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Bring Read-to-Learn Activities into Your Classroom
Shift your instruction from teacher-centered to student-centered, which requires learners to do the heavy lifting.
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1984
An eBook edition of 1984 is now available for classroom use. George Orwell's famous dystopian novel is downloadable for free for individual computers, tablets, or phones.
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Fragments and Run-ons
Bring your second, third, and fourth graders to the computer lab, or simply print this sheet! Now that you've reviewed complete sentences, fragments, and run-ons, it's quiz time! Your test-takers will complete the 10-question quiz by...
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Firestorms: The Bombing of Civilians in World War II: War, Ethics, Guernica, Precision Bombing
Students explore the history, rationale and ethics of civilian bombing in times of war. They consider war strategy, the laws and conventions of war and international implications.
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English Vocabulary Skills: AWL Sublist 6 - Exercise 1c
In this online interactive English vocabulary skills learning exercise, learners answer 10 matching questions which require them to fill in the blanks in 10 sentences. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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English Exercises: Relative Clauses
Four short exercises give learners the opportunity to review relative clauses including should, might, who, which, or that. They complete a fill in the blank activity first before forming complete sentences from a collection of phrases...
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Descriptive Writing: Parrot in the Oven
After reading a selection from Victor Martinez's Parrot in the Oven, pupils use the graphic organizer to decipher the sensory details within the descriptive paragraph. They list various details under the appropriate sense ("see," "hear,"...
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Shizuko’s Daughter: Question Answer Relationships
Asking questions about what you're reading is an effective way to connect with the text. After kids read passages from Kyoko Mori's Shizuko's Daughter, they identify questions about the passages as Right There, Think and...
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SO versus TOO
In this so versus too patterns learning exercise, learners rewrite sentences using so and too grammar patterns. Students write six sentences.
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Move It! With Simple Machines
Students explore engineering by participating in a mechanical class activity. In this simple machines lesson, students identify many simple machines that allow them to perform tasks easily each day. Students collaborate in small groups...
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Summer Olympics: Crossword
In this summer Olympics learning exercise, students fill in a crossword answering questions about the summer Olympics. Students fill in 35 questions.
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Grammar Usage: SO versus TOO
For this grammar usage worksheet, learners rewrite sentences using 'so' or 'too' as directed. Students recognize that the sentences have the same meaning but the grammar pattern is different.
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Adjectives and Adverbs
In this grammar worksheet, 3rd graders complete 10 multiple choice questions identifying adverbs, selecting the correct use of adjectives, and differentiating between to, two, and too.
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You Know The Answer. Write The Question
In this "You Know the Answer" activity, students are given answers and must devise a question to match the answer. Answers include such topics as planets, animals, and weather. There are ten problems on this one-page activity. An answer...
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The Lunar and Terrestrial Tug of War
Fourth graders, in groups, locate, comprehend, interpret, and evaluate information about celestial bodies that influence ocean tides on Earth. They apply this information through graphic representations.
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Pronouns and Antecedents
For this grammar worksheet, students read fifteen sentences, underline the antecedent in each one and circle the correct pronoun that makes each sentence grammatically correct.
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Pronoun Antecedent Quiz
In this grammar worksheet, students choose and circle the appropriate pronoun in fifteen sentences and then underline the antecedent in each one.
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Antonyms
In this antonyms activity, students read eight sentences, analyze the underlined word in each sentence and then choose which multiple choice answer is the antonym of each underlined word.
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What's Inside a Pumpkin?
Students explore the properties of a pumpkin. In this What's Inside a Pumpkin lesson plan, students use a real pumpkin to investigate pumpkin facts, sing a song "Five Little Pumpkins", paint pumpkin patch artwork, participate in a...
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Keeping Safe (911)
Students explore "emergency safety" rules through a series of activities led by the teacher. In this safety lesson, students practice dialing 911 on a paper or play phone after listening to the interactive book It's Time to Call 911:...
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Gerunds and Infinitives 17
For this gerund/infinitive worksheet, student fill in blanks in sentences, clicking on a "check" button for feedback on their answers.
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Beginning Sentence Completion Exercise 30
In this beginning sentence completion exercise 30 worksheet, students working online, complete 10 sentences by selecting the correct word(s), with immediate feedback.
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Beginning Sentence Completion Exercise 39
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students examine 10 sentences that are missing words and select the appropriate words to complete each of the sentences and match them to the sentences. Student answers are scored...
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Intermediate Sentence Completion Exercise 4
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students examine 10 sentences that are missing words and select the appropriate words to complete each of the sentences and match them to the sentences. Student answers are scored...