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A Classroom Coin
Students examine coins and find symbols that were selected for the country. They discuss the eagle as a symbol of the United States. They develop a list of characteristics of their class and design a coin that embodies these qualities.
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Open Wide and Say Ahh
Students recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /o/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words and pictures.
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The Old, Creaky Door
Learners recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through matching and handwriting activities, they discriminate the short vowel /e/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation...
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Express Yourself!
Students read aloud with expression through practice by monitoring their changes in volume, speed, and pitch of their voices. They use cross checking, if they come to a word they are unfamiliar with, they read the rest of the sentence....
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Year of the Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi
Young scholars analyze Korean culture from their literature piece. They investigate the theme of oppression by an occupying army. Students encounter courage, resistance movements and explore the underground railroads.
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Drums and Sound
Through discussion, demonstration, and observation of
performances by drum groups, students discover how vibrations
create sounds. Through exploration students can infer that when drums are struck they make noise due to vibrations.
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Cookies and Cream
Students listen to stories and identify the cause and effect situations in each. In this cause and effect activity, students read the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and then make cookies and ice cream. Students identify the changes...
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Context Clues Lesson Plan
Students are introduced to four strategies of context clues. While reading, they use all four strategies in different sections of the reading to determine the meaning of words they are unfamiliar with. To end the instructional...
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Services for the Disabled At Wild Safari
Learners discover and enter the website for Six Flags Amusement park. Individually, they identify and discuss the types of services available to the handicapped. After reading the website, they answer comprehension questions and write...
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The Seasonal Round and The Cycle of Life
Seventh graders recognize moments of importance in people's lives and asks them to find meaning in the stages of their own and other's lives. They are taught that all cultures have rites of passage for similar stages in the cycle of life.
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Housing Problems
Learners comprehend why slum clearance occurred. They consider the benefits and longer-term problems caused by high-rise housing blocks. Students view the "Housing Problems" which shows the shift from old slums to new housing estates...
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Five Fat Turkeys
Young scholars make a tree trunk and branches using brown construction paper. They make thumbprint turkeys using a choice of ink color. Students make the eyes from wiggle eyes and of black ink. They make the beak out of any color foamie...
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Which Article?
In this which articles worksheet, young scholars fill in sentences using a, an, or the. Students answer fourteen fill in the blank sentences within a given paragraph.
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Did or Made
For this did or made worksheet, learners complete sentences using did or made. Students answer ten multiple choice questions.
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Must/Must Have = 90% Guess
For this grammar worksheet, students learn when to use "must" and when to use "must have" in sentence writing. They then make guesses about the following 10 sentences using "must".
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School-Home Links: Word Usage 2
In this word selection instructional activity, students use the words listed to complete the example sentences. Parents or guardians must sign the instructional activity.
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Using Different Types of Sentences
In this types of sentences instructional activity, students use a variety of sentences to make their writing interesting. Students complete three activities to help them with different sentences.
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The Suffix -ful
In this suffix activity, learners review the definition of a suffix and some example words using the suffix 'ful.' Students then write the word from the box that finishes the sentence.
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Idioms
In this idioms worksheet, students read the sentences containing phrases and idioms. Students determine which phrase is an idiom and circle it to complete the sentence.
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Learn Your Alphabet
In this alphabet worksheet, students cut out and assemble a 27 page mini book that has one page for each letter of the alphabet with a picture of a word that starts with that letter. There is nothing to color or write. Students read...
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Intermediate Sentence Completion 2
In this sentence completion worksheet, students read the sentences and choose the best word to complete the sentence. Students complete 12 sentences.
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Intermediate Sentence Completion 5
In this sentence completion worksheet, students read the sentences and choose the best word to complete the sentence. Students complete 12 sentences.
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Feelings about Current Events
Learners explore feelings about negative events. In this health and social studies lesson, students discuss and write about personal feelings about events that have had an impact on their life, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and plane...
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Free Verse
Learners write free verse poems. In this poetry lesson, students use a three-step method to create a free verse poem. Learners brainstorm ideas, let their ideas "incubate," and write a free verse poem.