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Holy Mole

For Teachers K
Students discover Mexican culture by reading and cooking.  In this Central American History lesson plan, students read the book Holy Mole, and analyze the story by answering questions about plot, characters and even sound effects...
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Valentine Singing/Guessing Game

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students sing songs and explore different vocal sounds. As they sing songs, students discover and mark phrases. They sing songs as a class, in groups, and individually. Students, in groups, play a guessing game with the songs.
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World Music Tour

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this music worksheet, students identify and describe what world music is and where it comes from. They also create words that start with "uni" meaning one. Finally, students practice reading and drawing the notes on the sheet.
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Open Up and Say /o/

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to a variety of words to see if they can recognize the /o/ sound. They use letterboxes and letters discovering that each mouth moves gets its own box practicing forming words with the /o/ vowel sound. They then read...
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Quiz 5A: Indefinite Pronouns / Some and Any

For Students 4th - 5th
In this pronouns activity, students complete 22 sentences by inserting an indefinite pronoun in the blank. The pronoun choices are: some, any, something, anything, someone, somebody, anyone, anybody.
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"Leap, plashless": Emily Dickinson & Poetic Imagination

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine different poems from Emily Dickinson. They practice listening for meter in the poems and make connections between the texts. They also practice their own creative writing skills.
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Tap on the Map

For Students 1st Standards
Work on -ap words with a straightforward exercise. Class members read a short poem that includes plenty of -ap words and respond to three included reading comprehension questions.
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Aaaa! Don't Scare Me Like That!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice saying each letter of the alphabet to determine the different sounds from each letter. As a class, they are given a tongue twister to practice making the "a" sound and spelling the words. To end the lesson, they...
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Sizzling Sausage

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the sounds of the alphabet. They practice making the /s/ sound. Students repeat tongue twisters. They write words with the /s/ sound. Students read a book about sounds and their spellings.
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OWL Makes Reading Fun!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study the sound the 'ow' makes by picking out words on a poster that contain the sound and by listening to 'Mr. Brown Can Moo Can You?' They raise their hands each time they hear a word with the 'ow' sound. Next, they find...
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Archeologists For a Day

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students listen to a reading about fossils and go on a hunt for items with fossil characteristics.  In this cross curricular fossil lesson, students will examine their fossil finds and create a graphic organizer.  Students...
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Long Vowel A Words

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this identifying words with the long "a" vowel sound worksheet, students read three lists of words and identify the ones that contain long "a" sounds. Students circle 11 words.
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Using Data from Sensors

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Beginning with a discussion about using technology to collect data, this resource includes a video about the next Mars rover as an example. Young scientists are taught that filtering is necessary before collected data can be analyzed....
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A Rat's Life

For Students 3rd - 5th
Here is a two-page worksheet on rats and mice. Learners answer nine true/false questions about rats and mice, then compose answers to seven short-answer questions about these two rodents. Finally, they must compose a fictional story...
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The Tone Map

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Poems are meant to be heard. Hearing a poem being read enriches one’s understanding of the tone and mood of the piece. Introduce your class to the sounds of poetry with a packet that not only details how to use poetry recordings in the...
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Sneeze Cheese

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study the /ch/ digraph by thinking of the sound that is made when someone sneezes. They listen to a tongue twister while identifying how many times they hear the /ch/ sounds and make words using the Elkonin boxes and letters....
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Beautiful Noise Poetry

For Teachers 5th - 8th
"What a beautiful noise comin' up from the street; got a beautiful sound, it's got a beautiful beat..." Use Neil Diamond's "Beautiful Noise" to guide your class through a Six Trait writing activity, in which they write an original poem...
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The Silent "e"

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this silent "e" worksheet, students look at twelve words, say them to themselves and hear the sound that the vowel makes in each word. Students then write down their own meaning for the word or match from the definition bank provided...
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Reading the Waves

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students view video segments which reveal the parts of sound and what factors control sound. The viewing and post-viewing activities serve to reinforce the video segments using worksheets and hands-out experiments.
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Isabelle the Icky Iguana

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice the sound and spelling of the short vowel /i/. They identify the short /i/ sound in spoken and written words. The tongue twister "Isabelle iguana is in her igloo," and "Tin Man Fix It," along with Elkonin letter boxes...
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Literary Terms

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Seriously, 93 slides of literary terms? Yes, and well worth the time, although perhaps not all at once. The beauty here is in the concise, easy-to-understand definitions for such well-known terms as imagery and personification, as well...
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Phonemic Awareness: Pronunciation of /ng/ Consonants

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students practice cononant sounds within reading passages. They articulate the /ng/ sounds and identify their placement in words. Working with a partner, they read a passage aloud and listen for correct pronunciation of sounds.
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Hickory Dickory Dock

For Teachers K - 1st
Students pick out the sounds and -ck written in words. They are taught how to correctly say the sound with their mouth and read Hickory Dickory Dock. Words with the ck sound are underlined for the student's to notice. As an...
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The Little Red Hen

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students review the of "The Little Red Hen," to make sure that they comprehend that the hen's three friends were the cat, the dog, and the goose. They experiment with character vocies. Students are asked how the gossipy goose would...

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