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Writing Sparks
In this writing sparks worksheet, students write a short story as they imagine that they've woken up one morning to find out they had grown two extra pairs of arms.
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Writing Sparks
In this writing sparks worksheet, young scholars write a short story about a situation in which they had to face their worst fear and how they overcame it.
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Capitalization and Punctuation
How many of the pupils in your language arts class can differentiate between a colon and a semicolon? Clarify common conventions, including end punctuation, proper capitalization, and sentence structure, with a series of helpful grammar...
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Point of View
Incorporate technology into a literature lesson with an innovative language arts lesson. Middle schoolers read an electronic version of original stories or fairy tales, and after determining the point of view, rewrite the tale from a...
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Quilt Squares-Literature Reporting
Differentiate instruction with this crafty approach to demonstrating comprehension. Learners choose a fictional book at their reading level, and afterward create a quilt square. The square is "decorated" with words, illustrations, and...
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Forced Potawatomi Migration
Fourth graders write about the forced Potawatomi migration. In this primary source lesson students are read journal entries from an emigrating party of Potawatomi Indians. Students reflect on the items the Indians might have taken with...
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United States Pride
Third graders learn the responsibility of citizenship and learn facts about a state they choose to research.
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Be ready for your English exam
In this reading worksheet, students read each line and at the end of the line they write "correct" if the line is correct and if there is a word that should not be there, they write that word. Students complete this for 15 lines and then...
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The Race to Learn
Learners explore the history of education and race in the United States. By researching Supreme Court cases dealing with race and education, students examine the ways in which these cases have reflected changing social and cultural norms.
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Climate Change
Learners discuss global warming. In this global warming lesson, students read an article about global warming and list five things they learned. Learners work in small groups to compare what they wrote. Students illustrate one of the...
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Third Person Point of View
Have your class practice determining whose point of view is being utilized throughout the course of a story. They begin by working as a class to create a chart which will provide textual examples that describe first and third person...
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Comparing Time Periods in U.S. History: The Ashford Project
Fifth graders use a "fact book" comparing periods in American history then students create a picture to illustrate their assigned periods. # # students use their pictures and concept maps to write expository paragraphs about their...
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Short and Sweet
Students examine how to summarize information from expository text. They read an expository text and identify the important information from the reading. Students identify the topic sentence and write their own topic sentences.
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A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words
Young scholars examine historical photographs and discuss what the photograph reveals and how they can contribute to writing. In this response to literature students choose a photograph and develop a paragraph around it.
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A Morning of Weighing Babies
Students read sections of "A Morning of Weighing Babies". Individually, they write a paragraph examining the main characters and their actions. After sharing a few writings, they discuss the relationship between the author and the...
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Life Cycle of Butterfly
Second graders investigate life cycles of insects by writing a story. In this butterfly life lesson, 2nd graders create a checklist of the many steps a caterpillar takes before growing wings and flying. Students utilize creative...
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Essay Editing Lesson Plan
Learners discuss reasons to edit their written work and observe how to correctly use proofreaders marks to correct a paragraph. In groups of four, students exchange previously written papers and write suggestions and comments for...
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Because We Can, Should We?
Students identify a position on an issue of geographic importance and support it They read the story "By the Waters of Babylon," and write a paragraph explaining what they think the relationship between Babylon and the Biblical referene...
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Different Ways to Count
Fourth graders investigate various number systems and ways of counting. In this various number systems and ways of counting lesson plan, 4th graders discuss number systems from around the world. Students practice counting using the...
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Techniques for Quoting Material
In this writing worksheet, learners read techniques for quoting material. Students read about how to correctly use quotations, textual references and footnotes, and a bibliography.
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Elaborating with Showing, Not Telling
This engaging activity is a great change of pace for the classroom. The activity starts with a simple message on the board “The teacher is angry.” The instructor is to stomp around, drop books and glare—anything to show anger. The...
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Fables
For this fables worksheet, students learn about the different parts of a fable. They learn how to retell a story, analyze the characters, identify the moral and dramatize the story.
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Music Theories
Explore the inception and evolution of hip-hop music as a springboard for writing music reviews and researching other genres of music. Learners will read and discuss the Times' article, From Underground Music to Fashion Statement to then...
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Eye On the Environment Essay
Learners analyze the impact of human activity (e.g., population density, pollution) to a country where the target language is spoken. They prepare a three paragraph essay and describe the impact of pollution on the environment and the...
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