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Making Cents of the Senses
Students explore sight and hearing. In this senses lesson, students read Brown Bear Brown Bear, discuss how eyes are used for sight, and chart the eye color of the students in the class. Students discuss how hearing is important, take a...
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Sound- Alike Words 5- Test Your Speaking and Listening Skills
In this literacy worksheet, students read the definition of homophones at that top of the page before reading 15 sentences. They underline the incorrect word in each sentence and write the proper homophone on the line next to each sentence.
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Translate Animal Names From the IPA1- Test Your Speaking and Listening Skills
In this literacy learning exercise, students use the International Phonetic Alphabet to translate the names of 20 animals. They decipher the symbols to find words such as penguin, bear, bird, and cat.
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Translate Animal Names into the IPA 2- Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills
In this grammar activity, students translate the names of common animals by writing them using the International Phonetic Alphabet. They write names such as hedgehog, whale, kangaroo, and sloth in IPA.
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Speaking And Listening: What's Your Favourite...
In this language arts learning exercise, students practice asking questions and responding with reasonable answers. Students collaborate in pairs, one person asking the questions which begin "What is your favourite.." and the other...
Illinois Music Education Conference
Taking the “General” Out of Middle School General Music!
Middle schoolers will sing the praises of this music program. The resource, designed as an overview for music instructors, is loaded with ideas, activities, and links. Not a sour note in the packet.
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The Art of Paraphrasing
Tenth graders participate in an activity in which they practice paraphrasing sections of primary and secondary documents. They are to share their paraphrasing with the class to help with their confidence speaking in front of a group.
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Illinois Biodiversity
Students examine the amount of biodiversity in the state of Illinois. They practice using new vocabulary and listening to stories about animals. After given time to reflect, they write their own haiku. They work together to create a...
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Speaking and Listening
In this ESL worksheet, students complete a survey by asking people in their class what they do in their free time. For example, "Do you play tennis?"
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Speaking and Listening
In this ESL worksheet, students complete a survey by asking people in their class about what they eat and drink. For example, "Do you like fish?"
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Listening to Learn: Podcasting as an Assessment Tool
Learners use podcasting and iPods to take tests rather than reading. In this podcasting lesson plan, students learn how to use a podcast rather than have a test read to them.
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Test Your Speaking and Listening Skills: Class Survey 1--Food and Drink
In this ESL class survey worksheet, students complete a survey of their classmates to discover items that they eat and drink.
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Reading Meet Writing
Thinking about introducing your middle schoolers to reading log journals? Try the approach suggested by this resource. After reading to the class an article or portion of a novel, demonstrate a Think Aloud and then model how to transform...
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Ask Personal Questions
In this personal questions worksheet, students practice asking each other questions to complete a profile analysis. Students ask and answer 20 questions.
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Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills - Ask Personal Questions – Question Sheet
In this questioning worksheet, students read a list of personal question they can use to ask for information. They read questions such as, "What do you do for a living?," "What are your hobbies?," and "Have you been on holiday lately?"...
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Speaking and Listening Skills
In this ESL worksheet, students will complete phrases about themselves. Students are given 14 questions to answer about their initial feelings coming to a new country.
NPR
Distracted by Everything - Being Wired at All Times
This multimedia activity challenges media-savvy learners to look at the critical issue concerning the inundation of technology and multitasking in the classroom, and its effects on the education of themselves and others. The tasks...
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Agnus Dei--Rutter and Faure Requiems
Twelfth graders complete a music listening log while listening to and discussing Faure Requiem and Rutter Requiem. They complete a two to three page essay comparing the Agnus Dei movements by Faure and Rutter.
Habits of Mind
Thinking Interdependently
Transform your class into a team with a lesson about thinking and working interdependently. As they reflect on important roles for a group, elementary and middle schoolers learn to work together and think of ways that compliment each other.
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The Five Senses
Students use their senses to identify a variety of items in mystery boxes after listening to a read aloud of Aliki's, "My Five Senses." They taste and smell items to identify them before completing a Senses Literature Log. They label the...
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Bingo Calls 1- Bingo Calls 1
In this speaking and listening skills worksheet, students listen for well-known number mnemonics as they play bingo. They would hear phrases such as "Duck and dive- number 25" or "Gateway to heaven- number 27."
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Rhyme Rally
Students are introduced to rhyming words and practice identifying them in a story or poem. In this rhyming words lesson, students listen to a story while paying listening for rhyming words in the story. Students then replace rhyming...
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Coral Reefs: Gardens Under the Sea
Students discover the wonders of coral reefs while listening to a book about them. In a Reading Rainbow video activity, they simulate a dive, check equipment and explore a reef. Role-playing as marine biologists, students uncover...
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Cartoon Vocabulary
Third and fourth graders complete a vocabulary log which includes a definition, and a sentence that demonstrates the meaning of the word. Then make an illustration that represents the definition of the word. The trick is that they may...