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Cultural Diversity
Students examine their relationships to cultural groups and make conclusions about their diverse roles in different cultures. They decide why people play multiple roles in society while creating a cultural treasure chest.
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Phrasal Verbs - Thinking
In this phrasal verbs worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences at the ends that are missing verbs. Students complete this for 8 sentences.
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Art Analysis and Creative Writing
Students write an acrostic poem and analyze a work of art. In this art lesson plan, students look at a picture and answer questions about it, write a poem, write about the setting in the painting they saw, and answer short questions...
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I, Spy
Fifth graders utilize the library in order to find the answers to three questions about The Revolutionary War. For this writing and library skills lesson, 5th graders pretend they are a Spy, and write the answers in a fictional letter to...
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Helen Keller
In this Helen Keller worksheet, students read about the life of the activist, then complete a variety of comprehension activities. An answer key is included.
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Personal Hieroglyphs
Students explore and compare hieroglyphic writing to the modern English alphabet through the creation of personal hieroglyphs.
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NOVEL PARTNERS
Students read novels, completing a weekly assignment as they read. They meet weekly with another student to discuss the readings and assignments.
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Alliteration
Students write and illustrate a sentence which names a letter of the alphabet. The sentence should have subject, verb, describing words, and incorporate alliterative techniques.
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Anansi Ties to Steal All the Wisdom of the World
In this story activity, students read "Anansi Tries to Steal All the Wisdom in the World," then answer discussion, comprehension and extension questions and conduct simple research on the Akan people.
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Searching for Images in Poetry
Young scholars are introduced to the concepts of similes, metaphors and personification. In groups or individually, they read different poems identifying the similes, metaphors and instances of personification in each. They record all...
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The Great Art of Henri Matisse
Students discover the artistic works of Henri Matisse, and examine what his work means. In this art lesson plan, students observe the different paintings/collages of Henri Matisse, eventually creating works of their own based on his style.
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Friendly Letter Format
For this Westward Ho worksheet, students write a friendly letter and fill out a cause and effect chart for the story Westward Ho. Students complete 7 rows in the chart.
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Author's Purpose
Fifth graders determine the meaning of author's purpose. In this author's purpose lesson, 5th graders apply the PIE (persuade, inform, entertain) strategy to determine why an author wrote a piece of writing. They examine passages and...
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Poetry Voices
Students investigate the performance aspect of poetry by reading, writing and discussing poetry pieces.
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Blindfolded Building
Young scholars build a Lego design and then work with a partner to reproduce that design. They guide the building of the reproduction by description only and then check their work.
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Top it all off with a Topic Sentence
Students practice the strategy of locating the topic sentence in a paragraph to increase their understanding of text as well as becoming better readers. They view and locate the topic sentence in paragraph 3, page 107, from "All About...
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Worksheet 10 Crossword
In this crossword puzzle worksheet, students read 8 clues and fit their answers in a crossword puzzle that has no word bank. There is no theme.
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Crossword- Worksheet 10
In this crossword puzzle instructional activity, learners read 8 clues and fit their answers in a crossword puzzle grid. There is no word bank and no apparent theme to the puzzle.
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Worksheet 16 Crossword
In this crossword puzzle activity, students read 15 clues and fit their answers in a crossword puzzle. There is no theme to this puzzle and no word bank.
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Conflict Corner
In this conflict resolution learning exercise, students act as a host to a radio show where people with conflicts call in to get advice. Students are given 4 situations to write a response including a description, why resolving is...
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Biography/Autobiography
For this biography and autobiography worksheet, students read 2 excerpts that are 1 paragraph in length. Students then respond to 4 short answer questions.
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Ben Franklin's 300th Birthday Bash
Pupils read a story about Benjamin Franklin's 300th birthday and answer vocabulary and comprehension questions about it. In this Benjamin Franklin birthday lesson plan, students explore Mr. Franklin's role as an author, editor,...
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Question Jumbles
In this sentence structure practice worksheet, students rearrange jumbled words to form 16 questions and then create their own.
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Talking About the Present Crossword
In this crossword puzzle worksheet, students read ten clues and determine the correct word to fit into a crossword puzzle. This puzzle has no apparent theme.