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Scaffolding a Reading/Writing Lesson
Students explore pre-reading activities. Through looking at titles, and observing pictures, students predict what will happen in a story. They listen to a part of the story and then write their own conclusion. Students complete the story...
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Read This Book
Pupils practice summarizing a story that they have read. They write a persuasive essay encouraging others to read the story they have finished. They are to create a movie trailer or advertisement to promote the book.
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Time to 15 Minutes: Practice
In this reading clocks worksheet, students read the analog clocks in the first eight problems and write the digital time in the blanks. In the second set, students draw the minute hand to show the time on the digital clock. Students...
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Writing Headlines
Young scholars define the purpose of headlines and practice writing their own. For this news writing lesson, students define the elements of headlines and view examples. Young scholars read a news story in groups and create a headline...
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What Happens?
In this writing practice worksheet, students analyze 2 different pictures of Roy the Zebra and answer the questions below each picture. They then draw a picture and write what happens next in the story.
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Rebus Writing Using Nursery Rhymes and a Book
Students write nursery rhyme rebus songs. In this music lesson, students practice writing rebuses as a class. Students then create their own rebus based upon "The Bag I'm Taking to Grandma's".
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Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island: Lesson Plan 1
As a practice writing test, fourth graders use the West of the West's documentary Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island and two print resources as source materials for an informative article that identifies information that is...
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Should I Use “I”?
Despite the formal nature of academic writing, personal pronouns frequently appear in high school and college papers. While your first instinct may be to cross them out, sometimes it's okay to use them, an idea covered in a handout that...
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Writing and Reading Center #2: Sentence Combining
Still plagued by short, choppy sentences in the writings of your class members? Here's another practice set that asks learners to combine a series of short sentences into a single, more interesting one. Could be used as an in-class drill...
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A Novel Study Unit for The Cay
Novelly written questions are perfect for a novel study guide unit on The Cay. The well-rounded resource contains an anticipation guide for scholars to complete before reading, a variety of questions per chapter of the book, and a post...
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Beginning Reading: The Letter B
In this printing practice learning exercise, students read that "B is for butterfly" and practice writing both the upper and lowercase letter B four times. There is one example available for them to trace.
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Beginning Reading: The Letter J
In this letter recognition and printing practice instructional activity, students circle all the letters J and j they can find in a letter jumble. They then practice writing both the upper and lowercase letter J three times.
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Beginning Reading: The Letter F
In this letter recognition and printing practice worksheet, students circle all letters F and f that they can find in a letter jumble. They then practice writing the upper and lowercase letters F three times each.
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Reading Chemical Formulas
Students interpret basic chemical formulas. When class begins, students interpret a "chemical formula" for fruit salad. After they interpret the recipe, students use the same strategies to identify chemical formulas. They evaluate the...
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"Faster, Faster, Red Riding Hood!"
Students practice becoming fluent readers by recognizing words accurately, rapidly and automatically. They read and reread the book, "Red Riding Hood," by James Marshall and "Frog and Toad Together," from Scholastic, in pairs and with a...
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A Reading State of Mind
You can create and support student literacy skills through independent reading.
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Falling Apples
Students practice identifying individual sounds in words by interacting with the phoneme /a/. They recite the tongue twister, "Abby had an apple in the bag," and play the game beware of the falling apples. Each student also reads the...
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Reading Comprehension: Japan
In this reading for comprehension worksheet, students read a passage about Japanese Kendo and write answers using complete sentences. Students write 3 answers.
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Picture It: Teaching Descriptive Writing
There are many fun and effective ways to teach students to write descriptively.
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Reading Comprehension Worksheet: Food
After reading two paragraphs about food, students must answer 4 questions about what they have read. This is a great worksheet to practice reading comprehension, and would be very helpful practice prior to state testing. The writing...
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Reading Comprehension: Rainforest Logging
In this reading for understanding learning exercise, students read a passage about logging in the rainforest and write answers to comprehensive questions. Students write 4 short answers.
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Revise Your Punctuation - 2
Students explore various punctuation marks used in writing. In this instructional activity, students read an article on punctuation, then complete several exercises to practice what they learned.
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The Farmer's Apple Tree
On this number rhyme worksheet, students read a number rhyme about a farmer and his apples. They then color the 5 apples on the worksheet and practice writing the numbers 1 through 5.