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Kwanzaa Activities
Students listen to a book about Kwanzaa and discuss the holiday and its importance. In this Kwanzaa lesson, students make crafts after they read and discuss the story.
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The Learning Network Fill-In: When the Food Writer Is a Ghost
Introduce your class to ghostwriting while practicing comprehension. From The New York Times' The Learning Network, this article covers the topic of ghostwriting for cookbooks. There are blank spaces and a word bank. Learners can use the...
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Challenge Games - Caution: Construction Zone
This challenge game activity focuses on not just following directions, but on active listening as the players receiving the directions are blindfolded. The players giving directions need to be clear and concise in telling the blindfolded...
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Making Cranberry Bread
While the preparation for this lesson is extensive, the results are well worth the effort. Prior to the lesson, Xerox the pictures from Cranberry Thanksgiving by Wende and Harry Devlin, collect the ingredients for Cranberry Bread, and...
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Tradebook Activity
Learners listen to the story The True Story of the Three Little Pigs and explore a variety of questions related to conflict resolution. In this trade book activity lesson, students listen to the teacher ask a variety of higher order...
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Liverpool
In this language arts worksheet, students listen to a podcast about Liverpool. They listen for words with similar meanings to 7 phrases given in the first activity. Students answer 7 comprehension questions and complete a cloze activity.
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London
In this language arts worksheet, pupils listen to a podcast about London. They find words in the text that have a similar meaning to the 8 listed words and phrases. They answer 7 comprehension questions. Students finish a cloze activity....
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The Wiggles
In this ESL worksheet, pupils listen to a short story and then correct the mistakes in 7 related statements. Students also match 6 statements to their characters and fill in 8 missing words in a written version of the story.
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Nottingham
In this language arts activity, students fill in the blanks on 5 sentences. They answer 7 comprehension questions. Students complete a cloze activity of the transcript. The transcript of the article is included, although the main intent...
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Storytelling: Carnival Crime
Young scholars participate in the storytelling process. In this language arts lesson, students listen to a story and retell the story using pictures. Young scholars draw pictures of a carnival costume.
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Hurling
In this language arts worksheet, students listen to a podcast of an article about Hurling. The transcript of the podcast is included as an option. Students label 7 sentences as true or false. They answer 7 comprehension questions and...
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Ottawa
In this language arts worksheet, learners listen to a podcast about Ottawa, Canada. They label 7 statements as true or false. Students write answers to 8 comprehension questions. They complete a cloze activity.
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The Little Red House
Students participate in developmental activities. In this developmental lesson plan, students listen to the story "The Little Red House" and participate in activities that develop gross motor coordination and fine motor coordination skills.
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The Art of Paraphrasing
Tenth graders participate in an activity in which they practice paraphrasing sections of primary and secondary documents. They are to share their paraphrasing with the class to help with their confidence speaking in front of a group.
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The Value of Teaching Lexis in Combination
Students conduct controlled practice in ten frequently used multi-word lexical items and engage in speaking practice to activate personal engagement with the target language.
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"Esio Trot" by Roald Dahl
Students read Roald Dahl's Esio Trot and complete vocabulary and reading activities. In this reading and vocabulary lesson plan, students review vocabulary for the activity and listen to the story. Students discuss the story elements and...
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The Magic Pot
Students read the story The Magic Pot and complete language arts based activities based on the story. In this language arts lesson plan, students discuss, listen, observe, and complete language worksheets.
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Geo Jammin' - Day 2, Lesson 6: Rhyme and Reason
Students listen to the poem "Shapes" by Shel Silverstein in order to accurately and specifically describe shapes' rules/traits in their journals. They illustrate the poem and take turns reading during a creative shared reading session.
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School-Home Links: Literacy Activity
In this early childhood literacy activity worksheet, students find a quiet place to have a caregiver read aloud to them and then explain why they enjoy listening to someone read to them.
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World Teachers' Day
Practice reading comprehension by having your class read a factual passage about World Teachers' Day and mach phrases, fill in the blanks, identify correct grammar usage, unscramble vocabulary words, sequence sentences from the passage,...
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Mitten Mania
Youngsters listen to the classic Jan Brett book, The Mitten, then gain strength in utilizing listening skills, developing vocabulary, practicing sequencing events, and expressing themselves through movement and art projects. This rich...
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Saving Money
After listening to the wonderful book, A Chair for my Mother, young mathematicians engage in an awesome instructional activity about coins and the value of saving money. The instructional activity is done in a classic style - everything...
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Writing About Informational Text: Music and the Brain
Even if you've never picked up a musical instrument, chances are that music has directly impacted your mental and emotional development. Sixth graders engage in a reading activity in which they read two articles on the impact of music on...
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ESL/ELL Activities - "Vodofone's Vending Machine Mobile Phones"
In this ESL/ELL reading and discussion worksheet, learners read or listen to an article entitled, "Vodafone's Vending Machine Mobile Phones." They discuss the article and complete a variety of activities based on their comprehension;...