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Introduce Vocabulary: Blueberries for Sal (McCloskey)
Take your budding readers on a literary trip to pick blueberries as they learn vocabulary from Robert McClosky's book, Blueberries for Sal. By pre-teaching the words pupils are prepared to raise their hands when they hear the words in...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Make Way for Ducklings (McCloskey)
Use the Caldecott Award-winning book Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey (which can be found on YouTube if you don't have it) to guide budding readers through vocabulary in context. Although the instruction here is limited to the...
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Maniac Magee: Found Poem
Instruct your readers to scrounge through the pages of Maniac Magee in search for descriptive passages or words they may use to write poetry. As they look for meaningful, sensory descriptors in Jerry Spinelli's novel, readers connect to...
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Call to Arms: A Service Project
Sick of selling candy and washing cars? How about hosting a Digital Day or a Learning Lunch? The suggestions here make fund raising fun and rewarding. Raise money to preserve important maps and other primary source documents.
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Author's Purpose
Who knew determining author's purpose could be turned into a game? Four teams compete to correctly identify the author's purpose for writing a series of passages.
How Does She
I'm a Summer Reading Star!
Reading is rewarding on its own, but why not add in some extra incentives? As individuals read, they can fill out the bingo board included here, earn coupons, create bookmarks, and fill out a banner, piece by piece.
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Pudd'nhead Wilson: Vocabulary Strategy
Invite your pupils to do the teaching when it comes to the vocabulary in Pudd'nhead Wilson. Each individual is assigned one word to research in depth and teach to classmates, one pupil at a time.
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4th Grade Personal Narrative
Throughout 10 lessons, fourth graders learn how to plan, organize, write, and edit their own personal narratives. In the beginning, young writers come up with ideas of personal experiences and the emotions linked with those experiences....
E Reading Worksheets
Fact and Opinion - Worksheet: 6
Practice discerning fact and opinion with a worksheet that contains 25 statements. Once learners determine if they are fact or opinion, they circle their answer and write a sentence explaining how they know.
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Onomatopoeia Poems
Students write onomatopoeia poems. For this creative writing lesson, students listen to a picture book that introduces the concept of onomatopoeia. Students create their own list of words and write a short poem using onomatopoeia.
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English Clubs and Corners
Teachers consider ways to display assignments and engage pupils in clubs. They study how to dedicate classroom space to motivate and inspire learners, as well as to enable them to work as a group in a non-threatening environment. They...
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Round Robin Post-It Review
Learners of all ages participate in a unique review activity. They work in a small group setting on individual review questions designed by the teacher. Each individual answers a key review question on a notecard or sticky note and...
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Test Your Reading Skills-- Any Answers 3
In this language arts worksheet, students practice answering a question with a logical clear response. Students read 10 questions and choose the most appropriate answer.
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Third Grade Language Activities
In this grade three language worksheet, students read several short passages, completing a multiple choice question for each, 25 total.
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Long Vowel Free-Writing Activity: Long A
In this long vowel writing activity, learners say the name of pictures that have the long a sound, then write about the pictures. Worksheet has links to additional activities.
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Phonics Activities for Aa and Ii
Pupils participate in a number of activities to study the letters A and I. They use food items such as apples and cereal as manipulatives for the activities.
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Alphabet Review Activities
Students practice the alphabet using a variety of songs, books and activities.
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It's An Eggstravaganza! Green Eggs and Ham Activity
In this activity worksheet about "Green Eggs and Ham," students cut and color a picture frame, then attach or draw a picture of themselves and paste so that they are "seen through the yolk" of the egg. Students cover the frame with green...
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What Physical Activities Do Sneakers and His Friends Do?
Young scholars investigate fun physical activities that can be done year round. In this physical education lesson plan, students read the story Big News! Straight From the Heart, and list the activities written about in the story....
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Bread and Jam for Frances Activity Card
For this reading worksheet, students respond to the book Bread and Jam for Frances by completing an activity at home with a parent. Students taste some of the foods that Frances had for lunch and mark how they liked each food.
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff Activity Card
In this reading worksheet, students respond to the book The Three Billy Goats Gruff by completing an activity at home with a parent. Students cut out the 2 characters and staple them to a straw. Students act out the story with a parent...
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The Little Red Hen Activity Card
In this reading worksheet, students respond to the book The Little Red Hen by completing an activity at home with their parents. Students cut out the characters on the page and staple them to a straw. Students say the parts for each...
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Fun, Fun, Fun
Students participate in playing online games. In this practice lesson plan, students play online games to practice skills learned throughout the week.
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Dawdle Duckling
Students read the book Dawdle Duckling and complete different activities about the book. Students research the wetlands, research ducks, complete an oil and water experiment, map a cove, and more.