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Clown Accordion Book
Students investigate the letters that form the word "clown". They draw the pictures that coincide with each letter. Students use construction paper for a background and then insert the pictures. Then they write the dialogue for the book.
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Word Roots 2: Fin, Sed, Fer Advanced-Word Search
Vocabulary words using the Latin roots sed, fin, and fer are hidden inside this word search. See if your learners can find the twelve words listed above the puzzle. Good luck!
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Research
Second graders work together to research an animal. They write a short description of the animal of their choice and complete a worksheet. They also discover if the animal is a plant friend or foe.
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School News
Students create a video of school news to improve writing skills, speaking skills, questioning skills, and to help build self esteem.
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The Water Cycle
Students research the water cycle and identify main vocabulary associated with the water cycle. They build and observe a closed system model that demonstrates the water cycle in action.
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Word Roots 1: DICT, VENT, DUCT Advanced Word Search
Polish knowledge of the listed word roots and vocabulary words with this word search. Learners find twelve words. Answers are provided as are printouts of the directions, clues, word search, and word search answers.
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Word Roots FIN, SED, and FER Beginner Word Search
Young learners must find 12 vocabulary words containing the roots FIN, SED, and FER from a provided list in a 15-by-15 grid to complete this word search activity. Directions, clues, word search grid, and answer key are ready to print and...
Curated OER
Making Singular Nouns Plural
Third graders complete worksheets and participate in interactive activities to classify plural words based on their singular form.
Other
Lexiconic Resources: 5 W's and How Chart
This downloadable graphic organizer will assist students in taking notes about a news story. Students will use this resource to identify answers to the following five W's and H questions: What happened? Who was there? When did it happen?...
Education Development Center
Education Development Center: Tv411: Reading Structure of a News Story
Interactive lesson explains the content and organization of newspaper articles. Includes self-scoring exercises for practicing identifying the five W's (who, what, when, where, and why) in a series of brief news articles and a...
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Story Grammar Training
This intervention emphasizes the importance of metacognitive or active reading strategies to improve comprehension. It directs students' attention on story structure by teaching them to ask five "wh" questions about the settings and...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: 5 W's Diagrams
Enchanted Learning provides several examples of graphic organizers that can be used for gathering Who, What, Where, When, and Why information, either for reading comprehension or prewriting. These template suggestions can only be printed...
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: 5 Ws Chart [Pdf]
This site from Houghton Mifflin Company provides a simple, reproducible chart to help students gather details of Who, What, When, Where, and Why. This could be used as a reading comprehension tool, or as prewriting for expository writing.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Five W's
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a graphic organizer that helps students identify the 5 W's-- Who- What-When-Where-Why-- and How. This is helpful in summarizing reading selections, historical events and creating news...
Read Works
Read Works: Our Constitution
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text giving facts about the Constitution of the United States. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
DLTK
Kidzone: Gingerbread Man Theme Unit
This five day theme unit for the Gingerbread Man is full of great ideas. It is suitable for children in preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary. From Language Arts to Math, this site has it all!
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Story Writing With Arthur
This series of 12 downloadable activities teach students some basics of story writing, using books or videos from the PBS "Arthur" series as a springboard. Activities include creating story maps, asking questions about characters and...
Other
Live Worksheets: Question Words
This interactive worksheet features interrogative sentences with missing question words. Students will type in one of following words or phrases into each sentence: who, what, where, why, when, how, and more. Students will then submit...
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Live Worksheets: Wh Questions
On this interactive worksheet, students will complete questions with the correct question word. Kids will type in one of following words or phrases into each sentence: who, what, where, why, when, or whose Students will then submit for...