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Guided Reading: " A River Ran Wild"
Students answer "essential questions" to establish background and prior knowledge of the book, "A River Ran Wild." In this language arts lesson, 3rd graders complete a graphic organizer of vocabulary words and read and take notes at...
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A Separate Peace Bingo Teacher's Guide
Learners complete an activity with the book A Separate Peace. In this vocabulary lesson, students get a list of vocabulary words to find the definitions of. They make a bingo card with the words and the teacher reads the definitions.
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The Island of The Blue Eagles
Sixth graders read the book CALL IT COURAGE by Armstrong Sperry. They use the Internet to research and work in groups to write ocean chants. They construct dioramas and build a sea turtle withK'NEX.
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Distinguish Communities by Their Architecture
Pupils distinguish between a rural community and a city community by observing the architecture in each one. They observe and discuss pictures of buildings. Students write a paragraph explaining the purpose of a particular building. They...
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Fire Safety Letter Shapes
In this fire safety vocabulary worksheet, students fill in the letter shapes with fire safety vocabulary words that they get from solving the clues. Students complete 15 letter shapes.
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African Americans in the Maritime Trades
Learners explore Civil Rights by analyzing U.S. history. In this African American workforce lesson, students discuss the history of African Americans in Baltimore and the need for steady work that formed. Learners define vocabulary terms...
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Looks Like Snow
Students listen to the teacher read the book, The Jacket I Wear in the Snow, and create vocabulary and graphic cards from the story.
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Online Words
Students define spelling/vocabulary words using an online dictionary. In this Internet resources lesson, students learn how to use an online dictionary to look up the definitions of their spelling or vocabulary words.
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Online Words
Students use an online dictionary to discover the meaning of vocabulary words. The use of the internet is a skill that is developed for the integration of technology into the curriculum.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Students explore the book A Midsummer Night's Dream. In this literature lesson, students identify main characters and vocabulary words from the text. Students participate in a book discussion group.
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Cool Words to Share
Fifth graders use teacher-selected vocabulary to present a written story to a first grade student. The book include a glossary of terms and illustrations of the terms. This is a great instructional activity for big/little buddies to do...
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Class President
Fourth graders develop vocabulary to aid in comprehension as they read the novel, Class President.
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Words That Will Haunt You
Students create taxonomies of Halloween-related terms. Drawing from their compiled vocabulary lists and previous reading, they compose personal essays of their own memories of the holiday. Students present their essays at a...
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It's Christmas Time - Cross Out Puzzle Four
For this ESL vocabulary worksheet, students cross out the words in the diagram by following the numbered instructions. Students then read the famous Christmas quotation created by the remaining words.
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Emily Carr: Crossword
In this Emily Carr crossword instructional activity, students complete a puzzle using vocabulary to complete sentence clues.
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Living in an Igloo
Second graders read a book entitled, "Living in an Igloo." After observing the book, 2nd graders predict what will happen in the story. They explore the steps in building an igloo. Students review strategies they can use to decode...
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Moods, Feelings, Looks - Cross Out Puzzle Seven
In this ESL vocabulary worksheet, students write the mood, feeling, or look expression that best describes the 9 expressions. Students cross out the expression as they use them and read the 2-word phrase that is left.
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Reading and Study Guide: Lord of the Flies Chapter 8
In this reading and study guide for The Lord of the Flies, students must define vocabulary from the reading, define literary terms, and answer reading comprehension questions.
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Diamontes
Students create a diamonte about bats. In this diamonte lesson plan, students review parts of speech and bat vocabulary. They take their vocabulary and plug it into a diamonte poem that compares bats with another animal using nouns,...
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"Where in the West" Guided Reading Lesson
Students complete a vocabulary chart, review proper/common nouns, discuss and review comparative adjectives and make "self to text" connections before reading. In this language arts lesson, comprehension questions are completed during...
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The Story of Sitting Bull
Students complete activities with the book The Story of Sitting Bull by Jeffrey A. Rucker. In this literature lesson plan, students review new vocabulary and practice finding capital letters. They read the story, answer comprehension...
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Intermediate Guided Reading Lesson Plan
Students read Knots on a Counting Rope, by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault. In this guided reading lesson plan, students evaluate the characteristics of a realistic fiction piece. They are asked comprehension questions during and...
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Adjective, Adjective, Noun
Students create artistic renditions of two random adjectives and one noun in this game-like Art lesson for the elementary and middle school classroom. The cross-curricular lesson includes a vocabulary list and a short resource list.
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They Were All Stars: An Introduction to Leagues Baseball
Students identify the basic knowledge of Negro Leagues baseball.
Students identify and analyze the important individuals and events associated with Negro Leagues baseball history.
Students identify key vocabulary related to this period...