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Vocabulary Building Activity
In this spelling pattern worksheet, 2nd graders write six words with the ir or ur spelling pattern. They unscramble these words. Students write six sentences, one each for the six spelling words.
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Vocabulary Building Activity
For this spelling patterns worksheet, 2nd graders practice writing words with the short i spelling pattern. They write six sentences and unscramble the six spelling words.
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Vocabulary Building Activity: ee
In this ee words worksheet, 3rd graders respond to 13 fill in the blank and 6 word scramble questions illustrating their knowledge of ee words.
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Vocabulary Building Activity: ea
In this ea words worksheet, 3rd graders respond to 13 fill in the blank and 6 word scramble questions illustrating their knowledge of ea words.
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Vocabulary Building Activity-ly dy
In this ly dy words worksheet, 2nd graders respond to13 fill in the blank and 6 word scramble questions illustrating their knowledge of ly and dy words.
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Vocabulary Building Activity
In this vocabulary skills worksheet, 2nd graders complete 6 memory skill questions, 6 word scramble questions, and 7 sentence writing questions. A word bank is provided.
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Vocabulary building activity
For this vocabulary worksheet, students write words based on the definition given to them, unscramble words, and write words in a sentence. Students complete 7 words for each task.
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Vocabulary building activity
In this vocabulary of long a and ow words instructional activity, 2nd graders write the word from the clue, unscramble the word, and write the word in a sentence. Students complete 7 words for each of these tasks.
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Vocabulary Building Activity: Words With "or"
In this vocabulary learning exercise, students learn the spelling and meaning of six words with the "or" pattern. Students spell the words in dictation, unscramble the letters in the words and use them in sentences.
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Vocabulary Building Activity
In this vocabulary of or words worksheet, students write the word from the clue, unscramble the word, and write the word in a sentence. Students complete 7 words for each of these tasks.
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Language Arts
In this literacy worksheet, 5th graders practice putting the sentences into the proper grammar structure, using the correct punctuation, and finding the definitions in the dictionary.
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"One-Minute Monologue" Builds Communication Skills
Get everyone talking! It's rare that a lesson plan can potentially span from third to twelfth grade, but this one really can! Get two paper bags. Fill one with the names of each learner, and fill the other with random topics you...
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Vocabulary Building - Declaration of Independence
Young scholars read the first part of the Declaration of Independence and mark the words they don't know. First, they try to guess what the words mean by looking at the them in context, and then they look up the words in a dictionary.
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Practice With Multiple-Meaning Words
Second graders work with multiple meaning words. They participate in a teacher led lesson about words with have more than one meaning. Everyone completes a skill building worksheet in which sentences using words with more than one...
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Build a Tasty Sandwich
The subject doesn't sound to interesting, but with a child's imagination even a trip to the store can be an adventure. The class writes a narrative story about a trip to the store. They organize their stories to include an introductory...
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Male Image Building Utilizing the Writing Process
Introduce your class to the techniques of proper writing. In groups, they brainstorm their ideas on family structures and discuss the importance of having a male figure in their lives. After listening to an African-American poem, they...
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Build Accuracy /a/, /m/
Make letter sounds a game for pre-readers using these letter cards. After you demonstrate, learners take turns drawing letters out of a bag. Weight them for the letters they have been practicing most recently. Once they've chosen a...
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Build Listening Skills With Asian Folktales
Students read five folktales. After each folktale is read students use a map to find the location of the country of the tale's origin. Next, students answer comprehension questions related to each folktale.
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The Football Team
Playing team sports is about more than just scoring the most goals or winning the most games. Read this passage with your class and learn how athletes build character as members of a team. When finished, individuals identify the main...
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Lewis and Clark's Journey West: A Timeline Activity
Students complete a scavenger hunt which highlights events on the journey by Lewis and Clark. Using the internet and journals, they identify events on the journey and places them on a timeline. They complete a worksheet as well to end...
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Building a Case for Clues
Here's a strategy that can be used with any narrative, whether read by the instructor or as independent reading. At the end of each chapter, learners predict, using prior knowledge as clues, what will happen in the next chapter. Readers...
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Directed and Undirected Free-writing: An Activity in Brainstorming
Analyze the free-writing method of brainstorming to explore how to write an essay. Middle schoolers plan their writing from the beginning after reading two samples of free-writing, then creating their own. The lesson includes extension...
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Conjugating Verbs in Spanish
It's time to conjugate! If your class doesn't really know what that means, use the materials provided here to build understanding. The resource covers verbs, infinitives, the different Spanish verb endings, conjugation in the present...
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Constructing a Building
Students work with big boxes to connect big ideas. In this early childhood problem solving instructional activity, students develop social, language, math, creative-thinking, and problem-solving skills as they work together to plan and...