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Thematic Web
In this thematic web worksheet, learners complete a graphic organizer with the main idea of the story in the center. Students then identify supporting details and write them in the boxes around the center.
Syracuse City School District
Literary Elements
Address the literary elements in a piece of writing using these materials. The packet includes plenty of resources, and focuses mainly on theme, character, and point of view, with some materials for setting, symbolism, and author's...
EngageNY
Mid-Unit Assessment: Close Reading of the "Spadefoot Toad"
A mid-unit assessment challenges scholars to use their close reading skills to identify the main idea and key details. After reading a brief excerpt, learners answer a series of questions—multiple-choice, short answer—complete a graphic...
Curated OER
Context Helps: The Wild Foundation
In this Context Helps: The Wild Foundation worksheet, students read 7 words in context and write their own sentences, read a 2 1/2 page article about The Wild Foundation, use a graphic organizer to record the details, and rewrite the 5...
Curated OER
Reading Selection Content Worksheet
In this literary elements instructional activity, students read chosen literature and then complete the provided graphic organizer by listing key words, main ideas, and summarizing the selections.
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Reading Study Guide: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Meant for use with Maya Angelou's first autobiographical volume I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the materials here are designed for a homeschool setting, but they'd suit any classroom or text. Graphic organizers, chapter summary guides,...
Curated OER
Literature Study Guide: To Kill a Mockingbird
Teaching tools designed to support student-centered literature study. Geared toward homeschoolers reading Harper Lee's book To Kill a Mockingbird, I would use these in my classroom. The materials are applicable to any text: graphic...
McGraw Hill
Study Guide for Island of the Blue Dolphins
Dive your class into a reading of Island of the Blue Dolphins with this in-depth study guide. Breaking the novel into three parts, the resource begins each section with a focus activity that identifies a specific theme or question to be...
Curated OER
Plan your writing
In this writing instructional activity, students complete a graphic organizer where they write down their notes about night time. Students write 3 main ideas about night time.
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Topic, Detail, Response
In this main idea and details worksheet, students read a passage chosen by the teacher then fill in a 3 part graphic organizer with the topic, details supporting the topic and a personal response to the topic.
Lerner Publishing
Meet the Dinosaurs
Take your class of youngsters on a prehistoric adventure with this four-lesson series on dinosaurs. Accompanying the Meet the Dinosaurs books by Don Lessem, these lessons engage children in writing their own dinosaur books, making...
Curated OER
Worksheet for Choosing a Research Paper Topic & Developing a Thesis Statement
How do you choose a research topic? This helpful graphic organizer is provided to aid middle and high schoolers in organizing their initial thoughts and choosing a topic. They have to narrow their topic by culture, time frame, event,...
World Intellectual Property Organization
Learn from the Past, Create the Future: Inventions and Patents
3D printers, selfie sticks, smart watches. GPS, self-driving cars, YouTube. Imagine life without inventions. Believe it or not, these items were all invented in the last 10 years. Inventions, and the inventors responsible for them, are...
Friends of Fort McHenry
A Just War or Just a War?
What, if anything, makes a war "just"? This is an interesting and important question to explore with your class, and you can utilize an excellent lesson plan to support your group inquiry. The American Revolution and the War of 1812 are...
Curated OER
How Do People Use Rocks And Minerals?
In this rock and mineral activity, students will graphically organize the main idea of what a rock is and then add details on how people use rocks by filling in the seven blanks.
Polk Bros Foundation
Preview Reading
Scanning a text before getting started is a reading strategy that your pupils can use to get a general idea about a text before diving in. Give some direction to their scanning with a worksheet that includes items to check for and space...
Curated OER
Puffins
In this writing activity, students utilize a graphic organizer to plan out a report, poster or project about puffins. Students write the main topics and ideas on the lines provided.
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Cell Theory, Scientists, & Cell Types
In this cells instructional activity, students compare the characteristics of eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells. Students describe how different scientists contributed to the cell theory. This instructional activity has 6 short answer...
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Vocabulary Content Worksheet 1
In this literary elements worksheet, students select pieces of literature to complete the questions the provided graphic organizer. Students list key word, the main idea, and supporting details from their selections.
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Kingdoms of Southeast Asia and Korea
In this Kingdoms of Southeast Asia and Korea worksheet, middle schoolers elaborate on dynasties and kingdoms that prospered in Southeast Asia and Korea as they complete 2 graphic organizers and respond to 1 short answer question.
Curated OER
Causes of World War One Question Overview
In this causes of World War I instructional activity, students respond to 14 fill in the blank questions and complete a graphic organizer. A word bank and glossary are provided.
Curated OER
What Makes Up the Solar System?
In this solar system learning exercise, students will fill in the blanks for 5 statements in this graphic organizer based on the objects found in space that make up the solar system.
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What Lives in Forests?
For this forest worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer by filling in 3 statements about what lives in a forest habitat.
Curated OER
Recounts
In this language arts instructional activity, learners use the graphic organizer to review the concepts needed in order to write an individual account of a significant event.