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Read Like Sonic the Hedgehog
Students investigate the benefits of rereading books to increase reading fluency and comprehension in this lesson plan. They practice saying site words orally as quickly as they can. They then work with a partner reading a story...
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Rain Forest Alliterations
The rain forest alliterations activity has students read about alliterations, then complete 4 alliterations about the rain forest and draw an illustration of one of them. The close with an acrositc poem with the words "rain forest."
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Homophone Jeopardy
Students are introduced and practice using words classified as homophones. Individually, they participate in a Jeopardy game in which they practice using different sets of homophones in sentences. They discuss the different situations...
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Higglety, Pigglety, Pop
Students engage in a instructional activity that is about the concept of reading comprehension while practicing the reading with the help of the teacher. They read the story focusing upon the rhyming words that could be used for vocabulary.
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Score With Fluency
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After a brief discussion of fluency and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
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Beginning letters
In this beginning letters worksheet, students write the beginning letters for 3 letter words by looking at their pictures. Students complete 5 words.
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Get to Know Your Neighbor
First graders accurately name letters with their phonetic sound. In this letter recognition activity, 1st graders respond to a question about summer when their name letter is called. Students describe a summer experience.
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Duke Ellington: Great American Musician and Composer
Students delve into the life and music of Duke Ellington as a major American musician and composer. The elements that made the sound of his orchestra unique and the talents of his band members are explored in this lesson.
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The Doubling Rule
Students practice the rule for doubling the final consonant of a word when adding a suffix. Through guided practice and class discussion, they identify the spelling patterns that require letter doubling. Students practice doubling by...
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Configuration Station #8
In this vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 5 commonly used words. Students alphabetize, find opposites, generate sentences, complete a word search, and illustrate.
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Letter Tag
Students play a chasing, fleeing, dodging freeze tag game while practicing identifying words that begin with a specific letters.
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"Quack Said the Billy-goat"
Second graders read the poem together, "Quack Said the Billy-goat" and discuss what makes the poem funny and which words rhyme. They observe the teacher writing a new first verse, changing some of the text, but leaving the original rhyme...
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Ready, Set, Let's Read
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed assessment of...
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Synonyms: Frogs
Students play this synonym review game. Using the list of synonyms below (or any others you have), call out a pair of words. Since the words are synonyms, the students hop like frogs to someone else's seat.
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School-Home Links: Short Vowels
In this short vowels with the same ending phonics instructional activity, students and their caregivers read 8 words and then write the 8 words in 1 of 2 columns based on the end sound of each word.
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SPOTTING THE PARTS OF SPEECH
In this grammar worksheet, 4th graders identify the parts of speech. Students study 20 sentences denoting if the underlined word is a noun, verb, or an adjective. Students then write 18 sentences using a given word in...
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Racy Readers
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After discussing the importance of reading fluently, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
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The Giving Tree
Students investigate the virtue of kindness and giving by conducting a children's literature study of "The Giving Tree". They make a list of words to describe emotions in the story and write a journal daily while looking at the virtues...
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The Language of Deception
Learners examine how to distinguish between different uses of language. They explore the difference between the cognitive meaning and the emotional meanings of a word. Each student evaluates the effects of euphemism in altering the...
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ESL What Time Do You Do Things Partner Worksheet
In this ESL time worksheet, learners tell the time that they participate in 7 different activities. They have a partner complete the same questions explaining things such as the time they leave home, arrive at school, watch TV, and go to...
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Nouns
In this nouns worksheet, students read 5 sentences and determine which noun in the word bank completes each sentence soundly and precisely.
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Worksheet 9: Vocabulary Review
In this vocabulary skills learning exercise, students complete 8 sentences by selecting the words from the provided list that are closest in meaning to the boldfaced words in the sentences.
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Misused Verbs: Sit/Sat/Set
In this misused verbs worksheet, students insert the words sit, sat, or set into the sentences. Students complete 10 sentences total on this worksheet.
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Finding Area
Fourth graders explore how to find the area of a rectangular object. As a class, they discuss definition of area and strategies for finding area. The teacher models finding the area of an object by counting squares. Students observe...