Lesson Plan
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Literature and Interactive Writing: "Plenty of Penguins"

For Teachers K
Students listen to and discuss the story elements of the story "Plenty of Penguins." They discuss the elements of reality and fantasy, and as a class write two sentences on small dry erase boards in the form of a letter to the teacher...
Worksheet
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The Polar Express Writing Report

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this grade 2 writing prompt worksheet, students are give a writing prompt from the book The Polar Express about using their senses to write about going on a trip around the world with Santa Claus. Pages include a rubric and teacher...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Small Group Shared Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students discuss elements of effective writing in small groups. They work together to critique individual and group writing focusing on including supporting details.
Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Maintaining Organization, Clarity, Central Idea, and Unity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Introduce and challenge the essay organization skills of your junior high writers with the paper reconstruction activity in this demonstration.  Theydetermine what the word organization means, and discover the basic organizational...
Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Using Specific Vocabulary and Collaboration

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Develop concepts on how to change your improving wordsmiths' writing from blah to wow with the activities and ideas in this resource. The instructor provides the class with examples of writing that lacks detail and precision, and then...
Unit Plan
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Frindle: A Guiding Reading Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Guide your class through a reading of the popular children's book, Frindle, with this comprehensive literature unit. Starting with a brief introduction to the guided reading process, the class goes on to read the story two chapters...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We Can Do It!: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 10)

For Teachers 1st Standards
Scholars participate in chants, grand discussions, and complete practice pages in a We Can Do It! themed unit. Designed to provide extra support, the assortment of lessons cover topics such as r-controlled vowels, comparatives...
Printables
Starfall

Fun with Describing Words - Adjectives

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this grammar worksheet, students complete sentences by describing words from a picture/word bank.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Help! Action Verbs and Their Helpers

For Students 5th - 7th
In this grammar activity, students learn about using action verbs and their helpers in sentence writing. They then answer the 6 questions on the page. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
Organizer
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My Favorite Room - Brainstorming Sheet

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this writing worksheet, students brainstorm a writing piece about their favorite room. They write a purpose sentence, and fill a chart that describes the room using the senses. They write a draft using the purpose sentence and three...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Worksheet 4/7 on Verb Openers

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this recognizing verb openers worksheet, students match the beginning verb phrases with their sentence endings and write the complete sentences. Students write 12 answers.
Lesson Plan
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Cause And Effect

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read the book Stellaluna and cite sentences that show cause and effect in the story. In this cause and effect lesson plan, 4th graders also write sentences that show cause and effect in their own lives.
Lesson Plan
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Grammar and Usage

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders gain practice in writing sentences according to a specific purpose: declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory. This lesson includes a very thorough worksheet and assessment.
Worksheet
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Weekly Grammar Worksheet

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this weekly grammar worksheet, students answer eight subject verb agreement questions and locate the nouns and verbs in seven sentences. Students also must complete five sentences by writing down the correct verb that agrees with the...
Lesson Plan
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Adjective Monster

For Teachers K - 2nd
Explore descriptive writing and visual art. Listen to the story Go Away Big, Green Monster by Ed Emberley and generate a list of adjectives used in the book. Name familiar shapes and create a shapes list. Choose an adjective and shape to...
Worksheet
Curated OER

What Time Is It?

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this clocks worksheet, students first read a one page text about different kinds of clocks. Using a word bank, students label the parts of four different kinds of clocks: grandfather, wristwatch, digital and analog. Students write the...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Quiz--Conditional #4

For Students 4th - 5th
For this completing sentences worksheet, students complete 17 sentences by filling in 26 blanks with the correct form of the verbs in parentheses.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Idioms

For Students 4th - 6th
In this writing with idioms worksheet, learners read 10 sentences and explain what the idiom (in bold) in each sentence means in their own words.
Worksheet
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Worksheet 2/7 on Nouns

For Students 4th - 6th
In this adding nouns to sentences worksheet, learners use nouns in a word bank to fill in the missing nouns and complete the passage, "Tortoise of the Galapagos Islands". Students add 31 nouns.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Homophones

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this homophones worksheet, students read sentences and underline the incorrect word in the sentence while they provide the sentence with the correct homophone. Students complete 15 sentences.
Lesson Plan
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You are Special: I like ________ because....

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students write positive sentences about their classmates.  In this describing a classmate lesson, students discuss a picture presented by the teacher.  After the teacher tells why she likes this person, students write sentences...
Worksheet
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Subtraction

For Students 4th
In this problem solving worksheet, 4th graders solve the answers to 5 subtraction sentence word problems. Students write their equations and answers in the boxes provided.
Worksheet
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Prepositional Phrases

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In these grammar worksheets, students will read a definition of prepositional phrase. Then students will match 6 prepositional phrases with words from a word bank that have a similar meaning, match 6 phrases with phrases that have the...
Interactive
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Get + Prepositions (Part 1)

For Students 4th - 5th
In this identifying a preposition in sentences online/interactive worksheet, students read incomplete sentences and fill in the blanks after the word "get" with a preposition from the word bank. Students write 9 answers.