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Teaching Story Elements: Jack and the Beanstalk

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students define fictional story elements. In this reading comprehension lesson, students read Jack and the Beanstalk and view an included SMARTboard lesson. Students use the SMARTboard to match the story element terms with the specific...
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Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners create and write mini books.  In this Dr. Seuss lesson, students bring in their favorite Dr. Seuss book, share why it is their favorite with the class and write a paragraph explaining why they like it.  Learners create...
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The Froggy Page

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students investigate the cycle of life by observing tadpoles.  In this biology lesson, students utilize the Internet to read stories, observe pictures, and listen to sounds of frogs.  Students create a poster board collage...
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Word Problems

For Students 9th
In this algebra activity, 9th graders rewrite word problems into algebraic sentences. They define sum, difference, quotient and factors. There are 5 word problems with an answer key.
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The French Revolution

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore the events leading up to the French Revolution. In this World History instructional activity, 10th graders participate in a class discussion as the teacher shares a Powerpoint presentation, then the students...
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Alien Visitor's Rewrite

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners role play the role of an alien who analyzes how the media represents the different social groups. In groups, they write their own story in which they add or revise a character to make it non-stereotypical. They share their...
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Informal Writing 1

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine characteristics of informal writing. Students read through a class story. They rewrite the story so that it sounds if they were explaining the story to a friend. Students discover the use of apostrophes and...
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Writing Lyrics

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the themes and structure of a bluegrass song and identify the common themes in bluegrass music. They practice songwriting by rewriting the lyrics of "Oh! Susanna" as a bluegrass tune.
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Unit Lesson on The Gingerbread Man (Elementary, Reading/Writing)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students sequence the main events of the story, The Gingerbread Man, into chronological order and rewrite the story changing characters and settings.
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Informal Writing 2

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students explore characteristics of informal writing. They read a class story. Students rewrite the story in an informal style. Students discover that contractions and exclamation marks are used in the informal style.
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Charge and Defeat

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss traditional tools used by historians and archaeologists. They conduct a debate on the advantages and disadvantages of rewriting the past and discuss which side of the debate has the strongest case.
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Correlative Conjunctions

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students identify correlative conjunctions in sentences and then rewrite pairs of sentences as a single sentence with correlative conjunctions. They practice diagramming sentences of various sentence patterns and then write a personal...
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Direct Speech

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore characteristics of a good speech. They use speech marks to demarcate direct speech. Students read a report and rewrite it, using verbs that describe people speaking.
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Identifying Complete and Incomplete Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify complete and incomplete sentences. In this grammar lesson, students are shown examples of incomplete sentences on the board and rewrite them correctly. Students complete a worksheet as a follow-up activity.
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BASIC GRAMMAR REVIEW Using "Jabberwocky"

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners use the poem Jabberwocky to discover where they are weak in grammar. They rewrite the poem using standard dialect words instead of nonsense words.
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Unnatural Selection

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify quotation marks and demonstrate the uses of quotation marks. They rewrite sentences without quotation marks and discuss how the meanings can change without the use of quotation marks. In addition, they make their own...
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Guess the Age

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students rewrite word problems using symbols. In this algebra lesson, students rewrite equations graphically, algebraically and verbally. They relate the concepts to the real world.
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Past Tense

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Pupils explore the function of verbs when considering tense. They transform a text from future to past tense. Students read a story and discover it is written in past tense. In groups, pupils rewrite the verbs in the text to future...
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A Serious Question

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this creative writing worksheet, students read a poem about a kitten called "A Serious Question" by Carolyn Wells. Students rewrite the poem, filling in the blanks with different words on their own.
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Making Sense with Amelia Bedelia

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students listen to a read aloud of Peggy Parish's. Teach Us Amelia Bedelia and make a list of all of the phrases she misunderstood. They rewrite the directions for easier comprehension.
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Persuasion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers read various stories and write reflections in their journals. Using the text, they identify the techniques the characters used in persuading the reader or other characters in the story.They rewrite a fairy tale from the...
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Energy TV

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students rewrite the lyrics of existing songs using the different energy terms as the focus of their work. They break into four groups and form the name of a musical group. Using a tune from a popular group, students make up a song about...
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No, Not, Never Avoiding the Double Negative

For Students 2nd - 4th
For this double negative words worksheet, students correct double negatives within 4 sentences by editing and rewriting the sentences.
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Third Grade Works - School-Home Links

For Students 3rd
In this spelling worksheet, 3rd graders practice spelling 10 familiar words by folding a paper in three columns. They participate in a spelling quiz with an at home partner and rewrite the words that they missed in the quiz. They, along...

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