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Indianapolis 500 Unit -- Writing
Fourth graders write a narrative from a race car driver's point of view. In this narratives activity students use the narrative writing format to write about a race car driver's experiences in the Indianapolis 500. The students use a...
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Academic Raceway 500: Vocabulary Using Context Clues
This vocabulary skills PowerPoint presents a game to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words using context clues within a sentence. The game is based on the theme of a car race. The goal of the PowerPoint game is to finish the race...
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Academic Raceway: The Telltale Heart
This literature study PowerPoint summarizes and reviews the key points of the book, The Telltale Heart. The slides display a mock raceway where students must answer questions about the text in order to complete the raceway. This is an...
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Academic Raceway: Animals
This animals PowerPoint provides a race car game in which students answer a variety of questions about animals, the majority of which are based on ways in which animals adapt to their surroundings and behave to survive.
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Academic Raceway
In this PowerPoint, students participate in a race car game in which their car moves towards the finish line when a correct synonym or antonym is chosen for the word provided.
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ELL/ESL Reading and Reasoning Selection- Memorial Day
In this ELL/ESL reading and reasoning worksheet, learners read a short selection about Memorial Day. They answer 5 true or false questions before they write about their Memorial Day plans.