Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Our Earth: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 8)
Plant or animal? As part of the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic unit Our Earth, learners engage in activities and exercises that provide them with extra support to master the concepts in the unit.
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Find The Hidden Message: Media Literacy in Primary Grades
Learners practice listening to and reading various types of media and text. In groups, learners use video, newspapers, magazines, and more to compare and contrast different types of information. They identify the differences between fact...
Lerner Publishing
Teaching Vowel Combinations
Need some fun activities to augment your lessons on vowel patterns and phonemic awareness? Peruse a series of worksheets designed to help little ones with their early reading skills.
Bulgarian Creative Writing Competition
Creative Writing Prompts For Every Season and Month
Winter, spring, summer, and fall! Every season is covered in a 14-page list of writing prompts. Included are story starters, reflection questions, poetry topics, and more.
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La Comida!
What would you like to eat? Perhaps una hamburguesa? Teach your class eight Spanish words that relate to food with these cards.
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Synonym Trees
Pair learners to define synonyms. They search flash cards to find a synonym partner. Then they chart pairs of synonyms on a synonym tree.
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Alliteration Worksheet
Alliteration and imagery are two vital parts of any well-written poem. Encourage your young poets to include these devices with a set of activities designed to get them thinking, writing, and creating.
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Accent Marks & Special Characters in Spanish
Check out this clear description of how and when to use accent marks and special characters. The information, necessary to truly understand the purpose of special characters and accent marks would make a great reference material for...
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Spelling - Adding -ing to Verbs
In this language arts presentation, learners are coached on the proper ways, and proper times, to add -ing to a verb. Clear instructions, and engaging examples are embedded in each slide. A very good PowerPoint to use when teaching this...
Prestwick House
Writing Arguments in Response to Nonfiction
Emotional appeal or argument? That is the question. An informative lesson helps your class recognize the difference between a logical argument and an emotional appeal and learn how to craft an argumentative response. Writers develop a...
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Alliteration
In this alliteration worksheet, 4th graders write alliterations with their first names, find rhyming patterns in poems, and more. Students complete 4 activities.
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Advertisements
For this advertisements worksheet, 4th graders analyze and evaluate several advertisements for caring for cats and then design a poster that advertises the importance of a balanced diet for puppies and dogs.
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Alliteration
Third graders explore the use of alliteration. They discuss alliteration and examine various examples of alliteration in various stories. Students discuss the examples of alliteration and create their own examples of alliteration using...
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ESOL Transportation and Travel
Students copy and practice familiar transportation vocabulary words. They write senteces using contractions for simple directions. They listen to a traffic hews report and summarize the report in their own words. They compare and...
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Fluency: Read Irregularly Spelled Words
Third grade can be so much fun. Learners asses themselves as they read a variety of irregularly spelled words. They put the words they read correctly in the Yes pile and words they read incorrectly in the No pile. This lesson comes...
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Stressed Syllables in Spanish Words
Pronunciation guides really help beginning Spanish speakers. You don't have to know the word to know its pronunciation. Consider including a few words at the bottom and having your class underline where the stress belongs.
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Dinosaur Alliterations
In this alliteration worksheet, students review the definition and an example for alliterations. Students then write their own alliterations about dinosaurs and illustrate one of their examples in the box.
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"OU" O U Hurt Me!
Students explore the digraph ou=/ow/ in written and spoken words. They practice writing words with the ou=/ow/ digraph. Students match phonemes in words they hear. Students read The Napping House and identify words with the ou=/ow/ digraph.
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Theo and His Thirty Thirsty Brothers
Students recognize the digraph /th/ in both spoken and written words. They read and spell words containing /th/ digraph. They read "Changes in Seasons" by Eizabeth Sengel and make a list of the words containing /th/ digraph.
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Fly Away Into Reading
Young scholars complete repeated readings of the same passage in order to increase their reading fluency and comprehension. They listen as the teacher reads both with and without fluency to hear the difference. Working in small groups,...
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Syllables
For this syllables worksheet, students fill in the chart with yes or no after they read the clues about syllables. Students complete 16 sections in the chart.
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Speedy, Speedy Students Reading Fast
Young scholars review basic reading decoding. Given books at their independent reading level, they read independently and with several different partners to increase reading fluency. They see how many more words per minute they can read...
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I Like Me
First graders read the book "I Like Me" and then design a collage showcasing different things they like about themselves. They write in journals to reflect on this lesson.
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I Scream for Ice Cream!
Pupils determine that correspondences appear differently in different words. They discover the difference between long and short vowels and that these correspondences are spelled and pronounced differently. They review the i=/i/ and ...