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Muggie Maggie
Students explore the book Muggie Maggie by Beverly Cleary. In this vocabulary instructional activity, students read to discover multiple meaning words, synonyms, antonyms and identify important details. Students make story predictions...
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Plate Tectonic Cycle
Learners explore the Earth's movements by completing worksheets. In this plate tectonics lesson, students define such natural disasters as volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis and mudslides and discuss their connections to plate tectonics....
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Who Said It First? Scavenger Hunt
In this original languages worksheet, students utilize the Internet to access one specific website to find the original languages for eight unique words. Students draw a line from each word in column one to its original language in...
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Complex Sentences Oval Connect
In this complex sentences oval connect activity, learners connect the ovals to make complete sentences. An example is included.
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Plural of Noun Formation Practice #1
In this plural nouns practice worksheet, students read an informative lesson about plural nouns. Students then respond to 20 questions that require them to make the shown nouns plural.
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Grammar, Vocabulary and Idioms
In this online interactive English practice instructional activity, students use their problem solving skills to answer 10 multiple choice and fill in the blank questions. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Grammar, Vocabulary and Idioms: Mixed Levels
In this ESL worksheet, students complete a 10 question multiple choice on-line interactive exercise about grammar, idioms and vocabulary.
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Writing with Vivid Verbs
Students find vivid verbs in literature and use them in their own writing. In this vivid verbs lesson plan, students use a 'Thinking Thesaurus' of major verbs to study common verbs. Students then practice rewriting sentences using vivid...
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Freckle Juice
Students analyze a chapter from the assigned book they are reading. For this reading comprehension lesson, students read chapter four from Freckle Juice by Judy Blume, and discuss the main character, Andrew. Students complete a...
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Muggie Maggie: Lesson 8
Young scholars predict a chapter from a book while learning new vocabulary words. In this reading comprehension instructional activity, students read the book Muggie Maggie, and predict what will happen in the upcoming chapter. Young...
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Abbreviations and Acronyms in Newspapers
Students investigate the purpose and meaning of common abbreviations and acronyms by examining them in newspapers.
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Horrid Homonyms
Students explore homonyms, which are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
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Power Words
Using words can create a power struggle! Using antonyms and synonyms can create a Power Words game! Check out this activity that teachers your class the difference between the two and how to use a thesaurus.
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Dream Book Collage
Learners construct and illustrate a three-page book of their dream(s). Students write a sentence to describe each page.