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"The Popcorn Book" by Tomie dePaola

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students read "The Popcorn Book" by Tomie dePaola and complete a variety of comprehension exercises. They discuss the text, identify facts presented in the book and the evidence supporting those facts and fill in the blanks of a worksheet.
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First Graders, Fluency and FUN!

For Teachers 1st
First graders develop their reading fluency during the school year. In this language arts instructional activity, 1st graders discover what skilled readers do when they are reading, such as chunking text or thinking about the...
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ESL Verb Tense: Transport

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this ESL verb tense worksheet, students use pictures and clues to complete a crossword puzzle and complete sentences with appropriate "transport" words.
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ESL: Body Movement Activity

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this body movement worksheet, students complete sentences that accompany pictures, using words given and their own ideas. A reference web site is included.
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Why the Whales Came- The Beach

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this why the whales came worksheet, students add adjectives and adverbs to a paragraph about nature. Students fill in twelve adjectives or adverbs from given words and then write sentences of their own.
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What Are They Doing?

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this verbs instructional activity, students examine 7 pictures that depict people in action. Students read the sentence with the missing verb and from 4 choices, select the correct word.
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ESL: Vocabulary Match

For Students 4th - 5th
In this ESL vocabulary worksheet, students complete 20 sentences, choosing the correct word from a drop down list next to each sentence. Scores can be checked online.
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ESL: "C" Collocations Multiple Choice

For Students 4th - 5th
In this ESL vocabulary worksheet, learners choose the correct "c" word from a drop down list to complete a sentence, 20 total. 
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Cultural Geography

For Students 7th - 8th
In this Cultural Geography learning exercise, students fill in answers to ten questions about cultural factors such as language and religion without using a word bank.
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Tortillas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students convert recipes for tortillas. They calculate the amounts of ingredients as they convert recipes and write an explanation of the task to demonstrate their calculations. After reviewing their calculations, they demonstrate how...
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Spelling and Reading

For Teachers 1st
First graders participate in a lesson in order to improve spelling and writing skills. They take words from an assigned list and create their own sentences. They also write a story taken from an illustration.
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"Doggone Good" at Expression

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders review how to read a word that they do not recognize right away and go over examples. They discuss the meaning of "expression" as a class and write the proper definition on the board for the students to see on the board....
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Street Language and Learning

For Teachers 9th - 12th
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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Sums With 9

For Teachers 1st
In this sums with nine worksheet, 1st graders calculate the sums of nine in ten sets of red dots, calculate the answers to twenty five addition equations.
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Fairytale Cake

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students recreate characters from the story, "The Fairytale Cake." In this fairy tale characterization lesson, students first listen to fairy tales read aloud. They then use play dough and plastic bowls as pretend "cakes and icing", and...
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Oh, Could They But Speak! The MGTV Civil War Battle Flags Project: Lesson 5, Letters From the War

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students work in small groups with "primary sources" from the Civil War. They analyze actual letters (re-typed) that Michigan soldiers from this war wrote. Each group receives a package of letters. They read the letters out loud to each...
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SWOOP Reading

For Teachers 1st
First graders read fluently. For this phonics lesson students practice reading strategies for fluency. They write a response in their journal about the book read in class.
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Apostrophes

For Students 4th - 5th
In these apostrophes worksheets, students complete 4 sets of activities for apostrophes. Students fill in the blanks with contractions, write sentences with contractions, find missing apostrophes, and add apostrophes to the paragraphs.
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Turkey Feathers

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students demonstrate counting skills. In this number sense lesson, students glue numbered feathers onto a turkey pattern in numerical order.
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Language Arts Practice #2

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this language arts practice worksheet, learners edit sentences, write homophones, complete analogies and label a noun as common or proper. Answers included.
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Transparency

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders discover proper use of quotation marks. They examine conversations between characters in comics and magazines. In pairs, 8th graders punctuate sentences correctly. They create a story, with dialogue, involving people in a...
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Race to the Finish Line

For Teachers 3rd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing the importance of fluent reading, 3rd graders complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
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Verb Tenses, Gerund or Infinitive?-3

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this foreign language worksheet, learners read 10 sentences. Each sentence contains a missing verb. Students select the best word to fill in the blank for each sentence.
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Hands On: Multiply with 0 and 1

For Students 4th - 5th
In this multiplication worksheet, students use the multiplication properties of zero and one to solve the six word problems.