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Magical Musical Tour: Using Lyrics to Teach Literary Elements

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Language arts learners don't need a lecture about poetry; they listen to poetry every day on the radio! Apply skills from literary analysis to famous songs and beautiful lyrics with a lesson about literary devices. As...
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Book Review Writing: a Guide for Young Reviewers

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Encourage scholars to share their love of reading with informative and engaging book reviews. Here, you'll find a series of guides that walk learners through the review writing process. Included in the collection is information about...
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The Concept of Identity Lesson 8: Propaganda in Visual Media

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Visual and print propaganda are featured in a activity that asks readers of A Separate Peace to examine the techniques used in propaganda from World War I, World War II, presidential elections, and in the novel.
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A Gift For You

For Students K - 1st
In this printing practice and coloring worksheet, students color the gift box and trace and print the sentence "A gift for you!" Students complete 2 activities.
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Present for Father

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Father's Day worksheet, students read a passage about Father's Day and then answer 5 true or false questions involving inferences. Then the students write an opinion paragraph explaining what the girl should buy her father for...
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Every Day Edit - Chinese New Year

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the Chinese New Year. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Every Day Edit - Sarah Childress Polk: First Lady

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Sarah Childress Polk. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Every Day Edit - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Every Day Edit - A Giraffe in Paris

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about a giraffe walking to Paris. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Educator's Guide: A Christmas Carol

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Planning on using Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol this year? Then give yourself a gift and download this colorful guide thats packed with goodies. Kids, as well as the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future are sure to...
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Language Practice #6: Grades 3-4

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this language practice worksheet, students fix sentences, identify nouns, verbs or adjectives and combine sentences. 
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Surprise Gift: writing

For Students 4th - 8th
In this writing instructional activity, students read the prompt and write a story about having a new penguin for a pet, which was a surprise gift. Students complete 3 pages of writing.
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Test Grade 8 (2010)

For Students 8th - 10th
In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts learning exercise, students read two passages and answer reading comprehension questions.  Students also write an essay in which they use details and examples from the...
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"The Gift of the Magi" Study Guide

For Teachers 8th - 11th
In this study guide worksheet, learners complete 10 vocabulary definitions, 7 literary term definitions, and 9 short answer questions about the story.
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Test Review Sheet: Irony, Comma Rules, and Sentence Variety,

For Students 7th - 9th
Covering vocabulary, literary analysis, and grammar, this worksheet would be a great study guide or homework assignment for an eighth-grade Language Arts class. Though the five stories by Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, and Oscar Wilde are...
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Gifts from Grandma, Variation 1

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Composed of three word problems, this math activity exposes young mathematicians to relationships present in multiplication and division. The first problem is most useful with a tape diagram in which learners are working with equal-sized...
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From Me to You!

For Students K - 3rd
In this Junie B. Jones Christmas gift tag template worksheet, students color and cut out the 4 gift tags to be used for gifts they make or buy to give.
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Christmas Gifts Word Jumble

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this word jumble learning exercise, students unscramble the letters to spell words associated with Christmas gifts. Students spell 20 words.
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Early American Novel: Exploring the Emergence of a Genre

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Need an extra challenge for your best readers? Check out a unit that uses Hannah Webster Foster’s epistolary novel, The Coquette, published in 1797, as the anchor text. The resource is packed with project ideas; each with its...
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Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

For Students 7th - 8th
Challenge your students with this activity on misplaced and dangling modifiers. This 20 question instructional activity could be used after a lesson on this topic to cement students' understanding.
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A Ghost in the Family

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this reading worksheet, students answer 10 multiple-choice questions about the book. For example, "Who did Chad and Jeannie visit?"
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Easter Sunday

For Students 5th - 10th
All questions in this Easter Sunday worksheet involve the religious significance of the holiday. Students complete twelve activities such as phrase matching, fill in the blanks, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, writing...
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Practice with Possessives

For Students 7th - 9th
Review possessives with your beginning Spanish speakers. In the first exercise, they translate simple phrases into Spanish. The second exercise requires them to rewrite phrases in Spanish using the de construction. They finish the...
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Study Guide: "The Gift of the Magi"

For Students 7th - 9th
In this study guide worksheet, students define vocabulary and literary terms found in "The Gift of the Magi". Students also complete a plot diagram, find examples of literary term usage, and answer comprehension questions based on the...