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Home Sweet Home: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 5)
Home Sweet Home is the theme of a unit comprised of extra support lessons. Scholars reinforce concepts through chants, grand discussions, and practice worksheets. Topics include digraphs, blending phoneme, long vowels, final sounds,...
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Make Your Own Einstein Stationary
No need to be an Einstein for this project! Clever crafters add their name, address, and country to three Einstein-themed templates and create their own, personalized stationary. A great way to stay connected while social distancing.
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Presenting Your Case
Students research a famous person of their choice in this lesson. They research the person's life, feelings, and character through a series of written activities. They compile their research into a creative project called a character's...
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Create an Illuminated Alphabet Word Book
Students create a class alphabet book or "ABCDarium," a book that uses images of animals or objects to illustrate each letter of the alphabet.
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Energy Dreams by Design
Students explore a new home and design some of its electrical features. They construct a model of the electrical features and consider accessibility for the handicapped into the room. In groups, students analyze the advantages and...
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Introduce /M/
Students study letters. In this pronunciation lesson plan, students discover what the letter /m/ looks like and what sound it makes. They work as a class on various activities to identify the letter /m/ and the sound it makes in words....
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Reintroduce /C/
Students view a letter card and pronounce words that begin with that sound. In this /c/ lesson, students look for letter /c/ randomly placed on a chart.
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Introduce "th"
Students explore language arts by participating in a pronunciation activity. In this word sound lesson, students discuss the sound made by the letters /th/ and identify words where that sound appears. Students participate in a game in...
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Editorial Writing: What's On Your Mind
Students write an editorial column for a newspaper. For this journalism lesson, students discuss and analyze editorials in print and broadcast media. Students will compare the differences in these two formats of editorial...
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Using Multiplication to Solve Problems
In this multiplication instructional activity, learners complete a total of 10 multiple choice questions, clicking on a link to print page or view answers.
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Phonics: Short Vowel U
In this phonics short vowel U worksheet, learners look over six pictures, pronounce each one, find the actual word from the word box and then write the actual word for each picture on the lines provided. Students put an X on the picture...
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Creating Hate: The Power of Words
Learners explore why authors choose to use hate words in literature. In this power of words lesson plan, students complete group participation, journal entries, and written assignments to investigate the use of inflammatory...
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Something's Missing
In this vowel sound game worksheet, students insert the missing vowel letters into the dental words. Students try to complete the worksheet in two minutes.
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Secret Code from Squigley-- A Man's Unexpected Gift
In this language arts worksheet, students analyze the key to a secret code which has all the alphabet letters and a symbol underneath. Students solve the secret code. There is a graphic of a man holding up a pair of boxer shorts with red...
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Create An Illuminated Alphabet Word Book
Learners develop a class alphabet book. In this visual arts lesson, they draw a letter of the alphabet that is illustrated with animals or objects in the style of medieval illuminated alphabet books. They write a sentence about an object...
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Introduce /A/
Students say the sound for the letter a, reviewing the position of the mouth and voice box. For this phonics lesson, students brainstorm other words that begin with the /a/ sound and choose the letter from a set of 12, continuing...
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Reintroduce /A/
Students review the sound /a/. In this phonics lesson, students practice the sound, touching their voice box to make sure "it is on." Students say the sound when the teacher points to the letter among a set of 12.
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Reintroduce /J/
Students say the /j/ sound, following teacher modeling and review words beginning with the sound. In this phonics lesson, students select the letter j each time it appears in a set of 12 letters and practice saying its sound, remaining...
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Phonograms
In this phonics worksheet, students read four sentences and listen and look for the sound of the given letter. Students circle the singular phonogram in the sentence and draw a picture about each sentence.
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Rise of the Modern City
Students analyze art that depicts the modern city and the effects the modern world had on artists. In this art analysis lesson, students view examples of modern city art and answer questions for each example. Students research Derain's...
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Homophones: Elementary Word List
In this language arts worksheet, students select the correct word to complete each of 9 sentences. Students read each sentence and from two choices, select the appropriate homonym to complete the sentence.
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Globe Lesson 5 - Latitude - Grade 6+
In this latitude worksheet, students read a 3-paragraph review of latitude and respond to 12 short answer questions.
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Exponents
Ninth graders solve problems involving exponential functions. In this algebra lesson, 9th graders apply their knowledge of exponential properties to add, multiply, divide and subtract exponential functions. They perform these operations...
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Angles Everywhere
First graders find angles in their classroom. In this geometric figures lesson plan, 1st graders identify, describe and classify angles they see in their world. Students create pictures that contain angles and display them in the room.