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Dominant Impression: Writer's Workshop Mini Lesson Based on the book: The Empty Pot by Demi

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students investigate folk and fairy tales. In this reading comprehension lesson, students review the concept of author's purpose after listening to "The Empty Pot" by Demi. Students also explore descriptive words and dominant impression...
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Antarctica: North Pole Adjectives Worksheet

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this descriptive words worksheet, students practice using adjectives. Students describe The North Pole by writing six adjectives and then writing a sentence using each adjective.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Introduction to the Universe

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders write descriptive imagery and identify facts about various components of the universe. They listen to the book "The Magic School Bus, Lost in the Solar System," develop a list of descriptive words from the story, compose a...
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Poetry Reading

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students express the ideas of a poem. In this poem dramatization lesson, students analyze poems for meaning studying their descriptive words. Students role play the descriptive language of the poem. Students draw a picture of the...
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Reaching for the Sky

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider features of skyscraper using descriptive words, reflect on notion of skyscraper as orientation point in a city, and explore New York Times Building in Manhattan by reading and discussing article, "Pride and Nostalgia...
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Coping With Alzheimer's

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the coping skills that are necessary when dealing a loved who has Alzheimer's disease. They write using emotionally charged descriptive words after watching an associated video.
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Winter Weather Week Day 1: Weather Words

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners explore winter weather. In this winter weather instructional activity, students examine and define 22 weather-related terms. Learners determine the words that have to do with winter weather.
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Full, Empty, Near, and Far Fill in the Blank

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this descriptive words tracing worksheet, students trace the words to complete sentences. They trace words such as full, empty, near, and far to describe pictures of trucks.
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Word Search and Define – Lesson 2

For Students 6th - 8th
In this health worksheet, students identify and locate eight vocabulary terms in the puzzle and then, they fill-in the blanks to the correct description of each.
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Enchanted Enhancements

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this writing worksheet, students insert descriptive words or phrases into a story to enhance it. Students are given examples of adjectives to use in this story about a family surprising a boy on his birthday.
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Route 66 Vocabulary

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Route 66 instructional activity, students match vocabulary words about Route 66 to their descriptions. Students match 10 vocabulary words.
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Idaho Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this Idaho learning exercise, students match vocabulary words about Idaho to their descriptions. Students match 10 words to their descriptions.
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Access (1st Year) Pen Pal Format

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
Help young writers make a good first impression on their pen pals with this personal letter template. Including sentence frames and word banks, this resource supports children as they learn to write personal descriptions using complete...
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Michigan Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this Michigan worksheet, students match vocabulary words that represent Michigan's history to their descriptions. Students match 10 words.
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Intermediate French Review: Matching

For Students 9th - 12th
Match the French word or phrase on the left to its English counterpart on the right. This online worksheet provides practice for those learning French. Title claims it assesses the allez and venir verb forms, but vocabulary items are...
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Connecticut Firsts Vocabulary 2

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this Connecticut firsts worksheet, learners match vocabulary words to their descriptions of the first time things happened in Connecticut. Students complete 10 matches.
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Friendly Idea Webs

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Learners examine methods of creating an idea web. In groups, they create a coding system that represent various categories and then design an idea web about one person in the group by listing words that describe the person. Students...
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Lesson: Mad Lib Leigh!

For Teachers K - 5th
A fun and quirky painting is analyzed for details in an art/literacy lesson. Youngsters look for colors, shadows, and details and then describe them using vivid language. They use the words from discussion to complete a fun Mad Lib-style...
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EngageNY

Grade 9 ELA Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 14

For Teachers 9th Standards
Karen Russell's short story "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" has a unique structure that adds value to the story. With the fourteenth activity in a unit about literary analysis and textual support, analyze how Russell has...
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Word Problems Leading to Rational Equations

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Show learners how to apply rational equations to the real world. Learners solve problems such as those involving averages and dilution. They write equations to model the situation and then solve them to answer the question —...
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Express Yourself Lesson Seed 11: Setting

For Teachers 6th Standards
Encourage your learners to examine the setting in Theodore Taylor's The Cay. Pupils work in small groups to put together a description of the setting before reading two more chapters of the book. They use their double-entry journals to...
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ESL Kid Stuff

Adverbs

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Run quickly. Walk slowly. Jump high. As part of their study of English parts of speech, language learners engage in a series of activities designed to introduce them to the descriptive power of adverbs.
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Feelings Fill In

For Students 1st - 4th
How does it feel when you don't get your favorite toy? Explore emotion words with an exercise that provides pictures and descriptions of people in different situations. Kids choose from a word bank to fill in the blanks for people who...
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Simon & Schuster

Classroom Activities for The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo is the featured text in three classroom activities. The first activity asks readers to analyze the description of Edmond Dantes in Chapter XVII, paying particular attention to Dumas' word...

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