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Alphabet Picture Prompts: The Letter D
For this letter N worksheet, students write their own story using the printable worksheet the teacher creates for the alphabet letter D.
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Alphabet Picture Prompts: The Letter X
In this letter N worksheet, students write their own story using the printable worksheet the teacher creates for the alphabet letter X.
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Alphabet Picture Prompts: The Letter M
In this letter N instructional activity, students write their own story using the printable instructional activity the teacher creates for the alphabet letter M.
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The Very Clumsy Click Beetle
Second graders determine what it means to be clumsy before listening to Eric Carle's, The Very Clumsy Click Beetle. They examine the part where the click beetle does flips before drawing three frames that show the beetle flipping. For...
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Understanding Sequence
In this sequencing learning exercise, students read a story and number the events in the story. Students number 6 events from the story and put them in order from first to last.
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Which Way?
In this story events worksheet, students read a story about a child caught in a lightning storm. Students place six events in the correct sequence by using the numbers 1-6.
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Going On a Picnic
In this reading and math worksheet, students read a story about two girls who grow and sell produce. Students answer 5 multiple choice questions about the text that will involve math operations.
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Bank On It! The King and the Enchantress
In this language arts activity, learners fill in the 10 blanks of a story with words from the word blank. The activity is a short cloze activity.
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Mr. Granger Exercises: Order of Events
In this story sequence worksheet, students read a passage about a man who begins an exercise regimen. Students place 8 events in the correct sequence by using the numbers 1-8.
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An Author Study of Jan Brett
Jan Brett, the author of many beloved children's books, is well worth a study. Try out this winter-themed unit, which covers areas of language arts as well as art, math, science, and social studies.
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Which Way? Ordering Story Events
In this order of events instructional activity, students read a story about a boy joining a baseball team the correctly order a series of given events from the story. Worksheet contains a link to additional activities.
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Which Way? Ordering Story Events
In this order of events worksheet, students read a story, then number lines to correctly order the story events. Worksheet contains links to additional activities.
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Art to Zoo: Kiting Up The Sky: The Vehicles of Understanding
Learners gain perspective on the importance of kites by reading about and discussing how kites have been used throughout history. In this kite exploration lesson, students follow instructions to construct a kite to assist them in...
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Descriptive Writing Using the Book Rumpelstiltskin
Use the fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin to teach your third grade class about descriptive writing. Following a teacher read-aloud of the story, the class brainstorms a list of adjectives describing the main character. Students use this list...
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Assessing Reading Fluency Using the Flip Video
Utilizing a video camera, learners will read a story while being recorded. Later, they analyze the footage. After identifying their strengths and weaknesses with the teacher, they discuss reading fluency techniques. Adaptation: Instead...
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Cops and Robbers
Second graders observe the teacher model writing a letter to the author of the book, COPS AND ROBBERS. They then compare the story structure of the book to those of FUNNYBONES and identify the setting, characters and theme.
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Good Health from the Ground Up
Students examine healthy food choices and the benefits of growing their own food for consumption. They read the story "Favorite Things" and illustrate 5 favorite things. Students discuss types of foods that are healthy choices and why it...
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Understanding 10: Backwards and Forwards
Help your young mathematicians completely master 10 by practicing one-to-one correspondence, number recognition, and recording numbers displayed. They make 10 with groups of two-different colored cubes and color in 10-frames to show how...
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The Wonderful World of Slugs
Examine a slug? Of course, what else would a 2nd grader do with it? Pupils use clues and go on a slug hunt, read a slug story, or make a cooperative group mural of a slug's habitat. While older learners catalog slugs, go on a slug hunt,...
Michigan State University
Gases Matter
Young scientists learn that seeing isn't necessarily believing when it comes to the states of matter. After performing a fun class demonstration that models the difference between solids, liquids, and gases, children complete a series of...
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Which Way???
In this ordering events in a story worksheet, students read the story and number the sentences in the correct sequence. Students fill in 6 blanks.
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What is History? Timelines and Oral Histories
Students consider how we learn about the past and discuss how the framing of history is always done by the person who is telling it. They construct a personal and class timelines, compare two or more accounts of the same event and record...
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Learners understand the process of recycling. They investigate how it improves the environment. They read the story "Don't Pollute" by Stan and Jan Berenstein. They analyze trash and sort it into bins.
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5 W Questions
Second graders practice asking the 5 W questions by reading a Boxcar Children book. In this journalism lesson, 2nd graders read a single story from the Boxcar Children series and answer the 5 W's about each specific chapter. Students...