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Home-schooling Chronicles - Unschooling

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Attitudes vary about unschooling, but everyone can learn something from the practice.
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Initial Consonant Clusters

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this literacy instructional activity, students look for the words that correlate to the pictures that are listed. They are all words that are consonant clusters.
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Vowels

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this grammar worksheet, students read ten sentences where the vowel is missing in some of the words. They put the correct vowel in the space to make each sentence make sense. Students also identify whether each word is a short or...
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What's Your Expression

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore facial expressions in a mirror and create drawings of people with a facial expression of their choice. They graph the facial expressions drawn.
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Nounmania and Verbmania

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students illustrate as many nouns and verbs as they can in a limited amount of time. Students review all the words that they came up with. They help each other figure out which ones were right and wrong. Students make a new list of nouns...
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Initial Consonant Clusters 3

For Students 11th - 12th
In this ESL worksheet, students analyze word and picture cards. The worksheet focuses on using consonant blends tr, pr, dr, and gr at the onset of words. Students also practice reading words that contain "ee" and "ry."
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Publishing a Group Book

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students examine various alphabet books. They write several sentences for their assigned letter of the alphabet, type them onto a word processing program, and create an illustration for a class alphabet book.
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Initial Consonant Clusters -1

For Students 1st - 3rd
For this literacy worksheet, students find the words to complete the crossword puzzle. They are focusing on the concept of consonant clusters.
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Proofreading: Lesson 8

For Teachers 8th
Teacher reads the material that is printed in boldface type inside the boxes aloud to the students. Information in regular type inside the boxes and all information outside the boxes should not be read to the students. Possible student...
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Publishing: A Persuasive Essay

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders are given an opportunity to create a visual to accompany their presentations of their persuasive essays. They may use the computer or other media as resources.
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To Whom It May Concern

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders produce and peer edit typed rough drafts of the business letters following the guidelines illustrated in the Eight Essential Parts of a business letter and save to disks. They complete the Where's the Math? scavenger hunt...
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What Interests You?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate math in the real world using internet search methods to locate career fields of interest. They select an occupation, and draft brief paragraphs that reflect insight as to why that occupation interests them.
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What's So Good About Popcorn?

For Teachers 1st
First graders use a thinking map to organize a paragraph. They write and edit their paragraph about popcorn and type the final copy on the computer.
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Survival Story

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students discuss the pros and cons of being deserted on an uninhabited island. Then they write their own survival stories and complete a story jacket.
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Community Brochures

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders research facets of their community in order to create an informational brochure. After brainstorming ideas of what could be included in the brochure, student groups get information from the internet, the library or a...
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Rock Hounds

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read Byrd Baylor's book "Everybody Needs a Rock", and select a rock, study it, and describe its attributes.
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My Wilderness Adventure

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use a story starter and given questions to continue their adventure. They use the Internet and books to research about winter survival skills, how to find food, water and shelter in the snowy mountains and discover information...
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The Odyssey Plan

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders read and analyze The Odyssey. They apply note-taking skills to identify enemy, type of enemy, and traits demonstrated throughout the book. Students create a storyboard that illustrates the selected episode from the book...
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Merry Easter

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create greeting cards to special persons for a special holiday.
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Career Math Puzzles

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders come up with a career for each letter of the alphabet.
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Oh! The Stories Behind Nursery Rhymes

For Teachers K
Students investigate the games that children used to play to nursery rhymes. They explore the role of illustrators and illustrate their own book of rhymes in this unit.
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Escape to Freedom

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students read 'They Called Her Moses," create a wanted poster for Tub man, compose a journal entry imagining they are William Still, and in groups, create a newspaper depicting the incident of the runaway slaves and events from the time...
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You Mean I Am Part of History?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders open the lines of communication between family members and to gain a historical understanding about family history. They research and interview their grandparents and parents and create a research paper.
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"Charlotte's Web" - Transfer of Learning Across the Curriculum: From Literature to Science

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students research and write about the parts of a spider's body using educational software. They draw spiders using computer software.

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