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Veterans Group Creative Writing
In this creative writing instructional activity, students work in groups to write a brief story about Veterans using words or variations of words in a word bank in a twenty-five minutes time period. Students write 1 story.
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Travis the Train Learns Colors
Reinforce color words, word recognition, and color identification with this train-themed color book. Each page contains an image of a colored train and a sentence describing that train. Additional pages show the same trains but ask,...
Shmoop
ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.8
Your learners need to develop skills to argue effectively, and this comes by understanding the traditions that make claims valid, and what detracts from their effectiveness. Although this resource does not give advice on how to...
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Infinitive [Adjective] Recognition
In this infinitive adjective worksheet, young scholars read about infinitives and adjectives, then find infinitives acting like adjectives in a set of 10 sentences. Worksheet contains links to additional activities.
BBC
Words In The News: Japan Textbook Back In Spotlight
High-interest articles are a great way to get struggling readers to tackle difficult vocabulary. Here is a lesson plan that includes such an article. It is focused around a very interesting and controversial article about the teaching of...
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Women's World Cup Champs
The Learning Network in conjunction with the New York Times provides an article for reading and questions for short answers and discussion. If you are looking for a rainy day activity or just a time-filler this story titled, "Women's...
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Which Way???
In this ordering events in a story instructional activity, students read the story and number the sentences in the correct sequence. Students fill in 6 blanks.
Teach-nology
The Bike Riding Moose
What would you think if you saw a moose in a tree? Read about an impressive moose and practice using context clues with a cloze passage, which includes a word bank at the bottom of the pages for kids to reference.
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Which Way? (Sequencing Exercise)
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students practice putting events in the order they happened in the story. Students read a passage and then are to place six events in the order of their occurrence.
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Bank On It! Worm, fiction
In this language arts worksheet, students read an article about Worm. Worm is personified, and the story written from his point of view. Students select words from an 8 word word bank to complete the sentences.
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Bank On It! Halloween
In this vocabulary activity, students read a 2 page story about a Halloween party. Students fill in 47 blanks with words from the word bank.
K12 Reader
Narrator and Point of View
Point of view is important when choosing a narrator. Help young writers distinguish between first and third person point of view with an activity that features excerpts from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. After reading...
School District of Palm Beach County
Framed Paragraphs characterization, problem and solution, symbolism, conflict
Support your learners as they work on writing paragraphs by providing graphic organizers, outlines, and frames. Sift through this packet to find the perfect organizers and templates to prepare pupils for writing. The resource...
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Appreciating Yourself
In this appreciating yourself worksheet, students read a set of guidelines on appreciation, then complete a set of discussion questions based on a referenced DVD. Suggestions for writing assignments and activities are also given.
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Reading Comprehension: Is Pluto a Planet?
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a passage about Pluto, then complete a set of 5 multiple choice questions. An answer key is included as well as a reference web site for additional activities.
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Bank On It!
For this science worksheet, students fill in the blanks to complete a story about turning an empty field into a garden. They select words from a word bank of ten words to create the story.
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Cinco De May Creative Writing
In this Cinco De Mayo activity, students work with a group, writing a creative story about the holiday, using words given in a word box. Worksheet contains links to additional activities.
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Max Goes To Sydney
In this literacy worksheet, students find the words that fit into the story about Max and his adventures of traveling to Sydney, Australia.
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Bobby's Big Birthday Party: Reading Comprehension
In this reading comprehension learning exercise, students read a short story about a birthday party, then answer 6 multiple choice questions. Worksheet contains links to additional activities.
MENSA Education & Research Foundation
Utopia/Dystopia: The American Dream
America was founded by dreamers, and the American dream still resonates in our country today. Track the American dream from its Puritan beginnings to its optimistic descendants with a instructional activity that focuses on speeches...
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The Perfect Birthday Present
In this ESL instructional activity, students work with sentence completion. Students read the given story and complete 25 fill in the blank questions, using the interactive website to click when finished.
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Grandparent's Day-Alphabetical Order
In this Grandparent's Day instructional activity, students alphabetize a set of 16 words found in a word box at the bottom of the page. Worksheet has links to additional activities.
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Saints Activity
In this saints worksheet, learners complete a set of short answer questions about Anglican and Roman Catholic saints. Students are directed to web sites for assistance, but no links are present.
MENSA Education & Research Foundation
Early American Novel: Exploring the Emergence of a Genre
Need an extra challenge for your best readers? Check out a unit that uses Hannah Webster Foster’s epistolary novel, The Coquette, published in 1797, as the anchor text. The resource is packed with project ideas; each with its...