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Prairie Poetry

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders take note of the ways in which word choice, rhythm, language and narrative voice, as well as point of view in a poem can be used to evoke a time and place. They use their insights to create a poem of their own.
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The Candy Thief

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research crimes and corresponding punishments of students. They interview local judges to see if they try to match the punishment with the crime. Students write an analysis article about crimes and their punishments in your...
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Pet Food Safety A Con

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners use the internet to research pet food safety laws. In groups, they examine what happened during the pet food recall earlier this year and what is being done to improve the situation. They write a news feature story including...
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Advertisement

For Students 5th - 9th
Advertisers are out to get your pupils' business, and as consumers, they need to be aware of how advertisements are crafted. After delineating the four parts of an ad, this worksheet presents a sample and readers are asked to identify...
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How safe is your school bus?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research various aspects of school bus safety about what makes a bus safe or unsafe. They check the Internet (with sites below and others) and see what the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has to say.
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Figurative Language: Simile and Metaphor

For Students 4th - 6th
What is figurative language? Introduce your young learners to the most popular forms of figurative language: the simile and the metaphor. Start by reading "Willow and Ginkgo" by Eve Merriam, and identify where similes are used. Then look...
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Subject / Verb Agreement Worksheet 2

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, students read and underline the correct verb in the parentheses in twenty-one sentences that makes each one grammatically correct.
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Subject Verb Agreement Worksheet 1

For Students 7th - 9th
Practice correlative conjunctions with this subject/verb agreement activity. Fifteen sentences give middle schoolers the opportunity to correct any incorrect agreement within "either/or" and "neither nor" statements. The format would...
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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab

For Students 9th - 11th
In this vocabulary worksheet, learners decipher the best word choice to complete the sentence. All words begin with the letter "E."
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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab

For Students 9th - 11th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students decipher the best word choice to complete the sentence. All words begin with the letter W.
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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab

For Students 7th - 8th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students select the best word choice to complete the sentence. All words correspond to the theme of Labor Day.
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Reading Comprehension: Fiction and Nonfiction

For Students 1st - 3rd
This resource is made up of a series of reading passages with accompanying questions. On the first page, learners read the definitions of both fiction and non-fiction. They examine four short selections before writing either fiction or...
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Beginning Sounds

For Teachers K
Kindergarteners recognize words that begin with the same sound. For this word study lesson, they identify initial consonant sounds in words written on the board and write another word with the same beginning sound. Also, there is a...
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Narrative Cartoons

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students create a narrative cartoon. In this narrative lesson, students use a Peace Corp website to collect information and photographs that they add captions to and use to create their own narrative cartoons.
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The Present Perfect Exercise

For Students 4th - 5th
Use the present perfect verb tense to decide which verb would fit best. The class can practice verb tense online with this cyber worksheet. They fill in the blank for 15 simple sentences using present perfect verbs.
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Connotation, Denotation, Explanation

For Students 5th - 7th
Middle schoolers use this connotation and denotation worksheet to develop vocabulary skills. They take notes on the terms, study examples, and choose from pairs of words to find the more positive or negative word choice, as directed....
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Business and Advertising

For Teachers Higher Ed
Historical and humorous examples pepper this through presentation, which addresses logical infelicities and humor in business, advertising, and even politics. Though designed for a business and advertising class, this lecture could also...
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Humor in Business and Advertising

For Teachers Higher Ed
Introduce your students to humor in the workplace with this thorough presentation, which provides numerous examples of why humor in business is beneficial - and even profitable. A good resource for a semantics class or beginning business...
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Using Speech Marks: Quotations

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Provide your class with a review of the appropriate way to punctuate dialogue. This presentation goes through a detailed explanation of the use of quotation marks in writing and provides learners with a variety of examples to cement...
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Cloze Procedure For A Clockwork Orange

For Students 10th - 12th
A fan of cloze reading activities? A passage from Anthony Burgess's dystopian novella, A Clockwork Orange, provides the text for this activity.
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Something's Fishy. . . Classes and Qualities of Fish and Seafood

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
If you are going to eat seafood, it helps to understand the different classifications. In this presentation, viewers learn to differentiate two types of finfish and the variations of edible shellfish. They also examine the...
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Writing Effective Dialogue

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Spend a productive hour in the classroom with this tutorial where junior high writers discover how to create snappy dialogue. The learning begins with an analysis of sample writing and discussion on the effectiveness of each piece. The...
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The Kite Runner: Immigration Appreciation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Readers of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner engage in a simulation designed to give them an appreciation of the immigrant experience. Kids must finished the assigned task or face deportation.
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Gerund or Infinitive?

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Decide which form of the verb to use in ten sentences. Young grammarians watch for context clues when determining if they should use gerunds or infinitives in the blank spaces of each sentence.

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