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English - "Once Upon a Time" - Storytelling

For Students 4th
In this storytelling worksheet, 4th graders fill in 17 missing words without looking at the story. After the students read the story again aloud in pairs, the students complete a matrix on how well each student reads the story aloud.
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Reciprocal Teaching: The Migrants

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use techniques involved in Reciprocal Teaching: predicting, clarifying, questioning, summarizing, and visualizing. They use these reading strategies while reading "The Migrants."
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Intermediate Dialogues - "Wait for Me!"

For Students 4th - 5th
In these dialogues worksheets, students read the dialogue conversation. Students then answer 4 comprehension questions and 4 vocabulary questions.
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Reading and Spelling Activity

For Students 5th - 6th
In this Language Arts worksheet, learners read a short text and answer 8 questions. For example, students choose the correct spelling of the word excited.
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Verbs Ending In "S"

For Students K - 1st
In this verb forms worksheet, students read six illustrated verbs that all end in "s". Students write the words and bracket the "s" at the end.
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--ace Family Word List

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this --ace word ending worksheet, students read a list of 13 words that end with the --ace pattern. There are no questions to answer; this is a word list.
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Energy Levels, Electrons, and Ionic Boding

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Learners see how electrons are transferred in the bonding of NaCl. They then create models of NaCl using styrofoam balls and toothpicks to assist them in explaining the formation of ions and ionic bonding. 
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Maus: Bingo Vacabulary Strategy

For Teachers 10th - 12th
The definitions for unfamiliar words drawn from Art Spiegelman graphic novel memoir, Maus, provide the clues for a vocabulary bingo game. 
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The Weather

For Teachers 6th - 12th
What's it like out today, and what do you plan to wear? These are the two main topics for this Italian lesson. By the end of the plan, pupils should have a grasp of basic weather and clothing terms as well as a general understanding of...
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Japan Communication

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The Japanese communicate in very different ways than people in the US. Using three essential questions as a guide, learners look at different scenarios (included) and compare customs seen here and there. All the materials you need are...
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Night: Socratic Questioning Activity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
We construct meaning through discussion, so help your readers of Elie Wiesel's work Night with a socratic questioning activity. The strategy is outlined on the first page, and the second page offers some example questions you give to...
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.5: Structure of an Argument

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Imagine a cross-curricular project that not only rewards learners for examining the textbooks used in their other classes but builds literacy skills as well! Groups compare the formats and writing style in their various textbooks. Teams...
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Express Yourself Lesson Seed 17: Obituary

For Teachers 6th Standards
The Cay has been criticized by groups such as the Council on Interracial Books for Children because of the way race is portrayed. Explore the argument against the book while taking the author's perspective into account. Class members...
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Knocking Down Fences

For Teachers 3rd
After reading The Other Side and guiding children through a picture walk, third graders investigate evidence of the civil rights movement. In the mini unit, 3rd graders analyze photographs of the past and make connections...
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Test Book 2-Grade 8 (2010)

For Students 9th - 11th
Get ready for state testing with this resource, which focuses on listening and writing skills. While a complete description of the writing assignment is provided here, the listening portion is not included. You could use the graphic...
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Quote the Raven...'NeVeRmOrE'

For Students 8th - 11th
What does the raven say and do in the poem by the same name by Edgar Allan Poe? Test your readers' understanding of the raven and the narrator's thoughts and actions with this multiple-choice quiz.
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Touching Spirit Bear: Individual Learning Packet

For Students 6th - 8th
Whether using Touching Spirit Bear in the classroom, as an outside reading assignment, or in a homeschool situation, your readers will benefit from this eight-page packet of essay and discussion questions, vocabulary lists, and reading...
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How Characters Get What They Want

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders analyze the primary force that drives a character's actions in a character analysis lesson. For this character analysis lesson, 6th graders analyze how characters present their actions and participate in a group activity...
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Formal and Informal Language

For Teachers 7th - 12th
“C u l8r @ skool.” As part of a study of formal and informal language, class members examine excerpts from Lil’ Boosie lyrics, the Emancipation Proclamation, a speech by Martin Luther King. Links to the resources not provided; however,...
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The Spread of Enlightenment Ideas

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Looking for a simple and straightforward reference on the Enlightenment for your young historians? Check out this list of key terms and important figures from the period, followed by a traditional assessment where your learners will be...
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Novel endings

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore writing techniques. They investigate stories and their endings. Students discuss good ending tips. Students write a story about a main character overcoming a problem and write a good ending.
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Understanding to Read and Describe It

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, with hearing disability, practice vocabulary building strategies. In this vocabulary strategy lesson plan, a student practices sight words using word cards. The student verbalizes a sentence with the new words while the...
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Fun Fonix: Say it. Write in the th, qu, or wh. Read it.

For Students K - 1st
For this phonics worksheet, students demonstrate their knowledge of the concept by responding to 12 fill in the blank questions. Students say the words represented in the pictures, write th, qu, or wh at the beginning or ending of the...
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Fun Fonix: O the Words from the Readings

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this phonics activity, students demonstrate their knowledge of the concept by responding to 4 multiple choice questions. Students read a short passage then circle the words from the readings.