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Can You Hear the River?
In this camping beginning reader learning exercise, students cut apart, color and assemble a 12 page mini book about a camping trip. The page text is in the form of questions and answers. The sight vocabulary writing practice and...
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I Have the Balloons
Fill your classroom with balloons for this fun mini-lesson! Beginning readers create this tiny booklet about balloons, illustrating each simple sentence provided. When they're finished, consider playing a game! Break your kindergarteners...
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Reporting Crime To Authorities
Students review how laws protect people from harm and loss of property. Students discuss and explain the infromation needed when making a report to authorities about a theft or bodily harm. A dialog is created and role played. This...
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Building Successful Parent-Teacher Rapport
Students discuss the importance of having a strong parent-teacher relationship. They brainstorm ways to build and strengthen the relationship with their child's teacher. Groups of students role play the different methods of...
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Sight Word Muddle
In this sight words worksheet, students read the 21 sight words to a friend. Students then unscramble the words in the boxes and spell them correctly.
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Zippy at the Zoo
Students recognize the grapheme z in written words and the phoneme /z/ in spoken words. They gain this knowledge by listening and repeating the spoken phoneme /z/ as well as practicing writing the upper and lower case grapheme. Students...
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"Poppy P"
Students engage in a instructional activity of emerging literacy that focuses on phonemic awareness. The phoneme for the letter "p" is chosen for the instructional activity and students must acquire the skill of letter recognition also.
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Icky, Sticky!!
Students participate in an emerging literacy instructional activity that focuses on the skill of phonemic awareness. The phoneme of choice is the letter "i". Students need to recognize the letter in correlation to its sound.
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D Mix Part 2
In this sentence completion worksheet, students answer multiple choice questions where they fill in the blanks with words starting with the letter d. Students complete 20 questions.
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Factual writing: leaflets
Learners identify persuasive words in provided leaflets. In this factual writing lesson, students complete an online activity. A worksheet is provided for extra practice.
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One word substitution - letter e words
In this letter e words activity, students match words that begin with the letter e to their definitions. Students complete 10 matches.
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Remember
In this phrases representing remembering learning exercise, students complete multiple choice questions where they fill in the blanks to sentences with phrases representing remembering. Students complete 20 sentences.
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Words Hurt
Students identify the various forms of bullying in a class discussion and to sort out the situations that can hurt outside and inside. They count the number of bullying incidents posted on the bulletin board to find which occur most...
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Too Hot to Handle
Students read an online article and research the ten most active volcanoes in the world. They devise an independent public service announcement for evacuating people living near a volcano.
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Punctuation Day
In this Punctuation Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, asking questions,...
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Oral Assessment Plan
Students practice active listening skills. In this literacy and U.S. history lesson, students predict the hardships pioneers using the Mormon Trail might have faced. Students view the movie "Children of the Wagon Train," then...
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Breaking News: Syria Protests Getting Bigger (April 16th, 2011)
Students explore current events by participating in several worksheet style activities. In this Syrian protest lesson, students read a news article discussing the Syrian uprising that took place in April of 2011. Students complete...
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Earthquake preparation: Acquiring knowledge about different ways to prepare for earthquakes
Learners develop critical reading comprehension skills while learning how to be prepared for earthquakes, and list at least three things they can do to prepare for an earthquake.
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Exhibiting Hope
Students watch a video clip about the effect of Hurricane Katrina. They examine the challenges that New Orleans still faces a year after the hurricane. They work together in small groups to create a museum exhibit on a topic of interest...
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Writing Paper
In this printing paper activity, students are provided with lined paper for writing practice. Using the large lines and dotted lines as a guide, students will use the paper for mastery of letters and numbers.
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Packed Trains Can Be Sickening Experience
In this editing worksheet, 5th graders read, analyze and proofread a piece of text for punctuation mistakes. Students read "Packed Trains Can Be Sickening Experience" and correct each punctuation mistake they find.
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The Hobbit - Essay Questions
In this literature learning exercise, students respond to 4 short answer and essay questions about Tolkien's The Hobbit. Students may also link to an online interactive quiz on the novel at the bottom of the page.
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Health Education: First Aid
Fourth graders come to the aid of others. In this personal health lesson plan, 4th graders acquire the skills for providing first aid for choking victims, including demonstrating the Heimlich maneuver.
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Learning Sight Words with Picture Me Reading and the Document Camera
First graders identify sight words. In this learning sight words lesson, 1st graders view flash cards to practice the words and identify them in a poem.