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Comprehension: Text Analysis, Fact or Opinion Football

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Touchdown! Try out this game to help your learners differentiate between fact and opinion. In pairs, pupils switch off reading cards to one another. Learners determine if the sentences on the cards are facts or opinions and continue...
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Prayer and Friday Night Lights? An Establishment Clause Case from Texas

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Is a Christian prayer before a Friday night football game a nice gesture or the imposition of religion on the rest of the community? A resource asks the question using a clip from the popular movie "Friday Night Lights" and readings...
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Creating Interesting Characters

For Teachers 7th - 9th
What makes a story interesting? Complex characters! As part of a series of worksheets that prepares middle schoolers to write their own novel, the exercises included explain the role of the protagonist, the antagonist, and the supporting...
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Mobile Phones

For Students 5th - 10th
In this mobile phones worksheet, students fill out a chart about mobile phones, answer short answer questions, role play, and more. Students complete 5 activities.
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Role Playing for Fluency

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars explore the benefits of rereading a story to increase their oral reading speed, fluency, and comprehension. They work with a partner reading the story "What Will the Seal Eat?" They time and encourage each other in each...
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Respecting Differences

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners identify gender stereotypes that exist today. They discover that both boys and girls can be good at the same things. They answer questions outloud to finish the lesson.
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Health Education: An Integrated Approach

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in role plays in order to consider how they use body language and facial expressions to convey their feelings. In this nonverbal communication lesson, 4th graders discuss the importance of paying attention to...
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ESL Holiday or Vacation Activities Survey

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this ESL holiday or vacation activities survey worksheet, learners ask others if they have or have not done 8 activities. They ask if the students do things such as play football, ice skate, go camping or play basketball.
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Roald Dahl

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
Follow up a reading of The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl with this collaborative lesson on teamwork. Starting with a fun team game, learners go on to investigate examples of teamwork in the story before...
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Sports and Hobby Math

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Explore math concepts as they relate to real world situations. Young analysts consider a personal hobby or favorite sport and list three ways math is involved in the hobby. They create several related math story problems and write a...
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Narrowing a Topic & The Importance of Audience

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Help your young writers through the sometimes difficult process of beginning to write. Direct them through how to choose a topic and write to a specific audience. Great refining statements guide them to writing focused, clear essays. 
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Irregularly Scheduled Programming

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine their favorite holidays and how they are celebrated. After reading an article, they discuss the length of television programming for the Super Bowl. In groups, they create their own television programming relating to...
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Vocabulary Meanings

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this vocabulary meanings worksheet, learners demonstrate comprehension of vocabulary from a word bank by logically filling in the blanks to complete sentences. Students choose ten multiple choice answers.
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Vocabulary in Sentences

For Students 4th - 5th
In this completing the sentences worksheet, students use the words in the word pool and context clues to fill in the blank spaces. Students write 10 answers.
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March Puzzle

For Students 9th - 11th
In this math worksheet, students are given clues and must come up with the phrase, name or title with the march in it. There is a key with this worksheet.
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Total English Upper Intermediate: It's All in the Headline

For Students 6th - 8th
In this newspaper headline vocabulary learning exercise, students practice consolidating key vocabulary as they complete 10 headlines by filling in the blanks and then write their own 8 headlines to share with a partner.
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Hobbies: Adverbs of Frequency

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this ESL activity worksheet, students respond to 7 questions and then ask a classmate the same 7 questions Students use common adverbs in their answers.
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Keira Knightley

For Students 4th - 8th
In this famous leaders worksheet, students read a passage about Keira Knightley and then complete a variety of activities including spelling, cloze, synonym matches, and scrambled sentences.
Organizer
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Hobbies - Adverbs of Frequency

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this ESL activity worksheet, students respond to 8 questions regarding hobbies. Students respond using adverbs of frequency. Students ask a classmate the same 8 questions and record their answers.
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Parallel Structure

For Students 4th - 6th
In this parallel structure worksheet, students must choose two people they know. Students follow the directions, then using the examples provided, write sentences about each person.
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Homonyms - Quiz 36

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this homonyms learning exercise, students fill in the blanks to sentences with the correct homonym. Students fill in the blanks for 20 sentences.
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It's A Jungle in Here!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research rainforest destruction. In this geography and ecology lesson, 5th graders work as a group to research the effects of logging, farming, and mining on the rainforest. Students gather and display data and information...
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Engineering in Sports

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore physical education by completing a quiz in class. In this engineering instructional activity, students identify different ways engineering has made sports safer such as stronger padding and helmets, stronger equipment...
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Media/Citizenship: Speed 1

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students investigate media images of cars and speed. They examine drivers' atitudes to speed by completing an activity sheet and responding to press reports about speeding drivers.