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The Couplet

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students create the sounds of a thunderstorm with a symphony of body percussion to compose a couplet about rain using Microsoft word to publish. They are introduced to rhyming dictionaries and thesauruses and use Internet sources for...
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How can we write a silly story?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use the writing process and create a silly story.  In this silly story lesson, 2nd graders will review person, event and setting and complete a chart for each.  Students will put a person, event and setting in an envelope...
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Writing
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Halloween Report Planner

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this Halloween report planning worksheet, students prepare to write a report. They choose a topic from a list they make, do research, and write the report on the lines.
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Lesson Plan
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Working With Words

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this words worksheet, students complete a variety of worksheets involving configuring 11 words, completing sentences with 10 words, writing 4 words in complete sentences and locate and circle 14 words in a word search puzzle. Students...
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Worksheet
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Varied Tense Sentence Drop

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this varied verb tense sentence drop worksheet, students connect the words in each of 4 boxes to form 4 complete sentences.
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Worksheet
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Vocabulary Building Activities

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In these four building vocabulary worksheets, students view vocabulary word lists, use definition clues, unscramble letters, and write sentences using each vocabulary word. Students write twenty-one answers per worksheet.
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Worksheet
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How To Send an Email

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this top tips for preparing and sending an email worksheet, students read the steps in chronological order and follow them to prepare an email. Students read and follow 8 directions.
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You're Special

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students utilize a new language to tell someone they care for them. In this complimenting lesson, students practice saying nice things to friends and strangers in their target language. Students react to the lesson afterwards and...
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You are Special: I like ________ because....

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars 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, young scholars write...
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Participating in a Class Birthday Party

For Teachers K - 12th
Students celebrate a fellow peer in class by having a party for him or her.  In this foreign language lesson, students celebrate a classmate's birth using their target language to host a party.  Students create a bulletin board using...
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Lesson Plan
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An Imaginary Trip

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students use their imaginations to write about an imaginary trip. In this creative writing lesson, students write about an imaginary trip. Students brainstorm writing ideas as a class and use past tense words in their writing....
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Lesson Plan
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Fictional Characters

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore fictional characters. In this fictional characters lesson plan, students hear information about a character then ask and answer questions. Students also answer true/false questions about the character and make a mini...
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Capitalization

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate the concept of capitalization by reading relevant text and finding supporting details and facts.  In this capitalization lesson, students read chapter seven in Working With Words and share predictions about the...
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Down the Knoll Without the Water

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students use a thesaurus to find synonyms for selected words in fairy tales.
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Lesson Plan
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ABC Book of Tongue Twisters

For Teachers K - 8th
Learners construct sentences using alliteration. In this phonemic awareness lesson, students listen to a read aloud such as Some Smug Slug and identify alliteration. Learners write their own sentences using alliteration.
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Lesson Plan
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Welcome to our Classroom

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders create a classroom resource book for substitutes to help them feel more comfortable and familiar with faces and procedures in our classroom and school. They develop skill in using a digital camera and computer technology.
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Freckle Juice

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students analyze a chapter from the assigned book they are reading.  For this reading comprehension lesson, students read chapter four from Freckle Juice by Judy Blume, and discuss the main character, Andrew.  Students complete a...
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Learning Short a and Long a sounds

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars recognize the difference between the short a sound and the long a sound, then compile a list of words containing short a and long a sounds.
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Lesson Plan
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Power Words

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Using words can create a power struggle! Using antonyms and synonyms can create a Power Words game! Check out this lesson that teachers your class the difference between the two and how to use a thesaurus.
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Worksheet
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Word Families 1

For Students K - 2nd
For this AT, AN and AP word families worksheet, students read aloud 16 words and then write them underneath the word families that they belong with.
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Worksheet
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Total English Elementary: Next Year, I'm Going to...

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this English review worksheet, students consolidate the use of "going to" as they write 18 sentences following the prompts.
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Worksheet
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Vocabulary Building Activity

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In these vocabulary building worksheets, students complete several activities to help them learn how to spell and use the words mail, gain, contains, fair, daily, airline, and maintain.
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Worksheet
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Acrostic Poem Plan: Athletics

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this poetry writing worksheet, students write a rough draft of an acrostic poem about athletics. Students use the letters in ATHLETICS to begin each line of poetry.
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Interactive
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Montana Vocabulary Word Jumble

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this online interactive Montana worksheet, students examine 20 state-related words in a word bank. Students use the word bank to unscramble 20 sets of letters. This worksheet may also be printed for classroom use.