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What i am Puzzle - 20

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this clues worksheet, students read the sentences and solve the clues to what they are describing. Students choose between 2 pictures.
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What I am Puzzle - 27

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this clues worksheet, students read the sentences and solve the clues for what the sentences are describing. Students choose between 2 pictures.
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What I am Puzzle - 28

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this clues worksheet, students read the sentences and solve the clues to what they are describing. Students choose between 2 pictures.
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What am I puzzle -30

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this clues worksheet, students read the sentences and solve the clue to what the sentences are describing. Students complete 1 problem and look at the 2 pictures that go with it.
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What am I puzzle - 32

For Students 2nd
In this clues worksheet, 2nd graders read the sentences and solve the clue to what the sentences are describing. Students read 3 sentences and look at 2 pictures.
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What I am Puzzle - 49

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this clues worksheet, students read the sentences and solve the clue to what they are describing. Students complete 1 problem where they choose between 2 pictures.
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What I am Puzzle - 51

For Students 2nd
In this clues worksheet, 2nd graders read the sentences and solve the clues in order to find what the sentences are describing. Students choose between 2 pictures.
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Color and Write

For Students 4th - 6th
In this coloring and writing instructional activity, students practice coloring a dragon with vibrant colors and then writing a short descriptive paragraph describing their dragon.
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What I am Puzzle - 14

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this clues learning exercise, students read 3 sentences describing an object and they have to figure out what it is. Students have 2 objects to choose from.
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The Places Where We Live

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this places people live worksheet, students complete a word search, choose the correct word to describe different houses, and more. Students complete 3 activities.
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Adjectives

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this adjectives learning exercise, students analyze 5 pictures and complete the sentences with an adjective. Students change 3 adjectives into nouns and then identify the adjectives in sentences.
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ESL Word and Picture Matching: Jobs

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this ESL jobs vocabulary activity, students analyze 7 pictures that show people in different careers. Students match these pictures to the words that describe them.
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Butterfly Pictures

For Students K - 2nd
In this artistic activity, students study, analyze and describe the differences in six different butterfly pictures and then color each one.
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Antonyms-- Matching Picture Clues

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this language arts worksheet, learners explore antonyms and learn that they mean the opposite. Students read the words in 4 boxes and circle the antonym pair. They then draw a line to match the word with the picture it describes.
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Parts of the Body Word and Picture Matching

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this parts of the body worksheet, students examine 7 pictures of parts of the body. Students match these with the words that describe them.
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Describe the Animals

For Students 4th - 5th
In this ESL animal description worksheet, students analyze 6 pictures of common animals. Students are directed to tell about each animal by writing a simple description.
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Arctic Writing

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders analyze photographs in order to write descriptively.  In this descriptive writing lesson, 5th graders use the Internet to research and view photographs of the arctic.  Students use descriptive language to write...
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Author's Purpose

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Readers identify the author's purpose. First, they read a passage and utilize details from the piece to determine the author's purpose. Then they will explain how they arrived at their conclusion. Links to materials are provided.
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Let's Get it Together! Reading to Learn

For Teachers K - 4th
Let’s learn about frogs! Young readers are led through “Freaky Frogs,” a non-fiction article. Teach learners how to edit an article so there are fewer details to sift through. After talking through the article, they learn the six steps...
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Magic Mountain Mansion Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners think about and discuss what their personal dream mansion in the mountains would look like. They decide on adjectives that would best describe their building which they write on a chart with markers. Using art supplies, they...
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Autobiography through Objects

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Show youngsters how objects can tell a story! Here your class will learn about Cuban salsa dancer Celia Cruz by analyzing pictures of her dress, her shoes, and her marriage certificate. After describing Cruz's items and imagining what...
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Scripting The Great Train Robbery

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Take writing prompts to another level in this activity, which allows pupils to create scenes of dialogue based on the 1903 silent film, The Great Train Robbery. Useful for a language arts/history cross-curricular activity, the lesson...
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Changing Seasons

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Explore expository writing and using precise language in this descriptive paragraph writing instructional activity. Learners brainstorm prior knowledge about the changing seasons in Ohio. They describe seasonal items, view seasonal...
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Colors: My Color Friends

For Teachers Pre-K
Introducing concepts in multiple contexts is a great way to build recognition skills. Each slide in this presentation contains an image of an item of a particular color and a sentence that describes that image, the word representing each...