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Small Actions with Big Results
Students explore philanthropy in literature. In this literature lesson, students read text from three different genres that all have a moral. Students compare and contrast these pieces of literature, focusing on the character traits that...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Vocabulary: Morphic Elements, Compound Word Trivia
Engage young learners in expanding their vocabulary with a fun game. Scholars learn how compound words provide clues about the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary. Pairs take turns reading a definition, locating its corresponding compound...
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Dolch Words in a Story
After studying all of the 220 Dolch basic sight words, your class can read this great short story that includes every word. You can have your readers circle each sight word as they go.
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Dolch Sight Words in a Story
Learners read a story with 220 basic sight words. They discuss why the words are important to identify and utilize them in their own writing assignments.
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Teaching Word Meaning Synonyms, Antonyms, and Analogies
Strengthen and enhance your class's vocabulary with a guided lesson on word relationships. Focusing on synonyms and antonyms, the lesson demonstrates ways to compare and define different words, including word analogies and thesaurus skills.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
Mini Math Word Wall
Provide a little extra support for your emerging mathematicians with a personal word wall. Including graphics and images that support children with learning to count, identify colors and shapes, and read high frequency words, this
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School-Home Links: Compound Words
What is a compound word? Have young learners review compound words, identify the two independent words in a compound word, and look for examples through reading and listening. Send this home for independent practice, and make sure to...
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Possessive Pronouns
It's quiz time! Assess your kids on their knowledge of possessive pronouns. There are 32 questions provided, and each has four multiple choice options. The 32 sentences are written in Spanish, and the answers are in English. Can your...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Jonathan and His Mommy (Smalls)
Go on a walking adventure through Irene Smalls' touching book Jonathan and His Mommy, an excellent resource to practice vocabulary in context. Go over the walking-themed terms (humongous, pace, leap, and zigzag) learners will hear before...
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Words In the News Big Rise in CO2
Middle schoolers complete vocabulary and word work activities including an online quiz. They read an online article while focusing on answering specific information questions. They discuss ways to improve the environment and present them...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Around Town: Neighborhood and Community: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 3)
Here is a unit designed to support English language development. Scholars speak, move, and write to learn more about topics that focus on community and local concepts. The series of lessons aids to reinforce concepts including consonant...
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Word Problem Solutions
In this word problem solutions worksheet, students solve and complete 5 different problems that include solving various types of word problems. First, they calculate the total cost and cost per students for the table shown. Then,...
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Introduce Vocabulary: My School's a Zoo (Smith)
Your classroom may feel like a zoo sometimes, but it's nothing like this! Stu Smith's book My School's a Zoo is an excellent way to introduce some fun vocabulary words in context, and it's available on YouTube in case you don't have it....
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Synonyms
Help keep your writers from using the same words in their writing: introduce them to synonym. Learners read a brief explanation of synonyms with examples. Then, they fill in a chart by writing synonyms for six adjectives. Consider having...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Puff, the Magic Dragon (Yarrow and Lipton)
Puff the Magic Dragon remains a childhood landmark for budding readers (and singers), but did you know it also makes an excellent vocabulary study? By focusing on several in-text words (in this case: billow, cease, fearless,...
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Visualization: Cricket in Times Square
After reading The Cricket in Times Square chapter titled "Caught in the Kitchen," learners list three describing details about the characters and setting. Groups collaborate to find sensory details to support their character assertions....
University of North Carolina
Style
Just like you choose your clothes to ensure they fit the occasion, you should choose your words deliberately while writing. Style, the main topic of one handout in a series on writing skills, involves choosing words carefully and paying...
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Full Dolch Word List
Sight words are listed based on how frequently they are used. There are 250 words on the list. This would be a good, general resource for a teachers of grades 1 - 3. It is useful to know what words your class should know, and how well...
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Dolch Word List - Alphabetical
Sight words are listed in alphabetical order for preschool through third grades on this language arts workshet. There are at least 50 words for each of the grade levels, and some have more than that. This would be a good, general...
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Fill In the Blanks: Mandy and Twinkle Toes
In this fill in the blanks to complete sentences worksheet, students finish writing the story, "Mandy and Twinkle Toes", by using the word bank of words that can be used multiple times and changing lower case to capital letters when...
K12 Reader
Order of Adjectives: Fill in the Blank
Would you rather have a big shiny diamond ring or a diamond shiny big ring? Word choice and the order of adjectives can affect what a writer is trying to say. Teach young learners how to clarify their writing with a set of exercises that...
Positively Autism
"The Napping House" Big and Little
The dog is big. The mouse is little. Using vocabulary words introduced in the previous lesson, kids read, or are read, sentences and examine images that contrast big and little.
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Fill in the Article
Articles are used quite often in writing. "A," "an," and "the" are the words identified in this language arts activity. Young writers complete sentences with the eight missing articles. A very good activity!
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Become a Word Detective
Students investigate the origin of words in the English language. In this language history lesson, students examine words by breaking them down and finding their roots. Students analyze words from a poem and complete a word detective...