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What is Grammar and How Should We Teach It?

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Students review comparisons through a text, to heighten student's awareness of the use of modifiers and nouns with comparatives.
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What's the Big Idea?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students choose a paragraph from a book of their choice, identify the main idea, and draw an illustration of the main idea. They write original paragraphs, illustrate them, and trade with a partner, identifying the main idea of the...
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Rockin' Map Summaries

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students summarize a piece of text. After reviewing the correct way to read and summarize, students work in groups to summarize a piece of text assigned by the instructor. They write a summary paragraph by creating a story map and the...
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Alice in Wonderland Chapter Activity Worksheets

For Students 10th - 11th
In these Alice in Wonderland chapter activity worksheets, students complete several chapters worth of questions that help advance their reading comprehension of the text.
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Lesson Plan C32: Story Starts

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students write story starters to begin the writing process. In this creative writing lesson plan, students examine story starters and review the structure of paragraphs. Students create their own story starters that engage readers by...
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Dame Ellen MacArthur

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Ellen MacArthur worksheet, students read about the life of the yachtswoman, then complete a variety of comprehension activities. An answer key is included.
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Picture Dictionary

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create picture dictionaries to encourage the development of letter-sound recognition. In this alphabet project, students cut out pictures from magazines and glue them onto tagboard, and then write the name of the picture below...
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Lesson Plan - ESL Vocabulary Lesson Plan - Opposites for Advanced Level Learners

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students in small groups work on opposites worksheet.
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Polar Pals: Polar Bears & Penguins

For Teachers 1st
First graders complete a variety of activities about polar bears and penguins including the "Blubber Mitten" experiment. They culminate the unit by creating a visual representation comparing and contrasting the two animals.
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Hip Hip Hooray for Expression!!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students identify what it means to be fluent and that there are five components: reading faster, reading with expression, reading smoothly, reading silently and being able to read voluntarily. Then they focus on being able to read with...
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Become a "Summarizer"

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars practice reading a text and summarizing it for their classmates. As a class, they are introduced to various ways of summerizing material and use them to summarize two articles. They are asked questions to reinforce what...
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Skimming and Scanning Information

For Students Higher Ed
In this career instructional activity, students practice the real life application of reading skills. They specifically cover the tasks of skimming and scanning a text.
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The Economy and Politics

For Teachers 10th - 12th
In this economy and politics sociology worksheet, students complete 14 fill in the blank questions and 7 multiple choice questions regarding the how businesses operate in different economies and under various political control.
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Language Practice-Grade 5

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this grade 5 language worksheet, students complete a total of 25 multiple choice questions, reading short passages and completing questions. An answer key is included.
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English Exercises: Conjunctions

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this online interactive English activity, students respond to 31 fill in the blank and multiple choice questions that require them to use conjunctions appropriately. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research and write an author report on Roald Dahl, including books written by him, birthplace, family life, and other information on his writing. Students read aloud chapters in the book. Students create a newspaper...
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Helen Clark

For Students 4th - 6th
In this famous people worksheet, students read about the life of Helen Clark and complete a variety of comprehension activities including but not limited to matching, sequencing, writing and spelling activities. An answer key is included.
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Cinquain Poems

For Teachers 2nd - 10th
Students write five-line, diamond shaped poems that are very easy to write then submit one through an automatic PIZZAZZ form.
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American Personalities: Autobiographical Sketches

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students are introduced to American personalities whose fame and contributions have left, and continue to leave a mark in American history.
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Interpreting Political Cartoons

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars review political cartoons and discuss what political impact they can have. They choose a current political cartoon and write an essay exploring its intent and impact.
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2nd Grade - Act. 01: Exploration Tubs

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders communicate ideas, information, and feelings.
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Virginia's Historical Figures

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders write full paragraphs about important historical figures from Virginia's history. They research an the historical figure before word processing three complete paragraphs using facts and appropriate clipart. They compare...
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Song Writing: Recording Your Song

For Students 6th - 9th
In this music activity, students read an excerpt on recording with a company, who the producer is, and what arrangements need to be made. They respond to six short answer questions related to recording their own song in a studio.
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The Dymaxion Car

For Students 5th - 8th
In this motion worksheet, students read about the invention of the Dymaxion car that was designed to achieve high speeds. Students complete 2 short answer questions based on the reading.