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Turn Reading into Watching a Movie!
Students practice visualization by imagining what their favorite person looks like, what they are wearing and doing. They share their imaginings with a partner. Next, listen to a poem while visualizing. Finally, they read along as the...
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Ehhh?? I Can't Hear You!
Students identify the /e/ sound in spoken words in this lesson. They say a tongue twister with words emphasizing the short /e/ sound. They then listen to the story "Peg the Hen" and do an "I Can't Hear You" motion whenever they hear...
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Roger That!
Students study the letter R, r in order to recognize it, say its sound, and write it. They watch a partner's mouth as they make the "r" sound before repeating a tongue twister that contains many "r" sounds. Next, they practice writing...
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Imagine This
Students practice visualizing as they read to aid comprehension. They then read a chapter in their history book and visualize what they read so that they can answer comprehension questions about the chapter.
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Listen to the Pin Drop
Students practice reading silently. The class discusses the benefits of reading silently and several methods for reading silently, including cross checking and chunking. Working in groups, they silently read a leveled text and discuss...
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Comparing Characters
Learners compare similarities/differences of two characters. They demonstrate use of graphing software to compare/contrast their two characters. Students incorporate Inspiration/Kidspiration and the use of a Venn Diagram.
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On Your Mark, Get Set, GO!
Students in order to become a fluent reader need to read often and repeat what they read over and over. Repeated reading helps students gain better knowledge of text. Fluent readers recognize words automatically and with this automatic...
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Star Summarizers
Students participate in a reading literacy lesson with the goal of improving reading fluency and comprehension. They work on the skill of summarization that helps to pick out important details of a reading.
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The Seasonal Round and The Cycle of Life
Seventh graders recognize moments of importance in people's lives and asks them to find meaning in the stages of their own and other's lives. They are taught that all cultures have rites of passage for similar stages in the cycle of life.
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Spelling Rules for "IE' and "EI"
In this grammar worksheet, students identify and locate vocabulary words that apply to the spelling rules for "ie" and "ei." There are 30 words located in the word search.
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Vocabulary Word Search Puzzle
In this literacy worksheet, middle schoolers look for the words that are related to the theme of the worksheet. They also work on the skills of spelling and word recognition.
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Prepositions of Place
In this language arts learning exercise, students read 16 sentences and supply a preposition of place which will make sense in each sentence.
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Capitalization
In these capitalization worksheets, learners review the capitalization rules and then complete three pages of exercises that help them understand capitalization.
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Word Choice: To, Too, Two
In these word choice worksheets, learners read the sentences and complete them with one of the word choice options of to, too, or two.
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Word Choice: Its and It's
In these word choice worksheets, students read the sentences and determine the best option from its or it's to complete the sentence.
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Beginning Sentence Completion 1
In this sentence completion worksheet, students read the sentences and choose the best word or words to complete the 12 sentences.
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Beginning Synonyms and Antonyms #8
In this synonyms and antonyms instructional activity, students choose the best synonym for the first 6 words and the best antonym for the next 6 words.
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Quiz on Sentence Body Parts
In this parts of a sentence worksheet, students complete a seven question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz about subject, predicate, objects, pronouns and other sentence components.
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Here's an Instant Activity for November 5, 2007
Students improve their spelling skills by completing activities for homophones, antonyms, and synonyms. Students complete a spelling worksheet for 'ie' and 'ei' words. Students then identify 12 homophones, 12 antonyms, and 12 synonyms.
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The Three People I Would Like to Invite for Dinner
Students identify and research three figures that are their personal heroes based on their characteristics of a hero. In this research lesson plan, the hero categories are a historical figure, a contemporary figure, and a person the...
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Idioms That Begin With M-Quiz
In this idiom worksheet, students choose the correct idiom to replace an expression given in brackets in a sentence, 19 total.
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Beijing: An Important City in China
Students investigate Beijing by reading an essay. In this Chinese Geography instructional activity, students read an essay written about Beijing and answer questions on a comprehension worksheet. Students may research Beijing...
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Reading Comprehension-Christmas
In this reading comprehension worksheet, learners read a passage, then complete 4 short answer comprehension questions. A reference web site is included.
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Sounding out accuracy, Bam!
Students play a game with index cards to build reading and speaking accuracy. In this sounding out game, students look at cards and pronounce the word on them. They keep the card if they are correct. the person with the...