Jen London
Julius Caesar Funeral Speech Essay Assignment
"Romans, countrymen, and lovers! Hear me for my cause." "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!" As part of a study of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, individuals as asked to compare the funeral speeches of Brutus and...
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March Journal Prompts
Engage your class in writing right away during the month of March. This resource provides writing prompts for every day in March, and each is decorated with a shamrock. For most of the prompts, learners use creative writing skills,...
Super Teacher Worksheets
Reading a Timeline
Practice reading a timeline with this two-page worksheet that illustrates a fun week at summer camp and tests comprehension with seven questions.
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Literacy Dice
Reinforce literacy skills using a six-sided die that focuses on phonics and story starters. Scholars roll, and show what they know about blends, plots, and more!
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Five Ways to Overcome Writer’s Block
Every writer knows how terrible writer's block can feel. Use these five writer's block-busting techniques to help young writers get out of their rut and into a better state of mind.
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Friendly Letter to a Leprechaun
Students write friendly letters. In this friendly letter writing lesson, students write a friendly letter to a leprechaun. Students review the parts of a friendly letter then watch the teacher model how to write a friendly letter,...
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Beatrix Potter and Alliteration
In this creative writing worksheet, students utilize a variety of strategies to creatively write alliterations, tongue twisters, similes and finally an acrostic poem.
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The King of the Birds vocabulary
Science and language skills come together in The King of the Birds. After reading, discuss the names and types of birds in the story and write given sentences to portray the difference between comparative and superlative adjectives....
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Active and Passive Voice: Finding Examples Online
Incorporate technological fluency with a search for examples of active and passive voice in online resources. Discuss how use of active or passive voice influences mood or tone and contributes to author's purpose. List of...
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Creating Transitions
Fourth graders analyze the use of transitions in text. In this transitions lesson, 4th graders determine how and why a transition is used at a specific time in a piece of writing. They show transitions by using movements before...
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Four Kinds of Sentences - Fun Review
Fourth graders review for the Four Kinds of Sentences.
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Types of Questions - Tenses
In this question tense worksheet, students analyze 17 sentences before writing the sentences in a table. They separate the sentences by question tense and type into the proper section of the table.
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Street Language and Learning
Young scholars examine the type of language they use on the street in the city. In groups, they brainstorm ideas about a topic they decide on from a cluster of words. Using those ideas, they organize them into a written paper using...
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Question the Grimm Brothers
In this writing questions worksheet, students read each sentence and rewrite them including capitalization and question mark punctuation.
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Using Future Tense in Sentences
In this interactive verb tenses worksheet, students explore the future tense by using be going to. Students complete six sentences by putting the proper form of the verb in the sentence.
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Choose the correct sentence
In this shout and bark worksheet, students choose the correct sentence where the words are used properly. Students have 2 sentences each to choose from for each word.
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Passive Voice Sentences
In this passive voice worksheet, students change a set of 9 sentences from the passive to active tense, writing answers beneath sentences already given.
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Pet
In this writing worksheet, students complete sentences about a pet. They are given word boxes containing words for four types of pets (dog, fish, bird and cat).
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Spelling 7
In this spelling activity worksheet, students rewrite the cursive spelling words and use them in a sentence. Students then type the 20 words on a computer.
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R- Controlled Vowels
This PowerPoint reviews the concept of r-controlled vowels in sentences. The slides contain sentences that include an r-controlled vowel and ask students to click on the correct word. The PowerPoint is interactive and allows students to...
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Proofreading Lesson 6
Explore proofreading strategies with this instructional activity. Eighth graders practice finding errors in punctuation, capitalization, and formatting. Then, they write about a given topic and then proofread their compositions, looking...
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Holidays Around the World
Students explore how different holiday traditions are celebrated around the world. Scholars write a paper describing how they celebrate their own favorite holiday. Email partners, from different states and countries, share their...
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Five Elements of a Story
Here’s a graphic organizer that permits learners to chart the introduction, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution of a story. The PDF file can be customized to work with any narrataive.
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Olympic Lingo
Instead of bingo, why not play some Lingo? This vocabulary game is just like bingo, but it's all about words and focuses on building vocabulary. The resource provides a blank Lingo card, a filled-in sample, and a vocabulary list. All of...