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Color-coded slides model for viewers the various uses of the comma and the period. The rule is presented and followed by several examples. Consider extending the lesson with a practice exercise.
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Essay Writing: Components of an Essay

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The multi-paragraph essay is the subject of a presentation designed for high schoolers. Color codes are used to highlight for viewers the different elements found in each paragraph. Unlike some presentations, the same essay is used...
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The Five-Paragraph Essay: A Framework for Expository Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Looking for a PowerPoint presentation that models the framework for the traditional five-paragraph essay? Look no further. Here, the brief explanations are clear and concise, and color codes indicate the thesis sentence, the topic...
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Subject-Verb Agreement

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Review subject-verb agreement with a presentation that defines and then illustrates the rule with color-coded examples. Singular and plural nouns and verbs are included in the sample sentences.
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Rule of 3 Web

For Teachers 3rd - 11th
Students create a web with the writing topic in the center of the web. They extend three branches from the center of the web, write the main ideas that support and develop the topic. They draw three branches that extend from each main...
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Pronouns

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Subject, object personal. Possessive, reflexive, indefinite. Everything you want to know about pronouns and their antecedents is contained in a colorful 32-slide presentation.
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Grade 9 ELA Module 3, Unit 3, Lesson 7

For Teachers 9th Standards
As the unit on research writing draws to a close, class members continue to revise and edit their papers, this time focusing on grammar, spelling, and punctuation (colon and semicolon).
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Drug Use in Sports

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
The ancient Greeks used performance enhancing drugs, such as opium juice, when they participated in the original Olympic Games. Pupils research a website with debate topics to decide if athletes' use of such drugs in modern sports is...
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Sums of Integers with Different Signs: Adding Between 10 and -10

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Six questions make up an interactive designed to boost scholars' knowledge of integers. Mathematicians move symbols over a horizontal number line to aid in findings answers between 10 and negative 10. Question types include...
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Today We Will Learn About Prefixes: e-, ex-

For Teachers 7th
Eject, emit, exceed, exhale. The e- and ex- prefixes are the focus of this presentation. The prefixes are color coded and each word is then defined. The presentation ends with a comprehension check.
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Silly Sentences

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students make sentences and then play a silly game of switching the subjects and the predicates to create hilarious new sentences.
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Introducing Phonemic Awareness Using Oral and Written Instruction

For Teachers 1st
First graders demonstrate their ability to read with fluency, accuracy, and comprehension through phonemic awareness. They use a color-coding system to master the long and short vowel sounds and develop their skills in listening and...
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Geo Jammin' - Day 3, Lesson 11: Poly Doodles All Day

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore geometric vocabulary through creation of shapes on a geoboard. They present design attributes, transfer of design, and color-coding components mix to create a fun and exciting instructional activity that stretches...
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Multi-Sensory Grammar - Adjectives

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders demonstrate knowledge of adjectives, and use this knowledge to color-code parts of speech of a sentence.
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Robin L. Simmons

The Clause

For Students 4th - 5th
This handy information sheet shows young grammarians how to distinguish among main, subordinate, relative, and noun clauses. 
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Model Citizen Publications

How To Write a Paragraph

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Instructing learners on how to craft a good paragraph, a skill required of all writers, is the focus of a 23-page packet that includes directions, graphic organizers, exercises, and worksheets for guided practice. 
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ProCon

President Ronald Reagan

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
At 69 years old, Ronald Reagan was the oldest man ever to be elected president in the United States. After reviewing a thorough history of Reagan's presidency, pupils read the main pro and con arguments to determine if he was a good...
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Fun Music Company

Relative Major and Minor

For Students 2nd - 12th
It's all relative. Young music theorists are asked to count to three and identify the relative major and minor keys of keys that share the same signature.
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Giving Second Graders the Write Skills

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders analyze the steps taken in writing a paragraph in the ten lessons of this unit. Writing for a particular purpose is developed as the conventional grammar skills utilized.
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Addition Properties

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Student study addition properties. In this addition properties lesson plan, students use multiple methods to solve various types of problems. Students illustrate and describe in various ways the Commutative Property of Addition....
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High Frequency Words: "The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash"

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this high frequency word activity, students put a set of high frequency words from The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash into ABC order, use each word in a sentence and color code consonants and vowels in each word.
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High Frequency Words-"Good-bye, Curtis"

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this high frequency word worksheet, students alphabetize the words: shops, kittens, steps, miss and surprise, use the words in sentences and color code by consonants and vowels.