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Learning Clothes Vocabulary
Welcome to our fashion show! English language learners of any age will like this online, interactive website. This lesson focuses on clothing vocabulary, and there are several activities to reinforce the target vocabulary. There are...
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Using Word Referents
Learners edit an existing piece of writing focusing of improving word choice. They create lists of words that can be used in place of the main topic and rewrite the piece using the new vocabulary.
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German Fashion Show
Learners explore traditional and modern German clothing items. After observing German folk costumes, students match vocabulary words to the pictures. They bring clothing for a fashion show, describe the clothing and express their...
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Shades of Meaning
Students use words with similar meanings to analyze implied meanings. In this word connotation lesson, the teacher introduces the activity by asking students whether a new product should be advertised as "newfangled" or "cutting-edge." ...
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Anatomy of a Gown: Colonial Clothing
Young scholars investigate the fashion of women in the Colonial period and it's effect on women today. In this women's history lesson, students read literature regarding where gowns came from, who wore them, and what they looked like....
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FLEECE AS WHITE AS SNOW?
Hand out student worksheets. Discuss and review the meaning of the vocabulary words found at the top of the worksheet. Ask learners for general definitions, then share the background material.
2. Have students read the information on the...
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Scrabble Fitness
Hop, skip, and jump your way to picking up letters for a word spelling scrabble game. Get a little aerobic conditioning in while having fun with words. Keep the game simple for the younger learners. You might try putting the letters face...
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Out of the Dust 2
Students, after reading the novel, Out of the Dust, describe the language used in the novel. They cite examples of words or phrases that are from that time period. Then they are given sentences and must rewrite them in modern-day language.
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Wind Provides Electricity for Homes, Schools
Students complete a KWL chart, then read a news article about the comeback of windmills. In this current events instructional activity, the teacher introduces the article with a KWL chart and vocabulary activity, then students read the...
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Machinery In Society
Students explore technology by completing a worksheet in class. In this common machinery lesson plan, students define the different designs that make simple machines work such as wheels, pulleys and gears. Students utilize verbs to...
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Mode, Median, and Mean
Young scholars define mode, median and mean, and perform mathematical operations to determine these 3 terms. In this statistics/math lesson plan, students practice memory strategies to help distinguish between mode, median, and mean....
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Feelings
Students learn how to express their feelings. In this language development lesson, one student reads a sentence off a sentence strip and another student responds with "I feel...". The class discusses why the student feels that way and...
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Fountain Pen Makes a Comeback in Scotland
Students read and discuss a news article about a school in Scotland that is using fountain pens to write with. They answer article comprehension questions, participate in a discussion about the importance of handwriting, write their...
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The Write Thing to Do
Students examine the proper way to write formal business letters. Students apply the skill to write letters to appropriate environmental protection agencies.
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Jobs
Young scholars discuss jobs that could make you happy or unhappy and read articles about people who are happy and unhappy in their jobs. In this jobs lesson plan, students also match jobs to things they work with.