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Phonics and Decoding Strategies for Struggling Readers Using Core Knowledge Poem

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete multiple activities to help them hear sounds, syllables, and spell words with vowel patterns, digraphs, or blends. In this word sounds lesson, students use letter tiles, sort words cards, analyze poems, and play a bingo...
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Severe Storms

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students strategize storm safety. In this safety activity, students research sever storms. Students create a presentation to share what information they found.
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Strong Feelings

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore how emotions affect the decision-making of peacekeepers and design simulators for training emergency-response personnel.
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Crashed On the Moon

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students compare/contrast the environments of our moon and earth, and examine examples of how these differences would affect their daily activities on our moon. They develop lists of emergency supplies to bring if their spaceship crashed...
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Styles in Context: Is it Music?

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars view the video, Behind the Music: 1992, and discuss the new genres of pop music that were emerging in that era. They discuss the content of the music and what it's like on the surface. They write an essay comparing it to...
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Japanese Tanka

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students compare and contrast the two forms of poetry. They are concerned with practicing the styles of both in order to reproduce their own creative work. Research is done to look for the backgrounds of both styles and how they emerged.
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What do You do if You See a Fire?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils discuss what they would do if they saw a neighbor's house on fire and what information they would need to know to tell the 911 operator. They watch as the teacher models how to call 911 and observe that the numbers are called only...
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Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine how the French and American revolutions influenced and emergence of free press in these countries. Students explore the link between government control of the press and the type of government. They compare and contrast...
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Surveying: 19 Chains and 50 Links

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Through an interdisciplinary lesson plan, emerging engineers explore the history of surveying systems. After discussing various systems, they perform surveys on printable pages. Using their geometric skills, they physically stake out...
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Lemonade Girl

For Students K - 2nd
Let your learners' inner comic book artists emerge in this fun activity, which provides a word bank of twenty-seven words to be used in a story about what kids want to do when they grow up. Opportunities to illustrate their ideas, as...
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Repetitive Sentences - Simple Reading

For Students 1st
In this emergent reader worksheet, 1st graders trace the letters in each simple sentence and write a word that will finish them. They can use animal to finish each sentence which reads, "Come here," said the ... .
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Fall Treasures: Counting Candy Corn

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood fall activity emergent reader booklet worksheet, students cut out the 6 pages and construct a candy corn counting booklet that may be read again and again.
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Mr. Sun Book

For Students Pre-K - K
In this reading "Mr. Sun" worksheet, students read an emergent reader booklet with repetition for comprehension. Students read four sentences.
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Picture/Word Worksheet #31- Trace the Words

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this printing practice learning exercise, students trace dotted lines to write 5 words. They trace the words that are located under clip art pictures that represent each word. They write words such as 911 emergency, orange, and donkey.
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Finish the Sentence: Rhyming

For Students 2nd Standards
Mat, bat, hat rhyming is so much fun! Emergent readers practice rhyming, reading, and printing skills as they read and then use one of three words to complete each rhyming sentence. There are eight sentences which mean eight...
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ESL Holiday Lessons: Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

For Students 6th - 10th
To practice their emerging language skills, English Learners read an article, "Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking." They complete six matching questions, 29 fill-in-the-blanks, 30 multiple choice questions, 12 word scramble...
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Stabbing

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine a case study that requires them to consider how they would react in an emergency situation. In this Red Cross lesson, students discuss and then write about how they would handle coming upon the victim of a stabbing crime.
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Beginning Sounds - Kindergarten Reading

For Teachers K
Students practice the use of beginning sounds to improve their emerging reading skills. For this beginning sounds lesson, students review beginning sound of words before participating in a "Bingo" type game that has them use the sounds...
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Words We Know

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore environmental print.  In this emergent literacy concepts of print lesson, students bring examples of environmental print from home which are put on display in the classroom. Students view websites to locate and...
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Enormous Turnips

For Teachers 1st
First graders complete activities with the story The Great Big Enormous Turnip by Alexel Tolstoy. In this language arts lesson, student view the story as a Cloze passage and work with a partner to fill in the blanks. They check to...
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The Snowman

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this snowman worksheet, learners color in a book about the parts of a snowman. For example, "This is the nose for the snowman."
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At the Farm

For Students K - 1st
In this sight words worksheet, students read a short book about people and animals on a farm. Students may also color in the illustrations.
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What Hatches?

For Students K - 1st
In this sight words instructional activity, students read a short book about animals catching from eggs. Students may also color in the illustrations.
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Your Garden

For Students K - 1st
In this sight words activity, students read a short book about vegetables in a garden. Students may also color in the illustrations.

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