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Spanish Parts of Speech (Part 1)
Check out this overview of the parts of speech that includes English and Spanish examples. Each part of speech is highlighted in a different color for clarity. There is information on each part of speech here, and you or your pupils can...
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Remembering New Words
Four strategies learners can use to remember new words are detailed on a one-page activity. They are shown how to find synonyms, make a personal connection, think of antonyms, and how to make up a sentence that puts the words together....
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Vocab-u-lous - Build a Fabulous Vocab
In this vocabulary building worksheet, students enhance their personal vocabulary by learning words with the BL or BR blend. Students are allowed the use of a dictionary.
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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab
In this vocabulary building worksheet, learners enhance their personal vocabulary by learning words that begin with the FR-blends. Students are allowed to use dictionaries.
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Choosing a Foreign Language Career
"Why do we have to learn a foreign language?" Have you ever heard that question before? Give your novices this project, and have them research different jobs that require the use of a foreign language. They create a PowerPoint...
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Fairy Tale Alliterations
Fairy tales are the perfect way to focus on alliteration. Learners complete activities relating to alliteration and similes using a fairy tale theme. Then, they complete an acrostic poem using the words fairy tale.
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Ch-Ch-Ching Cafe: Play Restaurant Make Change
Fourth graders make change by participating in a role-play restaurant activity. In this making change lesson, 4th graders use their math skills to compare prices and compute bills in a role play restaurant activity.
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Planning A Vacation Online
If you could travel anywhere in the United States, where would you go? Use this question to interest your fourth, fifth, and sixth graders as they experiment with Mapquest or other direction-based resources. They choose where they'd like...
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Guided Reading Organizer for Chain Reaction
The class uses Chain Reaction, a magazine, to build a better understanding of Latin and Greek roots found in scientific vocabulary. They use two attached worksheets to help them read a scientific article, using visual clues and their...
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Geography With Dr. Seuss
Students read the book, The King's Stilts by Dr. Seuss and discuss the geographical information given in the book. Then they discuss and locate on a map the physical features that make up the continent of Africa. They create an original...
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Spelling Lesson Plan
Review basic spelling rules with your elementary schoolers. Focus in on the spelling of words with a specific prefix. For this spelling lesson, learners use an interactive whiteboard lesson to learn prefixes such as de, sub, re, and pre....
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Template #1 A Lesson Before Dying Journal Reflections/Personal Statements
If you're working through A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines, you might be interested in this resource. Pupils fill this page out after reading each chapter in order to create a short summary and clarify plot points and...
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Adult Computer and Employment Skills
Whether you are an experienced computer user or a newcomer to technology, a packet full of computer vocabulary, tips, and guided practice is sure to enhance your technological knowledge. Learners can hone their word processing skills and...
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Beginning Analogies
Here are seven basic analogies to get your class started recognizing word relationships. Readers select one of four choices for each fill-in-the-blank analogy. Use as a sponge activity if your class has worked a little on analogies...
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To Kill A Mockingbird Vocabulary Development
Words drawn from To Kill A Mockingbird are used in a matrix that asks pupils to provide the pronunciation key, part of speech, meaning, a synonym, and an antonym for each word.
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Bryant Creek Watershed Project - Making a Karst Dictionary
Students explore the definitions relevant to Karst topography. They develop a Bryant Watershed Dictionary of the special words and terms that are used to talk about the topography and hydrology of the area they live in.
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A Dictionary of Independence
Students use events and biographies from their state's history and U.S. history, to create a dictionary of terms for citizens of a democracy.
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The Dictionary Game
Students play The Dictionary Game--also called Balderdash as a way to learn new vocabulary words.
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Solar System Dictionary
Studnets utilize the web site "Little Explorers" to research the solar system. A solar system dictionary is created using the information gleaned from assorted book marked sites.
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How To Use the Internet To Make Student Glossaries
Students use an internet dictionary to produce a glossary of words related to a particular subject area being studied. They choose the correct meaning of the word for their glossary, based on it's relationship to the subject matter being...
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Learning to use and understand a database
Second graders were given a research paper and they were to answer the questions using the information found on the website. The website was a dictionary where the students would click on the letter to where they would go to find the...
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Land Use Issues
For this unit of lessons, students examine analogies and parts of speech. They use land use issues to identify the different parts of speech that they research. They create analogies about the origin of organisms.
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ELL/ESL Reading and Reasoning Selection- Picture Dictionary
In this ELL/ESL reading and reasoning instructional activity, students read a short selection about an ESL student who is afraid to read in front of the class. They answer 5 true or false questions before writing an essay detailing what...
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Word Sleuth Log - Nate the Great Word Recording Sheet
In this vocabulary worksheet, 3rd graders record new words that they identify while reading a book from the Nate the Great series. They write the new words, look it up in the definitions, and write the meaning next to the word.
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