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Alphabet Worksheet: Letter W Recognition
This worksheet includes 19 problems that require identifying words or pictures that begin with the letter 'W'. The pictures that begin with the letter 'W' are to be colored.w
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They See with Their Ears
Sometimes bats get a bad rap, even though they are fascinating creatures! Teach your class about echolocation with a reading passage. After reading, class members respond to five questions based on the text.
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Rhyming Animals
Second graders read an informational text passage on animals, as well as a poem that incorporates rhyming words. Then, 2nd graders answer questions based on what they read.
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Search for the Humpback Whale
Students work in teams to research and explore whale adaptations, behavior, migration, habitat, communication, and interactions with humans and present their findings.
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Why the Whales Came- The Beach
In this why the whales came worksheet, students add adjectives and adverbs to a paragraph about nature. Students fill in twelve adjectives or adverbs from given words and then write sentences of their own.
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"Be the Kiwi" - Maori Oral Tradition and Performance
Students create a story similar to those of the Maori oral tradition. In this Whale Rider lesson, students discuss the way that Maori legends were passed down from generation to generation. Students choose a land formation...
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A Fish by Any Other Name-Language Activity
In this language instructional activity, students try to match the names of 13 sea creatures with their names in languages other than English. Answers appear at the bottom of the page.
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Whispering Whales
In this consonant blends worksheet, learners examine 10 words and identify those that begin with the blend wh. Students find the identified words in a word search and then answer a bonus question.
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Women And Leadership
Middle schoolers view scenes from movie Whale Rider, research roles of women in Maori society, examine roles of women in relation to Paikea's predicament in Whale Rider, compare roles to those of women in American society, interview two...
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Spot the Differences
In this spot the difference worksheet, young scholars analyze pictures of two
different killer whales to see if they can find five differences between the
two.
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Introduce Vocabulary: Sorting
Pupils explore language arts by reading a children's book in class. In this tier two vocabulary lesson, students read the book Sorting and identify the use of specific vocabulary words. Pupils define selected vocabulary terms and utilize...
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Moby-Dick
Students take on the persona of a sailor or a captain of a whaling vessel in New England in the 1800s and write five journal entries as that person. In this Moby Dick instructional activity, students research the whaling...
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How Do Values Shape Conflicts?
High schoolers work through conflict. In this conflict resolution lesson, students participate in a simulation that requires them to consider both sides of the whaling issue.
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Translate Animal Names into the IPA 2- Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills
In this grammar worksheet, students translate the names of common animals by writing them using the International Phonetic Alphabet. They write names such as hedgehog, whale, kangaroo, and sloth in IPA.
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Shall We Go Dutch?
Learners examine the language and cultural differences that were encountered by the Indians and the Dutch leading to disaster for the first European settlement in Delaware.
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Shhh! I'm trying to learn this digraph
First graders identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new...
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In Arctic Waters
In this reading comprehension and following directions worksheet, students read facts about Arctic waters, the Inuit, Arctic animal adaptations, polar bears, walruses, seals, narwhal, Beluga whales and create a mix-and-match animal...
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Terrific Topic Sentences
Capture the interest of your reader with terrific topic sentences. To practice hooking the reader, your class will be given writing prompts, and they must create topic sentences for each prompt provided. Encourage them to use different...
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Relative Clauses
Print this series of exercises for your emerging grammarians. There are four exercises provided here to assess their knowledge of relative pronouns and clauses. The exercises are rather lengthy, so consider dividing the assignment...
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Shel Silverstein's Poems
Check to see that readers recall specific details from Shel Silverstein's poems. The poems appear to be taken from the collection Falling Up. Bring this classic children's author to your class with this resource.
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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab
In this vocabulary worksheet, students decipher the correct choice of word to complete the sentence. All words begin with the letter "B."
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Map Me a Paragraph
There are so many great reading strategies. In this lesson, learners practice decoding. They break down two paragraphs to analyze and determine main ideas and details. They each observes ways to model as they map their paragraphs.
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Odd Word Out
In this word association worksheet, students view a large list of words and choose which ones are different as well as why they are different.
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Worksheet 5/7 A Colony of Collective Nouns
Practice identifying and using collective nouns with this resource. For this activity, pupils circle the collective noun and the group that it describes in each sentence. They then use the collective nouns to write their own sentences....