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Slang Quiz: Sports

For Students 8th - 9th
In this slang instructional activity, students identify the slang word related to sports, and then select the best answer to complete the given sentence that defines the word. There are 10 exercises like this for students to complete.
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Cold Knap Lake

For Students 5th - 6th
In this pre-listening worksheet, students look at images, answer question, and review new vocabulary before reading the poem "Cold Knap Lake."
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From One Word to the Next

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this word work worksheet, learners start with one word and follow the clues by changing one letter to make a new word. Students complete 12 words.
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All About Me

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this spelling words worksheet, students finish the sentences with the spelling words given to them and then fill in the missing letters to the words. Students complete this for 9 words.
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Fun with Word Shapes

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this word shapes learning exercise, students put words into the word shapes above and below the center line. Students put 16 words into the word shapes on 6 pages.
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Walt Disney

For Students 4th - 8th
In this famous person worksheet, students read a passage about Walt Disney and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym...
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Tell Me A Story

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students listen to the story Mrs. Wishy Washy and practice retelling the story. In this tell me a story lesson, students become familiar with all of the characters in the story, then use character pieces to retell the story. Students...
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Words That Begin With D

For Students K - 1st
In this letter D worksheet, students write names of pictures that begin with the letter beneath each. Words are given in a word bank at the top of the page.
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"For the Birds" [part I]

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students identify birds that appear in Chinese and Japanese art, learning about their physical characteristics, classifying them according to scientific principles, and exploring their habitats and migration patterns. This is part one...
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Make Words: Muskellunge

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this language arts and science worksheet, pupils examine a picture of a muskellunge (a type of fish). Students read the informative paragraph, then build as many words as possible from the letters in its name.
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How Many Words Can You Say that Rhyme With Rice?

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice their language art capabilities by rhyming words.  In this vocabulary lesson, 1st graders examine words that rhyme with rice and create rhyming sentences using the same sound.  Students complete a quick...
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The Letter Dd

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Pupils explore the concept of the letter Dd.  In this letter recognition lesson, students are engulfed with items, movement, and music that begin with the letter Dd.  Pupils create crafts that help them learn and recognize the...
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The Duckling/ Bank On It

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this literacy worksheet, students look for the words to fill in the context of the reading. They choose the words from the word bank.
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Animals and Me

For Teachers K
Students develop skills needed to use the Internet. They demonstrate scrolling, links, and the back arrow. Students read a book and explore the web for their favorite animal. They create a Venn diagram comparing their body parts to the...
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Rules For the Home Game

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice naming furniture in this Home Game. Students also use prepositions of place to describe where the furniture is.
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Yummy in My Tummy

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore phonemes in spoken words. They discuss the correspondence u=/u/. Students identify a meaningful representation for the phoneme and practice identifying /u/ in both written and spoken words. Students learn a tongue...
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Uh...I Don't Know!!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the short /u/ sound. They practice making the sound, noticing how their mouths move to make the sound. They practice writing lower and uppercase U's. In pairs, they create and recite tongue twisters with short /u/ words.
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Unopened Umbrella

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore vowel correspondences. They discuss the vowel correspondence u=/u/. They identify u=/u/ in written words and a meaningful representation and letter symbol for the sound. Students read and write words using u=/u/.
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U-u-under The U-u-umbrella!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice using phonemes because they need to be able to recognize that phonemes and letters correspond with each other in order to become a proficient reader. The practice is done using the letter "u".
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Bingo Calls

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this bingo calls worksheet, students read the phrases and numbers for the bingo game calls. Students read 70 bingo calls.
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Animal Totem Pole

For Students K - 1st
In this preposition "on" activity, students analyze a whimsical picture of animals stacked on top of one another. Students complete 6 sentences about the position of the animals by writing the word "on" in each sentence.
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Become a Logophile

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students practice power writing to develop fluency.
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Lesson Connections

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders relate music to history and culture. Also, they listen to songs and identify some characteristics of the music in their own terms. Also listened to is "Chinese Instruments Montage," and then compare what they heard with...
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Emily Carr: Reading Comprehension

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this reading comprehension activity, students read a passage about Emily Carr. Students then attempt to determine the meanings of italicized words from the context in which they were used.