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Friendship

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students investigate the concept of friendship as part of a four lessons unit which integrates literature with language arts, family life, social studies, or religious studies. Peace, cooperation, social justice, and multicultural...
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A Field of Beans

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
Beans, or legumes as they are sometimes called, are the topic for an integrated multi-subject lesson. Youngsters will read, write, observe, and research everything there is to know about beans. They read a bean story, conduct a bean...
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Pendemonium: the Ink on the Sphinx

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners review the forms of nouns through a fanciful video and picture book discussion. They attempt to tell a story about their family without using nouns and then create a noun pyramid of common. proper, plural, and irregular nouns...
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Women Immigrants in the Promised Land

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the experience of female immigrants as they arrive in the United States. They create a timeline of women's rights in the U.S., write journal entries, conduct Internet research and read online excerpts from "The Promised...
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The Hurricane

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this weather instructional activity, students read a realistic story about a family's experience during a hurricane. Factual information about hurricanes is given. Students then answer 6 questions.
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Oldest College Graduate

For Students 5th - 7th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a passage about the oldest graduate and answer 8 questions regarding the story.
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Problem -Solving Decision: Explain Your Answer Practice 5.8

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this explaining solutions activity, students read and solve 3 story problems that involve addition and subtraction. Students must explain their answers.
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Taxes, Tips, and Salaries

For Students 7th - 9th
In this taxes, tips and salaries activity, students read story problems and determine the sales price, percent of change, amount of tax, and final price.  This four-page activity contains 8 multi-step prolems.  Answers are...
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Tools of the Trade

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate different jobs that require specific tools.  In this occupational lesson, students describe a tool one of their family members uses for their job and why it is necessary to have.  Students create computer...
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Serving Memory

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read an article about a woman who lost her fiance in Iraq. Reading a letter he left his son, they discuss how his words will affect his son once he is old enough to understand. They research the number of casualties in the war...
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Trot Out the Creativity with Turkey-Themed Art Activities

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Take the traditional handprint turkey to the next level with art activities that integrate writing, color, poetry, and family involvement
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I, Juan de Pareja

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students examine a work of historical fiction based on the life of an actual person who modeled for the painter, Diego Velazquez. Elizabethy Borton de Trevirio's story, "I, Juan de Pareja" provides opportuities for the reader to discover...
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Mozart's Magic

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students become familiar with the young composer through his life's story and his music. They get to make some music of their own by using musical instruments that exist both online and all around them.
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Through Thick and Thin: Examining the Dynamics of Friendship Relationships

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars read one teen's story of dealing with her best friend's anorexia to explore the dynamics of friendship relationships and the qualities needed to sustain a friendship through challenges.
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Finding and Gathering The News

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders discover what makes an event newsworthy. They research topics by using the five W questions. They examine the difference between facts and opinions and practice interviewing people for stories.
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Overture to 'William Tell' by Gioacchino Rossini

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create an awareness of how music creates a setting in a story or legend. They identify the instrumentation, dynamics and tempo used to create various settings for a musical story. They perform rhythmic patterns from listening...
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Getting Ready for Christmas with Bobby Bear

For Students 2nd
In this Christmas reading worksheet, 2nd graders read a short story about a bear getting ready for Christmas. Students demonstrate comprehension through questions and sequencing. Students create an acrostic poem using the word CHRISTMAS.
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Vietnam veterans memorial

For Students 5th - 6th
In this reading comprehension activity, students read a detailed factual story about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Students answer 6 questions responding to the story.
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Abraham Lincoln

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this biography worksheet, students read a one page factual story about Abraham Lincoln. Students then answer 7 questions about the story.
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Verb City

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this verb worksheet, learners read 15 sentences and underline the action words. Students also underline the action words in a story.
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Can You Lend Me a Hand?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners explore the concepts of community. In this communities lesson plan, students listen and respond to the story of The Little Red Hen and discuss ways to contribute to their own community. Learners recognize the importance of...
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Japanese Internment

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders practice their writing skills. In this reading comprehension lesson, 4th graders review baseball terminology and then read Baseball Saved Us. In this story students learn about Japanese Americans that were taken from...
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Reading Comprehension Assessment

For Students 5th - 6th
In this reading assessment worksheet, students complete a 42 question, four story passages test. Students read about Stephen Spielberg, Lois Lowry, a shy boy in high school, and Haleakala volcano. Students answer the multiple choice...
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Little Red Hen

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students thresh wheat. In this comprehension and comparison activity, students read the Little Red Hen and retell the story based on the beginning, middle and end. Students get a wheat stem, predict the number of seeds in their seed...

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