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Word Pairs
Students compare similar words that are often confused. In this Language arts lesson plan, students review meanings of words that are often confused. Students complete a worksheet and sentences to practice correct usage of these words.
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Basic Food Items
Students explore healthy eating by defining food vocabulary terms. In this food purchasing lesson, students utilize word/picture cards to participate in a food identification activity among their classmates. Students read a list of food...
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Eye No the Write Won!
Second graders practice with synonyms, antonyms, and homophones. After listening to a Berenstain Bears story, 2nd graders utilize worksheets imbedded in this plan to gain practice identifying these parts of speech. A nice lesson!
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Proofreading Sentences--Week 26
In this sentence editing instructional activity, students read each of the five sentences and proofread them for errors. Students rewrite each sentence on the line.
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Synonym Trees
Fifth graders create synonym trees by writing their main word on the tree trunk and gluing synonym words to represent the leaves. In this synonyms lesson plan, 5th graders play a class game where they must find a partner who has a...
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First Lady Fashions
Sixth graders research and explore the fashion of a certain time while identifying with the personal convictions and tastes of the famous first ladies of the past. They practice what they explore adjectives to describe what they see and...
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Hands on Essays
Third graders relate the concept of individuality of geometric shapes to the individuality of topic sentences. They write and revise a persuasive argument essay using an established rubric.
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The Story of My Life
Students complete autobiographical writing assignments throughout the school year that they save and rewrite to put into a published book during the last month of class. They include photographs, drawings and mementos of their lives in...
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I Am a Book
Third graders discuss books that have been banned and the things that they have in common. They explore the concept of freedom of speech and write poems based on their discussion.
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the Little Red Riding Hood
Students respond to the story of Little Red Riding Hood. In this Red Riding Hood lesson, students retell and discuss story elements. Students practice phonic sounds. Students role play, make predictions, use picture...
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Word Families
First graders listen as they are read a book containing exmaples of word families, they listen for rhyming words. They focus on word families, words that have rhyming sounds and share the same spelling patterns. Pupils work in small...
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The Terminology of Governance
Students explore the parts of Canada's federal system of government. They construct a concept web using the terms related to government and the institutions of Canada. They make lists that relate to Canadian and American government.
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Dark Days on the Prairie
Fourth graders research the location and causes of the Dust Bowl in 1935. In support, they interpret photos from that period in Oklahoma history, They also compare/contrast the American Dust Bowl to the dust storms that occurred in...
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6 Traits: Sentence Fluency
Students practice writing with sentence fluency in order to make the story more enjoyable for the reader. In this sentence fluency lesson plan, students focus on rhythm and flow.
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Using a Dictionary
In this dictionary worksheet, students analyze 24 misspelled words and write them correctly, using a dictionary to help. Students then use the dictionary to define 10 words.
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Unscramble the Letters
Students complete word scramble activities as a vocabulary lesson and write sentences with the words. In this word scramble lesson, students unscramble letters in the given examples and spell the words correctly. Students write the words...
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Word Scramble- Continents
Learners complete a worksheet. In this spelling and geography lesson, students work independently to complete a worksheet where they unscramble words associated with geography.
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Stacy Bodin's "Digesting a Story" Unit
Second graders create a story and role-play the story using edible items to create a final story-video project. For this edible story lesson, 2nd graders write their own stories using literary format and elements. Students then create a...
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Unscramble the Musical Instruments
Students unscramble musical instrument words. In this instrument lesson, students discuss the different types of musical instruments. They get a worksheet with their names and they need to unscramble them and spell the instruments...
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Word Roots 2: FIN, SED, FER Beginner Crossword
Learners match definitions to words in order to complete this crossword puzzle. The focus of this puzzle is words that contain the Latin roots FIN, SED, and FER. The answer document does not work, so the vocabulary list off of which this...
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Building a Better Sentence
Sentence construction is both a science and an art. This bare bones lesson ties an analysis of earth's geology to sentence formation. Although referenced as a major part of the activity, there are no links to the technology or resources...
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Clean Air
High schoolers read sales promotion reports and create a sales promotion summary using information from the report. They develop a graphic organizer to outline their information for a presentation. There is an assessment checklist...
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Root Words
Learnersstudy root words. In this word study instructional activity, they identify the root words from several compound words. There are examples listed in this lesson plan.
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Literary Analysis - Young Goodman Brown
Why is literary analysis so important? Readers explore writing a literary analysis by reviewing literary elements such as character, metaphor, plot, setting, simile, personification, and style. They read "Young Goodman Brown" by...