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Talking About Sports
Doing research on a sports team can be a way to have students practice a variety of skills. Find fabulous ideas for activities or lessons that you can implement with your class!
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My Favorite Activity (Grades K-2)
Scholars discuss the many ways they use persuasion in their everyday lives and brainstorm specific ideas for encouraging someone to do something. With the list of persuasive techniques they made, young writers complete a graphic...
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My Favorite Sport: Writing Activity
In this writing worksheet, students first correct mistakes in sentences about sports, use a word box and fill in blanks in a paragraph, then write a paragraph of their own about a favorite sport.
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My Favorite Things
In this language arts worksheet, students write about their favorite things, such as their favorite toy and sport. Students also draw a picture to illustrate each one.
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My Favorite Things
For this favorite things worksheet, learners practice their printing skills as they respond to 3 questions about their favorite things. Students also interview classmates regarding their favorite fruits, sports, and weather.
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Sports
In this ESL sports worksheet, students match pictures of sports with their names, then put them in the boxes that show their correct noun or verb form, answer a set of yes/no questions and, interview a partner and write a paragraph.
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My Favorite Thing to Do
Young scholars complete the questions to detail their favorite after school activities. In this after school activity lesson, students fill in the blanks using the word bank to detail information about their favorite after school...
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My Future Reflections
Students examine and write about possible career choices in relation to their own personal interests, strengths, and values. They discuss the process of reflective writing, and identify their three favorite activities on a "My Future...
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Writing Descriptions of "My Favorite Place"
Students write a descriptive writing piece. In this writing activity, students use a visualization exercise to add more descriptions to their writing.
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An Email about My Favorite Pop Star Writing Exercise
In this pop star instructional activity, students correct the sentence mistakes written about the pop star, and fill in the blanks to the letter. Students fix 10 sentence mistakes and fill in 12 blanks.
National Gallery of Canada
My Own Blanket
Invite your young artists to design blankets that express their own identities. Learners examine various pieces of art before brainstorming a few things that represent their identities. They use these ideas, in addition to symmetry and...
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Let the Olympic Games Begin!
Identify your class' favorite Olympic sporting events and engage in a series of interesting and meaningful activities.
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Cloud Reading
Students identify the biomes of the Earth and their characteristics. They discuss their favorite seasons and the weather. They share their favorites with the class.
ESL Library
Muhammad Ali
"Float like a butterfly, and sting like a bee" with a resource about the greatest boxer of our generation. A short biographical reading passage introduces young readers to Muhammad Ali, and includes information about his early life as...
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Graphing Favorite Colors
Third graders collect data and insert it into ClarisWorks to create a spreadsheet/graph of their favorite color. They interpret the data together.
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The Way We Are
Students visit a website to examine a typical Japanese high school student's life. They answer questions about their own personal interests, list their favorite school subjects, answer questions about the website, and e-mail a Japanese...
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All About Me
Students develop and present a power point presentation. In this getting to know you lesson, students create a power point presentaion that describes themselves. Students include information about what they like to do and their...
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My Likes And Dislikes
Pupils practice conversational conventions when expressing their likes and dislikes, with a partner. Individually, they write a paragraph explaing a tiem when they felt acceptance or rejection.
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Breaking News English: Adidas Agrees to Buy Rival Reebok
In this ESL worksheet, students first read or listen to a text about the Adidas and Reebok companies. Students complete 8 pages of comprehension exercises. Included are vocabulary, questions, completing sentences, discussion, problem and...
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Attitude and Interest Survey
In this attitude and interest survey, students answer questions about home, school, friends, favorites and miscellaneous. A website reference for additional resources is given.
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Graphs
Students list their favorite cars and create graphs of their favorites. Students determine how the graphs would change as their choices change.
Scholastic
Leads in Narrative Writing
The beginning, a very good place to start, is also a very difficult thing to craft. Provide your writers with this handout that identifies, and provides examples of, six different types of narrative leads.
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The Verbal Trio - Learning about Verbals
Do you know what a gerund is? Use this grammar instructional activity to help emerging grammarians learn about using different verbs (infinitives, gerunds, and participles) in sentence writing. They then use what they read to answer the...
Great Schools
A Questionnaire: What Do You Like to Read?
What do your fifth graders know about types of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry? Find out as they fill out this questionnaire that requires them to list authors and texts that exemplify each genre. Not only will you be able to assess what...