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Using Primary Sources in the Classroom

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Scholars study a historical photograph to make predictions of what happened right after the picture was taken. They research a variety of different topics and use primary sources to answer questions about common food, fashion trends, and...
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What a Character! Comparing Literary Adaptations

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What do Robert Downey Jr., Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett, Fritz Weaver, Roger Moore, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Daffy Duck have in common? Why, it’s elementary, my dear Watson! They all have portrayed Sherlock Holmes. Literary detectives...
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Paleoclimates and Pollen

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Demonstrate for your earth scientists how plant pollen of the past has become part of sedimentary deposits, providing clues about ancient climates. Then give them simulated sediment layer samples to analyze for different types of paper...
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Does a Picture Always Say a Thousand Words?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read and discuss "Enigmatic Portraits of Teen-Agers Free of All Context," then choose a photograph and write a first-person narrative from the perspective of the subject.
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Can I have . . .

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this reading and matching their pictures instructional activity, students read descriptive phrases about capacity and draw lines to their pictures and then use words from the word bank plus rearrange words to create complete...
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Lesson 2: Fiction

For Teachers K Standards
What makes a book fiction or nonfiction? Kindergartners discover ways to find out if a book is real or made up. They examine a fictional picture book as a group and decide what clues help them decide. There is an independent worksheet...
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Biography

For Teachers 4th Standards
Familiarize your class with the genre of biography. After some direct instruction about biography, work together to discuss historical facts and significant events from A Picture Book of Anne Frank by David A. Adler. In order...
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Rhymes With Frown

For Students 1st
In this rhyming activity, 1st graders will complete four words to match the pictures clues of things that rhyme with "frown". Students must also say the word aloud.
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Long Vowels With Clifford

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners recognize long vowel sounds by reading and listening to a story that highlights words with long vowel sounds. They then construct an original story. They use picture clues to aid comprehension, and match words with similar vowel...
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Letter Recognition: Confusable Letter Pairs

For Teachers K - 1st
Students distinguish between easily-confused letter pairs such as b and d, p and b, m and w, and n and m. They read and listen to a story that highlights words containing the letter pairs. They use picture clues to aid reading...
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Dialogue: On Vacation

For Students 7th - 8th
Get into partner pairs to practice the two dialogues included here. Partner A asks a question, and the other partner responds using the pictures and vocabulary provided. Each partner gets to have a chance to ask the questions because two...
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Talking with Trees

Empathy

For Students K - 5th
Strengthen the skill to empathize with others with a worksheet that challenges scholars to match emotions—including happy, confused, sad—to one's body language.
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Hatchet: Vocabulary Strategy

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Want your class to use critical thinking when discussing vocabulary? Go beyond the dictionary with a vocabulary activity based on Gary Paulsen's Hatchet. Kids write the word in the center of a graphic organizer that also provides...
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Using Inference in Writing

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
What could have happened to a plane buried in snow? Have kids practice making inferences with a writing prompt for which they describe a photo without using specific key words.
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Lost Sheep Worksheet 2

For Teachers 2nd
In this picture clues worksheet, 2nd graders observe an illustration and answer 3 questions about the picture. Students must also draw a picture of their own family and label names.
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Verbs: Present Activities

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this present tense verbs worksheet, students determine synonyms for bolded verbs in sentences. Students choose eight multiple choice answers.
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One More, One Less

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this addition and subtraction worksheet, students solve 6 problems in which the number one is added or subtracted from other numbers in illustrated story problems.
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Silent Letter Game

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this silent letters worksheet, students play a Snakes and Ladders game, write words with silent letters, solve clues to words, and more. Students complete 4 activities.
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Phonics Skills: "igh" Sound

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this "igh" sound worksheet, learners examine 2 picture clues and identify the "igh" words that represent them. Students also read a textual clue and identify the "igh" word that represents it and think of their own "igh" word and draw...
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Phonics Skills: "ee" Sound

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this "ee" sound worksheet, students examine 2 picture clues and identify the "ee" words that represent them. Students also read a textual clue and identify the "ee" word that represents it and think of their own "ee" word and draw a...
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Alphabet Crossword

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In this creative alphabet awareness worksheet, pupils follow the picture clues going across and down to fill in the alphabet crossword puzzle.
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Initial Cluster - Str

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this spelling and grammar worksheet, students unscramble 5 words and match them to the picture clues. They write the correct word on the line under each of the clues.
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The Night Before Christmas Activity Card

For Students Pre-K - K
In this language arts worksheet, students respond to the book The Night Before Christmas by completing an activity at home. Students cut out the pictures on the page and glue them on top of the outlined word they describe in the poem...
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Language- This, That

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this word use worksheet, students read six incomplete sentences and study the picture clue for each. In each blank, students write either "this is" or "that is" to make the sentence correct. No rules are given and there are no examples.

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