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Color Your Summer

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners explore different artistic media and techniques used to capture, express, and share summer memories. They research art history and view video clips online to create a piece of online art.
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Goldilocks and the Real Bears

For Teachers K - 1st
Students participate in a comparison lesson where they compare fictional bears to real life bears. In this science/language arts lesson, students read Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Students observe characteristics...
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Habitats

For Teachers K - 2nd
The circle of life is all around us, from the black bears in the nearby mountains to the pile of dead leaves in the backyard. Encourage young scientists to take a critical look at the world around them with a set of lessons...
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Grandfather Tang's Story

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
It's amazing the complex figures that can be made using only a few simple shapes. Following a class reading of the children's book Grandfather Tang's Story by Ann Tompert, young mathematicians use sets of tangrams to create models...
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How Groundhog's Garden Grew

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students answer questions based on Bloom's Taxonomy after reading the book, How Groundhog's Garden Grew, by Lynne Cherry.  In this reading comprehension lesson, students respond to 6 questions, one per taxonomy level, to...
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Bone's Adventures

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read and discuss a chapter from the book "A Dog's Life," focusing on the point of view of the dog in the story. They explore dog rescue organization websites, and play the online game "Bone Travels On," creating a story map and...
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The Purple Handkerchief

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a 2 page story about a boy who drops a purple handkerchief. Students answer 20 multiple choice questions about the story.
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If I Could Talk Like the Animals. . .

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read and discuss a film review of the animated movie Antz and then write a monologue from the perspective of a non-human organism.
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Express Yourself!

For Teachers K - 4th
Young scholars practice the strategy of reading fluently with expression with the story "Who took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar?" They read and reread the story utilizing different strategies when stuck on a word. Students practice...
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Martin's Writing Model

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use digital resources to learn about the life of Ann M. Martin, her writing process, and how she develops story ideas. They record notes and observations that might be useful in developing characters and a storyline for a...
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Subject-verb Agreement 1

For Students 8th - 11th
In this grammar activity, students choose the appropriate verb in parentheses in twenty-five sentences that makes each one grammatically correct.
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Can and Could

For Students 4th - 6th
In this can and could worksheet, students determine can usage in a sentence and identify the correct auxiliary modal verbs. In this multiple choice and short answer worksheet, students write twenty-four answers.
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Story Opening One

For Students 4th - 6th
In this finishing a story, "Story Opening One" worksheet, students read the writing prompt, use the questions to consider before writing a middle and ending for the story, and complete the story. Students write 2 parts of a story.
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Spelling Connections: Grade 2: Number Words

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this spelling worksheet, students analyze a picture of a park scene and notice the animals and insects. Using number words, students fill in the blanks in a story about how many creatures are in the park. There is no word list.
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Speech: RL Bingo

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this speech bingo worksheet, students play the game of bingo using words and pictures with the "rl" blend. Worksheet is a set of 4 bingo cards.
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North Carolina Alphabet Activity

For Students 4th - 5th
In this alphabet activity worksheet, learners read the 22 words related to North Carolina. Students then alphabetize the words.
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Full Dolch Word List

For Students K - 3rd
Sight words are listed based on how frequently they are used. There are 250 words on the list. This would be a good, general resource for a teachers of grades 1 - 3. It is useful to know what words your class should know, and how well...
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The Giant Barrel Sponge

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students study barrel sponges. For this science and art lesson, students discuss what sponges are, create their own sponge, and share what they created with the rest of the class.
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Letter S Connect The Dots; 1-20 Worksheet

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this language arts and counting instructional activity, student complete a dot to dot puzzle using the numbers 1-20 to make a seal. They write 6 other animal names that begin with the letter s on the lines below the picture.
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Little Pumpkin Wants To See the World

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this Halloween reading worksheet, students experience a 10 paragraph story about a pumpkin who longs to see the world. Older students could read this independently or it would be a read-aloud story for younger children.
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Adverbs

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this adverb learning exercise, students read each sentence and underline the adverb that tells how in 8 sentences, tells when in 5 sentences and tells how or when/how much in 4 sentences.
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Teaching Students To Follow Directions

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students practice following directions. In this listening activity, students play a game of "Follow the Leader" while coloring in an activity page. They must color their page according to the directions given by the teacher or leader.
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The Letter Aa

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore letter Aa. In this letter recognition lesson, students participate in country, state, food, literature, physical education, colors, careers, music, and game activities that are linked to the main lesson page....
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Character Education-Perseverance

For Teachers K
Students learn what it means to stick to a task through the re-telling of the story, "The Little Engine That Could." Personal application is made to their own experiences with the completion of, "I think I can..." endings.