Assessment
Fluence Learning

Writing an Argument: Free Speech

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
How do you assess whether pupils have mastered certain concepts and skills? Designing a performance task that asks learners to demonstrate their skills and providing writers with a rubric that identifies these skills and provides...
Lesson Plan
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Word Bank Power Tool for Writing

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars use a word bank to help them do their writing and reading. The idea is that they would keep adding to this list as they move from grade to grade.
Lesson Plan
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Origami Ducks: Geometry, Listening, and Following Directions

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Make origami ducks with your class to reinforce geometry concepts and vocabulary; develop fine motor and visual translation skills; and enrich study of Japanese culture, the pond habitat, or migration. Create a whole group "worksheet"...
Worksheet
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Latin Roots grad, mot, cad: Fill in the Blanks Quiz

For Students 6th - 11th
A word bank of intermediate-level words with the Latin roots grad/gress, mot, and cad/cas/cid helps learners fill in the blanks on this interactive online quiz. I'd assign it for review to maximize instructional minutes between whole...
Activity
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre

West Side Story Suite and In The Night Fancy Free

For Teachers 8th - 12th
West Side Story and Romeo & Juliet—two classics in their own rights that help young literature lovers better analyze different works. Learners research and compare the characters and story elements of West Side Story and Romeo...
Worksheet
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Checking Account - Reading Comprehension

For Students 4th - 6th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students will read a passage about opening a bank account and then determine the answer to five comprehension questions. In addition students will then evaluate the scenario presented and write...
Lesson Plan
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Press-ing Freedom

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider how free speech applies to journalistic practices in light of a legal case involving two reporters. They participate in a fishbowl discussion about journalism codes of ethics and write response papers.
Lesson Plan
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Radio Free School

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore radio news formats, styles, and sequences, and then write segments for a student-centered news radio program. In small groups, students develop and write news segments for a student-centered radio program.
Worksheet
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Crazy Crossword

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this long vowel I activity, students complete a crossword puzzle from a word bank containing eight words containing the long vowel I in them.
Worksheet
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Quick as a Wink

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this phonics riddle worksheet, students solve six riddles associated with words with the -ink sound in them. Students choose their answers from a word bank provided for them.
Lesson Plan
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Crossword: Afternoon on the Amazon

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this literature worksheet, students read 20 clues pertaining to the book Afternoon on the Amazon. Students fit their answers in a crossword puzzle. There is no word bank.
Worksheet
K12 Reader

Animal Proverbs and Adages

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
What will play when the cat's away? Practice figurative language with a list of proverbs about animals. Kids use the word bank at the top of the page to fill in the blanks based on their knowledge of common phrases.
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K12 Reader

An Adverb Can Tell Where

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Outside, backwards, far. Adverbs that tell where action is happening is the focus of a colorful one-page worksheet that asks kids to select the appropriate adverb from the provided word bank.
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K12 Reader

For Thanksgiving: Add the Nouns and Adjectives

For Students 3rd - 6th
The plump flower was on the dining table? This is just one of many fun sentence combinations kids can make using this Thanksgiving-themed sentence frame worksheet. They use a word bank to insert nouns and adjectives into six sentences.
Worksheet
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Mommy and Baby Animals 2

For Students 1st - 2nd
A charming worksheet on mother and baby animals is here for you. Young learners write the names of adult and baby animals by looking at animal pictures and using the words in the word bank. They trace a path from the adult animals to the...
Worksheet
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Mother and Baby Animals 3

For Students 1st - 2nd
Young learners use a word bank to write the names of mother and baby animals next to their pictures. They complete four easy mazes which connect parents to babies.
Interactive
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Latin Roots fin, sed, fer: Synonyms and Antonyms

For Students 7th - 11th
Secondary etymologists assign synonyms and antonyms to six English words based on the Latin roots fin, sed, and fer. MyVocabulary.com ranks this as beginner-level, but the work is challenging. A 24-item word bank provides two acceptable...
Interactive
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Latin Roots Cern, Jur, Leg: Fill in the Blanks Quiz

For Students 4th - 8th
MyVocabulary.com features three levels of words for each root; this fill-in-the-blanks quiz contains a word bank of beginner vocabulary containing the roots cern/cer/cre, jur/jus, and leg. You can print it out, or your learners can take...
Lesson Plan
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Trade Barriers

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students write an editorial piece which takes a position supporting or opposing the free trade policy during the 1790s. After identifying barriers to trade in the 1790s they analyze how their position on the free trade would fit into...
Worksheet
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Word Search: Solar System

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this solar system word search, students will locate 23 words in a rocket-shaped word search puzzle. A word bank is provided.
Worksheet
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Long Vowel U Sounds

For Students 1st - 3rd
This worksheet is straight-forward and easy to follow. Have your young learners look at the words below and place them in the correct category. Does the word have the ew letter combination or a u and silent e combination? For you very...
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Animal Cell Diagram

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this animal cell diagram worksheet, students are to draw a cell in the blank space and label it using words in the word bank. No information is given about what the cell would look like.
Lesson Plan
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The Truth Shall Set Them Free?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners consider the notion and purpose of truth commissions, They work in groups to predict the commission's effectiveness in its efforts to promote peace and reconciliation among Liberians. Finally, students create found poems that...
Worksheet
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Coral Reef Center: Adjectives

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this using adjectives worksheet, students use adjectives in a word bank to complete sentences about a Coral Reef. Students fill in five blank answers.