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Author Study: Kevin Henkes

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students use the Internet to access information about author Kevin Henkes and his many books. They read interviews, explore book-related mazes, recipes and activities and complete coloring pages, etc.
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Understanding Simple and Complete Predicates

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students study simple and complete predicates. They explore the simple and complete predicates in a variety of sentences. Students identify both simple and complete predicates. They use simple and complete predicates correctly in their...
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Feeding Red

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking, decoding, rereading and reading with expression, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with the instructor,...
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A-Okay

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete a variety of activities related to the long /a/ sound and the a_e vowel correspondence. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and spell words containing the /ae/ correspondence using letter manipulatives. Students...
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Racing to Read Fast

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify and interpret how to speed up the pace of their reading. Then they read slow and monotonous to avoid making mistakes. Students also read to comprehend the text that they need to identify to vary the rates of speed at...
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Reading Recall

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders review the vowe-consonant-e pattern in association with reading fluently. After identifying the changes made to a phoneme when the letter e is added at the end of the word, 2nd graders practice reading a phonetically...
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Keep Your Caboose

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify the correct way to walk down the hallway, which means to walk without talking, no touching, no cutting, and hand to their sides. They line up to walk down the hallway and that the last student in line is the caboose,...
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Initial Consonant Clusters -1

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this literacy worksheet, students find the words to complete the crossword puzzle. They are focusing on the concept of consonant clusters.
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Plural Nouns

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this plural noun worksheet, students change 9 nouns in a word bank to their plural form. All words are about being at a sports activity.
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Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary worksheet, students review the Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary words that are listed in alphabetical order. Students review 220 words.
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Test Your Patience: Nonsense Quiz

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this testing patience learning exercise, students read through the quiz that doesn't make sense. Students then try to answer the 20 questions to taste their patience.
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Comparisons

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this comparisons instructional activity, students practice comparing things and working with dialogue. Students have eight sets of dialogue where they choose a word or phrase which best fits the sentence.
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New Jersey Acrostic Poem

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this New Jersey acrostic poem activity, students use the letters in NEW JERSEY to begin each new line of poetry about the state of New Jersey.
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Utah Acrostic

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this acrostic poem worksheet, students use the letters in the word Utah to create an acrostic poem. Students write a 4 line acrostic poem.
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Hunting and Gathering in the African Rain Forest

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars demonstrate their knowledge of the Mbuti people hunting and gathering in the African rain forest by writing a story about a Mbuti hunting or gathering food.
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Adding Punctuation

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Pupils explore using correct punctuation in their sentences. they discuss the various punctuation rules. Students practice putting the correct punctuation in a list of sentences.
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"Ehh?" Says Grandpa Edward"

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students engage in an emergent literacy lesson that focuses on phonemic awareness. This lesson plan helps students to identify the correspondence e=/e/ by recognizing the sound of an elderly person ¿¿¿eh?¿¿¿ throughout words.
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Alphabet Activities

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this literacy worksheet, students complete a variety of activities involving the alphabet. They also practice putting words into alphabetical order.
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Rhyme and Define

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this rhyming pairs worksheet, learners write the word from the vocabulary box that rhymes with the word listed. Some words may be used more than once and some not at all. Students also match words from the box to their definition.
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Home Spelling Practice: Grade 1: Short O

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell six words in a list that all contain the short O vowel sound. Students write each word one time on the lines.
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Freckle Juice- Lesson 6

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read Freckle Juice.  In this comprehension lesson, students complete a story map and discuss cause and effect based on readings from Freckle Juice.
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Now Picture This

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this grammar learning exercise, students solve word puzzles that contain prepositional phrases. An example is given, but puzzles have to be made.
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Celebrate Family Story Month

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Creative lesson and activity ideas that record family stories and memories.
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Feelings

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students learn how to express their feelings. In this language development activity, one student reads a sentence off a sentence strip and another student responds with "I feel...". The class discusses why the student feels that way and...