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Newspaper in the Classroom
Newspapers aren't only for reading—they're for learning skills, too! A journalism unit provides three lessons each for primary, intermediate, and secondary grades. Lessons include objectives, materials, vocabulary, and procedure, and...
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Abbreviations and Acronyms in Newspapers
Learners investigate the purpose and meaning of common abbreviations and acronyms by examining them in newspapers.
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Using Details from Text to Identify Author's Purpose
Explore writing techniques by analyzing newspapers and magazines with middle schoolers. They will collaborate in small groups to read local news stories and identify the main ideas and author's intent. They also utilize an information...
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Creating a Digital Newspaper
Students create a digital newspaper. In this digital newspaper lesson, students review the sections of a newspaper and brainstorm ideas for their paper. Students complete a schools news report, student interview, opinion page, sports...
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Responsible Youth in the News
Learners research newspapers and magazines for articles about young people being responsible or being irresponsible. In this responsibility lesson plan, students discuss responsibility and the articles. Learners answer questions in...
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Natural Resources
Students explore Iowa geography and topographic maps. For this geography and topographic maps lesson, student investigate maps, newspapers, Iowa flora and fauna. Students gain an understanding of how different landforms can be identified...
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Numbers in the News
Students examine numbers used in the real world by reading newspapers. In this number identification lesson, students explore popular newspapers and attempt to find numbers in prices, temperatures, dates, sports scores, etc. Students...
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How Do You Choose Snacks and Other Foods?
Students discuss peer pressure pertaining to healthy eating decisions. In this personal health lesson, students identify reasons why they make poor eating decisions and how to ignore food temptations. Students complete the "Rate That...
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A Letter to the Editor Worksheet
In this letter to the editor worksheet, students use the provided phrases and the provided outline for a letter to write their own letters to editors of newspapers.
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Legislative Debate: The Importance and Role of Debate within the Legislative Process
Learners learn the legislative process as they debate real-life issues that affect students within their age group. To prepare for the debate, learners consult newspapers, selected articles, case studies, and other media resources....
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To Quote or Not to Quote
Quotation marks are the focus of this resource. In it, youngsters discover how to correctly use punctuation marks. It is meant to be carried out over a three-day period. You could shorten it, but I wouldn't. The activities are...
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Active to Passive
Do they inspect the trains, or are the trains inspected? Change twelve sentences from the active voice into the passive voice with a grammar worksheet.
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Basic English Sentence Patterns
A simple set of practice sheets deals with sentence structure and patterns. The 117-page packet includes 10 units of skills, varying from identifying parts of speech in a sentence to writing the correct part to make a sentence complete....
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Too Many Types Of Titles
Direct instruction on punctuation rules for titles is followed by collaborative practice in class. Two worksheets with aesthetically engaging graphic design provide practice. For 12 examples, small groups either underline, italicize, or...
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The Delicate Balance - Iowa's Natural Resources
Discover the natural resources in Iowa by studying it's history. For this environmental lesson, your students will observe a topographical map of Iowa and identify where its most valuable resources are. They complete an Iowa name...
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Jack-O-Latern Lesson
Have a Happy Halloween and build strong oral language skills. Special needs Pupils functioning at a moderate level can practice sequencing, writing lists, and using oral language by explaining how they carve a pumpkin.
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Hooverville Diorama
Fifth graders explore life during the Great Depression. In this Great Depression lesson plan, 5th graders gain an understanding of what life was like during the Great Depression. Students draw conditions that families lived in and...
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Eating Out
In this eating out worksheet, students practice matching ten food items on the right to their appropriate pictures on the left.
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Where is the Soccer Ball?
In this prepositions worksheet, students determine by multiple choice where the soccer ball is positioned by the box in eight pictures.
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Vocabulary Review
In this vocabulary review worksheet, students determine synonyms in sentences. Students answer ten multiple choice sentences.
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Varied Verb Tense: Sentence Maze
In this recognizing verb tenses in sentences worksheet, students use the correct tense verbs to connect the words in sentences and find their way from the beginning of the maze to the end. Students connect nine sentences.
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Varied Verb Tense Sentence Maze
In this varied verb tenses practice worksheet, students connect the words in each sentence to find their way through the maze.
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Commas
Fifth graders discuss when a comma is necessary in a sentence. In this language arts lesson, 5th graders understand that commas are used as a pause and help the reader understand ideas better. Students find an example of each example...
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The Farmer Cares for the Land
Students explore farming by creating visual demonstrations. In this agriculture lesson plan, students read assigned text about a farmer's duty and identify the events that have taken place in the history of agriculture. Students...
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