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Reading: TV, Hamburger, Obesity Gene
Students examine the problem of obesity and fast food. The class is divided into two groups, and read different text. They hold a town hall meeting in which they discuss whether a fast food restaurant should be opened in the town.
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Can, Be Able To Worksheet
In this ESL vocabulary worksheet, students read 12 sentences in which there is a missing phrase. Students fill each space with "can," "could," or "be able to."
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Functions On Saturday Night
For this language expressions worksheet, students read 10 sentences that could be "overheard on a Saturday night." Students categorize these statements according to the function involved: apologizing, inviting, suggesting, agreeing,...
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The Westing Game: Chapters 1-4
In The Westing Game chapter questions learning exercise, students complete a series of short answer questions over chapters one through four to advance their understanding of the text.
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Verb Review 1: Present/Past
In this verb tense worksheet, students fill in blanks using the correct form of verbs in parentheses to complete a total of 10 sentences, then complete the same activity for short paragraphs.
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Quiz 1: Similar Words and Homonyms in Sentences
In this confusing words learning exercise, students complete a ten question, multiple choice on-line interactive quiz. Students read two sentences with similar or confusing words in bold type. Students choose and mark the sentence that...
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Exploring Life in Jamestown Settlement
Third graders examine life in early colonial settlements. Students investigate what settlers ate and create a menu for a fictitious restaurant in a settlement.
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Exploring Life in Jamestown Settlement
Students research a historic timeline and other texts to explore life in the colonies and the Jamestown settlement. Students investigate what the settlers ate while in the colony. Students prepare foods similar to colonists' foods.
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What Happened??
In this past modals of deduction worksheet, students read a statement, such as "There is a bird in a locker room" and discuss what may have happened to create this improbable situation. Students us past modals of deduction in their...
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Changes In Town
In this ESL reading worksheet, students read a passage about the changes and improvements that have been made in a fictitious town. Students answer 8 true/false questions about the passage.
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Relative Pronoun Gap Fill
In this ESL pronouns worksheet, students read and analyze a friendly letter that has missing words. Using the relative pronouns from a word bank, students fill in the spaces.
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City Quiz Series
In this ESL worksheet, students answer 20 questions about Iron Gate, Derby. For example, "Name a shop that sells musical instruments."
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Understanding by Design
Fourth graders examine the origins, structures, and functions of the Colorado government. In this understanding by design lesson, 4th graders explore the three branches of government. Students identify the roles of state leaders and...
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Newspaper Articles
Although brief, this presentation provides valuable practice for pupils in the reading and understanding of various newspaper headlines. They make predictions of what's happening based on the headline itself. Very nice!
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Idioms Quiz: Body 3
In this online/interactive recognizing idioms worksheet, learners read idioms about the body in isolation and in context to find their meanings. Students choose 10 multiple choice answers, click the "Answer" button and the "More about...
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Fall in Love with the Library of Congress
Introduce your class to this special library while simultaneously addressing the Common Core State Standards.
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Study: Largest Wealth Disparities in 25 Years
The New York Times has produced an article specifically geared to its younger readers. They read an article entitled, "Largest Wealth Disparities in 25 Years" to answer six comprehension questions. They'll be asked who, what, where,...
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The Sinking of the Titanic
Investigate the sinking of the Titanic with young scholars. They will read actual documentation from the Titanic and answer questions. They will then draw conclusions from the pictures they see and information they read.
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Menus
Students explore different styles of writing. In this writing lesson, students look at menus to get an idea of how many different types of writing there are. Students create their own menus and add border and clip art.
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Time word problems
In this time worksheet, students complete time word problems. Students complete problems involving clocks, lengths of time, and definition of time vocabulary.
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Gerund or Infinitive
For this gerund or infinitive worksheet, students change the verb to either the gerund or the infinitive ending. Students answer ten fill in the blank questions.
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Direction Prepositions
In this online interactive English vocabulary skills worksheet, students respond to 10 questions that require them to fill in the blanks in sentences with the appropriate prepositions.
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Intermediate Sentence Completion: 18
In this sentence completion learning exercise, students fill in the blank for the correct word for each sentence. Students complete 10 multiple choice questions. Click on "show all" to see the rest of the learning exercise.
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Descriptive Writing Fortunes
What does your fortune say? Engage class members in writing complete sentences by first handing out fortune cookies and reading the messages. Pupils will practice writing complete sentences by composing fortunes to put in die cut fortune...