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Intermediate Dialogues - Flu Shot
In this intermediate dialogue activity, students read a dialogue between a doctor and a girl about a flu shot. Students then answer 5 questions about the dialogue.
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Economics Dialogue
For this economics dialogue worksheet, students read aloud a dialogue in which questions about economics are asked and sample answers are given for each question.
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Dialogue: Travel
For this travel dialogue worksheet, students read aloud in pairs a dialogue about travel.
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Intermediate Dialogues--
This short reading activity is a quick way to have younger students practice comprehension skills. Learners read a conversation between two friends and then answer 4 comprehension and vocabulary questions.
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Dialogue: Science and Technology
In this dialogue about science and technology worksheet, students read aloud in pairs questions and answers about science and technology.
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Beginning Dialogues--"Do You Have Any Fresh Fruit?"
In this dialogues worksheet, students read a conversation between a green grocer and two children. Students then answer 4 multiple choice questions.
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Beginning Dialogues--"What Time Is It?"
In this dialogues worksheet, students read a short conversation about the time. Students answer 4 multiple choice questions about the text.
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Beginning Dialogues-- "Where Are My Keys?"
For this dialogues worksheet, learners read a short conversation between two students. Learners then answer 4 multiple choice questions.
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Reading Comprehension Unit Plan
A unit plan uses short texts to teach literary elements such as theme and characterization. Included are passages by authors such as Walter Dean Myers and Sandra Cisneros. Activities include quick writes, filling in graphic organizers,...
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Grade 5 Reading Quiz B
In this grade 5 reading quiz, 5th graders complete a 13 question multiple choice quiz covering a variety of grade 2 reading concepts.
Teaching Children Philosophy
Tiger-Tiger, is it True?
Scholars take part in a philosophical discussion about truth, thoughts, and feelings following a reading of Tiger-Tiger is it True? by Byron Katie and Hans Wilhelm.
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What's in a Name?
Build conversation skills for your English language learners in this spoken language development lesson plan. In it, learners listen to descriptions written by the teacher prior to the first day of class which include predictions about...
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: DR-TA Strategy
Making predictions is an excellent reading strategy. Work on building this into your pupils' toolkit of strategies by trying out the process outlined here for reading the very beginning of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. The...
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Log Canoes: A Chesapeake Bay Tradition
This activity uses a question and answer format to scaffold students comprehension of a short dialogue about the Chesapeake Bay and its tradition of log canoes. After reading the short passage, students are prompted to find three facts...
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Characterization Worksheet
Use any story with this characterization worksheet! On the first page is a graphic organizer that encourages the reader to look for examples of direct characterization. On page two, read about direct and indirect characterizations,...
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Food Myths Critical Thinking and Reading
Students read a series of statements made by students about the hazards and benefits of various foods. They distinguish the "facts: from "opinions" in the dialogue, summarize the facts in a short paragraph, and write an essay...
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Log Canoes: A Chesapeake Bay Tradition
In this reading comprehension learning exercise, students read a story about log canoes on the Chesapeake Bay and examine the dialogue between characters. Students use the dialogue between the characters to answer five short answer...
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Using Dialogue Journals in Support of Science Instruction
Students build a dialog journal within their science class. They develop written responses to questions asked by the teacher in a journal notebook. Teachers have the responsibility to read and respond to student responses.
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BBC Learning English, Determining Missing Dialogue
In this dialogue worksheet, students determine what words are missing from the conversation between Ellie and Alice. This exercise tests English language learners' contextual language skills.
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Study Jams! Light
Let there be light in your classroom with a video that explains that light travels in waves, the electromagnetic spectrum contains seven colors, and the color of an object depends on which light waves it reflects and absorbs. With...
K-State Research and Extensions
Water
How are maps like fish? They both have scales. The chapter includes six different activities at three different levels. Scholars complete activities using natural resources, learn how to read a map, see how to make a compass rosette,...
Federal Reserve Bank
The Story of the Federal Reserve: Middle School Lesson Plan
After reading the charming cartoon about the United States Federal Reserve, pupils often need to complete activities to retain their learning. The resource does a wonderful job of using class discussion and various written exercises to...
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Dialogue Disguises
Pupils read a story out loud to a partner and change their voices and expressions when depicting specific characters. In this language arts lesson plan, students focus on the person's voice who is reading to them, while keeping track of...
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James and the Giant Peach Character Study
Every book has a few great characters, but James and the Giant Peach is the only one whose characters travel in a piece of fruit. The class creates T-charts for the main characters of the novel, while reading the book. They write actions...