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Action!!!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Here is a good game to play with your charges. Pairs of pupils roll a die and choose the corresponding numbered card. They read the card and perform the action verb written there until the teacher calls out time.
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Consumer Complaint Menu Role-play

For Students 4th - 10th
In this role play instructional activity, students participate in a role play about a consumer complaint in a restaurant. Students complete 5 steps in the role play.
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Recognize Sight Words Worksheet

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this sight words worksheet, students study the 4 sight words in the table: you, play, with, and and. Students circle the words in the 4 sentences.
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Test Your Speaking And Listening Skills: Role Playing --Health

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this speaking and listening worksheet, students improve oral language skills by collaborating with a classmate in a dialogue about going to a doctor's office.
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The First Amendment, What it Means and When Libel Comes in to Play

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students research three topics: The First Amendment, John Peter Zenger and his trial, and libel. In this journalism and libel lesson, students discuss things authority figures have done they disagree with and the anit-sedition law....
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Play House

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore U.S. government by participating in a role playing activity. In this House of Representatives lesson plan, students discuss the first day of congress and the role the House plays in running the United States. Students...
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Playing it Safe

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars explore the importance of an election and act as political advisers for an upcoming election. Students create platforms for various candidates, by writing a letter to their candidate with suggestions for winning the election.
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Language Test Practice-Level 1 and 2

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this language test practice worksheet, students complete a set of 42 multiple choice questions covering a variety of basic language skills: punctuation, capitalization, parts of speech, sentences structure, alphabetical order and...
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Fun with Anagrams!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students complete a worksheet. In this anagrams lesson, students are introduced to anagrams and look at examples. Students complete a worksheet where they answer questions with anagrams.
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Pay-to-play a costly solution

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students write a news feature or editorial about students paying money to participate in high school athletics. Students interview members of the school community to find out the situation in their school.
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Where's the Boss? -- A Scripted Play About the Iditarod

For Teachers K - 8th
Pupils utilize a Reader's Theater script and accompanying lesson plan to learn about the Iditarod race that takes place in Alaska. During the process, they also learn about teamwork and working together.
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Language Arts

For Teachers 5th
In this literacy worksheet, 5th graders practice putting the sentences into the proper grammar structure, using the correct punctuation, and finding the definitions in the dictionary.
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The Football Team

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Playing team sports is about more than just scoring the most goals or winning the most games. Read this passage with your class and learn how athletes build character as members of a team. When finished, individuals identify the main...
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Making Pronouns Agree with Antecedents

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
Practice makes perfect. Grammar masters choose the correct pronoun for each of eight sentences. After writing in the correct pronoun for each sentence, they add the antecedent and explain whether it is singular or plural.
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Penny the Pig Plays with the Letter P

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice recognizing the letter Pp in writing. They work with the Alphabet Chart, alphabet magnets and the chart with "Penny the pig puts on her pretty pink shoes," on it as well as an ABC coloring page with Dr. Seuss' ABC's on it.
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We're off to see the Wizard!

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students explore the process of play and movie making from books. They study the basic elements of drama and write and produce a play based on a chosen theme. Students explain the basic elements of a play by looking at "The Wonderful...
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Vocabulary Charades

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners explore new vocabulary words by participating in a group activity. In this vocabulary role-playing lesson, students collaborate in groups to play a game of charades with new vocabulary words. Learners are given points based on...
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Podcasting

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore play writing.  In this literacy and technology instructional activity, students choose a familiar historical event and write a play with the corresponding setting.  Middle schoolers write text and dialogue,...
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Activity Plan 5-6: Book-Character Homes

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars use their creativity to build character homes. In this early childhood lesson plan, students develop creative-thinking, social, language, math, and motor skills as they work together to create buildings for characters from...
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Low and High with Ives

For Teachers 1st
First graders read the Poem "The Elephant" by Shel Silverstein and create a descriptive web in the shape of an animal. In this cross curricular music lesson, 1st graders recite a poem with rhythm, then listen to the song "The Circus Band...
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Lord of the Flies

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners participate in a panel discussion to decide who was responsible for each development on the island. In this Lord of the Flies lesson, students divide into groups supporting Jack and Ralph with a third group acting as judges. ...
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Fireign Language: Getting to Know You

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners, using their foreign language of study, role-play as two people meeting for the first time. They use courtesy expressions and respond to questions and prompts with correct intonation, pronunciation, and inflection. Students...
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Language Arts Quiz B-Grade 6

For Students 6th
In this grade 6 language arts quiz worksheet, 6th graders complete a 15 question multiple choice quiz covering a variety of grade 6 concepts. 
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Sink or Float Water Play Activity

For Teachers K
Pupils experiment with different objects to see if they sink or float. They can also choose certain colored items if more review is necessary.