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In Your Own Words...
Students discuss the importance of comprehension and the use of summarization. Through guided practice, they summarize given paragraphs. Independently, they read an article and highlight information that they believe is very important....
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"Aaaaaaa...a Fast Crab! "
Students participate in an emergent literacy lesson that focuses on the skill of phonemic awareness. The phoneme chosen is the letter "a". They need to correlate the sound to the letter.
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Prefixes 'Al' 'De'
In this prefixes worksheet, students complete the 4 sentences using the words already, deflate, demist, and always. Students then complete 2 sentences using the words defrost and altogether. Students finish using the al or de prefix give...
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Hoppy's Busy Day
In this reading comprehension worksheet, learners read an Easter story titled Hoppy's Busy Day.Students then answer 4 reading comprehension questions.
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Complete the Sentences
In this sentence completion worksheet, students read ten sentences with a missing word. From four choices, students select the word that would best complete each sentence. This worksheet is from the UK and contains phrases and vocabulary...
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The Auxiliaries "Be and Do" in Questions
In this be and do verbs worksheet, learners read the sentences and change them into questions using the be or do auxiliary verb. Students complete 10 sentences.
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Introduction to Junkanoo! A Bahamian Festival
Students examine a Bahamian festival called Junkanoo. They analyze how group cooperation is related to the festival. They finally identify how factions form and how they can help or hurt a community.
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Past Simple Form "Wh" Questions
In this past simple verb worksheet, students create twenty past simple "wh" questions from an incomplete sentence. Students add the word "did" to put the sentence in the appropriate tense.
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Missing
For this missing worksheet, students, with a partner, complete a variety of activities associated with terms and phrases having to do with the term missing.
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Word Choice: Loss and Lost
In these word choice worksheets, students read the sentences and then complete each sentence with the word loss and lost.
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A Reading State of Mind
You can create and support student literacy skills through independent reading.
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End of the Year Lesson Plans and Activities
End of the year lesson plans can help you and your students finish the year right.
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Modernist Portraits
How did literature reflect people's attitudes in post-World War I America? A lesson explores the topic using a variety of activities. Individuals watch and respond to a video; read author biographies and engage in discussion; write...
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A Tale of Two Quarters
Have your class use the life of a quarter to understand and design plot and flow charts. They read the book, The Go-Around Dollar, think about how their teacher got her quarters that day, then create a flow chart. They have to show how...
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Veteran’s Day
Before honoring courageous veterans, get to know more about who they are and why November 11th is a special day. Scholars obtain such information through a read aloud of Eve Bunting's The Wall, grand conversation, and...
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Private & Public
Some disabled high schoolers have a difficulty understanding what is and what is not publicly appropriate behavior. Help them build healthy social skills by defining public and private behaviors, labeling public and private places, and...
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All the World's a Stage
Enhance your teaching of plays with strategies for pre-teaching, engagement, and culminating projects.
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Goods for You!
Have your class learn about Wisconsin and farming. Learners begin by listening to stories that describe farming and engage in a discussion of goods and services. They could also compare the goods and services provided in different states.
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Let's Go to the Farm!
Discover the animals which live on a farm through listening to a story about farm animals and conduct a simple research. Youngsters will create a class Web site about farm animals and provide information about each animal.
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Edgar Allan Poe Lessons
Students can learn about literary techniques, such as imagery and symbolism, by exploring these Edgar Allan Poe lesson plans.
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New Year's Resolutions for Teachers
New Year's can be a time for teachers to make resolutions as well.
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Folk Traditions in the Blues
Click here to download a PDF of this lesson. (2.8 MB) Overview This lesson will enable teachers to use the blues to explore selected topics in African American folklore. Students will learn about some of the African American cultural...
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English Exercises: Present Perfect
In this verb tenses worksheet, students complete a 60 question online interactive quiz about the correct use of the present perfect verb tense.
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English Exercises: Past Simple 1 and 2
In this past simple 1 and 2 instructional activity, 5th graders interactively enter the past tense form of the verb (19 words), then rewrite 30 sentences using the past tense form of the verb, with immediate online feedback.