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Florida Center for Reading Research
Comprehension: Monitoring for Understanding, What Do You Know?
An activity promotes reading comprehension. Readers analyze a text of their choice while activating prior knowledge and asking and answering questions. Scholars enforce multiple strategies to improve comprehension.
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Earth to Saturn, Earth to Saturn!
Students compare and contrast the characteristics of Earth and Saturn. They practice writing analogies using those characteristics. They complete a worksheet to end the lesson.
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Awesome Saturn
Students brainstorm words that describe Saturn. They view images sent to Earth from satellites. They write poems about the planet using different poetic forms.
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Disposing Garbage
Learners explore environmental cleanliness by completing a worksheet in class. In this waste management lesson, students identify the technological advances in society and how they increase waste production our planet is unable to deal...
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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab
For this vocabulary worksheet, students select the best choice to complete the sentence. All words begin with the letter "J" and challenge students with their originality.
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Autumn Vocabulary
In this vocabulary worksheet, students match vocabulary to definitions of words representing autumn. Students complete 20 matches total.
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Experimenting with Sound
Students explore physical science by completing a worksheet. In this sound perception lesson, students collaborate in small groups to research sound properties on the Internet and in libraries. Students conduct a listening experiment by...
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Vocabulary Challenge
For this vocabulary building worksheet, students answer 20 questions to complete the crossword puzzle. A riddle is also included.
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Fill in the Blanks: Letters
For this word recognition worksheet, learners use their problem solving skills to identify the vowels needed to fill in the blanks in 7 words.
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What Do You Know About Saturn?
Students discuss what they know about Saturn. They create drawings to show what the planet looks like and identifies its characteristics. They write a paragraph about the planet as well.
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Putting It All Together
Students organize their daily observation logs to write a nonfiction piece. They compare and contrast Saturn to other planets or write a summary. They use this piece of writing in future lessons.
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My Spelling Words: Spelling List #15
In this spelling worksheet, students read and write spelling words. Finally, they identify the 11 words in a word search puzzle. All words deal with the names of planets.
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The Wacky Word Puzzle
In this word puzzle worksheet, students complete 4 separate activities. There are 2 word searches, a drawing activity, and a word scramble.
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Newspaper Layout
In this newspaper worksheet, students follow the directions of this newspaper layout in order to create a newspaper. Students follow 5 sets of directions.
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Sun, Stars and Moon
Learners read about the objects we see in our night and day skies before answering five short answer comprehension questions.
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Amelia the Pigeon: As a Pigeon Flies
Students follow Amelia's adventure on a satellite image. They use measuring and math skills to determine the distance she traveled.
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The Astronomy Project
A passage about an astronomy lesson may leave readers starstruck. Fifth graders read about a class's exploration into the makeup of the galaxy and its constellations before answering six questions about the terms and vocabulary...
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Celebrating Saturn and Cassini
Students use their notes from previous lessons to write a paper on Saturn or Cassini. They share their writings with the class. They discover how everyone has a different learning style.
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SEEDS WE EAT
Students identify seeds humans eat and do not eat. Students make seed collections, using common kitchen foods. Students display seeds from the foods they serve and discuss them with their guests. Students complete activities which...