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Question Jumbles
For this sentence structure practice worksheet, students rearrange jumbled words to form 16 questions and then create their own.
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Interview a Friend
In this interview question, students first read a set of 10 interview questions to ask a friend, then interview and write a page about the person, then write a creative story about that person based on the interview.
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The Battle to Save Bats
Students investigate the disease that is causing the global decline of bats. In this animal health activity, students read an article which discusses white-nose syndrome, the number one killer of bats. Students discuss ways to keep...
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Map Skills
Students explore geography by creating a poster presentation in class. In this mapping lesson plan, students identify the different components featured on a modern day map and how to utilize them in order to navigate. Students read a...
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Conflicts and Win-Win Solutions
Young scholars examine the healthy ways to dealing with conflicts. In this conflict management lesson, students examine what problems lead to conflicts, and how to turn a situation into a win-win. The young scholars utilize a conflict...
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Final Topic Selection
Read The Quicksand Book by Tomie dePaola while taking notes about the story. Perform a read-aloud, and work your way through the text with your youngsters. With this plan, learners also write about ideas from a previous day, and detail...
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Collective Nouns: Animal Match
Discover the collective nouns of 10 animals with a learning exercise that asks scholars to match a singular noun to its corresponding plural form.
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Total English Elementary: Next Year, I'm Going to...
In this English review worksheet, students consolidate the use of "going to" as they write 18 sentences following the prompts.
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ESL Using Adjectives to Describe People
In this ESL using adjectives to describe people learning exercise, students match each small clip art picture of a person to the adjective that describes him/her. They complete 8 examples using words such as tall, handsome, ugly, and short.
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ESL Match the Picture to the Corresponding Word Matching Worksheet
In this ESL tool words matching worksheet, students examine black and white clip art pictures of tools. They match the tool to the word that names it in 10 examples.
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How Far Will It Roll?
Third graders investigate physics by conducting an experiment. In this gravity lesson, 3rd graders create a ramp using books and paper which they roll a marble down. Students utilize the scientific method to predict and record data...
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Eating Out
In this eating out worksheet, students practice matching ten food items on the right to their appropriate pictures on the left.
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It's Your Opinion
Everyone has a different opinion about the characters they read about in books. Have your class explore forming an opinion and finding evidence to support it as they read and discuss what they think about a particular character. They...
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Flowers to Dye For
Students observe biology by completing a plant experiment in class. For this botany lesson, students discuss the anatomy related to a plant and how roots and stems are necessary to its survival. Students utilize food coloring and examine...
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Back to the Age of Exploration
Students explore world history by researching explorers of North America. In this famous explorers lesson, students research one specific explorer of their choice and identify his successes and failures by utilizing the Internet....
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One Thing Leads to Another
Young scholars analyze the storytelling methods in wordless books. In this visual storytelling instructional activity, students write a story that correspond to a specific wordless picture book. Young scholars create their own wordless...
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Developing Listening Skills
Being a good listener is key to building and maintaining positive relationships. Use this lesson as a way to help children connect with others by becoming active listeners and improving their listening skills.
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ELA Common Core Checklists for K-6
In the hustle and bustle of life in the classroom, it's easy for teachers to lose track of the standards they have taught, and those that still need to be addressed. This Common Core checklist provides educators with an easy-to-use...
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Dragon Land
Help writers recognize how word order affects meaning, discover new words, and confirm or check meaning writing. They will explore how punctuation helps a reader understand what is written and the connections between punctuation,...
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Cartoon Stories
All ages love to engage in cartoon writing –- little do they know that they actually learn quite a bit from it! In an instructional session focused on literacy syntax and vocabulary, your pupils work cooperatively to draw six pictures...
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Learning Names of Articles of Clothing
What to wear today; such a vexing question. Spend some time introducing the names, fabrics, types, colors, and functions of various articles of clothing to your class. Each child will take turns asking each other what they are wearing....
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Prepositions
Elementary schoolers view and study ten pictures of the location of a ball adjacent to a box. They decide where the ball is and match it to its appropriate preposition on the right. A good language arts lesson!
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Predicate Adjectives
Focus on identifying predicate adjectives in sentences. Use the first sheet to review adjectives and predicate adjectives. Several examples are provided along with brief explanations. Then, move on to the second sheet to put this...
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Actions
In this ESL verbs word and picture matching instructional activity, learners analyze 7 pictures that depict various actions. Students read the question and answer it in a complete sentence that tells about the action in the picture.