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Pre-AP Strategies for Spanish Literature
Take a break from vocabulary development and have your Spanish scholars immerse themselves in Spanish culture. What are common Spanish proverbs? In short sessions over the course of a few weeks, the class will learn about different...
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Days of the Week Printing Practice: Spanish
In this printing activity, students trace dotted lines to practice writing the days of the week in Spanish. Students then practice printing them on their own.
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The Preterite vs. the Imperfect
Students write their own original studenT story in the past in Spanish using the imperfect and the preterite after watching the teacher present the provided Power Point presentation on the differences in the uses of the two.
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Dia de la Raza - What is El Dia de la Raza?
Students research and write about Christopher Columbus, his voyages, and his impact on the Native Americans. In this Christopher Columbus instructional activity, students work at stations where they learn vocabulary, perform Reader's...
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May Writing Ideas
From Cinco de Mayo to Endangered Species day to National Hamburger Month, May is full of ideas to write about. Give young writers prompts that have everything to do with the month of May. Topics include writing a story, conducting...
Lexington High School
In the Time of the Butterflies Packet
Considering using Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies? Here's a resource designed to be used before and during a reading of her powerful story of the murder of the Mirabal sisters. Included in the packet is a vocabulary...
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President Theodore Roosevelt: Foreign Policy Statesman or Bully?
Can a negative perception of a president's foreign policy harm his or her historical legacy? A project that winds the clock back to the date of Theodore Roosevelt's death puts students at the editorial desk of a fictional newspaper....
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Writing: Narrative, Expository, Persuasive, and Descriptive
If you are interested in having a basic framework for teaching expository, narrative, persuasive, and descriptive writing, this resource may help; however, you will have to find information on the different forms of writing to share with...
University of New Mexico
César Chávez: Migrant Farm Workers and Their Leader
During the first week of instruction, middle schoolers research biographies on Cesar Chavez and make a pictorial collage of his life. For the second and third week, they maintain a seven-day diary of a farmworker and write a poem. For...
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The Present Simple-Daily Routines and Likes and Dislikes
In this daily routines worksheet, learners read paragraphs telling about two peoples days, likes, and dislikes. They work in partners to ask and answer twenty-four comprehension questions about each section.
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Viva Cinco de Mayo
Many people think Cinco de Mayo is the celebration Mexican independence, but they're incorrect. Learn about the battle of Puebla and the victory of General Zaragoza with a short reading passage that includes comprehension and vocabulary...
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How To Use The Internet To Do Comparison Shopping
Students learn about the community by engaging in a market shopping project. The lesson is for EL learners and key vocabulary is given. The teaching method is using the Spanish and English languages to increase literacy.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls Quiz
CliffsNotes has generated 15 multiple choice questions based on Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. Bring your class to the computer lab to check their basic recall of the story's events.
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Gap Fill Letter- ESL Verbs
In this ESL verbs activity, students read a friendly letter and fill in 24 spaces with a present simple, past simple or present continuous verb.
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What is a Noun? & When To Capitalize Nouns
Nouns are the focus of this language arts PowerPoint. Pupils will see that there are five categories of nouns: person, place, thing, idea, quality. The last two are not usually taught, but they are legitimate categories. When to...
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Capitalization
In this capitalization worksheet, learners learn about when to capitalize words in sentence writing and when not to. They then use what they learned to answer 12 questions. The answers are on the last page.
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Pronouns
For this grammar worksheet, students read twenty-three sentences and circle the correct pronoun in parenthesis. For example, "Your class was a treat for (we, us) students."
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Quiz--Conditional #4
In this completing sentences instructional activity, students complete 17 sentences by filling in 26 blanks with the correct form of the verbs in parentheses.
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Reading on the Farm
Second graders study farm life. In this writing lesson, 2nd graders listen to "Pigaroo" and write their own story about farm life.
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Astronomy
Students brainstorm about what they know about the solar system. They study a planetary fact sheet and create a Venn Diagram with the information. They work in groups to examine the names of the planets and information regarding each of...
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And, But, Because, So Exercise
In this ESL activity, students fill in blanks in sentences, choosing from and, but, because and so, 15 total. Answers are included on page 2.
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Who Where They?
Pupils associate explorers with specific discoveries. They apply research skills to inquire about the explorers. Students switch roles with the instructor for the class to demonstrate what they have learned.
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Verb Tense Exercise 28
In this online interactive grammar skills activity, students answer 10 fill in the blank questions regarding the use of future continuous and future perfect continuous verbs. Students may submit their...
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Easter Pop-Up Card
In this activity worksheet, students color, cut, fold and paste a picture of the Easter bunny to make a card. Teachers are given a brief history of the holiday and traditions associated with it.