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Growing Independence and Fluency Lesson: Ready, Set, Read Expressively!
Students practice becoming more fluent readers with fluency by assessing one minute reads and repeated readings. They also practice reading silently and then read the book, "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day,"...
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1st and 3rd Person
Sixth graders listen as the teacher describes the difference between the 1st and 3rd person. They then search through their literature books to find a story written from a 3rd person perspective and discuss why the story is in third...
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I'm Thankful I Can Summarize
Students summarize a selected piece od nonfiction text. After reviewing the correct way to read silently, students read a nonfiction article concerning Thanksgiving. They write a summary paragraph using the five step process outlined by...
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Become a "Summarizer"
Students practice reading a text and summarizing it for their classmates. As a class, they are introduced to various ways of summerizing material and use them to summarize two articles. They are asked questions to reinforce what they...
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Just "Itching" to Read More Fluently!
Students access how to decode words for meaning in text. They strive to read fluently with accuracy. Students read more fluently through utilizing one-minute reads of repeated readings, as the more a student rereads a passage, the more...
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Turning Literature into News
Students examine the newspaper. In this writing purposes instructional activity, students read the newspaper and discuss the purpose: to inform, entertain and persuade. Students identify facts and opinions. Students write an article and...
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Subject & Verb Agreement
In this subject/verb agreement worksheet, students choose the correct form of the verb to agree with the subject. Students complete 20 problems.
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Read Like Sonic the Hedgehog
Students investigate the benefits of rereading books to increase reading fluency and comprehension in this lesson plan. They practice saying site words orally as quickly as they can. They then work with a partner reading a story...
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General Grammar Exam
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 47 multiple choice questions regarding grammar skills. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Rockin' Map Summaries
Students summarize a piece of text. After reviewing the correct way to read and summarize, students work in groups to summarize a piece of text assigned by the instructor. They write a summary paragraph by creating a story map and the...
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Where are Grandma's Teeth?
Young scholars practice using prepositions and deductive reasoning. In this preposition game, students work in groups to determine where Grandma has lost her dentures. Young scholars eliminate places as clues are revealed.
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Parallelism
In this parallelism worksheet, students complete a total of 10 multiple choice questions. Worksheet is interactive or can be printed.
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Grade 4 Language-Basic 1
For this grade 4 language worksheet, 4th graders answer a set of 20 "basic" multiple choice questions. Answers may be submitted and checked on-line.
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Making A Match
Students read a poem containing sight words, then match word cards to the sight words in the poem. In this language arts lesson plan, students draw pictures next to sight words on a worksheet embedded in the plan. A good lesson for...
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Frog Or Toad?
In this expository comprehension worksheet, students read a 1-page informational article about frogs and toads, answer short answer questions, and fill out a Venn diagram to compare the two amphibians.
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Vivid Verbs
Pupils find vivid verbs in the story Thank You for the Thistle, by Doree Durston. They add vivid verbs to an existing story to make it more interesting.
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The Parts of an Insect
Students examine various insects. They discuss the parts of an insect and the environments in which they live. Students explore the importance of insects to our environment. They draw an interpretation of their insect and label its parts.
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I Want To Go To the Library
Students are introduced to the library as a resource to obtain reading material. After a review of the way to correct reading mistakes, students travel to the school library to select a book according to their reading level. They...
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Fast? Fluency!
Students attempt to increase their reading fluency through multiple reads of selected text. After reading, they complete a one-minute fluency drill with the instructor. Students complete questions on what they read with the instructor...
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Subject / Verb Agreement
In this subject/verb agreement worksheet, students read two pages explaining the proper use of subject/verb agreement when writing. They answer 12 fill in the blank questions based on the reading.
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Contraction Action
In these contraction worksheets, 3rd graders study the word combinations that make up contractions. Students complete 24 fill in the blank, 12 matching, and 5 short answer questions using the given contractions.
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Taste Treat Writing
Students use their 5 senses to write a paragraph about yummy treats they sample. In this writing lesson plan, students use a graphic organizer to organize their tastes and how they can write about them and then write.
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The Little Engine That Could
Young scholars read the story The Little Engine That Could and read companion stories, predict in a chart, work with rhyming and word families, and more. For this reading lesson plan, students take 5 days to read the book.
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Order of Operations
In this Algebra I worksheet, 9th graders use the order of operations to evaluate numerical expressions containing parenthesis and brackets. The one page interactive worksheet contains instruction, worked examples and ten practice...