Alabama Department of Archives and History
African American Life After the Civil War - Sharecropping
What is the sharecropping system? What role did it play in the post-Civil War economy of the South? Who were the sharecroppers? Who employed them? How were they paid? To answer these questions, kids examine a series of sharecropper...
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Tunes for Bears to Dance to: Questioning Strategy, Discussion Web
Readers of Robert Cormier's Tunes for Bears to Dance to are asked to consider the morality of the central character's actions
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Changes in Ecosystems
How does water pollution affect the environment? Provide your class with the resources to answer this question as they learn about eutrophication and ecosystem changes. Over two weeks, they simulate the effects of pollution on the...
Bully Free Systems
Bully Free Lesson Plans—Seventh Grade
Having a hard time defining bullying with your seventh graders? Discuss the different types of behavior one would see in a bullying situation with a series of lessons, worksheets, and group activities.
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Ethics Issues From Science Fiction
Students analyze ethics issues as they read science fiction works. In this science and ethics lesson, students read science fiction short stories of their choosing, investigate the ethics issues raised in the stories, and...
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Egg Hunt: Review of States and Capitals
Fourth graders participate in an Easter egg hunt that gives them clues to states and their capitals. In this states and capitals lesson plan, 4th graders use clues to figure out the states described.
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Huffing H
Students develop phonemic awareness. They discover the alphabetic insight that letters stand for phonemes and spellings map out phonemes in spoken words. They focuses on the /h/ sound made by the letter h and examine a picture with the...
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Words and Pictures
In this phoneme worksheet, 1st graders focus on the oy letter combination. Students fill in the blanks to complete 10 words with the given letter sound.
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Fitness
In this literacy worksheet, students unscramble the letters to create the words that focus upon the subject of fitness for the 15 problems and write the answers in the spaces provided.
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V Words Word Search Puzzle
In this literacy worksheet, students find the words that use the letter V. They focus upon the spelling of the words when looking for them in the word search puzzle.
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Consonant Sounds
For this consonant sound worksheet, students focus on the initial letter sounds. Students study 8 pictures and circle those that have the same sound as the first picture on the page.
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Consonant Digraph "th"
In this consonant digraph worksheet, 2nd graders focus on the "th" sound. Students color 4 pictures that begin with this sound and draw two pictures of their own that use the digraph letter combination.
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Slang Words Beginning With L
In this English language worksheet, students focus on English slang words that begin with the letter l. Students complete 5 multiple choice questions choosing the correct slang that would fit correctly into each of the given sentences.
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Slang Words Beginning With S
In this English language worksheet, students focus on English slang words that begin with the letter s. Students complete 13 multiple choice questions choosing the correct slang that would fit correctly into each of the given sentences.
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ESOL Basic numbers and SHapes
Students review then recognize the letters A-Z both uppercase and lowercase and the numbers 0-100. They practice letters orally then play a letter writing game and number game as a class.
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Cat Nap
Students identify and interpret the concept of the vowel /a/ and recognize it in words and illustrations. They also practice writing both upper and lower case A on writing paper. Finally, students name pictures and circle the pictures...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Skills Necessary to Listen, Speak, Read and Write Effectively
Students, referring to the alphabet and numbers, practice stating, reading and writing letters and numbers. As they write each letter and number they say each one as well. They find examples of each one in a newspaper or magazine ad.
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ESOL Alphabet Recognition
Students recognize, state, read and write the alphabet (upper and lower cases) and numbers. They identify the letters, pronounce their name with the letters out of sequence and in sequence.
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ESOL Obtain Employment
Students discuss the items needed to be prepared for a job interview. They generate a list of action verbs needed to prepare a resume of their own. They construct a cover letter and match it to an ad in the newspaper.
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Izzie's Igloo
Students must be phonemically aware to both read and write. This means that the student must understand phonemes and the relationship between letters and sounds. In this lesson, students work on the phoneme i=/i/. Since vowels are the...
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Allie the Rat
Students identify the letter a and the short vowel sound it makes. They do a tongue twister with the sound in it and write what the letter a looks like on primary paper. Students have to listen to or read a story called Pat's Jam and...
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"Ehh?" Says Grandpa Edward"
Students engage in an emergent literacy lesson that focuses on phonemic awareness. This lesson plan helps students to identify the correspondence e=/e/ by recognizing the sound of an elderly person ¿¿¿eh?¿¿¿ throughout words.
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The Fat Cat
Learners explore phonemes. They identify that a=/a/. Students recognize /a/ in spoken words by learning a meaningful representation and a letter symbol. Learners practice finding /a/ in a variety of words. Students read a book that...
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"Whaaa" Said The Baby"
Students recognize phonemes that correspond with the letters in the alphabet. They focus on identifying the short a, /a/ sound. They examine the way their mouths move when making the short a sound mimicking a baby's cry. In given...