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Spelling - Compacting (Grades 3-5)
Students use compacting when learning spelling words. In this spelling lesson, students take a pre-test on their weekly spelling words. Students who score 100% are exempt from spelling and those who miss 0-2 words compact their studying...
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One * Two * Three * Story
Second graders explore sequencing by drawing events of a story in order. For this sequence of events lesson, 2nd graders are read a story such as "The 3 Little Pigs", they recall the events from the fairy tale in order, visit an...
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Writing: Barn Raising
Young writers compare writing a paper to building a barn. They write a thesis statement using parallel construction and use transitions to hold the paper (walls of the barn) together. A barn raising video link is included; great for...
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Intermediate Review Quiz 2
In this language arts worksheet, students read 8 incomplete sentence and choose the best verb phrase to fill in the blanks. This page is intended for ESL students.
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Adverbs - Sentence Completion
For this grammar worksheet, 2nd graders write the correct adverb in each of 5 sentences using words from a bank at the top of the page. They use words such as carefully, sharply, and harshly.
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Synonym Surprise 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
In these five recognizing synonyms worksheets, students read short stories and use word banks to choose synonyms to replace the underlined words. Students rewrite 5 stories replacing 30 synonyms.
Film English
Fear of Flying
A bird that's afraid of flying? See what happens to this character when it's time to fly south. Over the course of the instructional activity, pupils discuss fears in general, share their fears, make predictions about the film, and view...
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My Grammar Booklet
Looking for a fun way to teach grammar concepts and terms to your elementary schoolers? Learners create their own grammar reference books with this resource! After cutting out each box and stapling them together to create booklets, young...
Nancy N. Boyles
Summary Frame for Story Text and Informational Text
Provide these templates as aids for pupils as they work to compose summaries of both stories and informational texts. The first two frames provide sentence starters to help learners structure their summaries and include all the necessary...
Novelinks
The Color of Water: Word Square Instructions
Immaculate, accumulation, dissipation. Vocabulary drawn from chapter 16 of James McBride's memoir, The Color of Water, can prove to be challenge for readers. To help kids understand the meaning of these words and what they add to the...
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1920's Magazine
What a creative and engaging project to incorporate into your studies of the 1920s! Your young historians will work in groups to design a magazine discussing the political and cultural topics of the decade, each member writing one...
Super Teacher Worksheets
Reading a Timeline
Practice reading a timeline with this two-page learning exercise that illustrates a fun week at summer camp and tests comprehension with seven questions.
Reed Novel Studies
The Indian In The Cupboard: Novel Study
Don't judge a book—or a toy—by its cover. Omri, a main character in The Indian in the Cupboard, quickly judged his plastic toy figures as boring. However, once placed in the cupboard, Omri's toys became something he never imagined....
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Grammar Practice: Parallel Structure
Help your young writers improve the clarity of their sentences by showing them how to create parallel structures as they construct sentences. Two exercises give kids practice identifying the correct parallel structure and crafting...
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Express Yourself
Youngsters practice retelling a part of their favorite Native American tale to a small group of their peers. Peer partners assess each others performances. To keep comments positive and constructive, consider giving your class sentence...
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Vocabulary Preview for Reading Passages
In this vocabulary worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 8 sentences with words from the word list. These have no theme or connection.
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Vocabulary Practice: Harder Words
In this completing sentences worksheet, students fill in the blank in ten sentences with the correct word from the word pool. There is no apparent connection in the words.
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Challenge: Skills and Applications Lesson 2.2
In this truth tables worksheet, students solve 5 short answer problems. Students make a truth table for five conditional statements.
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Yummy Division
Second graders watch as volunteers divide large paper M&Ms on the board. They divide M&Ms into groups and write division sentences to show understanding of division concept. They eat M&Ms.
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Clouds
Second graders construct the 3 types of clouds using cotton balls and write sentences describing them. In this clouds lesson plan, 2nd graders describe a cumulus, stratus, and cirrus cloud.
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Frantically Fragmented
Students practice changing sentence fragments into complete sentences.
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Numbers and Operations- 24
Students construct number sentences. In this computation lesson, students participate in a game using four numbers to make the number 24.
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Quiz 5A: Irregular Verbs (Group 3)_
In this irregular verbs worksheet, students write the past tense of 12 verbs and then use them to complete 9 sentences. These will be irregular verbs.
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Fragments
In this grammar instructional activity, students rewrite and finish each unfinished sentence by joining it to a finished sentence next to it with appropriate punctuation.