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Hattie and the Fox

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Who is Hattie? Youngsters explore animal characteristics by reading poems and stories in class. They read the book Hattie and the Fox about a fictitious fox and his drama with the other farm animals. Then they reread the story over...
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Configuration Station #21

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this vocabulary worksheet, learners analyze 5 commonly used words and complete 30 questions which reinforce understanding of these words. Included are word search, crossword, sentence writing, and rhymes.
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Rap Music and Hip-Hop

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore rap and hip hop music. In this music and culture lesson, students experience the music of Will Smith in order to work on language and communication skills such as rhyming words, writing, and public speaking.
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Science Puzzlers, Twisters, and Teasers: The History of Life on Earth

For Students 6th - 8th
A somewhat amusing assignment, this worksheet lists statements that an ancient organism may have made and asks learners to determine what geologic era that each may have lived in. It uses witty word puzzles and fill-in-the-blank-style...
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Long I and Short I Phoneme

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this long and short I phonemes worksheet, students examine 2 groups of 26 and 23 words. Students sort each of the groups of words into long I and short I phoneme groups using the t-charts.
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"-at" Turkeys

For Teachers K
Students practice spelling by creating a model turkey.  For this vocabulary lesson, students utilize fake feathers and foam letters to spell words on a fake turkey body,  Students read the book Ten Fat Turkeys, and identify the...
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Configuration Station #8

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this vocabulary instructional activity, students analyze 5 commonly used words. Students alphabetize, find opposites, generate sentences, complete a word search, and illustrate.
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Configuration Station #14

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this vocabulary worksheet, students study 5 commonly used words and complete 30 questions. Included are sentence writing, matching, a word search, rhyming and illustrating.
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Configuration Station #15

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this vocabulary instructional activity, students analyze 5 commonly used vocabulary words in a word bank. Students complete 30 varied activities to reinforce learning of these words.
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Grade 2 Language Arts Review Quiz

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this language arts review quiz worksheet, students complete 6 questions that review skills in proofreading, rhymes, spelling and comprehension.
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Associative Reading Activities

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this riddles worksheet, students read the clues and write the item that it is describing. Students complete 3 problems where they solve the riddle.
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Mice are Nice 80

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students complete a variety of mouse-themed activities. They listen to stories, recite poetry, identify rhyming words, write sentences, create art projects, take a survey and design an original mousetrap.
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Using a Thesaurus

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover how to use a thesaurus. In this language arts lesson, students explore thesauruses as they look up words and write sentences for the new words they encounter.
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"Tongue Tangle"

For Teachers 1st
First graders engage in a study of phonics that focuses on the beginning sounds with an emphasis upon varying types of genres that includes songs, speech, and poetry. They recognize the beginning sounds of words and make physical...
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Configuration Station #13

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this vocabulary worksheet, students examine 9 commonly used words and complete 30 activities. Included are word puzzles, fill in missing words, combining 2 words in one sentence, alphabetical order and illustrating.
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Write Your Own -oa Poem

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this recognizing words spelled with the -oa pattern learning exercise, students use word banks to list words, match pairs, complete sentences, and write a poem. Students write thirteen answers.
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School-Home Links: Short Vowels

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
In this short vowels with the same ending phonics worksheet, students and their caregivers read 8 words and then write the 8 words in 1 of 2 columns based on the end sound of each word.
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Rest in Peace, Maniac Magee

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Scholars read Maniac Magee and create epitaphs for each of the major characters using precise words reflecting the individual characters personality and nature. They will learn what an epitaph is and practice writing their own. They can...
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How to Write a Free Verse Poem

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Budding poets compose an original free verse poem. Encouraged to use personification and alliteration, scholars read over three tips and examples then try their hand at drafting a poem of their own style.  
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Figurative Language Project

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Want a handy way to remember the difference between metaphors and similes, or allusions and alliteration? Individuals craft their own figurative language booklet, complete with definitions, examples, and illustrations, following...
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University of Florida

Phonological Awareness: A Sound Beginning

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Choose from a variety of phonological activities to complement a reading lesson. The guide goes through the basic components of good phonics instruction focusing on sound types, levels of phonological awareness, assessment methods,...
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Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

War and Poetry

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
A band of brothers or the Devil's agents? Nobel warriors freeing the oppressed or mercenaries working for the military/industrial complex? Groups examine poems from the Civil War, World War I, and World War II to determine the poets'...
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How to Write a “Favorite Things” List Poem

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
If your students made a list of their favorite things, would writing poetry be on it? After this poetry writing lesson, it might! Young writers make a list of what they like—or what they don't like—before crafting the list into...
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University of Northern Iowa

Additional Folklife Information

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Use a packet packed with ideas for how to celebrate the traditions of your country, state, community, and pupils's families. Suggestions for how to draw on oral and material traditions, customs, beliefs, music, and stories all find...

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