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Core Knowledge Foundation

Unit 3: Adventures of Don Quixote

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders explore the Adventures of Don Quixote in a four-week language arts unit. Scholars listen to and discuss a new chapter each day as well as examine vocabulary and practice word work including suffixes, subject-verb agreement,...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Hare and the Water: A Tanzanian Folk Tale

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
"The Hare and the Water," a Tanzanian folk tale, lends a global perspective to literary analysis. Learners spend the first two days reading and storyboarding. On day three, they examine folk tale elements (worksheet included), and design...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Who's Who?

For Students 3rd
For this reasoning worksheet, 3rd graders read and analyze two sets of clues to figure out where 6 people will set on a spaceship in the first set of clues and which pet belongs to which person in the second set of clues.
Worksheet
Curated OER

A Place for Each Number

For Students 3rd
In this number sense worksheet, 3rd graders look and analyze 4 different shapes joined together with a box of specific numbers next to them. Students read 11 clues and place each number in the right shape.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Vocabulary Enricher-literature Circles

For Students 5th - 7th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students are given a table to fill out as they encounter unfamiliar words in a reading book. They use this chart to share during a book club/literature circle setting.
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Novelinks

The Crucible: Questioning Strategies Bloom's Taxonomy

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Enrich your unit on Arthur Miller's The Crucible with a list of reading questions based on Bloom's Taxonomy. Kids answer questions and provide context for the knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and...
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Student Handouts

Classroom Newsletter Template

For Students Pre-K - 5th
Need a straightforward tool for communicating with parents? Use a newsletter template to jot down what you're working on in class for the week, It includes fields for concepts kids are learning in class, birthdays, books kids are...
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Novelinks

Sense and Sensibility: Anticipation Guide Reading Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Begin your discussion about Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility before you even open the book. Kids fill in a worksheet that lists five statements about the literary themes of the novel, and then discuss their opinions as a...
Unit Plan
CJ Hatcher & Associates, Inc.

Skill Building with the Newspaper

For Teachers 5th - 12th Standards
Extra, extra, read all about it! Use a newspaper as the primary resource in a special education classroom to teach reading, writing, and math skills. The activities help class members build their reading skills as well as their...
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Andrews McMeel Publishing

POW! A Peanuts Collection

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
Make a study of Charles M. Scultz's famous comic strip Peanuts in your language arts class. Class members read and discuss the baseball-themed book POW! A Peanuts Collection. After talking about themes and vocabulary, they complete...
Worksheet
Scholastic

Food To Go

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Molly Mouse and Woovis the Dog are hungry! Can you help them order from a menu with a $5 bill? Kids read five word problems and use the menu to determine what the friends can order.
Lesson Plan
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Failure: Seeds of Innovation

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!" Through this assignment, emerging engineers examine how failed experiments are simply part of the process of an outstanding design. They begin with some reading about the microwave oven,...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Running Out of Time: Vocabulary Strategies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Review concepts and terms after reading Running Out of Time. Learners each come up with a few terms that they think are important and then participate in a list-group-label exercise, paying close attention to the two main years featured...
Worksheet
LearnEnglishFeelGood.com

Article or No Article?

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Determine where an article should appear in a sentence with a grammar learning exercise. Individuals read ten sentences and place the, a, or an in the space provided, or note that no article is needed.
Lesson Plan
Literacy Design Collaborative

Existentialism and Kafka

For Teachers 10th Standards
Scholars read Kafka's The Metamorphosis and research for essays and articles on existentialism. After gaining information and evidence from their research, pupils write essays defining existentialism and its relationship on the work...
Lesson Plan
Media Smarts

Unit Two: Celebrities and World Issues

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Develop media smarts by considering the power of celebrity involvement in world issues. A look at the work of such celebrities as Angelina Jolie, Oprah, and Bono prepare learners to develop their own media campaign for a global...
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WE Charity

High School–Module 2: Circular Economy and Nature

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Everyone's heard the popular slogan reduce, reuse, recycle, but there may be a better way to talk about sustainability. Using the second lesson plan from the five-part WE Are Innovators—High School Modules series, learners explore issues...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Comparing Loads- Problem Solving Multiplication Enrichment Worksheet

For Students 2nd
In this multiplication enrichment instructional activity, 2nd graders read short word problems before writing the multiplication number sentence that represents each problem. They write the products that answer each question.
Worksheet
Curated OER

The Sun

For Students 7th - 9th
Based on chapter 23 of the Glencoe science textbook, this activity provides learners with a table of observed sunspots and the years in which they were observed. Students then answer a series of questions about the above information,...
Interactive
Curated OER

Sheets Island Archipelago

For Students 5th - 8th
In this Sheets Island worksheet, students read about the controlling of the Sheets Island, look at a map of it, and answer short answer questions. Students answer 4 questions.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The No Thanksgiving Read Aloud

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate a story with the theme of The Thanksgiving holiday. The teacher reads the story to the class. The story is meant to help students to think of things they are thankful for. Students share the ideas in either...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Seedless Plants- Ferns- Enrichment Worksheet

For Students 10th - 11th
In this seedless plants enrichment instructional activity, student read about the history of ferns, their habitat, size, and structure. They draw a fern and label its parts including the fronds, pinnae, sorus, and rhizome.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Enrichment Activities - "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH"

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders read the novel "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH." They discuss the various characters in the book, and the different types of conflict that take place within the book. They also research owls and rats to make comparisons...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reading the Biography

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore the lives of famous Americans. For this biography lesson, students read biographies about famous Americans and keep reading journals as they read about setting, main events, and character sketches.

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