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Business Texts: Business Minutes
In this vocational worksheet, students write short answers to fifteen questions about meetings and minutes terms. They also rearrange eight meeting steps and describe them in their own words.
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Expository Paragraph
Upper elementary and middle school writers learn how to craft an expository paragraph by following the six steps detailed in a 48-page instructional guide. Learners learn how to write six different types of informational paragraphs: to...
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The Sand Horse
Fourth graders are introduced to the book THE SAND HORSE and discuss the title and cover illustration. They listen to the story listening for words and phrases to describe the setting. They then brainstorm key words to illustrate the...
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Descriptive Writing
Students discuss the importance of using adjectives in writing. They separate into five groups, each group is given a bag with an object inside to describe using just one sense. They write a description of a Hershey's Kiss using adjectives.
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Testing Tips Grades 2 - 6
This simple PowerPoint presentation outlines ten performance-enhancing guidelines for students who are about to take a test. Advice such as, "If you finish early, reread your answers," are included. This resource would be great to show...
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Characterization
A 46-slide presentation focuses on ways to describe characters in stories, how to create story characters, and how to show a character's personality in a student-created story. The colorful and engaging slides provide lots of great ideas...
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Writing a Story
A terrific and meaningful presentation on story writing awaits your class. This really is a good one! Young writers are led through a series of slides that do a terrific job of teaching story elements, but the slides also stimulate their...
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Pet Guess Who
Est-ce que ton animal grand ou petit? Pair up your beginning French speakers for a game of Pet Guess Who! Using pet advertisements from newspapers or the Internet, pairs try to guess what kind of animal their partner has. Also, use the...
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Word Roots 7: Spect, Sta, Vert Intermediate-Crossword
Given the clues, can you complete the crossword puzzle for words containing the Latin roots spect, sta, and vert? No word list is given, but using the answer sheet, you can provide your class with the list of words to choose from. This...
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ABC Grammar Book
Elementary learners create an ABC grammar book. The project begins with class members taking digital pictures of items that begin with each letter of the alphabet. Depending on level, they then add a word or a complete sentence to...
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Painting Places with Words Using John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men
Useful in an Of Mice and Men unit, or in a unit that focuses on descriptive writing, this activity prompts young authors to impersonate John Steinbeck's writing style in the opening passages of the novel. A Six Trait writing activity...
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Nonfiction Genre Mini-Unit: Persuasive Writing
Should primary graders have their own computers? Should animals be kept in captivity? Young writers learn how to develop and support a claim in this short unit on persuasive writing.
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The Old Man and the Sea: Questioning Strategies
Readers learn to ask questions about text with an activity based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. As they read, class members craft questions based on Bloom's Taxonomy and then find the answers themselves.
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Free Verse Poetry Rubric
Follow poetry instruction with a four-category rubric designed to guide budding poets' writing of free verse poetry.
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Adjectives and Adverbs
Young scholars identify adverbs and adjectives in an advertisement. In this adjectives and adverbs lesson, students complete several activities. A worksheet is included for practice.
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The Wyandotte Constitutional Convention: The Issue of Suffrage
Seventh graders discover details about the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention. In this Kansas history activity, 7th graders tackle civil rights concerns as they draft persuasive speeches to secure the rights of young voters in the state.
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Characters' Feelings Or Motives
Fourth graders use the text, "Fair's Fair" to examine how characters' feelings and motives are built throughout a text through descriptive phrases. They look at what a character does and says to record on their writing frames. Finally,...
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Modify My Action
Third graders listen to directions as they perform a theatrical role. In this vocabulary lesson, 3rd graders listen to and observe the adjectives given to them during a practice of their performance by the director. Students identify...
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Indirect Object Pronouns
Directly address the use of the indirect object pronouns with a instructional activity on how to locate them in sentences and worksheets that provide opportunities for practice using them.
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Choosing Between Affect and Effect
After reading a review of the meaning and usage of affect and effect, pupils complete a practice exercise to demonstrate their understanding of this tricky pair. An answer key is provided.
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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab
In this vocabulary worksheet, students decipher the best word choice to complete the sentence. All words begin with the letter "F."
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Vocabulary Multiple Choice- Worksheet 19
In this ESL advanced vocabulary worksheet, students read 8 sentences that have a missing word. From 4 choices of similar words, students fill in the word that best completes each sentence.
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Dictionary Skills
An online, interactive learning exercise provides plenty of practice with using the dictionary. Learners look up and complete or correct 22 compound nouns and adjectives. They connect definitions of words that have affixes to the...
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Latin Roots dict, duct, and vent: Crossword Puzzle
The website housing this crossword puzzle offers 8 activities to support mastery of vocabulary containing Latin roots dict, duct, and vent. No word bank is on the page with the puzzle, but the site has three levels of lists for each root...