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Safe Campfires and Camping
One of the best ways to prevent forest fires is to ensure that campfires are completely out. Take your class through the steps needed to protect their campsites and the greater forest area around them with a fun and interactive lesson on...
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Scary Short Story Writing Lesson
There's nothing like the prospect of writing a scary story to get your middle schoolers' writing juices flowing! In the lesson presented here, pupils listen to scary short stories read to them by the teacher. Then, a discussion ensues...
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A Spooky Campfire Fill-Them-in Tale
In this language arts worksheet, students create a spooky campfire story by filling in 20 blanks in a story. Students may choose whatever word they like but must follow directions to provide a noun, adjective or verb.
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Celebrating Halloween through Language and Literature
Use the theme of Halloween to spice up campfire stories, journal writing, and presentations in your classroom.
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Cinderella Stories - Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
Students examine an African Cinderella story. In this Cinderella lesson, students listen to the story, Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, in order to compare it to the original Cinderella story and to increase their understanding of story...
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Writing Practice- Finish the Story- "Which Way"
In this finish the story writing practice worksheet, students read the beginning of a story entitled, "Which Way?" They finish the story, which is about a camping trip, with an original ending.
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Silly Bear Story
In this reading comprehension worksheet, learners will read and evaluate a passage about bears and answer five true or false questions and determine whether the passage is fact or fiction. Students will then evaluate the passage and...
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Cinderella Stories: An African Tale
Learners read and analyze an African version of the Cinderella story. They listen to John Steptoe's story, "Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters," locate Africa on a map, compare and contrast the story with Cinderella, and identify fairytale and...
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Smokey’s Story
Learn about Smokey the Bear's origins and message for campers everywhere with a short resource about fire safety. After reading about the real Smokey the Bear, learners add dialogue to four different scenarios matching what Smokey would...
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Which Way?: Writing Practice
In this finish the story activity worksheet, students read a 8 paragraph story entitled "Which Way?" and use the lines provided to finish the story as they wish.
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Stories of Nepal
Students explore folktales and fairy tales from Nepal to help them understand the Nepalese culture, and to compare the stories to the ones the students may know. After reading the stories, students consider what rural life is like in...
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Story Telling: Chill Out
Students explore story telling. In this story telling instructional activity, students listen to classic campfire horror stories and prepare a storyboard organizer for an original scary story. Students share their story with the class.
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Folklore Festivities: Exploring Short Stories
Students explore the stories of "William Tell, The Husband Who Was to Mind the House, The Little Match Girl, and Three Words of Wisdomare" in the five lessons of this unit. The understanding of folktales is highlighted in this unit.
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Lesson 1: Listen to a Story
Learners practice their listening skills. In this early childhood lesson plan, students identify various fire safety rules. Learners answer questions after listening to a story.
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Literacy Lesson: Guided Reading
Here is a wonderful lesson designed for young scholars with special needs. This well-thought-out lesson uses Big Books, familiar stories, and has a lot of review learning built into it. The book, The Keeping Quilt is used in the main...
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Lewis and Clark In Columbia River Country
Eighth graders research biographies of people who participated in the Lewis and Clark expedition using Internet resources. They role play characters while acting out a campfire scene from the expedition.
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Earthquake Terror
In this language arts worksheet, 4th graders answer the ten multiple choice questions based on the reading of a story about a terrible earthquake.
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English - "Once Upon a Time" - Storytelling
In this storytelling learning exercise, 4th graders fill in 17 missing words without looking at the story. After the students read the story again aloud in pairs, the students complete a matrix on how well each student reads the story...
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Reading: Home on the Range
In this cowboy poetry worksheet, students read about stories and poems in the American West. Students read the lyrics of "Home on the Range". Students answer 7 multiple choice questions.
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Moving On
Read about Daniel Boone and his early years in a new land in Yadkin County, North Carolina. After reading, pupils respond to four comprehension questions that address the how and the why.
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Debating for Land
Young scholars discover about the varying attitudes and definitions of land ownership held by Native and European Americans. They study a variety of primary documents from the nineteenth century.
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QUIZ SHOW! What were you thinking? What did you say?
Students participate in a game show to share the information they have uncovered about the US expansion policy and how it affected Native Americans.
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Introduce Vocabulary: Alphabears: An ABC Book (Hague)
Learn new words in the context of Kathleen Hague's whimsical alphabet book, Alphabears: An ABC Book (note: you can use these strategies for any text). Get pupils ready by introducing the new words they will hear: useless, gruff,...
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Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet
Learners investigate how sound influences meaning in poetry by listening to sonnets. They write an analysis after listening to and reading sonnets.