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What's Wrong - Intensive Reading

For Teachers 7th - 9th
There are different types of reading meant for different texts. Discuss four of these with your emerging readers. When does one perform an extensive or intensive reading? When does one skim or scan a text? How are these all different? 
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Hatchet: Multicultural Strategy

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Sometimes it's easier to read one part of a novel when focusing on discussion points. Partners work together to read a few paragraphs of Chapter 5 from Gary Paulsen's Hatchet and discuss the plot and theme of the book.
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Math with M&M's

For Teachers 1st
First graders create number sentences.  In this math lesson, 1st graders use M&M's to make number sentences.  Students create charts using the color of the M&M's as data.
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Safari Sentence Scramble

For Teachers K
Students use real life experiences for writing. In this identifying details lesson, students use information such as colors, numbers, sizes, shapes and locations to write sentences about the zoo. Students position the words from...
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Sequencing / Story Events

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars read a story and use sentence strips to order story events.  In this sequencing lesson, students learn new vocabulary words centered around the story Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, preview the story, make...
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Fragments

For Students 9th - 12th
In this ESL/ELL sentence fragment activity, students choose the proper words to complete each of 20 sentences, or they tell if "no change is necessary." They complete the activity either at a web site where they can check their answers,...
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The Story of My Life

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students complete autobiographical writing assignments throughout the school year that they save and rewrite to put into a published book during the last month of class. They include photographs, drawings and mementos of their lives in...
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Open Sesame: A Magical World of Reading

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders, through six lessons, study tales of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and Aladdin and the Lamp from The Arabian Nights.
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Vocabulary Multiple Choice Worksheet 27

For Students 6th - 7th
In this sentence completion worksheet, students read 8 sentences that have a missing word or phrase. Students analyze the 4 similar choices and select the word that makes the sentence correct.
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Volumes in 3-D

For Students 11th
For this geometry worksheet, 11th graders calculate the volume of there dimensional shapes using the formula for cylinders. They are given the height and the base and asked to calculate the volume. There are 4 problems.
Interactive
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I Wish and If Only Exercise

For Students All
In this word choice worksheet, students review the three types of 'I wish/if only' sentences. Students then complete the example sentences with the correct phrase. Students complete 16 online exercises.
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Noun Clauses, Adjective Clauses, Or Adverb Clauses

For Students 7th - 9th
In this clauses worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 10 sentences with an appropriate clause. They tell which type of clause was used by writing either noun clause, adjective clause, or adverb clause on the blank lines in the second...
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Autobiographical Writing

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this unique lesson on autobiographical writing, students compare and contrast three types of writing: narrative, poetry and newspaper. Students prepare to produce a short autobiographical writing based on the framework of one of the...
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Using Short Stories to Teach Vocabulary and Literary Terms

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students apply vocabulary activities to two short stories in order to increase their comprehension skills. They complete three lessons in which they examine irony, examine how it is used in text, and design an ironic skit. Also, the look...
Interactive
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English Exercises: Using What in an Exclamation

For Students 5th
In this using 'what' in an exclamation activity, 5th graders interactively fill in 10 exclamatory sentences with the correct form of what, with immediate online feedback.
Interactive
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Modal Verbs of Deduction Exercise

For Students 4th - 5th
In this online grammar activity, students read the sentences and use one of the modal verbs in brackets to complete the 15 online exercises.
Interactive
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Adele's ESL Corner: Prepositions-3

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this ESL preposition worksheet, students type either 'in' or 'at' in blanks to correctly complete sentences. Students may click on a "check answer" button.
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The Economy and Politics

For Teachers 10th - 12th
In this economy and politics sociology worksheet, learners complete 14 fill in the blank questions and 7 multiple choice questions regarding the how businesses operate in different economies and under various political control.
Interactive
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Adverbs of manner

For Students 5th - 8th
In this adverbs worksheet, students view examples of adverbs verses adjectives in sentences. Students then click on "continue with the exercises" at the bottom of the page to fill in 12 adverbs into sentences.
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Film English

Stand Up

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
To stand up can have many different meanings. Examine the different usages in English and relate one of these meanings to a short film about homophobic bullying. Class members view and discuss the film as well as a short reading passage...
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Comparatives and Superlatives

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
If not the best, then certainly one of the better grammar resources designed for language learners, this packet focuses on comparatives and superlatives.
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Science Matters

Earthquakes and Volcanoes Pre-Assessment

For Students 6th
See how much your class knows about earthquakes and volcanic activity and how these events shape geologic features. The first lesson in the series of 20 is a pre-test to find out what pupils already know. It includes 10 vocabulary...
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Film English

Coca-Cola Ad

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Have your class members consider how their lifestyle choices may differ from those of their grandparents when they were younger. After brainstorming and discussing differences in lifestyle, pupils watch a Coca-Cola advertisement that...
Interactive
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Indefinite Articles

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Here is an engaging, interactive grammar worksheet which has learners complete 70 phrase completion exercises by typing in the correct indefinite article. Good practice!