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Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss the importance of using adjectives in writing. They separate into five groups, each group is given a bag with an object inside to describe using just one sense. They write a description of a Hershey's Kiss using adjectives.
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The Interview of a Lifetime

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study the process of creating an interview by role playing as a reporter who has the opportunity to interview one of the survivors of the Titanic disaster. They ask only five questions in this interview of a lifetime therefore...
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Global Warming and Climate Change

For Teachers K - 9th
Students explore the environment by writing a persuasive letter. In this global warming lesson, students identify the key problems with our energy consumption in the United States. Students complete worksheets and write a letter...
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What's the Best Deal?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore number sense by solving consumer math problems. In this pattern identification lesson, students analyze a list of numerical and geometric patterns while predicting the future outcome. Students utilize inference skills to...
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Introduction to Ocean Grazers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore biology by creating a poster with classmates. In this oceanography lesson, students identify the importance of coral reefs to the ocean's ecology and examine a food web of ocean animals. Students define a list of...
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Summary Lesson Plans

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students can learn how to write summaries with the help of graphic organizers, and summarization lessons.
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Guided Writing: Writing a Story on the OHP

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice fluency as well as story-writing skills. They work together to prepare and write their stories. Students are told that they are going to write a story entitled 'A Wonderful Day' and that they are going to be the...
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6 Traits: Voice

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Learners explore the trait of voice. In this language arts instructional activity, students focus on the writing trait of voice. Learners view a video and practice writing.
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Electricity for Kids! It's Shocking!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate the world of electricity by completing a KWL sheet. In this energy lesson, students view PowerPoint presentations about electricity, who invented it, and how it is used today. Students define several electricity...
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Review of Personification and Alliteration

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students study personification and alliteration in various fiction texts. In this literary devices lesson, students use various texts to identify the literary devices of personification and alliteration. Students use examples of both...
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Nouns

For Students 3rd
In this recognizing nouns worksheet, 3rd graders look at a list of 12 nouns and then organize each one under 1 of 3 categories: person, place or thing.
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Writing Strategies: A Writer's Notebook

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this writing worksheet, students read 12 strategies for keeping a writer's notebook. Worksheet is designed to be signed by student and parent when completed.
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Poetry

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students write a poem. In this language arts lesson, students discuss what they hear and see in a garden. Students write a poem about the sights, sounds and smells of the garden.
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Writing: Advertisements

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners explore these web pages to explore how to write good advertisements.
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Checkmate: Chess, and the connection to the Middle Ages

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students investigate the different aspects of Medieval Times and the connection to chess.  In this world history instructional activity, students complete a chart answering questions about the lifestyles of men and women in the Medieval...
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Luscious Language Boxes

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils experience a writing activity aimed at spicing up their writing. They use the classroom Luscious Language Box to add creative parts of speech to their writing.
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The Owl Tree

For Students 3rd
In this literature learning exercise set, 3rd graders complete 10 pages of activities that go along with each chapter of The Owl Tree. They fill in graphic organizers, answer true or false questions, retell the story, and fill in the...
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Similes and Metaphors

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use similes and metaphors to enhance their creative writing. In this creative writing worksheet, students learn the definitions of and differences between similes and metaphors. They practice making similes using the list given...
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Cinquain Poems

For Teachers 2nd - 10th
Learners write five-line, diamond shaped poems that are very easy to write then submit one through an automatic PIZZAZZ form.
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Trace and Write Letter A

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
In these D'Nealian handwriting worksheets, students trace the alphabet upper and lowercase letters. Students then complete several coloring activities to help with letter recognition.
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I Went Walking Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students study writing structure and patterns in repetitive texts. In this writing structure lesson plan, students read portions of a story and predict what will come next based on the repetitive text. Students create their own...
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The History of Furniture

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students investigate historic furniture.  In this art history lesson, students compare and contrast two chairs from different periods.  Students create a collage from images of the past.
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Continents

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars investigate World Geography by researching the different continents. In this Asian Geography lesson, students discuss the continent of Pangaea and color a worksheet of the continents. Young scholars locate China on the map...
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Investigating the Soil

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the Earth's crust by researching pH levels and acidity. In this environmental safety lesson, students identify the pros and cons of acidity within soil and how it affects plants. Students collaborate in a pH level...

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