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Runny Babbit
Students are introduced to elements of poetry through the book Runny Babbit. In this poetry lesson, students learn about the newest Shel Silverstein book, then examine the poem's form, rhythm, and rhyme. Students look for other Shel...
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Poetry through Jazz, Rap, and Hip Hop
Students explore poetry through jazz, rap, and hip hop music. They discover the common threads that run through the poetry and music. Students design their own lyrics to a jazz, rap, or hip hop selection and share their songs with the...
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Culture Collage
Students investigate their cultural heritage and make observations on how much influence their past has on their current values and lifestyle. They brainstorm a list of things that represent a certain country or cultural heritage and...
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Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom
Young scholars review the "ch" digraph in this instructional activity. Students identify words that have the "ch" sound, and practice writing the digraph. Young scholars then listen to the story "Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom" and identify the...
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The People's Design Award
Students analyze, critique, and evaluate information from various sources and learn about the design process. In this design lesson, students critique work submitted to People's Design Award and create a design of their own to present to...
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Spelling Instant Activity
Sixth graders understand the usage of capital letters for mapping skills. In this capitalization lesson, 6th graders correct sentences to insert appropriate capital letters. Students select cities from the sentences and make a word puzzle.
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Where In the World Am I?
Learners identify their location in the world after studying latitude, longitude, relative location, and absolute location. They use assigned web site to find information to make a flipbook that answers questions about their location in...
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Disabilities Day
In this Disabilities Day worksheet, students complete activities such as read the passage, match the phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, multiple choice fill in, correct the spelling, put text in correct order,...
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Writing tall Tales
Students become familiar with the origins of the tall tale. In this Tall tale technology activity, students complete worksheets to plan a tall tale. Students write their tall tales and put it on the computer in KidPix.
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Bluebottle
Students read the poem Bluebottle and discuss the use of the simile in the poem. In this Bluebottle poetry lesson, students analyze the use of verbs and the energy created by that use. Students text mark all the similes in...
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Verb to be (am, is, are)
In this am, is, and are worksheet, students fill in the blanks, complete multiple choice questions, unscramble sentences, and rewrite sentences using am, is, or are. Students complete 5 activities total.
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Active or Passive
In this interactive grammar worksheet, students read the 22 sentences and identify the passive or active voice from the drop down menu.
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Author's Purpose
Fourth graders read the book Talkin' About Bessie and write a paragraph about the author's purpose. In this author's purpose lesson plan, 4th graders include examples from the story.
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Words We Know
Young scholars 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. Young scholars view websites to...
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What Is a Newspaper?
In this journalism activity, students read and analyze an article about newspapers and complete a variety of activities along with answering twenty four comprehension questions.
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Folk Music Flowchart and Questions
In this music worksheet, students read about the origins of folk music by following a flow chart. They answer 10 short answer question and participate in an extension task that entails writing an article that discusses folk music.
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Clausal Expansions
In this grammar learning exercise, students creatively add clausal expansions to sixty-two sentences following the two patterns that are shown with the examples.
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Latin Roots 3
In this Latin roots worksheet, 8th graders complete a crossword puzzle involving eleven sentences with Latin roots going across and down.
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Words with Double Consonants
In this double consonants worksheet, 2nd graders answer eleven statements or clues associated with words with double consonants. Students place their answers in a crossword puzzle.
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Beginning with ch, sh, th, wh
For this words beginning with ch, sh, th and wh worksheet, 2nd graders complete a crossword puzzle as they figure out the answers to ten sentences, phrases or questions. Students then place their answers in a crossword puzzle.
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Greek Word Parts
In this Greek words worksheet, 8th graders complete a crossword puzzle as they figure out the answers to fourteen clues associated with spelling words with Greek word parts.
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Adding -ed and -ing, -er and -est
In this suffixes worksheet, 5th graders complete a crossword puzzle as they answer seventeen clues and statements associated with a spelling list of words that end in ed, ing, er and/or est.
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Words with Double Consonants
In this double consonants worksheet, 4th graders complete a story by filling in fourteen blanks of spelling words with double consonants. Students locate and circle each word in a word search puzzle.
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Adding -ed and -ing
In this endings -ed and -ing worksheet, 4th graders complete a crossword puzzle as they answer fourteen clues or phrases associated with spelling words that end in -ed or -ing.