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Similes
In this writing similes instructional activity, students review the purpose and usage of similes and fill in the beginning and ending of comparison sentences with similes. Students complete eight sentences.
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Dichotomous Keys
Students utilize dichotomous keys to identify trees in their schools. In this ecological identification lesson, students practice creating dichotomous keys based on simple subjects such as hair color or sex of a person....
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Nature’s Fury: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 1)
Earthquakes, hurricanes, volcano eruptions, and more. To enrich their study of nature's big events, kids map tectonic plates and major earthquake locations, identify emergency response agencies, and storyboard a film about volcanos.
Curated OER
Maniac Magee: A 5th Grade Literature Guide
There's no need to run around trying to plan a unit for the book Maniac Magee, the work has already been done for you. Through a series of whole class, small group, and independent lessons and activities, students practice...
Union County Vocational Technical Schools
Engineering Drawing
Knowing the basics of drafting allows individuals to create drawings that show all the views and measurements necessary to allow others to visualize the original object. Pupils gain experience by drawing three orthographic views of...
National Book Network
A Day with No Crayons
Colors and crayons are the inspiration for this collection of activities! Kids illustrate the real world, come up with their own names for colors, make their own crayons (with teacher assistance), create artwork they can eat, and more.
Student Achievement Partners
Eleven
Turning 11 comes with a range of emotions. Explore those emotions by reading the short story "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros. Readers analyze the main character's reactions to the events of her day. Then, they write an essay describing what...
Mathed Up!
Simple Perimeter, Area, and Volume
Young mathematicians find the area and perimeter of shaded shapes on a grid of unit squares. The sheets challenge class members to find the volume of various solid prisms. Each questions also includes the total value of suggest...
Curated OER
Animal Cinquain
In this poem-writing worksheet, 5th graders read the format for a cinquain poem and answer 5 questions about an animal of their choice. The questions guide students to write their own cinquain poem.
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Parts of Speech: Adverbs
This learning exercise provides a good explanation of adverbs and several examples as well. Students are asked to underline the adverbs in 18 sentences. This would be a good practice learning exercise to us with ESL learners.
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Gearing up for Grammar
Young scholars input autobiographical information to apply in a Diamante' poem that utilizes the different parts of speech. Students interact with each other sharing their autobiographical information completed on the database created....
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New York State Testing Program: Mathematics Book 1, Grade 4 2010
In this 4th grade math standardized test practice worksheet, students solve 30 multiple choice math problems based on New York academic standards.
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Writing Sentences
In these sentence writing worksheets, students complete the packet of sentence writing activities to help them learn how to write complete sentences.
Curated OER
Johnny Appleseed
Students meet and delve into the life of the American Folk Hero, Johnny Appleseed through the activities of the eight lessons of this unit. Math and language activities offering whole and small group encounters.
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Scavenger Hunt for Adjective Images
Pupils work in groups to create silent videos or still images that define or represent adjectives. They share their creations with the other groups in class to see if they can determine the adjective their project represented.
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Stages of Life
High schoolers investigate the eight stages of human development. In this stages of life lesson students discuss as a class the stages and complete an activity.
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New York State Testing Program: Mathematics Book 1, Grade 3 2008
In this 3rd grade math standardized test practice worksheet, students solve 25 multiple choice math problems based on New York academic standards.
Teacher and the Rockbots
Worksheet for the "National Holidays" Song
If you can find a copy of the song, "National Holidays," you can use this instructional activity with your elementary schoolers. They read the lyrics to the song and answer questions about it. Along the way, they examine the reasons that...
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Phonics: Long U With Silent E
In this long u with silent e worksheet, students look at eight pictures and add a u and e where they belong to complete each word that names each picture.
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Phonics: CK Consonant Digraph
In this ck consonant digraph worksheet, students trace eight words containing a ck consonant digraph. Students then draw a line from each of the nine words to their actual pictures on the left of the worksheet.
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New York State Testing Program: Mathematics Book 1, Grade 4 2008
In this 4th grade math standardized test practice worksheet, students solve 30 multiple choice math problems based on New York academic standards.
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New York State Testing Program: Mathematics Book 1, Grade 4 2007
For this 4th grade math standardized test practice worksheet, students solve 30 multiple choice math problems based on New York academic standards.
Curated OER
Ending Consonants: Print the Letter
In this ending consonants worksheet, students say the name of eight pictures. From two choices, students circle the letter that is heard at the end of the word. Students print that letter two times.
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Introducing Phonemic Awareness Using Oral and Written Instruction
First graders demonstrate their ability to read with fluency, accuracy, and comprehension through phonemic awareness. They use a color-coding system to master the long and short vowel sounds and develop their skills in listening and...