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Worksheet
Curated OER

Over and Under: Learning Position Words

For Students Pre-K - K
In this instructional activity on position words, students practice learning over the under. Students cut out a set of small pictures, then place them in the appropriate place on a larger picture of a tree. Pictures logically belong...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Positional Words Assessment

For Students 2nd
In this positional words worksheet, 2nd graders complete an assessment pertaining to positions words. Students read or are dictated specific directions to draw on the page in relation to the pictured objects. Example: Draw a face inside...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Picture the Word

For Teachers K - 1st
This is an excellent way to make onset and rime visual for beginning readers. They examine CVC-word picture cards that are all missing the first letter. Using plastic letters (or whatever you have), they complete each word and record it...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Plane

For Students K - 1st Standards
Prepositions are the focus of this grammar worksheet. Kindergarteners view the positional words over, under, behind and beside. They make a book about planes and read the words. Students color the pictures.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Phrases And Picture Card Matching

For Students K - 2nd
In this language arts instructional activity, students use 16 phrase cards and 16 color picture cards to play a matching game. Students read the phrase on each card and find the picture card that illustrates it. Example: a cat on a bed
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Real-World Positive and Negative Numbers and Zero II

For Students 6th Standards
Continuing from the previous lesson in the series, scholars learn to use positive and negative integers to describe real-world situations. In groups, they come up with their own situations for given positive and negative integers. 
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Curated OER

Positive/Negative Bugs

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Bugs can be creepy - and fun! Kids create a positive and negative design by repeatedly drawing a simple insect overlaid with a geometric shape. The outcome is really neat and will help build spacial reasoning, visual acuteness, and...
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Lesson Plan
Novelinks

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: Picture Book Strategy

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Picture books aren't just for primary learners. Your scholars compare and contrast literary themes between the novel, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, and the children's book, The Dream Tree by Winfried Wolf through...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Reading Phonetically: /an/ words

For Students K - 6th
What do the words van, man, and pan have in common? The /an/ sound! Reinforce this target sound with this resource, intended for an audience with autism or other special needs. Your learners will see an image and the corresponding word,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Relative Position Step-by-Step Lesson

For Students K
Kindergartners demonstrate their ability to describe the relative positions of two objects. The two problems at the top of the instructional activity are followed by written and illustrated explanations of the meanings of inside and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Inside, Outside, and Between

For Students K - 1st
In this preposition activity, students review the concepts inside, outside, and between in pictures and sentences. Students practice writing the three prepositions on primary lined paper.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Above and Below

For Students K - 1st
In this identifying above and below worksheet, students read sentences, observe pictures, and write the words above and below on primary paper lines. Students write two words.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nature Walk: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 2)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Walking in nature is the theme of a unit designed to support English language development lessons. Scholars look, write, speak, and move to explore topics such as camping, woodland animals, instruments, bodies of water, things found at a...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Syllable Patterns, Picture It In Syllables

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars practice blending syllables by playing a matching game. Pairs flip two cards and blend syllables; if they create a word, the player writes it on a worksheet; if not, the cards return to the collection.
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Activity
Novelinks

Words by Heart: Guided Imagery

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Sad, depressed, miserable, inconsolable, forlorn: so many synonyms have a lot of variety with their connotations. Through the guided imagery activity, writers explore the use of connotation and its influence on imagery and description by...
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Activity
Mrs. Burke's Math Page

The Amazing Pi Race

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Add a sense of excitement to your math class with this race across the country. Using their knowledge of all things circular, young mathematicians work in pairs answering a series of pi-related word problems as they hop from one city to...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

English Language Grammar Worksheet: Preposition Grammar Worksheet

For Students 1st
In this grammar learning exercise, 1st graders look at five different pictures and use positional words to answer 5 questions about where the objects are located.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Inserting Text - Word Processing Lesson Plan

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Upper graders practice the skills of inserting text and images into a word document. After a demonstration, students are allowed to practice at their own computer station. At the end of the lesson plan, examples of the documents produced...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Rhyme Memory Match

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars play a memory-matching game to practice recognizing rhyming words and sounds. With picture cards, they flip over two cards and say the pictures' names. If the pair make a rhyming match, the learner keeps the cards. The...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Setting the Tone with Figurative Language

For Teachers 8th Standards
Explore figurative language with your secondary class. Extending a language arts unit, the instructional activity prompts middle schoolers to examine how an author's word choice establishes a story's tone, possibly using metaphors,...
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Brain Parade

See.Touch.Learn.

For Students Pre-K - 6th
Here is a great app that has tons of potential in helping your child or student with severe to moderate autism, or other intellectual disability, learn words and concepts using research-based methods. Children with autism or PDD NOS have...
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Activity
Curated OER

Phonological Awareness, Phoneme Manipulating, Phoneme Position Sort

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Scholars make new words out of old ones by manipulating phonemes. Pupils mix and match initial, medial, and final phonemes to change words like cap into cup or head into bed.
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Manipulating, Phoneme Swap

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Reading readiness can be a fun skill to foster. Scholars manipulate phonemes to change one word into another. They pick picture cards, say the object's name on the card, then change the final phoneme to create a new word. They then find...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Train Phonics - /an/ Words

For Students K - 6th
Follow the phonics train and get your special needs class on the reading track. To promote the /an/ sound and phonemic awareness, each page contains an image of a train, and each car contains an item. The word representing that item is...