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"Fantastic Mr. Fox" Lesson Plans
With "Fantastic Mr. Fox" lesson plans students can learn about foxes and read some great literature.
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Deadly Lesson
Students read "Shooting at School Leaves 2 Dead and 13 Hurt" in the New York Times online. They explore their own thoughts and emotions about school violence in the wake of the March 5, 2001 school shooting in Santee, California.
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Common Nouns
In this nouns worksheet, students read 12 sentences and find the common noun that is a place in each sentence. Students print their answers on the lines provided on the worksheet.
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New Testament of the Bible
In this online interactive reading comprehension instructional activity, students respond to 14 multiple choice questions about the New Testament of the Bible. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Building Sensitivity and Awareness
Students recognize the needs, disabilities and attitudes of seniors. In this sensitivity awareness lesson, students work with residents of a senior citizen residence and build a relationship with a senior. Students simulate the...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor
Young scholars examine Nathaniel Hawthorne's style of humor and compare it to other humorists. They discuss the purpose of literary humor and determine how it develops characters and plots in stories. They analyze the use of different...
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World Climates
In this climate instructional activity, students will identify 5 different biomes, solve 4 number puzzles, unscramble 6 world biomes, and 4 word puzzles about climate and biomes.
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The Story of St. Valentine
In this Valentine's Day instructional activity, students read a factual passage about the history of Valentine's Day. Students answer 24 questions about the story.
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Suffix City
In these spelling worksheets students will focus on words with the -eat spelling pattern. Using these five words students will add suffixes to each word and complete 12 sentences with the correct missing word.
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Slope of a Line
For this slope of a line worksheet, students read about line graphs and plotting the slope of a line. They read about the rate of change which is represented by the slope. Students practice finding the slope of lines.
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Adverb Phrases and the Words They Modify
In this adverbs worksheet, students read 10 sentences and then underline each adverb phrase in each sentence. Students draw an arrow to the word each phrase modifies in each sentence.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Writing Friendly Letters
This lesson teaches students the five parts of a friendly letter. Students will be able to write friendly letters utilizing the writing process. Students will visit various websites to learn more about writing friendly letters. Students...
PBS
Arthur: Letter Writer Helper
This interactive site gives examples of how to write a letter, an email, a postcard, and a greeting card. It even explains how to address an envelope. As students roll their mouse over the letter it explains what each part is called and...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Learn to Write a Friendly Letter: Friendly Letter Creator
Featuring the five parts of a friendly letter students will create their own personalized letter with the Friendly Letter Creator.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: E Pals Around the World
Contains plans for three lessons that teach about writing friendly letters and parts of e-mails by asking students to write to pen-pals around the world. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Parts of a Friendly Letter
The teacher will use charts, worksheets, and websites to orient students about the five parts of a friendly letter.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Bats, Friend or Foe. An Argument Writing Activity
Students will state an argument with evidence, for or against, bats being removed from their environment by writing a letter to the editor and citing evidence for your claim.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Genre Study of Letter With the Jolly Postman
In this activity outline based on The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, students learn about parts of a letter, the different genres of mail, and letter attributes by studying the letters included in the book.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Smart Math and Writing
In this lesson, the poem "Smart" from Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein, is used as the mentor text. Students will write a map of the poem and then analyze it to discover what happened when trades with money were made and...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Creative Convincing
For this lesson, students will create a friendly letter taking on the persona and voice of a persuasive animal.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Mail Time! An Integrated Postcard and Geography Study
Contains plans for five cross-curricular lessons that teach about geography, reading, and writing by having students send postcards to relatives and asking them to send postcards back. In addition to objectives and standards, this...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "Dear Santa, It's Me!"
In this lesson plan students will become familiar with a digital camera and will increase word processing and keyboarding skills by writing a friendly letter to Santa.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Unusual Friendly Letters: Persuasive Writing Techniques
In this lesson, students will use active voice in regards to persuasion. Lesson incorporates the A R.A.F.T. strategy: role, audience, format, topic.
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Kim's Korner: Six Trait Analytic Writing Model
Check out this comprehensive website featuring ideas for teaching writing based on the six trait analytic writing model.