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Making Parent Volunteers in the Classroom a Win-Win-Win

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Volunteer class time help in the primary grades can benefit you, your class, and your parent volunteers.
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Worksheet 1: Reading: Lara's Blog

For Students 3rd - Higher Ed
Because of its interesting subject matter, this reading passage about one person's experience during a hurricane is compelling. In the 14 question activity students are exposed to rich vocabulary and thought-provoking material. It could...
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Arrange the Words

For Students 4th - 6th
In this adjectives worksheet, students categorize adjectives given into 3 categories and read passages that include adjectives. Students complete 5 activities.
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Vocabulary Worksheets Basic English Grammar 3rd Edition Chapter 10: Expressing Future Time Part 1

For Students 3rd
In this future tense activity, 3rd graders complete 6 conversations by writing the letter of the correct word or phrase from the word bank in the blank.
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Bad Luck, Good Luck

For Students 4th - 6th
In this bad luck and good luck worksheet, students read a story about bad and good luck, choose the correct words to complete the story, and answer multiple choice questions about it. Students complete 2 activities.
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Here Kitty, Kitty

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /i/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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Do Sheep Sleep?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners gain insight into the correspondence ee = /EE/ in both written and spoken words. They recite tongue twisters with the /EE/ sound and use letterboxes to spell 'ee' words. They read a book with a variety of /EE/ words.
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Idiom Multiple Choice Activity

For Students 4th - 6th
In this idiom worksheet, students read a sentence, then choose the correct meaning of the idiom, or fill in a blank with the correct idiom. Worksheet is divided into a section for elementary, intermediate and advanced.
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The Voyage

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners investigate the Louisiana Purchase. In this Lewis and Clark Expedition lesson, students watch the PBS video about the expedition and then complete worksheets based on details of the expedition and review the expedition routes.
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Conversation Lesson: News

For Students 7th
In this conversation lesson learning exercise, 7th graders use context clues to get the meaning of 8 words, then select 6 news stories from a list of 12 and explain why they would choose those for an evening TV news broadcast.
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Unopened Umbrella

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore vowel correspondences. They discuss the vowel correspondence u=/u/. They identify u=/u/ in written words and a meaningful representation and letter symbol for the sound. Students read and write words using u=/u/.
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Beginning to Read

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the short /u/ sound. They practice making the sound, noticing how their mouths move to make it. They recite tongue twisters with short /u/ words and use letterboxes to spell 'u' words. They identify short /u/ words as...
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Creaky Door e

For Teachers 1st
First graders observe as the letter "e' is shown on the overhead projector and discuss the letter's name and what sound it makes. They compare the letter's sound to a creaky door and practice making the /e/ sound. They try saying the...
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A Seal Who Loves Peaches and Cream

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students decode correspondence in order to become better, fluent readers. When the letters e and a are put together they make the E sound. They become more fluent readers through listening for a correspondence in speech, in text, and...
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Open Wide at the Dentist, "Aaaahh"

For Teachers K - 1st
Study the /o/ in both written and spoken words by reciting a tongue twister and making words using Elkonin letterboxes. Next, write a message about frogs using /o/ words. Finally, listen to a short book talk on "Doc in the Fog" before...
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Ugh!

For Teachers 1st
First graders focus on the phoneme /u/. They make the sound and say "Ugh" and pronounce other words that contain the /u/ sound such as tub. They then repeat a tongue twister featuring the /u/ sound breaking the sound off each word and...
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Shiny Shoes

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new...
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Math Maven's Mysteries: The Cafeteria Caper

For Students 5th - 6th
In these math word problem worksheets, students help solve the mystery about the cafeteria caper. Students determine what each students' favorite food is by making a chart to organize information from the story. Students then find the...
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Future Time: Vocabulary Review

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this future time vocabulary worksheet, students fill in blanks to complete short conversations, using phrases given at the top of the page. Appropriate for but not exclusive to ELL.
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Little Pig

For Teachers 1st
First graders discover that letters are used to write words and that they have different sounds. They pronounce the word, "pig" emphasizing the /i/ sound. They say a tongue twisters that features the /i/ sound in each word. They then...
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Vocabulary Activity: Lara's Blog

For Students 4th - 6th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students read a "blog" from the internet, then answer a set of 14 questions regarding the meaning of words in the passage, filling in the blanks.