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ESL Holiday Lessons: Get a Different Name Day

For Students 7th - 11th
In this language skills learning exercise, students read an article about Get a Different Name Day. Students respond to 6 matching questions, 29 fill in the blank questions, 30 multiple choice questions, 12 word scramble ...
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ESL Holiday Lessons: Australia Day

For Students 6th - 10th
For this language skills worksheet, students read an article about Australia Day. Students respond to 6 matching questions, 29 fill in the blank questions, 30 multiple choice questions, 12 word scramble questions, 30 short answer...
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ESL Holiday Lessons: Bike to Work Day

For Students 6th - 10th
In this language skills worksheet, students read an article about Bike to Work Day. Students respond to 6 matching questions, 29 fill in the blank questions, 30 multiple choice questions, 12 word scramble ...
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Vocabulary Practice: Present Activities

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this vocabulary and reading skills activity, students complete 10 sentences by selecting the appropriate words and phrases. Each problem may have more than 1 answer.
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Listening to the Prairie

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, in groups, visit an exhibit and for a prairie scavenger hunt to locate sunflowers and name products made from them. After sketching a prairie dog, they find nature cues farmers use when growing plants and raising animals. The...
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Speaking and Listening

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this basic mathematics learning exercise, students follow instructions as given to play a math game. They listen for detail in explanations and narratives in various contexts. Students also provide feedback and confirmation of what...
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Listening for Meaning: Same Sound

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students listen to a taped conversation to help them learn the meaning of the contraction "d" with the words "had" and "would".
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Test Your Speaking and Listening Skills: Role Play-Shopping: ESL

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this ESL role playing worksheet, learners role play taking merchandise back to a store. Students read 9 lines of script, a conversation between 2 learners.
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ESL Reading Comprehension-"Gang Violence Increases in Sao Paolo"

For Students 6th - 8th
In this ESL reading comprehension worksheet, students read or listen to an article, then complete a variety of warm up and before/after reading activities. Homework suggestions are also given.
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Musical Imagery

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students experience musical imagery. They link this musical concept to literary imagery to gain an understanding of the use of imagery in both genres. After listening to a varriety of sounds, students will compose and perform a melody.
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Tradebook Activity

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students listen to the story The True Story  of the Three Little Pigs and explore a variety of questions related to conflict resolution. In this trade book activity lesson, students listen to the teacher ask a variety of higher...
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The Apple Pie Tree

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read The Apple Pie Tree and discuss the story and talk about what was living in the tree.  For this life comprehension lesson, students write the main idea of the book in a few sentences. 
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Multi-cultural, The Butterfly

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders discuss The Butterfly. For this literacy lesson, 6th graders write two postcards about the issues of the Holocaust from the two different perspectives of the two girls from the text.
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Tumbling and Movement

For Teachers K - 1st
Students perform basic tumbling activities.  In this movement lesson, students practice tumbling and balancing moves while listening to music.  Students are "frozen" into place while in certain positions.
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Animals Project for German Students

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Who doesn't love animals? Young learners will be excited to develop their vocabulary and categorize animals into different lists. This includes a fun extension activity that encourages the older learners to create a PowerPoint...
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Parachute Skills

For Teachers K - 6th
Flutter, dome, mushroom, tent, jell-o, popcorn, volcano, floating cloud, and mashed potatoes. What do these terms have in common? They are all things to do in a parachute activity. Check out this activity, the pictures included with the...
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The Cure: Guided Imagery

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Prepare class members for a discussion of Sonia Levitin's dystopian novel The Cure, by leading them on a guided imagery exercise designed to encourage visualization of written descriptions.
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Tic Tac Toe Do's and Don'ts

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders listen as the counselor reads statements. They receive a tic-tac-toe worksheet and complete it with two different color crayons. Students look at the overhead projector and check their tic-tac-toe game card. They discuss...
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.3

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Tired of simple sentences? Bored by brief sentences? Plagued by boring sentences? Enrich your life and the writing of your pupils by modeling how to combine sentences to create more varied syntax. Groups then find a number of ways to...
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The Odyssey Lesson 1

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore Greek mythology. For this ancient culture and introduction to The Odyssey literacy lesson, students complete a worksheet accessing their prior knowledge about Greek mythology. Students listen to a passage about the...
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Money

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students speak and listen to different prices of items and complete a worksheet. In this prices lesson plan, students circle the correct prices on a sheet they are given based on the ones their teacher calls out.
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The Flatmates Episodes 76 & 77: Writing an Advert

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Young scholars analyze and write their own advertisements. In this media lesson plan, students study vocabulary and make predictions as they complete worksheets and activities based on advertising.
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Patience

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to the story New Shoes for Silvia by Johanna Hurwitz. In this literacy lesson plan, 1st graders do a picture walk and answer who, what, when, where and why questions. Students answer multiple questions focused...
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LISTENING TO DIRECTIONS

For Teachers K - 1st
Students view farm objects or products made from farm animals and follow the oral instructions given by the teacher. They are given worksheets, there are three sets of directions for the one worksheet. Students worksheets have everything...