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Illustrating the Elements of a Story
Explore the elements of a story with this two-page graphic organizer. Readers write and draw descriptions of each element, including setting, plot, conflict, rising action, climax, dialogue, and narration.
K12 Reader
Inference Practice: Where Am I?
Have your pupils try a hand at making inferences. The worksheet includes five different descriptions, and learners must infer where they think the passage is happening and provide some explanation. A straightforward resource for...
Amazon Web Services
Idiom Dictionary
Examining idioms is a peace of cake when using this graphic organizer! Here, grammarians identify an idiom and use it in a sentence. Then they investigate its literal meaning versus its figurative meaning, and accompany each one with a...
Great Books Foundation
Rattlesnakes
John Muir may be a friend to the natural world, but as a short reading passage confirms, he is no friend to rattlesnakes. As young readers learn about Muir's encounters with the dangerous creatures, they answer four comprehension...
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Famous Missourians Challenge
In this multiple choice activity, students read descriptive sentences and choose the names of the persons being described. Students answer 10 multiple choice questions.
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Reflexive Pronouns
What a great review of reflexive pronouns! Grammarians of all ages will benefit from this packet. The first page gives descriptions and examples of different reflexive pronouns and common mistakes. The second page holds two, short...
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Expressing a Condition with "If"
The conditional tense is a tough for learners to master. This resource, originally designed as a quiz, assesses learners on their use of si and the conditional. They practice writing sentences in both the conditionnel présent and...
PBS
Around the Block
Arthur and his friends help children explore the concepts of family, community, and diversity in a fun series of activities. From performing peer interviews to mapping out the different places students have lived or visited, this...
National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc.
How Many “Un-endangered Species” Do You Know?
Can endangered species become un-endangered? Of course! Examine six lucky animals whose populations once were dwindling, but now are healthy and thriving. Learners match animal images to brief descriptions, complete a true/false...
Learning for Life
Exhibition Responsible Citizenship
While we hope our children may never have to witness a crime firsthand, give them the tools to recognize what is happening and respond accordingly. These activities help learners sharpen their observation and memory skills, as well...
Balanced Assessment
Books from Andonov
To examine mathematical functions in a modeling situation pupils combine quadratic and step functions to represent a presented scenario. They both graph and write a function to represent data shown in a table.
Flipped Math
Algebraic Properties
Properly apply properties to arrive at equivalent expressions. Pupils review the main properties of equivalence with the guidance from the video. They take the knowledge from the video and apply the properties within the instruction and...
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The Bean Book
A well-designed book on beans teaches kids about the anatomy of a bean. They cut out parts of a bean and paste them together. There are a lot of good descriptions of the parts of beans, such as the embryo, stored food, and the seed coat....
Illustrative Mathematics
Paying the Rent
Learning how a bank account works is a useful tool. The exercise in the resource is to deduct rent from a checking account and create an equation from a description. Participants then graph the balance of the bank account versus months...
Illustrative Mathematics
Drinking Juice, Variation 3
It is up to the learner to find the amount of juice originally in a bottle, knowing what fraction of the juice is left, and the amount that has been consumed. The accompanying commentary provides a useful and detailed description of...
Minnesota Literacy Council
Scientific Method
Here is a resource with a descriptive approach to explaining the scientific method. It's simple, but effective for both introduction and reinforcement of this concept.
K5 Learning
Helping Hally
Dogs have to stay healthy, too! Take a look at a reading comprehension activity that includes a passage about Sam and his dog Hally, who could use a few more walks and exercise.
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Why the Whales Came- The Beach
In this why the whales came worksheet, students add adjectives and adverbs to a paragraph about nature. Students fill in twelve adjectives or adverbs from given words and then write sentences of their own.
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What's an Ecotect?
In this future jobs learning exercise, students use their creative thinking to select 10 job titles from a list and write a description for each job title. Students discuss as a class what good descriptions are and they discuss life in...
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Monologue
In this monologue learning exercise, students fill in the blanks to a monologue, write a village description, and write about what they are studying in the village. Students complete 3 activities.
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What Am I?
In this different types of text worksheet, students in pairs write a description of a picture and read it to the group to see if they can guess what's on the card.
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Language Arts Curriculum Guide
In this language arts worksheet, students complete many worksheets that include brainstorming, newspaper article reviews, TV show descriptions, and more. Students complete 54 worksheets total.
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Going Places Module 15
In this going places module 15 worksheet, student answer 7 questions about the names of places, write 7 descriptions of these places, then write direction from one place to another.
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Bodies of Water
In this writing descriptive sentences worksheet, learners describe 13 different bodies of water using the words small, large, fresh, salt, deep, shallow, protected, still, and flowing. Students should include 2 adjectives per sentence.
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