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Adjectives

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students list adjectives to describe Anakin, his cloak and the mood of the poster to write an adjective-rich description. They then sort the adjectives into categories of what they describe: people, places, or things.
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Historical Maryland Women

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify objects, activities, and people in pictures of women in Maryland's history. In groups of four, they analyze photo packets of historical women. Students complete an acrostic using phrases reflecting specific...
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Parts of Speech Museum

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students apply their knowledge of the basic parts of speech while studying them. They create display boards that show visual and written examples of the different parts of speech. The museum consists of project boards with pictures and...
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A-Z List

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students practice using vocabulary terms about the Louisiana Purchase by creating a picture dictionary, an ABC book of terms, a word sort, or a game. Each project should include people, places and terms as they relate to the Louisiana...
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Katie's Diary

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this ESL instructional activity, students read an excerpt from a woman's diary. Students write 150 words describing what they imagine her life to be. Students also read a list of questions to help them get started.
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Making Comparisons of Living Things

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this comparing living things worksheet, young scholars examine pairs of pictures that show living organisms such as a snail, a cat, a butterfly, a giraffe, and a rabbit. They look at pairs of pictures and orally answer questions using...
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Adjectives

For Students 3rd
In this grammar instructional activity, 3rd graders focus on the usage of adjectives.  Students read 10 sentences and complete multiple choice questions choosing the best adjective to describe the underlined noun in each sentence.
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Meanings of everyday words and symbols

For Teachers K
Students find the meanings of everyday words and symbols. In this symbol lesson, students are broken up into 3 groups: below, at and above grade level. They use cereal boxes, pizza boxes, and granola bar boxes in order to read labels,...
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Create Your Own Sporting Event

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use their imagination and language skills to create and describe their own sporting event. In this sporting event lesson plan, students brainstorm sports related vocabulary and identify their parts of speech. Students categorize...
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Terrific Taste Buds

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners explore descriptive writing by eating food in class. In this descriptive word lesson plan, students assess different foods in class such as jelly beans and utilize their vocabulary to describe the taste. Learners read the story...
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The Mystery Seed

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create a short descriptive story describing a mystery seed they have planted. They incorporate needs that must be met in their story for a seed to grow. They create an original picture using the Kid Pix software program.
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COLORS

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice the vocabulary for the basic colors in English, recognize these words, and then use them appropriately to describe the colors of an object.
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Clouds, Rain, and Fog: A Closer Look

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice comprehension strategies to successfully process informational text for content knowledge, and describe what clouds, rain, and fog are and how they are made.
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Present Hunt

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars identify and match pictures of three dimensional shapes while playing a board game with peers. They take turns with their partners in spinning the spinner and moving to the next space on the game board that shows the same...
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Presidents of the United States

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners discuss American Presidents. They each complete research on one particular President and then, using a template, create a short biography (including a picture) about him. When all biographies are complete, they compile them into...
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Painting with Words

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discuss words that are over used in their writing such as good, nice, happy, glad sad, etc. they complete a survey about word choice then hear a story and discuss descriptive phrases used in the story and how they help to...
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Hungry, Hungry Harry

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars study the /h/ sound as the sound you hear when you breath into your hand. They write the letter before drawing a picture of something that begins with the letter /h/. Next, they listen to Joanne Partis', "Hungry Harry,"...
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Blood

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this blood activity, students describe the four functions of blood. Then they write what each part of the human body illustrated does below the picture. Students also complete the table on possible blood types of a receiver and donor...
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Worksheet 7: Prepositions of Place

For Students 1st - 3rd
ESL students answer 8 multiple choice questions by choosing the correct preposition of place to describe the corresponding picture. This worksheet could be used as practice following a lesson on prepositions of place.
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Letter Pronunciation- "o" Sound

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this letter "o" worksheet, students read four words that all contain letter O. Students circle the word that best describes the picture and use it in a sentence.
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Letter Pronunciation - I e I Sound

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this letter e learning exercise, students circle the word that best describes the picture. They then write a sentence using that word. There are 7 questions to do on this learning exercise.
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Letter Pronunciation - d sound

For Students 1st
In this letter "d" learning exercise, 1st graders circle the word that best describes the 7 different pictures from a word bank and writes a sentence using the word.
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Letter Pronunciation - I ch I Sound

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this ch letter pronunciation worksheet, students circle the word that best describes the picture. They then write a sentence using that word. There are 7 questions on this page.
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Letter Pronunciation - C Sound

For Students 1st
In this letter "c" activity, 1st graders circle the word that best describes the 7 pictures from the word bank and writes a sentence using the word.