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Let's Summarize!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students, after brainstorming what summarization is, practice the strategy of summarization to help pick out the important parts of text each time they read. They read and summarize the article, "10 Cool Things About Dolphins," from the...
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Picture This!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students practice the strategy of visualization to aid in their reading comprehension of text. They paint mental pictures from readings from their history books, "The World and Its People: the US and It's Neighbors," and short stories...
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A Look Through My Antonia's Eyes

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore life as a pioneer in the late 1890's. In this appreciation of history lesson, students read excerpts from My Antonia. Students create presentations about life and culture in Nebraska.  Students write an original...
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A Novel Ending/ Closure Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students summarize a story, identify the plot structure, and create a symbol that represents the essence of the story.
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Word Sort

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this word sorting activity worksheet, students look through a story they have read and identify compound words, long e words, verbs, adjective, short a words, contractions, words with wh, feeling words, and words with -ing in the...
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You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover… But Can You Judge a Book by Its First Line?

For Students 7th - 9th
In this literary prediction worksheet, students predict the topic, genre, setting, characters, and interest level of a book based on its first line. They research the title and author of the book using the line. They write a short story...
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Under the Umbrella

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /u/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter U. Students then listen to a list of words and identify the words containing the short...
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Tall Tales

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the characteristics of tall tales and how exaggerations are used. They create a character that is larger than life, they brainstorm attributes for their character, before writing a Tall Tale. They plan out their story,...
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Breaking News English: Poems and Poetry

For Students 5th - 10th
In this poems and poetry worksheet, learners read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write,...
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Headline News

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Young scholars create stories using words cut from newspaper headlines. They put together words to create headlines and demonstrate creative thinking and creative writing skills.
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Breaking News English: capture of Rodovan Karadzic

For Students 5th - 10th
In this Rodovan Karadzic worksheet, learners read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write,...
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Breaking News English: Mobile Phone Charges for Ringtones

For Students 5th - 10th
In this mobile phone charges for ringtones worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion...
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Breaking News English: Wallace and Grommit

For Students 5th - 10th
For this Wallace and Grommit worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions,...
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Breaking News English: Strokes

For Students 5th - 10th
In this strokes worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write, and more...
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Breaking News English: Divorce

For Students 5th - 10th
In this divorce worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write, and more...
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Breaking News English: Cancer

For Students 5th - 10th
In this cancer instructional activity, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions,...
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Breaking News English: U.S. Missile Shield

For Students 5th - 10th
In this U.S. Missile Shield worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions,...
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Breaking News English: Madonna's Adoption in Malawi

For Students 5th - 10th
In this Madonna's adoption in Malawi worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion...
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Breaking News English: Evolution

For Students 5th - 10th
In this evolution instructional activity, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions,...
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Breaking News English: California Abduction

For Students 6th - 12th
In this Jacee Lee Dugard worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write,...
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Breaking News English: Koran abuse

For Students 6th - 10th
In this Koran abuse worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write, and...
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Literary Analysis - Young Goodman Brown

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Why is literary analysis so important? Readers explore writing a literary analysis by reviewing literary elements such as character, metaphor, plot, setting, simile, personification, and style. They read "Young Goodman Brown" by...
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Peg and Hen

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learners navigate a website to practice the short e sound.  In this short e sound activity, students read a story on Starfall and complete practice with the short e sound.
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Express Yourself!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Elementary learners practice reading with expression to understand text better. They identify punctuation marks to see how each sentence is to be expressed with a certain emotion. Then they practice their new skills by working through...

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