Newberry Elementary School
Kindergarten Worksheet
Give a kindergarten resource sheet to the parents in your classroom to help them track their kids' progress. Activities that kindergartners should master include identifying letters of the alphabet, numbers, colors, shapes, and parts of...
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Oprah Winfrey Opens New School in Africa
Students locate Africa and share their knowledge of the continent, then read a news article about Oprah Winfrey building a school in South Africa. In this current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a discussion and...
Media Smarts
Bias in News Sources
As young consumers of media, it is important for high schoolers to explore concepts of bias and prejudice, and how they may be present in media. After discussing ideological messages that media can contain, individuals complete a warm-up...
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Synecdoche vs. Metonymy: Definitions
Ask your class to lend their ears, and eyes, to a short video that defines and offers examples of synecdoche and metonymy. Whether it be brand names like Kleenex® and Band-aids® that have come to stand for all the products in a category,...
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Conditionals: Verb Tense in “If” Clauses
"If you give a mouse a cookie, then he's going to ask for a glass of milk." These iconic words from Laura Numeroff's classic tale offer a great example of conditionals, a topic covered in the handout as part of a larger writing series...
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The American Flag and the Pledge of Allegiance
Students create an iMovie about what they have learned about the American flag as a conclusion to an eight-day unit.
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Negative Prefixes
Although only three slides long, this presentation does a good job in introducing negative prefixes to upper elementary writers. Pupils are encouraged to use a dictionary and a thesaurus in order to help them come up with the proper...
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The Kite Runner: Kite Making and Poetry Reading
Readers of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner select 100 words from chapters five and six of the novel, use these words to create a found poem, and then attach their poem to a kite that they construct.
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Whose Is It? (Pronouns and Antecedents)
Define and explore pronouns and antecedents. Young writers read and complete a worksheet using pronouns and correct antecedents. The worksheet is not included but can be easily found online and then dispersed as homework (insert evil...
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Time Expressions with Hacer
The verb hacer has many purposes in the Spanish language, one of which is as part of time expressions. Your class can learn how to use hacer in the preterite, present perfect continuous, and past perfect continuous to express different...
Penguin Books
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Engage readers of Gulliver’s Travels with a series of worksheets that include pre-reading activities, vocabulary exercises, comprehension questions, and close reading checks. Designed for younger learners, the focus of the packet is on...
101 Questions
Oversize Tires
Big vehicles require some big tires. Given a picture of a flatbed hauling a large tire, scholars discuss and estimate the size of the tire. They then use information and video about the tires to estimate the height of a vehicle that uses...
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Curricula Vitae (CVs) versus Resumes
The term curricula vitae might sound more sophisticated than the term resumes, but that doesn't mean it's the preferred document to send to potential employers. As explained in a handout on curricula vitae (CV) versus resumes, part of a...
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Vocabulary Practice: Complete the Sentences With Words From the Word Pool
In this vocabulary worksheet, students analyze ten sentences that have missing words. Students complete the sentences with the correct words from the word list.
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Celebration Symbols and Their Meaning
Students develop a symbol that represents something they wish to celebrate or include in a celebration of their choosing.
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Using the Proper Article: Three Little Words A/An/The
In this proper use of articles learning exercise, students information about using a/an/the in writing. They underline the articles in 8 sentences.
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Showing Nature's Way-Plant Development and the Plant Parts We Eat
Students explore plant life. In this science lesson plan, students demonstrate and record the stages of plant growth and categorize food plants by identifying the edible part.
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Expressing Future Time, Part 2
In this similar meanings worksheet, students read a sentence and analyze its meaning. From three choices, students match the sentence that has the same meaning.
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Biodiversity Word Walk
Students visit grounds where hidden letters are revealed. Once the hike is finished the jumbled letters are pieced together to spell a single theme word. The word offered here is Diversity, which at nine letters, means nine stops.
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Chapters 4 and 5 of Holes by Louis Sachar
In this reading response worksheet, students complete 10 questions or activities about Chapters 4 and 5 of Holes by Louis Sachar.
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Math Vocabulary Multiple Choice Words Worksheet
In this math vocabulary worksheet, students complete multiple choice problems where they match the correct math vocabulary word to its definition. Students complete 15 questions.
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Holidays: Thanksgiving (Part 1)
In this grammar worksheet, young scholars read sentences about Thanksgiving and choose the best word to fill in the 11 blanks. Students are given two choices.
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Working with Principal Parts: Chapter 1
For this Latin vocabulary worksheet, students select the Latin version of five verb phrases. Students are presented with the English version of a phrase and four possibilities of Latin translations.
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Word Problems
Students solve word problems using mathematical symbols. In this algebra lesson, students collect data and analyze it. They analyze the data using a table or graph after plotting the data.