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American Sign Language Poster
In this American sign language worksheet, students learn the alphabet by analyzing this poster that has each letter with a picture of the hand in the correct position. There are no questions to answer.
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Language for Speaking and Writing About Disabilities
In this disabilities sentences worksheet, students correct the sentences using people first language. Students correct 12 sentences about disabilities.
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Creating a Picture Dictionary
Second graders create a reading, vocabulary,picture dictionary on the computer. They participate in becoming familiar with some basic capabilities of a word processor. They build vocabulary, spelling, and dictionary skills, reinforce...
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Educators
After viewing selections from a website and discussing the role of the teacher in educating the disabled, students work in pairs. They analyze the work of an educator and relate the work to a given quote, then decide if that quote fits...
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CTBS Reading Practice #1
Expose your class to a variety of excerpts of poetry with a reading practice activity. There are four excerpts from different poems included in this resource; there are three to five related questions for each poem. Learners read each...
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Captain Keller's Business Letter
Pupils write a business letter similar to one Captain Keller might have written asking the Perkins Institution to recommend a teacher for his daughter in The Miracle Worker.
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Making and Using a Graphic Organizer for Solving a Mystery
Students create tables in a word processing program which helps them organize their text clues when reading a mystery story. They develop reading comprehension strategies while using a computer based graphic organizer in order to solve...
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Evaluating Text: Helen Keller's "My Life"
Readers are asked to evaluate Helen Keller's claim, and the evidence she uses to support her argument, that it is more difficult for hearing impaired children to learn to talk with others.
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Famous Inventors Alexander Graham Bell: You Rang?
Scholars read a brief informational text about the famous inventor, Alexander Graham Bell and his invention of the telephone, then show what they know by way of eight questions—six multiple choice and two short answer.
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Speech and Language Samples
Students tell a story, describe a picture, share about a favorite toy from home and are recorded using an iPod with a voice recorder. They create a playlist of their voice and reading samples to illustrate progression over time.
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Vocabulary Practice
Gerunds and infinitives are the focus of this language arts worksheet. Students choose the correct word form from a word pool to complete 12 sentences in a grammatically-correct fashion.
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You Too Can Haiku: How to Write a Haiku
Students explore language arts by writing their own poems. For this haiku lesson, students investigate the Japanese culture and their beautiful music, poetry and art. Students count the syllables in every line of a haiku poem and write...
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Elements of Fables
Students explore the attributes of fables. In this literature lesson, students read several fables and identify the moral lesson, characterization, and figurative language in each. Students then retell their favorite fables in their own...
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The Miracle Worker
Students examine the senses and their communicative abilities in this story of Annie Sullivan's heroic efforts to teach her pupil, Helen Keller. William Gibson's novel, "The Miracle Worker" forms the focus of this lesson.
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Dogs
In this dogs worksheet, students read a 2 page informational text about different breeds of dogs and how they can be of service to the police, blind, and deaf people. Students then answer 13 essay questions.
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House on Fire
In this reading comprehension worksheet about firefighting, learners read a passage about firefighting, then answer 5 true or false questions using inferences based on the reading passage. Then students write an opinion paragraph about...
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Writing Myths
Learners read and write myths. In this world mythology lesson, students read and analyze myths from various cultures and then recognize their attributes as they write their own myths that explain natural phenomena.
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Set a Poem to Music
Students consider the role of rhythm and meter in poetry. In this integrated arts lesson plan, students discuss the attributes of poetry and use their music skills to set picture book poetry to music by creating "singable" poems.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 12 multiple choice questions about One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Dogs
For this worksheet about dogs, students fill in the blanks with adjectives, answer reading comprehension questions, and tell characteristics of special dogs. Students write ten answers.
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Things People Couldn't Do
In this things people couldn't do instructional activity, students read context clues about famous people to determine which words in a word blank complete sentences. Students choose four answers to fill in the blanks.
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Helen Keller- Book Marks
Young scholars learn about the life of Helen Keller. In this cultural and disability awareness lesson, students read a biography about Helen Keller and discuss the differences in her life and theirs. Young scholars discuss which sense...
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Opposite Day
In this Opposite Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, matching phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, multiple choice, unscramble the words, sequencing, unscramble the sentences, write...
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Word Formation
In this online interactive forming words worksheet, students complete 15 sentences online by typing in the correct form of each word in parenthesis.