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I Have a Dream
Students use flip video cameras to film a speech about the 'I Have a Dream' speech. In this poetry and speech lesson, students listen to the speech from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Students memorize part of the speech.
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Our Poetic Planet : Writing Poems about the Earth
Students share their thoughts regarding nature. For this poetry lesson, students compose poems in different formats that feature weather and clouds.
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Spring-Aloud Read
Students study the season of spring and create stories about the season. In this spring season lesson, students read books about spring and discuss the season. Students then color and create a mini-book about Spring.
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Let's Write a Grant Proposal!
Students write a grant proposal in support of a local youth philanthropy project. In this grant writing lesson, students research online youth in philanthropy projects. Students complete a worksheet about their research. Students then...
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Write On! Step by Step Paragraph and Report Writing
Students plan and write paragraphs while integrating other core subject areas. In this paragraph writing lesson, students complete 5 lessons to practice writing paragraphs. Students incorporate various core subjects into their paragraph...
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Comic and Film Strip Writing
Students write a funny story and illustrate it in a comic strip. In this comic strip lesson, students study comic strips and determine the plot of each story. Students then write a short story and illustrate it using a comic strip...
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Reading and Writing Program Using Core Knowledge Literature
Students improve their reading and writing skills using Step Up to Writing and Six Traits of Writing techniques. Students complete a Robinson Crusoe vocabulary crossword, a Treasure Island character analysis web, reading comprehension...
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The "Write" Stuff: Strategies and Conventions for Expository Writing
Students develop their expository writing skills while integrating various other subjects. In this writing skills lesson, students complete 4 multiple activity lessons to improve their expository writing skills.
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Persuade Me
Students develop their writing skills. In this writing strategies lesson plan, students examine persuasive writing techniques on order to write persuasive mailers.
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Zooming In, Zooming Out
Students develop their writing skills. In this writing lesson, students play a word game to help them formulate a plan to write descriptions of people or objects using descriptive words.
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Standardized Writing Prompts
In this writing prompt learning exercise, students use their writing skills to write a composition based on the picture and prompt regarding a robot.
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Working with Tenses
In this verb tenses review worksheet, students examine 15 sentences and fill in the blanks in each sentence with the appropriate tenses of the listed verbs.
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Writing: Parallel Structure
For this writing with parallel structure worksheet, students examine 20 sentences and note whether they are correctly or incorrectly written in terms of parallel structure.
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Beginning Sentence Completion 7
For this sentence completion worksheet, students read the sentences and select the best word to complete the sentence. Students complete 12 sentences.
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Eliminate "To Be" Verbs
Students remove to beverbs from their writing. In this verb usage lesson, students write strategies from eliminating to be verbs, then locate the verbs in their writing and eliminate as many as possible.
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Writing with Strong Verbs
Students use strong verbs in their writing. In this verbs in writing instructional activity, students locate the verbs in their writing, then identify the verbs that are weak and make revisions.
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Write an Easter Story
For this Easter story worksheet, young scholars use the story element format to help them form a plan for their Easter story. Students write about the setting, characters, conflict, and conclusion.
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Writing a Letter
For this letter writing worksheet, students practice writing a letter by completing each section of the activity including the address section, the body of the letter, and the signature.
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The Fair
In this story completion learning exercise, students read the beginning section of the story 'The Fair.' Students then finish the story on the provided lines.
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The Golden Rules of Story Writing
For this story writing skills worksheet, students consider 6 guidelines for authoring their own stories. Students use the guidelines as they write their own stories.
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Ice Cream Cone Writing Skill Cards
In this tracing dotted lines worksheet, students use their fingers or a writing tool to trace vertical and horizontal lines, peaks and valleys, circles, humps and upside down humps, and straight up, down, and across figures to practice...
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Concrete Detail and Commentary
In this writing skills worksheet, students practice writing with facts or quotes from a text by following the graphic organizer format. Students write the concrete detail and then list two commentaries for their facts or quotes.
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Adverbs and Time Order
In this adverb usage instructional activity, students use adverbs to help them write a how-to report. Students complete three activities for adverbs showing time order.
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ESL Vocabulary and Writing: Adjectives
In these English Language vocabulary and writing worksheets, students use the pictures to help identify the adjective vocabulary words and then write a sentence for each word.