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The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon
Practice comprehension skills using the story, The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon by Bea Uusma Schyffert. Learners answer questions, fill out graphic organizers, and engage in extension activities involving writing and...
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Conference Papers
In the world of academia, conference papers and presentations play a big role. It's through conference papers that professors and graduate assistants share their research with others in the field. A handout on conference papers, part of...
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Introducing Phonemic Awareness Using Oral and Written Instruction
First graders demonstrate their ability to read with fluency, accuracy, and comprehension through phonemic awareness. They use a color-coding system to master the long and short vowel sounds and develop their skills in listening and...
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Teaching Language Arts with Sayings and Phrases
Students complete a unit to learn sayings and phrases that help them understand language art concepts. In this sayings and phrases lesson, students complete 11 lessons that use common sayings and phrases to teach language art concepts...
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Understanding language registers as a means to more effective communication
Students become familiar with registers of language through class discussion and exposure to examples of a common fairy tale written in two different registers. Working in small groups, students then translate a story into two different...
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Foreign Language Initial Reading
Young scholars match sentences and phrases to pictures in a target language. They identify the proper written form of familiar spoken phrases. Students practice labeling objects and pictures with the proper greeting, color, number or...
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Introduction to Korean Language and Writing
Learners explore the written Korean language and its history. They demonstrate the formation of the Korean characters and pronounce them. As they research the historical information of Hangul, they compare it to the high literacy rate in...
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Bahamian Coral Reef Development
Young scholars study tourism and conservation. In this coral development lesson students view a PowerPoint presentation and write a report.
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Lesson Three: Prepositions
Learning prepositions can be tricky in any language, and English is no exception! Try out the activities described here to help your English language learners grasp the difference between in and on and through and by. After a game of...
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Fireign Language: Getting to Know You
Students, using their foreign language of study, role-play as two people meeting for the first time. They use courtesy expressions and respond to questions and prompts with correct intonation, pronunciation, and inflection. Students...
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Organizing Ideas
Eighth graders investigate varous writing skills as part of larger course of study. The lesson is essentially a rough guide for conducting a class for writing. The main focus of the plan is organizing ideas using various strategies that...
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English Language Change
In this English language worksheet, students examine a passage written in Old English, Middle English, and Modern English to find changes in the language. Students are then given a list of words to define and examine in order to...
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Developing Open-Ended Questions
Pupils work in groups of two to develop questions and sample answers that are relevant, accurate and use higher level of thinking skills about a literary unit. Students present their questions and answers to the class as a review of the...
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Formula for a Well-Written Newspaper Article
Students create a formula for a well-written news article. In this informative writing lesson plan, students share notes from a previous research lesson plan and identify why an outline is important. Students use an included worksheet to...
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Using Lists to Generate Ideas
Students create lists about a topic that they choose to generate ideas for writing without worrying about grammar or punctuation. In this lists lesson plan, students first create a list about snow with their teacher.
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New York State Testing Program: English/Language Arts Book 3, Grade 6
In this 6th grade English/Language Arts standardized test practice worksheet, students read 2 selections and respond to open-ended questions regarding them. Students then respond to a writing prompt.
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New York State Testing Program: English/Language Arts Book 2, Grade 6 2006
In this 6th grade English/Language Arts standardized test practice instructional activity, 6th graders listen to a story read to them by the facilitator and respond to questions regarding it. Students also respond to an open-ended essay...
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Emotive language
Students examine emotion-based language. Students read a news story to discover examples of emotive words. They develop a class list of examples of emotive language. As a class project, students select a news story and change it into...
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New York State Testing Program: English Language Arts Grade 4
In this NY state grade 4 language arts test, 4th graders complete a total of 35 questions, reading passages and completing questions and instructions for writing that follow each.
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New York State Testing: English Language Arts-Grade 5
In this NY state language arts test, 5th graders read passages and complete comprehension and writing activities after each.
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New York State Language Arts Test Grade 6
In this New York state language arts test learning exercise, 6th graders complete activities such as reading passages, answering comprehension questions, writing, and more. Students complete 34 questions.
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Test Book 2--Grade 8 (2007)
In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts worksheet, students listen to an article twice, then answer reading comprehension questions. Students then use details from the article to compose an essay.
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Test Book 3--Grade 8 (2007)
In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts worksheet, students read two articles and answer reading comprehension questions. Students also compose essay responses to the passages.
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Book 2--Grade 8 (2006)
In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts worksheet, students listen to an article and take notes. Students then answer reading comprehension questions and compose an essay using details from the article.