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Understanding A Culture Through Storytelling

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore Japanese folk tales and create a performance that tells one of the Japanese folk stories.
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Earth Connections

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the concept of the planet Earth and its connection to the Native American traditional beliefs of 'Mother Earth.' Students describe and illustrate the Native American beliefs for 'Mother Earth.' Students interpret words...
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Won't You Celebrate With Me: The Joy of Lucille Clifton

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars explore the concept of poetry through movement and song. They watch Lucille Clifton read her poem, and write their own poem.
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I Am A Musician- Interview A Musician

For Teachers K - 8th
Students, as a class, interview musician to find out more about him/her as an individual. Students then write thank you notes and include, by naming or drawing, one fact learned about the musician.
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Printable Blank Handwriting Paper

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this handwriting skills worksheet, young scholars practice writing on a free writing topic on the lined paper provided for them to write on.
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Advanced Short Stories - "A Birthday Surprise"

For Students 3rd - 4th
In these short stories worksheets, students read the basic and advanced version of the story 'A Birthday Surprise.' Students answer 3 comprehension questions and 4 vocabulary questions.
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The Quatrain

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students analyze the quatrain structure and rhyming in the song, "Puddles". They use this format to create their own quatrain lyrics for a song then they share their song ang revise it.
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Prefixes and Roots

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this prefixes and roots worksheet, students complete 2 pages of exercises about word roots and their meanings. The root "phone" and its meaning is used on the page.
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Bank On It! Worksheet Cinco de Mayo

For Students 4th - 5th
In this Cinco de May worksheet, students read a passage about the celebration of Cinco de Mayo in the United States. Students fill in ten missing words to make the text understandable. The words will be of the student's own choice; there...
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Bank on It! Cinco De Mayo Activity

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this Cinco De Mayo worksheet, student fill in blanks to complete a paragraph, using words from a word bank at the top of the worksheet. Worksheet contains links to additional activities.
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28 Things to Do in the Library

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this library activity learning exercise, students complete the 28 sentences with a word or phrase from the word bank that describe the things to do in the library.
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Taking a Stand

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students make connections with cultures (their own and others'), their identity, heritage, traditions, and symbols and examine the richness that diversity brings to communities.
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Mystery Words - Part Two - School Terms

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students increase their vocabularies with the mystery words activity. For this vocabulary lesson, students solve the mystery words using clues.
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Study of an Artist

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research an artist, write a short report and do an oral presentation.
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Nature and Haiku Poetry

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students compose haiku poems and recognize how cultures value nature and natural forces through the study of Japanese poetry. This lesson includes a bibliography of resources.
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Past Progressive / Past Tense Practice

For Students 4th - 5th
In this past progressive verb worksheet, students change 10 verbs in parentheses to past tense to fit the sentences. Students then change 4 verbs of being to past tense to form questions.
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Exploring Different Types of Written Text

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this text analysis instructional activity, students examine different types of texts and identify each one by matching them from a list. Students determine what each text communicates and for whom.
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Ask Personal Questions

For Students 4th - 5th
In this personal questions worksheet, students practice asking each other questions to complete a profile analysis. Students ask and answer 20 questions.
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Various words: 18

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this various words worksheet, students choose the correct answer based on number of years, prepositions, and completing sentences. Students complete 7 problems.
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Native Americans

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students are introduced to the culture of a variety of Native American tribes through literature and related activities.
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Using the News

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students give oral predictions to news articles. They discuss and revise their interpretations of the content material.
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An Opening Time Line Project

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create a time line of their life starting at birth and each year after that up to their current age. They write and illustrate one important thing for each year, and place their time lines on poster board.
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Social Studies: What Is Folklife?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students read an essay about folklife and record their thoughts in journals. After discussing the terms associated with the topic, they complete worksheets on types of folklife, pop, elite, and folk cultures. Depending on the age group,...
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Edit a Friendly Letter

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this letter editing worksheet, students read a letter to "mom," then recopy it on another sheet of paper and correct all errors found.