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What is a Haiku? How Do You Write a Haiku?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Haiku poetry is explored in this language arts lesson. Yong readers identify the characteristics of haiku and read several examples. Students make connections between their study of Japan and the poetic form of haiku, and they write...
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Handout
Kaylee's Education Studio

Contractions

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Keep your class on track with contractions! This reference page includes six lists of contractions, which are organized by the word that is being contracted. For example, the word not is the title of the list that includes words such...
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Lesson Plan
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Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders analyze descriptive writing. In this writing instructional activity, 2nd graders read a story with a villain, describe the villain in words, and create a Wanted Poster describing him on paper.
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Printables
Granite School District

Vocabulary Cards 1st Grade A-L

For Teachers K - 2nd
Help young mathematicians acquire key vocabulary with this printable resource. Three different cards are provided for each word; one with only the word, one with the word and a picture, and one with the word, a picture, and a definition....
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Unit Plan
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Using a Writing Workshop

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students observe modeling of the writing workshop. In this writing workshop lesson, students understand that the writing workshop will be taught throughout the year and each lesson will be a segment which will be discussed.
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Worksheet
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Phonics: Build-a-Word With U

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this build-a-word instructional activity, students look at six pictures, connect the letters that spell each picture and then write the word connected on the lines provided.
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Worksheet
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Spelling Connections Grade 2

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this spelling activity, students analyze the five letters on petals in flower shapes. Students pick letters from the petals to make words and write them in the center of the flower. Students color the "-ill" words yellow and the "-it"...
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Worksheet
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Configuration Station #19

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this vocabulary worksheet, students study a word bank of 5 commonly used words. Students complete 30 questions: sentence writing, missing words, word search, alphabetical order, and illustrating.
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Cloudy With a Chance of...

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders will write a story. In this writing and meteorology instructional activity, 2nd graders read the story Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, then use KidPix to create a weather picture. The picture is imported into a word...
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Lesson Plan
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Out of Old England in the 1630s-Flat Me Project

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students write letters to penpals. For this geography/literacy lesson, students become penpals with a classroom in England to learn about customs and society across the ocean. Flat Stanley by Will Holton is read aloud, and students...
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Lesson Plan
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Minnesota-China Connections: Writing Prompts

For Teachers K - 12th
Students write a short essay in response to a writing prompt related to a theme or issue raised within the Minnesota-China Connection Web site.
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Activity
Scholastic

Dr. Seuss Extension Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Extend the exhilarating learning experience of Dr. Seuss with five activities designed to reinforce literacy skills—site word reading, dialogue writing, story mapping, and more! Featured stories include The Lorax, Horton Hears a Who, The...
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Worksheet
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Working With Words

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this working with words worksheet, students are challenged to answer thirty questions through a wide variety of avenues to master site recognition of everyday words.
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The Words that Surround Us

For Teachers 2nd - 11th
Students investigate writing that we read daily by analyzing advertisements and articles.  In this language arts instructional activity, students discuss the images and writing they see daily, where it comes from, and what it represents....
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Worksheet
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ESL Connect the Dots: Fruit

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this English Language vocabulary worksheet, students connect the dots from the fruit images to the words that match. Students then trace and find the missing letters to help them correctly spell each word.
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Worksheet
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Spelling Connections: Grade 2: Rhyming Words

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this spelling activity, students read the words on 4 houses. Students write spelling words that rhyme with each of the words. There is no spelling list on the page.
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Unit Plan
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The Fisherman and His Wife

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Engage conversation and explore the journey as you challenge young readers to interpret the german folktale, "The Fisherman and His Wife" written by literary brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
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Worksheet
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The Fruit Salad Bush

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this word scramble of fruits worksheet, students unscramble the words, write them, and connect the words with their fruits on the bush. Students answer 10 questions.
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Introduce: The Suffix -y

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore language arts by participating in a word structure activity. For this suffix lesson, students identify what a suffix is and discuss the common uses for the "y" suffix. Students add the specific suffix to many words and...
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Worksheet
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Spelling List 3: Sight Words, "-aw" Pattern, and Academic Vocabulary

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this spelling worksheet, students copy 16 words 2 times each. Words are either sight words, academic vocabulary or have the -aw pattern. 
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Worksheet
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Body Parts

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this English Language vocabulary acquisition worksheet, students connect the dots from the pictures of the various body parts to their matching words. Students then trace and find the missing letter for the vocabulary words.
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Worksheet
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Configuration Station #12

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this vocabulary worksheet, students study 5 commonly used words and complete 30 questions. Included are sentence writing, alphabetizing, word puzzles, opposites and illustrating.
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Worksheet
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configuration station #17

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this vocabulary instructional activity, students study 5 commonly used words in a word bank. Students complete 30 varied questions and activities with these words.
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Worksheet
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My Secret Unicorn

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this unicorn activity learning exercise, students complete 6 worksheets all containing unicorn activities. These include: coloring, doing a maze, drawing, completing a word search and a connect the dots activity.