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Beginning Synonyms and Antonyms-Multiple Choice-Adjectives
Supply your ELL classroom with this worksheet exploring synonyms and antonyms for popular adjectives. First they choose the best synonym listed for the words final, great, tired, tiny, merry, and unhappy. Then they choose the best...
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Expressing Thoughts & Feelings
Students discuss an ordinary apple. They pass the apple around the room, whacking it on the floor at their turn. Students watch as the teacher cuts open the apple showing them it looks the same on the outside, but is bruised on the...
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Infinitives After Adjectives
In this language arts worksheet, students read an information chart to learn the use of infinitives after adjectives. Students read 20 sentences with missing words. Students choose the correct infinitive to finish the sentence.
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Pass It On: African American Poetry to Inspire Writing
Students read through poems in a book called Pass it On. There are 19 poems from famous African American poets contained in the book. The poems are specialized for children and after the children have learned about the author and about...
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Does it Make Sense?
In this grammar learning exercise, students read 9 sentences and draw smiley faces next to the sentences that are grammatically correct. They draw sad faces next to the sentences that are not grammatically correct and underline the word...
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Positive And Negative Words 2
In this language arts instructional activity, learners investigate if words have positive or negative connotations. Students analyze a list of 20 words and mark them with a P or N according to whether they are positive or negative.
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You
In this emotions instructional activity, students look at 4 faces with corresponding adjectives such as happy, sad, mad, and sleepy. Students complete 4 questions about the pictures.
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A Happy Time
Second graders listen to stories about feelings, identify their own feelings at specific times in their lives, and express their feelings in words and through writing.
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If You're Happy And You Know It, Show Us With Expression
Student practice reading fluently and expressively through the use of various strategies. After reviewing good reader strategies, 3rd graders read a story with expression to their partner. They complete an evaluation of each other's...
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Happy Reading Rats
Students practice sounding out and writing the letter a. They listen for the /a/ sound when reciting a tongue twister. They also listen to the teacher read Zac the Rat and raise an "apple" when they hear a word with an /a/ sound. They...
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Feelings
Pupils evaluate feelings and the differences in feelings terms. They identify feelings words by watching gestures and play the Flyswatter Game to choose the correct feeling. As a class they select the feelings they have in response to...
K12 Reader
Color Shows Mood
Colors, primary colors, secondary colors, neutral colors, mixing colors, the color wheel. As a reading comprehension exercise, kids read a short passage about colors and then answer a series of questions based on the article.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Sound Maker - Sound Smacker
Scholars sort words based on their initial phonemes. They choose cards, say their names, and match the initial phoneme to the one posted on one of the sorting bins. If the initial sound matches, they put the card in the sound maker bin,...
Joel's Place
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Produce your own version of the 1965 animated television special A Charlie Brown Christmas using the script provided by this resource.
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Same Setting, Different Moods: Voice and Word Choice Using Lord of the Flies
Whether it's dark, delightful, or somber, set the mood with William Golding's Lord of the Flies. High-schoolers practice descriptive writing by creating the appropriate mood for an original scene, starring one of the book's main characters.
Virginia Department of Education
Developing an Essay: Word Choice
Grading essays after reading a novel written by a lyrical master (think Nabokov, Morrison, Chabon) is a deflating experience. Why can’t your student’s display the same skill in diction as your favorite writers? Because you did not use...
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Diary Writing
As part of their reading of Michael Morpurgo's novel Kensuke's Kingdom, young castaways create diary entries describing their own time left alone on an island.
Teach-nology
Author’s Purpose: Entertain
How does an author entertain his or her audience? Read a short fairy tale and find the most evocative passages to discover more about author's purpose in narrative writing.
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The Wampanoag Tribe: Reading Comprehension
In this Wampanoag Tribe comprehension instructional activity students will read a two page essay and answer five questions. Students will also have a chance to show comprehension through a short answer and a short essay.
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First Day of School
Primary learners complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book First Day of School. They will complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have discussions, and much more.
K12 Reader
Identify the Antonym
What happens to a sentence when you replace a word with its antonym? A two-part instructional activity asks learners to select words opposite in meaning to provided words, and then to craft sentences using antonyms for given words.
K12 Reader
Opposite Words: Adjectives
Here's a colorful worksheet that asks kids to write a word, opposite in meaning, to the word pictured. The template includes picture clues.
The New York Times
650 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing
An extensive list of narrative prompts is just what you need to inspire young writers to tell their stories. Arranged by topic, the questions are sure give them something to talk about.
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Feelings and Emotions
Students discuss and write about different feelings they or someone else may have. In this feelings lesson plan, students discuss different ways they express their feelings. Then they get a picture with someone who is demonstrating a...