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The Strength of the Muscular System
Seventh graders investigate the strength of the muscular system. They explore voluntary and involuntary muscle movement and discuss the types of muscles: cardiac or heart, skeletal, and smooth. They visit stations to answer questions...
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Short a and short i
Students participate in a lesson used in order to strengthen reading comprehension skills. They use spelling lists in order to sort them to the corresponding studied sounds. Vocabulary is used and students read them in context.
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"Flying to Fluency"
Pupils become fluent readers by decoding words and practicing mastery of phoneme correspondences. They also practice repeated readings of texts along with timed readings of the book, "Pat's Jam." Each student interacts with a bulletin...
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How Much is that Name?
Students explore money counting. In this money problem solving lesson, students calculate how much money their name is "worth" using the corresponding alphabet letters which have been assigned a coin value.
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The Magic Square
In this math worksheet, students convert the sixteen values into scientific notation. Then they find the answers in the right-column to fill in the Magic Square with its letter.
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Criss Cross Expressions
In this expressions worksheet, students simplify a set of 9 expressions, then match it to its corresponding equal expression in another column. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Fill Words Exercise 1
In this fill words exercise 1 instructional activity, students read the letter-number codes and fill in the correct letters to spell a phrase with immediate feedback online.
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Cranking Cooky Cars
Students practice the strategy of phoneme awareness with special vocal gestures or sound with the correspondence /k/. They listen as the book, "ABC," by Dr. Seuss is read to them and then they work on a tongue twister and worksheets.
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Worksheet 7: Prepositions of Place
ESL learners answer 8 multiple choice questions by choosing the correct preposition of place to describe the corresponding picture. This worksheet could be used as practice following a lesson on prepositions of place.
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CVC Words
In this CVC words learning exercise, students write a set of 20 consonant, vowel, consonant words, all with short vowels in the middle. Students copy by tracing the word as it appears beneath its corresponding picture.
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Living History Video Project
Fifth graders videotape an interview with a community member. In this service learning project, 5th graders are matched with a resident at a local retirement center. The students spend time corresponding with this person and ultimately...
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Identifying Sounds in Words with Elkonin Boxes
Students examine words. In this letter sounds lesson, students use Elkonin boxes to identify the beginning, medial, or final sound of a word. They work in small groups with picture cards and an instruction of where to put a marker in...
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“Wild Readers” Decoding Skills Lesson Plan
Set young readers on the path toward fluency with this phonemic awareness resource. Based on the award-winning children's book, Where the Wild Things Are, this lesson allows beginning readers to practice isolating...
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Initial P: Word Match
In this word recognition worksheet, students examine 12 pictures and select the words that represent each of the pictures from the listed possibilities.
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Phonics on the Farm
In these eight recognizing the phonetic sounds in picture words worksheet, students observe pictures of farm animals and color the ones that have the specified /c/ , /d/, /p/, /h/, /m/, /g/, /sh/, or /ch/ sounds. There are five pictures...
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Animal Habitats
Explore animal habitats and reinforce speaking, listening, reading comprehension, and writing skills with a unit that focuses on the Arctic, desert, ocean, prairie, and rainforest. Enthusiastic scientists read informational text to...
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Seeing Emotions in Body Language
Scholars test their skills of reading body language with a collaborative learning experience that focuses on showing and identifying emotions. Pairs take turns acting out an emotion, one uses body language while the other guesses what...
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Ewww, That's Gross
Students recognize the /ew/ digraph in written and spoken words by reading and spelling words with ew=/oo/. They say a tongue twister emphasizing words with the /ew/ digraph. They then listen to the story "Shoe Man" and identify the...
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CHINESE NEW YEAR
In this acrostic worksheet, learners are given one line for each corresponding letter of the words "Chinese New Year". They are asked to write a poem, beginning the first word in each line with the appropriate letter.
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Vowel Sounds - Short i Words Anagram
In this vowel sound worksheet, 2nd graders complete 20 number/letter problems. They match the numbers to the corresponding letters to write 20 words that contain the short i sound.
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DOT, GOT, SPOT, PLOT
In this penmanship worksheet, students are asked to copy the words "cot", "dot", "got" and "spot" on the corresponding lines. Word boxes are provided for visual learners. Note: D'Nealian lettering is used throughout.
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Plural Words Activity
In this reading and writing worksheet, students learn the plural forms of basic 3 letter words. They match the 6 plural words from the word bank with the corresponding images from the 6 options on the page.
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Harry + Charm + Ginny + Ron = Magic
In this cryptarithm learning exercise, students solve 1 cryptarithm involving adding names together. Students add the names, Harry, Charm, Ginny, and Ron together to get Magic. Students determine the numbers that correspond...
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Harry Potter Cryptarithm
In this problem solving activity, high schoolers solve 1 cryptarithm. Students determine the correct number that corresponds with the given letters that spell familiar Harry Potter characters.