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"The Napping House" Ways to Say Sleeping
Sleeping, dozing, snoozing. Five different ways to say sleeping are introduced in this presentation designed to preparing kids for a reading of The Napping House.
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Here's an Instant Activity for March 3, 2008
Here are some good spelling activities for 'ou' words. First and second graders complete an oral spelling activity with their teacher and then an Instant Activity worksheet. and spell 'ou' words.
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Handwriting
In this handwriting worksheet, students improve their skills in writing words. Students practice printing words. There are fourteen words in all that students work with.
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Writing Process- Expository Writing
Expository writing is the focus of the language arts lesson presented here. In it, young writers review what expository writing is through a class discussion and teacher demonstration. Then, learners write expository text that describes...
Teacher's Guide
Friendship Cinquain
Invite your class to share their appreciation of one another through the work of a Valentine's Day cinquain poem. Scholars use their knowledge of their classmates to describe them through adjectives, action verbs, and a complete sentence.
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Spelling Worksheet
In this spelling worksheet, students practice their word recognition skills. Students are given a word that is missing a letter and are to determine the missing letter to complete the word. There are fifteen in all.
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Summarizing: Using Hand Motions for Key Words or Points
Learning to summarize texts takes practice. Jump into the training ring and guide your learners through a summarizing practice session. The classic direct instructional practice of "I do, you do, we do" is used to help them identify key...
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My Horse Glory
In this literacy instructional activity, learners are shown parts of words with missing r-controlled vowels; they write the word and rhyme.
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Transitional Guided Reading
Use a fill-in-the-blank lesson plan template to enhance your guided reading lesson plans with details surrounding decoding strategies, fluency and phrasing, vocabulary strategies, comprehension, and more!
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ASL: Lesson 20
Teach it, learn it, communicate with it. ASL is at your fingertips with this sign language series. Lesson 20 focuses on classifiers, descriptive vocabulary, and asking questions. Each blue link on the page takes you to an image or video...
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The Palm of My Heart: Poetry By African American Children
Elementary students explore African American culture by reading children's poetry. They read the book, The Palm of My Heart which features poetry by an assortment of young African American boys and girls. Students define several...
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Animal Sounds: The Three Little Pigs
Intended for use with the story of The Three Little Pigs, this resource offers special-needs individuals an opportunity to boost verbal skills and word recognition. Each page includes both words and vivid images to enhance the learning...
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Sippin' on Smoothies
Why is calcium good for the body? Where is it stored? Young chefs discover the importance of calcium and review a list of foods that are rich in the material. They then make delicious smoothies high in calcium! Teaching kids how to make...
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Here's an Instant Activity for December 15, 2003
Students complete a spelling activity that helps them create and spell words. In this spelling lesson, students manipulate letters to make words and complete the worksheet by writing new words.
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Here's and Instant Activity for October 20, 2008
Students complete spelling activities for words with or and ore spellings. In this spelling lesson, students find antonyms for the 'or' words in the first exercise. Students find synonyms for the second exercise.
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Counting From 10 To 20
In this counting from 10 to 20 worksheet, students practice reading and writing the words. In this tracing, and writing worksheet, students write eleven number words.
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Spelling With Double Letters
Students practice spelling words with double letters. In this spelling lesson, students read a rhyme chorally and identify the words with double letters. Students complete a instant activity worksheet to practice spelling their words...
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Spelling
In this recognizing the correctly spelled words worksheet, students read rows of words spelled four different ways, identify the ones that are spelled correctly, and write them. Students circle and write 15 answers.
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Describing Words
First graders brainstorm adjectives, recognize adjectives within text read by teacher, identify sentences that contain adjectives using Hyperstudio stack, and write two descriptive sentences for abstract image they create.
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Instant Spelling Activity: 1st Grade
First graders practice their spelling skills. In this spelling lesson, 1st graders explore onsets and rimes as they complete an activity regarding double letters.
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'OA' Crossword Puzzle
In this crossword puzzle worksheet, students solve the clues to complete the crossword puzzle with 'oa' words. Students solve 9 clues.
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The Tiny Seed Lesson Plan Guide
Not only is this lesson about story retell, main events, and making predictions, it's also about plants. Youngsters will read the tale, The Tiny Seed as they explore the plant life cycle and early literacy skills. The lesson is very...
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Basic Food Items
Students explore healthy eating by defining food vocabulary terms. In this food purchasing lesson plan, students utilize word/picture cards to participate in a food identification activity among their classmates. Students read a list of...
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Improving Elementary Reading Literacy
Students enhance their literary skills through phonemic awareness. In this reading development lesson, students read several storybooks and analyze the phonetics, vocabulary, and overall story. The students then rewrite what they have...