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Every-Day Edit: Artist Georgia O'Keeffe

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing activity, young scholars correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about artist Georgia O'Keeffe. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling.
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Every-Day Edit: Robert F. Kennedy

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Robert F. Kennedy. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Every-Day Edit: The Empire State

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this everyday editing instructional activity, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the "Empire State." The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Every-Day Edit: Kwanzaa

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this everyday editing activity, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Kwanzaa. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
Lesson Plan
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Where No Student Has Gone Before

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a story about an unknown planet invaded by humans as a pre-reading activity for the novel, A Wrinkle In Time. They discuss good versus evil, and identify examples of the theme good vs. evil in books, film, and their own...
Lesson Plan
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Connecting Characters and Themes in Julius Caesar

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders prepare for the literary analysis. They locate, interpret, evaluate and analyze the relationship between a character and the theme. After a lecture/demo, 4th graders write topic and detail sentences, then correctly put...
Lesson Plan
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Types of Literature

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore a short piece of French literature with intermediate French scholars. Either assign readers to each character, or divide the class into groups to give the story some life. There's a student task sheet included as well, although...
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Running Out of Time: The Cloze Procedure

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Determine if the reading level of Running Out of Time is too easy, to difficult, or just right for your pupils with a cloze reading exercise. After listening to the teacher read the passage, learners fill in the blanks on the cloze...
Lesson Plan
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Keyboard Spelling Practice

For Teachers 2nd
After teaching kids the hand placement generally used for typing, give them a short list of common words to practice with. They type tight, light, sight, night, bright, and fight as fast and accurate as possible. 
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Create a Healthy Calendar

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Health nuts create a month-long calendar presenting health-themed pictures, tips, or facts in each day's box. Rather than just a project, you could raise the required number of health facts and use this as a unique assessment of...
Interactive
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Spelling II: Pretest

For Students 4th - 6th
In this spelling learning exercise, students answer 10 multiple choice spelling questions.
Lesson Plan
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Rainbow Spelling (Kinesthetic Approach To Encoding)

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders demonstrate their encoding skills by spelling words using color coded paper, match correct letters with the colored paper to spell the words in standard form, and self correct any errors made in the spelling with colored...
Lesson Plan
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The most commonly misspelled words in English

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders examine the different misspelled words in the English language. In this English lesson, 9th graders read an article and answer guided reading questions. Students write an email to their teacher about what they have read.
Worksheet
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Find the Error 28

For Students 4th - 6th
In this find the error instructional activity, students read and analyze an extract from a news article and then determine the grammar mistakes found in the article involving apostrophes, articles, punctuation and spelling.
Worksheet
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Find the Error

For Students 4th - 6th
In this find the error worksheet, students read and analyze an extract passage from a travel book and then find the grammar mistakes in it that involves apostrophes, articles, punctuation and spelling.
Worksheet
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Correct Verb Forms- Time Expressions

For Students Higher Ed
In this verb tense instructional activity, students write the correct form of the given verbs to complete 10 sentences. They examine the time expressions before deciding to use simple present, present progressive, past, past progressive,...
Lesson Plan
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Swirling, Twirling, Glistening Jewels... Glass Art In Words

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine the art form of the glass sculpture. After viewing a three dimensional object, they write creatively describing the object through the use of metaphors. They use peer editing to check for grammatical and spelling errors.
Interactive
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Breaking News English: Italy and Paraguay

For Students 5th - 10th
In this Italy and Paraguay worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete spelling words, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write,...
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Homonyms

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this homonyms worksheet, students identify homonyms or words which are frequently confused with words that sound the same but are spelled differently in three paragraphs.
PPT
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Plant Reproduction Chapter #4

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The only way to employ a plant reproduction presentation void of pictures is to support it with actual sample flowers. Botany beginners learn about plant reproduction through an underdeveloped outline of flower structures, reproductive...
Lesson Plan
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Editing for AP (and Newspaper's) style

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners edit and revise a news story picked out by the teacher. For this editing lesson plan, students edit in AP style and then revise the story. It should have no errors in the end.
Interactive
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Latin Roots Dict, Vent, Duct: Beginning Quiz

For Students 5th - 8th
Learners fill in the blanks for 12 sentences with words derived from the Latin roots dict, vent, and duct in an interactive online quiz. A word bank provides choices from the beginning level at MyVocabulary.com. Alert quiz takers that...
Worksheet
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Where Are the Mistakes?

For Students 4th - 5th
In this proofreading worksheet, students read 17 sentences and look for errors in spelling, grammar, verb agreement and punctuation. Students correct the mistakes. This is intended for ESL students.
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Thesis Statement Exercises

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Highlight the importance of introductions and thesis statements by having writers edit and re-write nine different paragraphs that serve as poor introductions. In addition to correcting the grammar and spelling mistakes, your leaner will...