Worksheet
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Picture Dictations 2

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students practice giving clear and descriptive directions. Students collaborate in pairs. One person has the secret picture and describes the scene while the other person draws. Roles are then reversed.
Worksheet
Curated OER

More Classroom Words- Picture and Word Match

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this word and picture match activity, students examine 8 pictures that depict classroom activities and match them to words and phrases that describe them.
Worksheet
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Describing Your Colleagues

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this adjectives activity, students match adjectives to pictures about bosses. Students complete 9 matches and talk about them.
Worksheet
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-ail Spell and Write

For Students 1st - 2nd
Challenge your learners with this -ail spelling pattern worksheet. Young scholars look at a series of pictures and spell out words that describe the images using the line to the right. This worksheet is pleasing to the eye and...
Lesson Plan
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Picture It-Robot Writing!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use their listening skills to sketch draft pictures of robots described in paragraphs read by their teacher. They transfer their robot sketches to word processing documents using software drawing tools.
Lesson Plan
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Lange & Steinbeck: Pictures and Words

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners look carefully at and analyze a Dorothea Lange photograph and compare it with the migrant experience described in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath.
Lesson Plan
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Analyzing and Describing Music

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars analyze instrumental music.  In this instrumental music lesson, students investigate musical works of art.  Young scholars describe the instruments they hear and discover the relationship between music and other...
Lesson Plan
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Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in His Time

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students analyze portraits of Ernest Hemingway to see how his private and public personalities are revealed through them. In this "Picturing Hemingway" lesson, students complete a variety of activities to investigate public and private...
Lesson Plan
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Extending Vocabulary to Describe Communities

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study vocabulary to describe their community. In this meaning of words lesson, 2nd graders acquire new vocabulary words to label pictures and objects. They use these words in speaking and writing.
Lesson Plan
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Let's Select the Correct Word

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this identifying the picture words worksheet, young scholars observe pictures of a girl expressing feelings, read the word choices, and choose the word that describes the picture. Students choose 2 answers.
Printables
Starfall

Fun with Describing Words - Adjectives

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this grammar worksheet, students complete sentences by describing words from a picture/word bank.
Lesson Plan
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Reading Pictures, Seeing Poetry

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine the painting, The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan based on a poem by Lord Byron. They compare how Romantic artists and writers made choices about visual elements and language to depict their subjects.
Worksheet
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Pictures and Ideas

For Students 1st
In this word recognition worksheet, 1st graders match pictures to words. Students are given six pictures with two sets of words where the student must choose the word that best describes the picture.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Animal Picture/word Matching

For Students K - 1st
In this ESL animal vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict different animals. Students match these pictures with the words that describe them.
Worksheet
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Picture Dictations 1

For Students 4th - 5th
In this language arts worksheet, students collaborate with a classmate in a speaking and listening exercise. Student A looks at the provided picture and describes the scene as clearly as possible for Student B to draw. The roles are then...
Lesson Plan
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Pictures, Photographs, and Captions

For Teachers 6th Standards
"How do photographs contribute to an autobiography?" Laurence Yep's The Lost Garden provides learners with an opportunity to examine how photos and their captions contribute to and clarify events in a story. Class members use expressive...
Lesson Plan
Lakeshore Learning

Fun in the Snow

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Celebrate the arrival of winter with a reading of Jack Ezra Keats' book The Snowy Day. Engaging children by asking them about their own experiences in the snow, the teacher goes on to read the story...
Worksheet
Teacher's Guide

Friendship Cinquain

For Students K - 6th Standards
Invite your class to share their appreciation of one another through the work of a Valentine's Day cinquain poem. Scholars use their knowledge of their classmates to describe them through adjectives, action verbs, and a complete...
Unit Plan
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nature Walk: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 2)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Walking in nature is the theme of a unit designed to support English language development lessons. Scholars look, write, speak, and move to explore topics such as camping, woodland animals, instruments,...
Assessment
California Education Partners

Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel

For Students 1st Standards
A three-part assessment tests scholars' reading and writing capabilities. Young readers listen to and read an excerpt from Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel. After drawing pictures of what is memorable, learners discuss...
Organizer
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Letter Pronunciation - /f/ Sound

For Students 2nd - 4th
Are you working on the /f/ sound in your class? Develop phonemic awareness with this worksheet. This graphic organizer has students circle the word that best describes the picture in the right-hand column. Then, in the middle column,...
Worksheet
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Delaware Drawing

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this Delaware worksheet, students draw a picture having to do with the state Delaware and write about the picture. Students draw one picture and write a few sentences describing it.
Worksheet
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Look, Think, and Read- Sentences Describing Pictures

For Students K - 1st
In this language arts learning exercise, students examine a picture and place an x in the box that is next to one of three sentences that is describing the picture. They see a picture of a girl playing, a girl dancing, and a girl coloring.
Worksheet
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Emotions Word and Picture Matching

For Students K - 1st
In this emotions word/picture matching worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that show different moods. Students match these to the word that describes each one.