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Making Inferences: Reading Between the Lines
Have you ever read part of a story and had to figure out what the rest was about? Practice making inferences with several short passages and multiple choice questions.
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Ella Fitzgerald Biography Mini-Unit
Before there was Beyonce, before there was Madonna, before there was Cher, there was Ella. Introduce Ella Fitzgerald, The First Lady of Jazz, with a reading comprehension exercise that presents a brief biography of her life and then asks...
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Giants of American Music
In this music learning exercise, students match a description with the following composers: George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, John Philip Sousa, Leonard Bernstein. Students also reflect on why they are called Giants of American Music.
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Choral Music II
In this music worksheet, students look at a map of the world and find the places where the Santa Fe, New Mexico Desert Chorale has traveled. There is little information about music on this page.
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Reading: Jamaican Bobsledding Team, Part 1
In this reading for information learning exercise, students read a text about Jamaica and its bobsledding team. Students answer 10 true and false questions.
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New Year's Eve
In this New Year's Eve worksheet, students complete activities such as read the passage, match the phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, multiple choice fill in, correct the spelling, put text in correct order, unscramble...
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Worksheet 4. Reading: Jamaican Bobsledding Team, Part 1
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read the passage titled Jamaican Bobsledding Team, Part 1. They then answer the 10 true/false questions about the reading.
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Jay Chou: Famous People (ELL Assignment)
This 13-page assignment was designed for English language learners and includes a one-page reading on the Taiwanese entertainer, Jay Chou, and 10 activities/exercises that address listening and reading comprehension, speaking, vocabulary...
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Tennessee Vocabulary
For this recognizing proper nouns about the state of Tennessee worksheet, students read the names in the word bank and match them with their descriptions. Students match 10 answers.
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Louis Armstrong
In this reading comprehension worksheet students read a biography of jazz musician Louis Armstrong. Students answer 6 questions.
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Opera Seria
In this opera movie soundtrack worksheet, students read a 1 paragraph description of opera seria and then use the dialogue from the film Speed to help them determine what music is appropriate to add to the film based on the style of the...
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Choosing a Situation
In this ESL worksheet, students read 60 scenarios. In each scenario, students choose which situation they would prefer and why.
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Maniac Magee Comprehension Questions
Supplement your Maniac Magee lesson plans with a packet of student materials. Included here is a variety of questions about the text. Pupils complete multiple choice and short-answer questions and choose from a variety of extension...
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Word Meanings from Context 2
In this word meanings from context activity, learners read 4 short passages that have a word in bold type. From 4 choices, students select the best meaning of each word in context.
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Be ready for your English exam
In this reading worksheet, students read each line and at the end of the line they write "correct" if the line is correct and if there is a word that should not be there, they write that word. Students complete this for 15 lines and then...
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Settling Down in a New Country
In this immigration activity, 3rd graders discuss factors of moving to a new place. Students read quotes, view pictures with descriptions and pretend to interview a migrant.
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Sentence Variety and Modifier Placement
In this sentence variety worksheet, students learn that modifier placement can make sentences more interesting. Students read 10 sentences and add an initial, mid-sentence or terminal modifier as directed. This is an on-line interactive...
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Ancient Greece
In this Ancient Greece worksheet, students read a 3 page article on Ancient Greece, answer 3 facts about Ancient Greek with multiple choice answers, answer 4 statements as true or false and answer 4 fill in the blank facts about Ancient...
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Three Stop Metro Maze
In this metro learning exercise, students use logic to complete a puzzle. They read given situations and then determine the correct route on the metro that meets the criteria. This one-page learning exercise contains 1...
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Idioms Quiz: Law 1
In this online idioms quiz worksheet, students read the example idioms about law used in the sentences. Students select the best answer to complete the 10 online exercises.
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Venus Williams
In this famous person worksheet, learners read a passage about Venus Williams and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym...
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Worksheet 3/7 on Verbs
In this recognizing verb usage in sentences learning exercise, students read groups of three sentences with the same subject and predicate but different verbs and identify the sentence that uses the verb correctly. Students write 7 answers.
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Coming Home from the life of Langston Hughes
In this Coming Home from the life of Langston Hughes worksheet, students read the book Coming Home from the life of Langston Hughes and answer short answer questions about it. Students complete 10 questions total.
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Fun Facts About China
In this China worksheet, students read 5 facts about China and look at a map, then write 2 "fun facts" about China on lines provided.