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Divide and Conquer: Breaking Down Skills For Slowlearners
Students are introduced to skills to help them become better readers. With a partner, they use magazines to identify consonant pairs and participate in a game naming words that ends with consonants. As a class, they practice clapping...
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Reference Source Four Square
Fourth graders play a four-square game on the playground while reviewing four main references -- dictionary, atlas, thesaurus, and encyclopedia. Students must throw the playground ball in the correct "square" identifying the correct...
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Collocation Pelmanism
Students read and analyze the article, "Lexical exploitation of texts," and become aware of the concept of recycling new words. They practice this concept several times in class before they take on the memory game pelmanism in the follow...
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Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Exercise
In this grammar worksheet, students correct or revise any ambiguous or inappropriate pronoun-antecedent errors found in the sentences given. They review the attached sheet for assistance with the activity. There are 20 sentences to fix.
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Active Listening
Students talk with a partner. In this listening activity, students play a favorite colors listening games, review a checklist for active listening and practice active listening with a partner.
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Chaucer's "The Prioress' Tale"
High schoolers examine Anti-Semitism in literature. For this Chaucer lesson, students review the concept of blood libel and then identify and analyze the Anti-Semitic message of "The Prioress' Tale."
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Verbs and Synonyms
In this vocabulary skills worksheet, students review the definition for synonym and find examples using the verbs in the box to complete the 15 exercises.
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Long Vowel A
In this long vowel a worksheet, students look at pictures and fill in the consonants to "a-e" words, and use learning cards to review "ai," "ay," and "ei" words. Students have 21 cards to work with.
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Health Jeopardy
Students test their knowledge on a previously taught health chapter. A jeopardy board is drawn on the chalk or dry erase board. Each column on the board can represent a topic from the health chapter being reviewed.
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Beehive Award Nominees for Children's Fiction 2005-06
Students visit links about Utah's Beehive Award. They investigate which books received nominations and read reviews about them. They explore other sites to participate in various games and activities.
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Under the Umbrella
Students explore the short /u/ sound. They practice making the sound, noticing how their mouths move to make it. They use letterboxes to spell 'u' words, identify 'u' = /u/ in written words, and play the 'Under the Umbrella' game.
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Smiles Change the World
Students develop speaking and listening skills while evaluating a list. In this consensus lesson, students define consensus and discuss how it might be used at recess. After students understand how consensus works, students review and...
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Core 4: Clarifying Strategies
In this lesson plan on clarifying text, young scholars review 4 methods of clarifying information within a text. Students then work with partners to discuss and role play the 4 methods. This lesson plan includes a power point...
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Reintroduce /kn/
Students practice reading words with the kn pattern. In this phonics lesson, students review the sound kn makes. Students then play a game to reinforce the correct use of the kn spelling pattern.
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"The Giver" by Lois Lowry
Learners read the novel, "The Giver", and test their comprehension through the game Jeopardy. Then students research individual rights of different cultures and write a summary of their findings. Learners develop a personal timeline of...
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Off To the Reading Races
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing good reader strategies , students complete an initial read of a novel text. With a partner, they read complete an assessment of their...
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Our Friends b and d
Students practice a variety of techniques and strategies to assess the differences between the lowercase letters b and d. They listen to and identify the letters b and d in the book, "Bud the Sub," and then play a game to master this skill.
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Teaching Tip -Vocabulary procedure
Participants are introduced to a variety of procedures to teach vocabulary. They gain oral practice with creative adjectives. They offer various vocabulary presentations along with games and acting out the words.
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Adjective Placement
In this adjective placement worksheet, students review and discuss the seven main types of adjectives and create four sentences from phrases and adjectives.
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Future
In this future learning exercise, students review and discuss how to make predictions and plan events for the future. They place nine sets of words into the correct order to build nine sentences. They finish by correctly completing...
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Punctuating Adverb Clauses
In this grammar worksheet, students review and discuss the general rules for punctuating adverb clauses. Students then place a comma where one is needed in ten sentences with adverb clauses.
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“Time to...”
Students review elapsed time and vocabulary in this worksheet. Student read a short story and then answer 10 questions. This is a good worksheet for test-taking practice.
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Homophones: Cloze the Gap!
In this homophones review instructional activity, students use words from the homophone list to fill in the blanks in 13 sentences so that they make sense.
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Total English Pre-intermediate: Playing with Passives
In this passive practice worksheet, students review the passive voice as they correct the mistakes in 8 sentences and make 8 questions using the passive voice. Students also answer 4 questions regarding the passive voice.