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Exploring the Mystery Genre
Students determine the story elements of typical mystery stories including characters and plot structure. They look at vocabulary that is common to mystery stories before reading and responding to mystery chapter books. Working in guided...
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Big Snowball Fight
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Big Snowball Fight. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have discussions,...
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Big or Little
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Big or Little, . In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, go over vocabulary, answer short answer...
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Consonant Blends
For this consonant blends worksheet, students use picture clues to identify words from a word bank, write the word under its picture, and circle the blend. Students write six answers.
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Homographs
In this recognizing homographs worksheet, students observe boxes containing picture clues, two incomplete sentences, and two choices of answers. Students fill in the 9 blanks with the correct homograph choices.
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Words That End in "--tch"
In this language arts worksheet, students investigate words that end with "--tch." Students read a 2 page story about an angry wife who ends up at her own surprise birthday party. Students mark the "--tch" words. Then students complete a...
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Traveling Through Literature
Integrate geography with literature in this interdisciplinary instructional activity. Begin by reading a poem such as The Time We Climbed Snake Mountain by Leslie Marmon Silko. On a large map, place push pins in the cities or states...
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Short Vowels
Learners will create a list of short vowel sound words and participate in computer phonics activities to practice. They will read an interactive storybook online. Next, they will complete words in order to better understand short vowel...
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Early English Settlement
Fifth graders encounter the TCI History Alive Assessment. Create a rubric together with other students. Use graphic organizers to brainstorm challenges that one would face attending school in a foreign country.
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Figurative Language
Here's a richly detailed unit, designed for second graders, that focuses on decoding figurative language, including similes, metaphors, personification and idioms.
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Dress up a T. Rex
Scholars play with an image's color and brightness to predict how tyrannosaurus rex's skin, feathers, and eyes would have appeared. Information and real-world pictures shed light on what evidence guides our assumption of how a...
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What am I puzzle - 32
In this clues activity, 2nd graders read the sentences and solve the clue to what the sentences are describing. Students read 3 sentences and look at 2 pictures.
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What I am Puzzle - 15
In this clues worksheet, students read the sentences and solve the clues for the item described. Students look at 2 pictures and decide what the sentences are describing.
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What i am Puzzle - 20
In this clues worksheet, students read the sentences and solve the clues to what they are describing. Students choose between 2 pictures.
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What am I puzzle - 24
In this clues worksheet, students read the sentences and solve the clues to what picture the sentences are referring to. Students complete 1 problem.
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What I am Puzzle - 27
In this clues worksheet, students read the sentences and solve the clues for what the sentences are describing. Students choose between 2 pictures.
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What I am Puzzle - 28
In this clues worksheet, students read the sentences and solve the clues to what they are describing. Students choose between 2 pictures.
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What I am Puzzle - 35
In this clues worksheet, students read the sentences and solve the clue for what the sentences are describing. Students choose between 2 pictures for what the sentences are describing.
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What I am Puzzle - 49
In this clues worksheet, students read the sentences and solve the clue to what they are describing. Students complete 1 problem where they choose between 2 pictures.
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What I am Puzzle - 17
In this clues worksheet, learners solve the clues for what the sentences are describing. Students choose between 2 pictures of what the sentences are.
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Using Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom
Students explore ways to use technology. They create pictures with Kid Pix software to describe something about themselves. They create pictures os something they did over the summer and write sentences to accompany their pictures. They...
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What I am puzzle - 5
In this clues worksheet, students read the sentences to identify what they are describing. Students read 2 sentences and look at the pictures to figure out what the item is.
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Easy to Read
Students compare reading passages in paragraph form to book form. They determine that the reading passages on the state assessments are no more difficult than the books they choose to read. They turn their favorite books into reading...
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Fraction Clue Box
Students distinguish between proper and improper fractions. They create a "Character Clue Box" that represents a fraction. Fractions are picked from a hat and then groups go outside and search for items that represent their fraction....