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Using Aphorisms to Help Dealing with People
Here's a formal plan for what many effective teachers already do: Provide a week's worth of aphorisms and have learners choose one to write about in their journals each day. They reflect on the meaning of each aphorism and project how it...
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Build Mastery: Making Inferences
Do your youngsters realize that they are constantly making inferences? Expose this inner process by bringing out the book they will be reading. Ask scholars what they think the plan is, and explain that their answers are the product of...
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Ways Twitter Makes You a Better Writer
Practice being concise. Exercise your vocabulary. Improve your editing skills. The contention in this instructional activity is that by imposing a 140 character limit, the Twitter format actually helps improve writing skills. And of...
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Summarization Superstars
How do you read when you know you're going to be summarizing a text? Summarize a nonfiction text with your upper elementary schoolers. Your pupils independently read a nonfiction article and write a summary paragraph using the six-step...
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How to Integrate Quotations
Quotations add validity to an argument or an analysis, but how do you integrate them into your writing? Several examples are provided, and your emerging writers will surely benefit from looking at different ways to add quotations....
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Ww is for Window
In this printing learning exercise, students form 11 upper and lowercase letter W's. Students color in pictures of words beginning with the letter and write two row of W's on their own.
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Ww is for Window
For this printing instructional activity, students form the upper and lowercase letter Ww. Students also color in two pictures that begin with the letter W.
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Perimeter: Practice
In this perimeter worksheet, students find the perimeter or the missing length for each rectangle. Students then complete the chart by writing the formula and finding the perimeter. Students finish with two test prep questions.
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Five E Lesson Plans For Math
Students use the Five E method to solve problems. In this Five E lesson plan, students complete math lessons using the Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate technique. They use the Five E's with lessons on tessellations,...
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Mat 0024 Section 1.4: Signed Numbers and Decimals
This activity has a little of everything. Compare fractions, determine if numbers are less than, greater than, or equal to. Then practice lining up the decimals to add and subtract decimal numbers. Then multiply decimals remembering to...
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Reading Practice: Winnie-the-Pooh
Whether your first graders can read or not, they will enjoy this comprehension activity. They read or listen to an excerpt from a Winnie-the-Pooh story, they predict what will happen next, then draw Pooh Bear's favorite food. A compare...
Facing History and Ourselves
Choosing to Participate Posters
"A poster exhibit to encourage dialogue, engagement, respect, and participation in our communities..." This is a set of attractive posters that reference influential historical figures, such as George Washington and Albert Einstein, and...
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Introduce /W/
Students say the /w/ sound, following teacher modeling. In this phonics lesson, students select the letter w each time it appears in a set of 12 letters and practice saying its sound, remaining silent when another letter is pointed out....
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Home Spelling Practice: Compound Words
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell 20 words in a list that are compound words. Some spelling words have hyphens. Students write each word one time on the lines.
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Home Spelling Practice: Grade 4: Silent Consonants
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of 20 words that have silent consonants. Students write each word one time. There are at-home spelling activities listed that students may complete.
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Home Spelling Practice: Grade 4: Schwa "er", "or"
In this spelling learning exercise, students learn to spell a list of 20 words. All words have the "er" or "or" ending sound. Students write each word one time on the lines. There are additional at-home activities listed.
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Home Spelling Practice: Grade 6: Prefixes
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell 20 words in a list. All words contain prefixes. Students write each word one time. There are additional at-home activities.
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Add & Subtract Fractions w/Unlike Denominators, 2
Students use several examples to create a method for adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators. They present these methods to the class and then practice applying methods to sample problems.
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Home Spelling Practice: Grade 4: Contractions
In this spelling learning exercise, students learn to spell a list of 20 words. All words are contractions. Students write each word one time on the lines. There are additional at-home spelling activities listed.
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Home Spelling Practice
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of 20 words. Students write each word one time on the lines. Students may choose a spelling activity from the list of suggestions.
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Home Spelling Practice: R-Controlled Vowel: "ur"
In this spelling learning exercise, students study a list of 20 words that have the sound of R controlled vowel "ur". Students write each word one time on the lines.
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Home Spelling Practice: Abbreviations
For this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of 20 words and their abbreviations. Example: package (pkg). Students write each set one time on the lines.
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Home Spelling Practice: Compound Words
For this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of 20 words. All are compound words spelled with a hyphen. Students write each word one time. There are additional at-home activities listed.
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Home Spelling Practice: Long I, Long O
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of 20 words. All contain the sound of long O or long I. Students write each word one time on the lines.