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Picture Dictations 2
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.
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More Classroom Words- Picture and Word Match
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.
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Describing Your Colleagues
In this adjectives activity, students match adjectives to pictures about bosses. Students complete 9 matches and talk about them.
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-ail Spell and Write
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...
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Picture It-Robot Writing!
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.
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Lange & Steinbeck: Pictures and Words
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.
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Analyzing and Describing Music
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...
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Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in His Time
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...
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Extending Vocabulary to Describe Communities
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.
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Let's Select the Correct Word
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.
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Fun with Describing Words - Adjectives
In this grammar worksheet, students complete sentences by describing words from a picture/word bank.
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Reading Pictures, Seeing Poetry
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.
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Pictures and Ideas
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.
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Animal Picture/word Matching
In this ESL animal vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict different animals. Students match these pictures with the words that describe them.
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Picture Dictations 1
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...
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Pictures, Photographs, and Captions
"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...
Lakeshore Learning
Fun in the Snow
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...
Teacher's Guide
Friendship Cinquain
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...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Nature Walk: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 2)
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,...
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Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
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...
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Letter Pronunciation - /f/ Sound
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,...
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Delaware Drawing
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.
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Look, Think, and Read- Sentences Describing Pictures
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.
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Emotions Word and Picture Matching
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.