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Vocabulary Multiple Choice Worksheet 6
In this vocabulary enrichment worksheet, 5th graders read and analyze eight sentences in order to choose the correct word by multiple choice to fill each blank to make each sentence grammatically correct.
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Synecdoche vs. Metonymy: Definitions
Ask your class to lend their ears, and eyes, to a short video that defines and offers examples of synecdoche and metonymy. Whether it be brand names like Kleenex® and Band-aids® that have come to stand for all the products in a category,...
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Write Your Own -ee- Poem
In this writing worksheet, 2nd graders write a poem that uses -ee- words. They write 4 words that rhyme with dry, match -y- words, and use the -y- words to complete sentences. They write a poem using one or more of the -y- words on the...
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Write Your Own -ee- Poem -igh- Words
In this writing worksheet, students write a poem that uses -igh- words. They write 4 words that rhyme with bright, match -igh- words, and use the -igh- words to complete sentences. They write a poem using one or more of the -igh- words...
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Write Your Own -oa Poem
In this recognizing words spelled with the -oa pattern instructional activity, students use word banks to list words, match pairs, complete sentences, and write a poem. Students write thirteen answers.
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Poetry Unit Test
In this poetry activity, learners complete multiple choice questions on different aspects of poetry. Students complete 40 questions total.
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Write Your Own -oo- Poem
In this recognizing words spelled with the -oo pattern worksheet, students use -oo word banks to match word pairs, complete sentences, and write rhyming words in a list and in a poem. Students write thirteen answers.
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Powerful Poetry Presenting the Writer's Soul
Students research Langston Hughes poetry for his use of figurative language. In this poetry analysis lesson, students research the life and poetry of Langston Hughes and his use of vivid words. Students complete 23 different activities...
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Write Your Own -ee- Poem
In this writing worksheet, students write a poem that uses -ai- spelling pattern words. They write 4 words that rhyme with rain, match -ai- words, and use the -ai- words to complete sentences. They write a poem using one or more of the...
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Write Your Own -ee- Poem - -ay Spelling Pattern
In this writing activity, learners write a poem that uses -ay- words. They write 4 words that rhyme with play, match -ay- words, and use the -ay- words to complete sentences. They write a poem using one or more of the -ay- words on the...
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Novel Character Study
Students complete a character study using a database to compile information from a novel. They design a five slide presentation highlighting the character's reaction to different situations in the book. They write an acrostic poem using...
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Symbolic Poem
Students read and analyze several highly symbolic poems. They create their own symbolic poem, read it to the class, and discuss whether they can guess any hidden meanings.
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Weather
In this weather worksheet, learners fill in the blanks to a poem about the seasons and sentences about the feel of the weather. Students complete 10 lines total.
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Out of the Dust: Open Form Poetry
Young scholars write a description of their own life in the same style used in the first poem in Out of the Dust. In this Out of the Dust lesson, students discuss open form poetry and how the spacing and line breaks create a flow to the...
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Newspaper Poetry
Students cut out nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs from newspapers and create poems using words they have found.
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Show You Care
Young scholars construct a four-line poem to be used on the inside of a Valentine's Day card. They use a digital camera to show themselves to their "buddies" (local nursing home patients) who receive the cards on Valentine's Day.
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Vocabulary Multiple Choice Worksheet 27
In this sentence completion worksheet, students read 8 sentences that have a missing word or phrase. Students analyze the 4 similar choices and select the word that makes the sentence correct.
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Write Your Own Poem 'op'
In this rhyming words learning exercise, learners complete four activities that help them use rhyming words using a consonant-vowel-consonant pattern. Students complete a word find, pair the words that rhyme, and use the words in a silly...
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Write You Own Poem 'et'
For this rhyming words worksheet, students complete four exercises that help them use rhyming words to first write a silly sentence and then write a poem. Students use the words pet, wet, set, let, net, bet, vet, met, get, and jet.
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Write Your Own Poem 'en'
In this rhyming words instructional activity, students complete four exercises that help them use rhyming words to first write a silly sentence and then write a poem. Students use the words Ben, den, fen, hen, Len, men, pen, ten, and then.
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Write Your Own Poem 'in'
In this rhyming words instructional activity, students complete four exercises that help them use rhyming words to first write a silly sentence and then write a poem. Students use the words bin, win, fin, din, pin, sin, tin, shin, thin,...
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Team Building Activities
Need some ideas for team-building activities? This 27-page packet contains a wide variety suggestions, everything from back-to-school bingo to positive comments name charts. There's even an inspirational poem by David Roth entitled,...
MCHS Early US History
Ken Burn’s Civil War, Episode 1: The Cause
Ken Burn's epic documentary miniseries The Civil War, broadcast in 1990, was the most-watched PBS program ever. A question sheet helps viewers keep track of events in the first episode of the documentary.
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All About Me
This is an awesome resource for any elementary or middle school teacher about to start a new school year! This resource includes an extensive list of activities for introducing the members of your class to each other. Some of the ideas...