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Science Fiction Stories
Students review the story writing process and the elements such as prewriting, drafting, editing, revising, publishing, and assessment. Next students write a science fiction story that contains a title, the requested number of...
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Prepositions
In this prepositions worksheet, students review and discuss what prepositions are and how to correctly use them in sentences. Students choose the correct preposition for ten sentences.
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Prepositions (Part 2)
In this prepositions worksheet, learners, after reviewing prepositions and how to use them correctly, choose the correct preposition for ten sentences.
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Conjunctions (Part 2)
In this conjunctions worksheet, learners, after reviewing conjunctions, choose the correct conjunction out of two choices for ten sentences to make each one grammatically correct.
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Causative Structures 3
In this causative structures worksheet, learners, after reviewing active/passive verbs, choose which causative structure grammatically makes ten sentences correct.
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Causative Structures 2
In this causative structures worksheet, young scholars, after reviewing active/passive verbs, choose the correct verb out of a choice of three for each of ten sentences.
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Reported Speech 1
In this reported speech worksheet, students review and discuss five key directives to choosing the grammatically correct verb in ten sentences.
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Past Tense Verbs
This activity, which focuses on the Pilgrims, has students practice the use of past tense verbs. Students in the lower grades could complete this fill-in-the-blank activity as a review of information learned about Thanksgiving.
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Past Tense Verbs
In this past tense verbs review worksheet, learners add the suffix -ed to the 15 action verbs listed in order to make them past tense.
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Cloze Activity: Captain James Cook
In this Captain James Cook cloze procedure worksheet, students review a brief selection that is missing 14 words and then attempt to fill in each blank with a word they think the author might have used. A word bank is provided.
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Antonyms
In this antonyms review worksheet, students examine 16 words and identify antonyms for each of them. Students then draw a picture of a pair of antonyms.
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Defenders of Justice
Students research abolitionists, civil rights advocates, and their allies to learn about racism and justice. In this racism and justice lesson, students define justice and sing a song about activism. Students review the biographies...
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Some Homophones Are Verbs
Fifth graders participate in a spelling bee. In this verbs and homophones lesson plan, 5th graders review how most verbs are formed in the past tense and how this differs from irregular verbs. Students identify homophones and homographs...
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The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
Students complete vocabulary and reading activities for Paulo Coehlo's The Alchemist. In this reading and vocabulary lesson, students review vocabulary for the text and read sections of the story. Students answer questions for each...
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Gift of the Magi
While reading O Henry's "The Gift of the Magi," your class will define and identify situational irony and allusion. Use a study guide (not included, but easy to produce) to record and discuss examples of allusion as you read. Map the...
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Preparing for Success
This lesson plan is more of a series of tips for you, the teacher, to implement when standardized testing comes around. The strongest component of this guide is that it invites the teacher to reflect on what worked the best, and what...
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Using Imagery
Show, don't tell! Pairs work together to change a list of telling sentences into showing sentences using picture words that create vivid pictures in the readers’ minds.
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The Odyssey Lesson 6
"How are belief systems represented and reproduced through nature?" This essential question guides lesson 6 of this unit on The Odyssey (the rest of the unit is linked). Students first write about a scenario in which they are...
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Locational Writing
Students go outside to the playground and write a piece in the style of beat poets based on what they see and hear outside.
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Less is Best
A continuation of the instructional activity The Teacher is Missing, this plan focuses on refining and remembering a previously recorded class list of rules. Included in this resource are several discussion prompts aimed at getting...
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Here's an Instant Activity for November 19, 2007
An instant spelling activity, that's what it's called. Learners practice their spelling skills with consonant and vowel -y ending words. They use a word bank to help them sort the words into consonant and vowel-y ending words.
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The Jungle Book Pt. 7
Quiz your class on the last pages of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. Like the creative novel, quiz questions focus on talking animals and their relationships. Multiple-choice answers give readers a little bit of help.
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Prepositions Can Show Positions in Time
Who knows where or when? The preposition knows! Young grammarians are asked to identify the preposition and the connecting prepositional phrases in 16 sentences. An answer key is provided.
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Mississippi River
Students study scanning and skimming techniques. In this research skills lesson plan, students use the research techniques on print literature about the Mississippi River. Students prepare book talks on the literature they read.