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Infographics Lesson
An infographic is fantastic way for learners to illustrate their understanding of content, express themselves creatively, and teach others in a manner that is both engaging and informative. While originally designed for a lesson on...
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
Making a Difference
After learning about the effects of water pollution, your class will discuss ways to make people in their community aware of the importance of water conservation. Then, your young environmentalists will write a letter to the local...
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Reciprocal Teaching Strategies Worksheet
In this pre-reading activity worksheet, students respond to 3 questions that require them to list main ideas, generate questions, and clarify unclear items prior to reading a selection.
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Practica de pronunciación y ortografía: fa, fe, fi, fo, fu
Introduce your Spanish language learners to the sounds fa, fe, fi, fo, and fu. As you read the list of 20 words, your pupils will attempt to fill in the missing syllables for each word. Extend this activity by asking learners to list one...
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Practica de pronunciación y ortografía: ta, te, ti, to, tu
Get your language learners listening carefully as you read a list of 20 words using the syllable combinations ta, te, ti, to, or tu. As you read, pupils record the missing letters for each word. Then, after you finish, the class should...
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Using Commas: Interactive Practice
Learners read an overview of comma usage rules and then take an online interactive quiz. First they answer 10 multiple choice questions in which they identify the sentence with incorrect usage. On the next page, they retype a given...
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Practica de pronunciación y ortografía: gue, gui
Spelling in Spanish is so much easier when you know typical syllable combinations. Introduce your class to the combinations gue and gui. Then, as you read the list of 10 words provided, learners attempt to record the correct letters for...
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Hoot: Bloom's Taxonomy- Questioning Strategy
What better way to examine a text than to ask your own questions? Use Bloom's taxonomy to guide kids through Carl Hiaasen's Hoot by asking questions based on knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
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Practica de pronunciación y ortografía: va, ve, vi, vo, vu
Hone pronunciation skills by introducing your class to the syllable combinations va, ve, vi, vo, and vu. As you read the list of 20 words, pupils record the letters they hear. Then, as a class, pronounce each word aloud.
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Practica de pronunciación y ortografía: que, qui
Can your learners hear the difference between the word que and qui? As you read a list of 20 words with the syllable combinations of que or qui, listeners attempt to record the correct syllable combination in each word.
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Time Words/Tenses Review
Focus on correct verb usage with your English language learners. There are 42 sentences listed; can your class correct them? The sentences are short, and the major errors are in verb tense.
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Practica de pronunciación y ortografía: ra, re, ri, ro, ru
Complete a listening activity with your emerging Spanish speakers! As you read a list of 20 words, each listener records the missing syllables for each word spoken. This sheet focuses on the syllable combinations of ra, re, ri, ro, and...
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Prepositional Phrase Recognition Practice
Print the preposition chart on one piece of paper, and give your learners the exercise on a separate piece of paper. After reading through some of the prepositions listed on the chart, let learners try to identify the prepositional...
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4-H Photography Advanced Activity Pages
Three pages of photography activities will help your 4-H members work on the advanced life skill of "Communicating." Activities include a checklist of projects, a timeline of the history of the camera, a graphic organizer for reflection,...
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Lesson Plan 3: Great Book, Gross Book
It's time for your scholars to become book reviewers! Start with a fun review of foods: are they good or gross? Learners apply these evaluation techniques to books, recording their thoughts on large pieces of butcher paper. Simply have...
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Sentence Patterns
Supplement instruction on sentence patterns and types by providing this reference sheet for your class members. Included on this page are definitions of many different sentence patterns and an example of each. A useful item for pupils to...
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Sail on the Vocabulary Ship
Students make paper ships on which to identify and write root words, prefixes and suffixes.
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Home Spelling Practice Unit 36
In this spelling and cursive writing practice worksheet, 6th graders read a list of spelling words written in cursive and copy them on the lines. Students write 20 words.
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Oprah Winfrey Opens New School in Africa
Students locate Africa and share their knowledge of the continent, then read a news article about Oprah Winfrey building a school in South Africa. In this current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a discussion and...
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Academic Vocabulary Building Activities
Suggestions for using Roberto Marzano's six-step approach to academic vocabulary instruction are detailed in a packet that includes graphic organizers, worksheets, and activities.
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Improve Your Spelling with the Visual Thesaurus
Using Visual Thesaurus software, class members participate in a computer-based spelling bee. Then they work in groups to analyze the words and use deductive reasoning to infer spelling patterns. They then present one of their "rules" to...
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Using Context Clues
Middle schoolers receive a handout that lists the five types of context clues. The class divides up into groups of three or four, and each group chooses five unfamiliar words. They write a multiple-choice question for each of their five...
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Whose Feat?
Play a vocabulary game with words from an article about Savion Glover's contribution to the film "Happy Feet." Then, small groups of young scholars design and create original movie advertisements using vivid vocabulary to give Glover the...
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Use The Polar Express to Develop Rich and Detailed Writing
Bring The Polar Express into your middle school classroom to spark the creativity of your emerging writers.