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Billy's Most Quotable Quotes: Shakespeare Lines and Quotes: Fun Trivia Quiz
Few teachers cover multiple Shakespeare plays in one year unless they teach a class on the Bard, so a quiz on multiple plays may have limited appeal. Despite this, it may be useful to you in planning your own quotation quiz.
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Six Ways To Recall Spelling Words
Students practice their weekly spelling words. Using six methods of recall, students practice spelling their words orally and using pen and paper. They demonstrate their recall of the spelling words by completing a spelling test at the...
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Medial Sound u
Join Ug the Bug for some vowel sound practice focused on the short /u/ sound. Scholars examine six images and label each with a CVC word that has this as its medial phoneme. Next, they complete two rhyming sentences about Ug, using a...
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Information Problem Solving
Students review the six steps of conducting research to find out information and to problem solve. This is lesson one in a five lesson unit.
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Avoiding Run-On Sentences (I)
Eliminate run-on sentences! This practice opportunity highlights run-on sentence errors and how to fix them. Examples are shown, and learners are given two options: using semi-colons or commas and coordinating conjunctions. Help polish...
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Card Flip Game: Synonyms and Antonyms
Match words to their synonyms and antonyms with a card flip game. Kids turn over two cards on their turn and determine if they are synonyms or antonyms; if not, they replace the cards and try again.
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Where do Bears go in Winter?
Do bears really sleep for an entire season? Six multiple choice questions and a drawing activity make up a worksheet that tests scholars' comprehension skills after reading about bears during winter.
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English Skills Worksheet 6.200
There are six word exercises provided here, although they're not necessarily linked together. The first short practice asks learners to give compound words that use the list of words provided. The second asks learners to identify...
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Poetry Reading and Analysis Worksheet - As You Like It
Enhance your lesson on Shakespeare with this poetry activity. After reading lines 139-167 from As You Like It Act II, Scene 7 (provided on the first page), middle schoolers work on a graphic organizer to paraphrase each part of the poem....
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Icky Sticky and Itty Bitty
Students identify the letter i and the sound that it makes in various words and illustrations with the sound /i/. They practice writing the letter I both upper and lower case on paper. Finally, students circle the pictures with the...
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Just Graph It!
Students practice collecting data and organizing it into graphs. As a class, they collect birthday information from each of their classmates. To continue practicing, they examine the characteristics of different bugs and zoo animals. ...
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Colonial Life
For this colonial life worksheet, students read a 1 page article on colonial life, make a Venn diagram that shows how life for colonial children was different from and similar to theirs and discuss what part of colonial life they liked...
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Sentence Completion: "My Family"
In this sentence completion worksheet, students read a two paragraph story with one word missing in each sentence. Students choose a word from a word bank to correctly complete each sentence. There are ten sentences.
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Writing Pattern Books
Have your older students assist young children with writing in this community service and literacy lesson. Middle schoolers become partners with a local elementary school. They assist the grade school children in writing a pattern book...
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The Giving Tree Anniversary Teaching Guide
Celebrate poetry month all of April with a guide that uses six of Shel Silverstein's most famous books as a basis for the lessons. Discussion questions and writing activities are provided for each of Silverstein's books.
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Big Pig
Students study the/i/ sound and letter recognition using Elkonin letterboxes and letter manipulatives. They work with tongue twister that contains words with many examples of the /i/ sound. Next they buddy read "Liz is Six" before...
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From Book To The Big Screen
Students create a six-panel byobu (Japanese visual storytelling) based upon the book "To Kill A Mockingbird" in this lesson suitable for an early High School Language Arts or Social Studies classroom.
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Point of View
Students explore point of view. In this acceptance lesson, students listen to a story in which six people didn't listen to the other's point of view and lost out in the end. The students discuss why we all think and feel differently and...
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Greater Than, Less Than, or Equal Coloring Challenge
There are a few handy objectives to practice in this math instructional activity. The big picture is that learners count a set of triangles and compare the number with six other sets of shapes. They indicate if each value is greater...
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Hetch Hetchy: The Story of San Francisco's Water
How did San Francisco supply enough water for its residents over the last two centuries? Learn about droughts and water conservation in California, as well as specific historical events that led to the water system today. Kids read two...
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Synonyms
Print this sheet to give your English language learners some practice identifying synonyms. There are six questions listed, and each question has four options. For example, what is a synonym for attractive? The choices are appealing,...
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Sentence Combining
Work on combining sentences with this grammar practice instructional activity. Middle schoolers rewrite six simple sentences to make compound, complex and compound-complex sentences.
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Reading Teammates
Fourth graders read the book "Teammate" after participating in pre-reading activities that include examining the concepts of segregation and discrimination. In this six week literature study, they make timelines, discuss what they know...
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Safety Sequence
Follow up a class reading of the children's book Officer Buckle and Gloria with this simple sequence-of-events learning exercise. Including pictures of six key moments from the story, young learners must first number them in the correct...