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100 Questions
Young scholars practice problem solving skills by asking questions and participating in a design challenge. In this asking questions lesson, students work in pairs to ask questions to design a solution for a difficult personal problem....
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Shamrock Spelling
Review spelling skills by learning about the history of shamrocks. Learners use a picture of a shamrock to practice spelling three letter words. One letter goes on each shamrock leaf. It is a way to engage your kinesthetic learners.
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To Live or Die While Protecting the Ones You Love
Upper graders retrieve and verify information on life insurance policies through internet research. They discuss how life insurance policies work and make decisions as to what type of policy is best. They produce a timeline and define...
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Vowel Sounds
This plan aims to increase the reading proficiency of your fourth grade class. While no materials are provided, a list of activities to practice are included. Various activities include creating songs for short vowel sounds, using cue...
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Making Pronouns Agree with Antecedents
Practice makes perfect. Grammar masters choose the correct pronoun for each of eight sentences. After writing in the correct pronoun for each sentence, they add the antecedent and explain whether it is singular or plural.
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Reading Comprehension-Multiple Matching 2
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read an article about 19th century American presidents. They answer ten multiple choice questions about the article. Each question asks students to identify one of four presidents; Van...
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The Outsiders: Chapter 6
In this comprehension check worksheet, students respond to 10 short answer questions covering chapter 6 of The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton in order to help them better understand the chapter and the novel.
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Spelling Activity: Suffixes
Understanding spelling patterns is a vital tool. Suffixes ful, ness, ment, and ly are examined in this spelling patterns activity. The class determines how to use each suffix to change the meaning of a set of given root words.
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Comprehension Questions: The City of Ember, Chapter 20
Comprehension questions for the last chapter of Jeanne DuPrau's book The City of Ember assess factual recall, sequencing skills, and inference about the text. Note: One question about point of view is based on a sentence not related to...
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Medium Frequency Words
Looking for some good sight word practice for your young readers? This presentation provides just that! One hundred eighteen sight words are listed on these slides. Pupils read a word, then click their mouse and another one appears. No...
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Sound and Say
Practice sight words with your class. This series of slides featuring words such as they, all, and are, could be used as a daily review. It would also make a good center activity. Use this same technique to review other topics.
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The Glass Menagerie
Rich in biographical information about Tenessee Williams, this PowerPoint is designed to accompany a lecture on The Glass Menagerie. Concepts covered include The Memory Play, the American Dream/American Nightmare, Modernism,...
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Not So Much a Lesson, More a Song and Dance
Inspired by Britain's National Poetry Day, this resource will help your class analyze poetry. You will find a variety of poetry analysis methods to work through with your class. Finish by having each person compose an original poem.
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Message Time
Students complete message time activities to improve their emerging literacy skills. In this emerging literacy lesson, students discuss writing symbols and the writing process with their teacher, as well as reading prompts. Students...
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In Trouble in Islamabad
Pupils create a podcast about a current event in global politics. After reading newspaper articles concerning the state of emergency in Pakistan, students, working in groups, conduct an interview style podcast segment to be edited into...
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Dictation: Health
In this English dictation worksheet, learners take dictation from a passage concerning health.
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Reading For Pleasure
Students develop a variety of reading skills that diagnosis has revealed as lacking. They use this activity to promote pleasure in reading, to emergent readers to travel further into the world of books and begin to comprehend what rich...
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Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary
In this Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary worksheet, students review the Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary words that are listed in alphabetical order. Students review 220 words.
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Voice of America
Students explore the English Language using interactive links, web-based research, and socialogical articles. The lesson ends with each student sharing their responses about the articles to the class.
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We Taste
In this unique handwriting skills instructional activity, students create a small book on all the parts of a pizza, color the pictures and then write each part of the pizza on the lines provided.
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You Feel Wet!
For this reading worksheet, learners learn the sight words for texture: wet, dry, soft, smooth and prickly. Students staple together an 8 page book with an animal theme. Learners read and color. In the end of the book, students list...
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?
In these literature worksheets, students will construct a book based on the popular story "Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?" Students will color each animal according to its descriptive color in the story.
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USA
In this printing worksheet, students form 15 words related to the USA, such as fag and Statue of Liberty. Students also color in an illustration of each word.
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I Can See the Sun
In this reading worksheet, students learn the sight words "I can see" as they make an 8 page book about their sense of sight. Students read about what they see in a garden, then color the pictures.