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Picture a Business
Students create helpful books about local businesses to show what resources are available to their community.
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Racy Readers
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After discussing the importance of reading fluently, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
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Mapping Out A Summary
Students summarize a selected piece of fiction text. After reviewing the correct way to read silently, students read a chapter in the novel they are currently reading. They write a chapter summary using a story map and the process...
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To Sum It All Up...
Students one main goal when reading is to comprehend, and one strategy to improve reading comprehension is summarization. As students begin reading expository texts, it is vital for them to be able to pick out and summarize the main...
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Cinderella Man Activity Worksheet and Progress Test
In this Cinderella Man activity and progress test worksheet, learners respond to a total of 22 short answer, multiple choice, matching, true/false, and fill in the blank questions pertaining to Cinderella Man.
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Determinants of Supply and Demand Worksheet
In this economics worksheet, students respond to writing prompt questions about supply and demand issues in the world economy today.
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Adjective Worksheet for Middle School
In this grammatical skills worksheet, students respond to 19 short answer questions that require them to locate and identify adjectives.
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Employer - Employee Expectations
Students role play for job expectations. For this job planning lesson, students work in groups to write a help wanted ad. They discuss the expectations of the employer and the employee.
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ESL Writing Lesson - Using Non-Defining Relative Clauses
Students review the differences between defining and non-defining clauses, and then go on to a writing exercise which employs non-defining relative clauses to expand a basic story outline.
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Descriptive Prompt
Young scholars create a detailed self portrait, and then write about their appearance.
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Score With Fluency
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After a brief discussion of fluency and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
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It's All about Expression
First graders practice rereading selected passages to improve their reading fluency. Working in pairs, 1st graders read and reread decodable, leveled passages. They create a tape recording of their reading to assess their fluency and use...
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Hit a Homerun with Reading Speed
Learners review basic reading decoding/comprehension. They read passages and see how fast they can read the pages. In a baseball-like game, they try to read faster and faster. If they improve their fluency rate, they increase their...
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Ee is for Eggs
Students learn to write upper and lower case DeNelian letters Ee for this printing practice worksheet. Students trace several examples, write letters, color, and count eggs.
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Ee is for Egg
In this literacy worksheet, learners use the letter E in various contexts to increase letter recognition and spelling skills for related words.
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"Bats on Parade" by Kathy Appelt
Students examine numbers and try to find a pattern in their relationship. They write an algebraic expression for the nth term.
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Fact and Opinion Detectives
Third graders see how to distinguish facts from opinions in a child's news magazine. After a lecture/demo, 3rd graders utilize a sample story and a worksheet which gives them practice in distinguishing fact from opinion.
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Action Words
Young scholars discover that a verb is a word that expresses an action. Students at this age might find it more accessible to use everyday terminology, such as doing words or action words.
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DNA Extraction
Students participate in a lab activity in which they extract DNA from a strawberry. After mashing the strawberry into an even, smooth puree inside a bag, they add extraction buffer and mix the strawberry with the buffer. They filter...
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The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (Letter 26)
After reading Letter 26 of The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, learners provide definitions for vocabulary words and answer 8 reading comprehension questions about what they read.
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DNA Extraction
Learners extract the DNA from a strawberry. In this DNA technology lesson, students describe what they think DNA looks like. They use a procedure to isolate and extract the DNA from a strawberry.
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Juan Bobo Sends the Pig to Mass
Students read the story Juan Bobo Sends the Pig to Mass and complete language arts activities connected to the story. In this language arts lesson plan, 1st graders complete activities including discussion, reading, writing,...
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Loath vs. Loathe
In this English grammar worksheet, students understand the differences between the usage of the words "loath" and "loathe." Students read the definition of each and the given examples before taking the online interactive exam.
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ACE Expert English Homework Week 4- May 31, 2006
In this ESL instructional activity, students complete the activities on 9 pages that pertain to emotions and adjectives that describe feelings. Included are matching, multiple choice, and short answer questions. These are geared toward...