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Learning the Letters
Students identify the letters of the alphabet. In this letters lesson, students use an iPad to play games, draw pictures, and listen to videos about the alphabet. They use pipe cleaners to create their name.
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Lyric Poetry Lesson
Students synthesize the "textbook" definition of lyric poetry and discuss various forms (love lyric, complaint lyric, loss lyric, satiric lyric). They discover the relationship of poetry to musical selections.
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Using Conjunctions – Mix & Match Cards 2- Test Your Grammar Skills
For this grammar mix and match worksheet, students cut out 30 small rectangular cards and match them to the proper conjunctions. They work with the conjunctions so, because, and, but, and or.
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Verbs
Young scholars play a game.  In this grammar instructional activity, students play charades where they must act out a verb that has been written on a piece of paper.
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The Wonderful World of Colors
First graders imagine what life would look like in one color, then many. They play a game with colored cards where students call out the names of colors. They match colored cards with objects of same color. They read "The Color Box."
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Find a Match
Third graders, in pairs, are blindfolded and must find each other across the room by calling out synonyms to each other. They practice with antonyms as well. They can skip, gallop, hop or walk to each other to increase the physical...
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (Kansas) (Grades K-3)
Students examine the Brown v. Board of Education case in Topeka, Kansas. They re-enact the courtroom and discuss how school would be different today if this case never existed. They discuss how public education has been affected by this...
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"Ode to the Bluebonnet"
Fourth graders create an acrostic poem using the word "bluebonnet" They brainstorm adjectives and descriptive phrases for the bluebonnet and its habitat. They   read The Legend of the Bluebonnet, by Tomie de Paola. students integrate...
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Twelve Angry Men
Students assess their understanding of Twelve Angry Men.  They create flashcards for vocabulary terms, summarize one of the acts, construct a diorama and complete character wheels.  They choose from other activities including creating...
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We Are the Government
Students read primary documents to find the motivations of the founding fathers of the United States. In this primary documents lesson, students discuss the meaning of the Preamble to the Constitution, read parts of the Constitution...
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Concept: Superstition
Students identify the role of superstition in their own lives, in society, and in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In this superstition lesson, students discuss urban legends and listen to a related song to introduce the topic....
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Ad Awareness from Admongo.gov
Students explore mass media by completing worksheets in class. In this consumerism lesson, students discuss the meaning behind advertisements and how they are used in television, the Internet and print. Students analyze a group of ads in...
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Let's Play Mathematical Baseball
Students explore the concept of spelling geometric terms and words with number prefixes. In this spelling geometric terms and words with number prefixes lesson, students play a game of baseball. Students spell words correctly to advance...
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Reading Comprehension 4 - What Shall We Do Tomorrow?- Test Your Reading Skills
In this reading comprehension worksheet, 7th graders read a short passage in which one young lady talks to a young man about their holiday experience in Devon, UK. They answer 10 questions based on the passage.
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Reading Comprehension 5 - Looking for a Job- Test Your Reading Skills
In this reading comprehension worksheet, young scholars read a message that a young woman leaves on the answering machine of a job recruitment agency. They write answers to 20 questions based on their comprehension of the paragraph.
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Reading Comprehension 3 - A Lazy Holiday or an Exciting Holiday?- Test Your Reading Skills
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a short passage about a young girl's plans for her summer holidays. They write the answer to 10 questions based on the reading.
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Fix a Sandwich Stack
Sixth graders compare the meanings of the base words with the meanings of the words with added prefixes and suffixes. In this word analysis lesson, 6th graders explore base words, prefixes, and suffixes by finding words in print which...
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Sounding out accuracy, Bam!
Students play a game with index cards to build reading  and speaking accuracy.  In this sounding out game, students look at cards and pronounce the word on them.  They keep the card if they are correct. the person with the...
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Synonyms
Students complete online exercises for synonyms. For this synonyms lesson, students work in pairs to find pictures around the room and choose one as the music plays. Students write a word to describe the picture and discuss their...
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Rhyme Time
Second graders write poems based on locomotive skills, such as hop, skip, or run. They read their poems to the class and they act out the action word by performing it to a finish line.
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Super Spellicopter
Learners play a software based spelling game to increase their ability to spell frequently used words. They work on creative word work when they are not on the computer. They write words using different colored crayons and markers.
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Get a Clue Spelling Cards
For this get a clue spelling cards worksheet, students cut out the 8 clue cards in order to play a spelling game. Students play by using the 3 clues that accompany each word as hints to get their partners to guess and spell the 8 words.
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Problem Solving and the Sports Page
Fourth graders create and solve word problems using the boxscores from the sports section of the newspaper. The role play the sport, define abbreviations used and examine the fundamentals of scoring the sport.
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Mama, Do You Love Me?
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /m/ sound.  As a class, they recite a tongue twister, and play the "I Spy" game for the letter M.  Students then listen to the book "Mama, Do You Love Me?" and identify words in...