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Seahorse Vocabulary
For this recognizing facts about seahorses worksheet, learners read descriptive phrases and match them with the terms they are describing. Students match 9 answers.
Roald Dahl
The Twits - Mrs Twit Gets a Stretching
A cork, a rubber snake, and a bucket of mud may not seem like the best materials for washing a car, but they are in The Twits. The fifth lesson in an 11-part unit designed to accompany The Twits by Roald Dahl has readers role play...
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Recipe for Sensational Sentences
'Cook-up' sensational sentences with your class. They expand sentences by adding more descriptive words. Then discuss the importance of using appropriate grade level language in daily speaking and writing.
Bright Hub Education
"A Long Way From Chicago": Character Descriptions
Complete studies of the memorable characters in Richard Peck's novel A Long Way from Chicago. The lesson describes three different activities to help your class better understand characters in the story, character development in general,...
Poetry Society
Simile and Metaphor
Young poets use word cards to prompt a metaphor poem comparing to very dissimilar items.
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Language Arts:Similes That Make Us Smile
Students identify similes and create their own self descriptions using them as examples. After identifying characteristics associated with pictures of the sun, fish, and other items, they discover how those traits can be used as...
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Ancient Creature of the Deep
Students compare and contrast the coelacanth, a living fossil, with a moray eel and a bull shark. They complete a Fish Anatomy worksheet while researching the skeleton, body coverings and buoyancy of each fish.
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What's in a Name?
Students examine state names that are derived from American Indian words and phrases. They effectively communicate ideas through the use of clear descriptive writing. The reverse of the Montana Quarter is used as inspiration for this...
Gwinnett County Public Schools
Analysis of the Tuck Everlasting and The Birchbark House Text Exemplars
Looking to introduce some text-based questions into your ELA lessons? Practice the kinds of skills the Common Core demands with the seven text-based questions and the essay prompt provided here. Designed to be a three-day lesson, day one...
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The Perfect Pet
Students take on role of an associate in a pet shop and help imaginary customers compare pets for sale.
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Au Marche Sandaga a Dakar
A 3-day French instructional activity targeting food shopping vocabulary. It is designed for elementary French learners pretending to communicate with merchants in a small village outside of Dakar. The plan follows a class reading of the...
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Teaching Grammar in Context: Using Sentence Combining to Teach Subordination
Reinforce sentence styles with this instructional activity, which prompts young grammarians to build complex and compound-complex sentence structures. They respond to non-print text and identify subordinators as parts of speech...
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Visual Puns or Composite Imagery
Students discover art that contains composite imagery and visual puns. They create their own picture of composite imagery and explain the visual pun. Students develop skills using the drawing media.