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Every-Day Edit: Basketball's Beginnings
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about basketball's beginnings. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Every Day Edit - Yankee Stadium
In this everyday editing instructional activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Yankee Stadium. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Every-Day Edit: Fastest Sport in the World
In this proof reading instructional activity, students read a paragraph about Jai Alai, Arguably "The Fastest Sport in the World." Students locate and correct 10 errors in the paragraph.
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It's All Greek and Latin to Me!
Give your pupils a skill they can use for life by introducing the use and comprehension of Latin and Greek root words.
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Prepositional Phrases
Focus on prepositions and prepositional phrases, is the goal of this game of charades. The clues are based on maps that they have drawn out of a hat, and describe how to get to a certain location in a town using prepositions. Note:...
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Explanation Expedition
In this clever research lesson, student groups research certain cultural aspects of a foreign country, and fill out a worksheet with notes. In this note taking lesson, 5th graders write about the environment, entertainment, art, and...
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Learning the Component and Information Found in the Newspaper
Fifth graders work in a group to identify and reference the index, front page, metro page, state and local pages, as well as the sports, comics and classifieds in the newspaper 90% of the time during the game of "Identifying and...
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A Little Fun with Adjectives
Students examine the rules for the use and formation of adjectives and play a game of tic-tac-toe to determine the correct form of the word to be used.
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Mexican Charades
Students explore communication by participating in a game of charades. In this visual storytelling lesson, students utilize their acting abilities and physical prowess to communicate Mexican imagery to their classmates without the use of...
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Happy Thankgiving: Traditions in Culture
Learners relate their own Thanksgiving experiences to those of the past through colonial games, Thanksgiving story books, and personal interviews. They develop a concept of how to celebrate Thanksgiving and plan a class time celebration,...
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Food Makes the World Go Round
Fifth graders investigate the origins of foods they eat while they consider social justice issues. In this food sources lesson, 5th graders play a game and then research food distribution, food security, and hunger in the world today....
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Speech Therapy Students Interact Between Schools
Learners use technology to improve their communication skills and have the ability to interact with other speech students attending other elementary schools. Through riddles, games, and other activities, learners attain their speech...
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Spelling Tag
Students participate in a tag game to practice their weekly spelling words. Five students are chosen as "it" and run around chasing the other students. When a student is tagged, he/she must freeze until the teacher asks him/her a...
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Cinderella Stories From Around the World
Fifth graders are read a variety of Cinderella stories from around the world. In groups, they complete a comparison chart for each story and how it compares to the American version. To end the lesson, they participate in a fairy tale...
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Who Can Do It?
In this language arts instructional activity, learners practice oral speaking as well as get to know classmates. Students circulate through the class asking the 12 icebreaker challenges and recording names of those who can do them....
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Irregular Past Tense Verbs
In this verb worksheet, students fill in blanks with a past tense irregular verb to correctly complete sentences. A website reference for additional resources is given.
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Fairy Tale Word Scramble
For this language arts worksheet, students analyze 8 scrambled words; all pertain to fairy tales. Students decipher each word and write it correctly on the line. This is a challenging puzzle.
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Bashing business
Students engage in a game in order to perform a Language Arts vocabulary review. The use of the game is valuable in order to maintain student attention and motivation throughout the instructional activity.
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Missing Vowels-- Computer Words--nouns 1
In this language arts and technology instructional activity, learners analyze words that are related to computers by filling in missing letters in 20 words with a, e, i, o or u.
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80 Opposite Adjectives-- Complete the Table-- Tough Version 2
In this language arts worksheet, students analyze a list of 40 adjectives and next to each one, write the opposite. These are challenging and require careful word selection.
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Complete the Sentences 9-- Intermediate Level
In this language arts worksheet, students read 15 sentences which contain missing words. Choosing from the 4 possibilities given, students complete the sentence with the appropriate word.
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Just Vowels-- Oscar-winning Film Directors 2
In this language arts and film worksheet, students analyze 10 names of Oscar-winning film directors. Only the vowels are displayed. Students fill in the blanks. Example: --oo-- A--e- (Woody Allen).
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Rhymes
Students complete rhyming word activities. In this rhyming words lesson plan, students play an online game for rhyming words and recite a well known nursery rhyme as a class. Students pick out words from the poem that rhyme and...
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When Can I Use "When"?
In this language arts learning exercise, students practice the correct use of "when" with past and future tense verbs. Students read examples of correct usage, them write 10 sentences each for: past continuous verbs, definite future...