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Organizer
Curated OER

Word Maps Teaching Ideas

For Students 6th - 8th
In this literacy worksheet, students are given a graphic organizer to complete or are presented it as part of the lesson developed from using this sheet.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Heading West

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students study the concept of the westward expansion. In this exploration of the western U.S. lesson, students participate in different activities that explain economic hardships, jobs, and land opportunities. Students describe...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Making and Observing Life in a Terrarium

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
Young scholars understand the parts of the terrarium and why they are important in establishing an ecosystem. In this ecosystem lesson, students recall background information on aquariums, terrariums and the water cycle. Young scholars...
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Lesson Plan
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Take Apart Sentences

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the two main parts of sentences, subject and predicate. They, in groups, mix up their sentence strips and then place them face down and have a contest to see which group can rebuild the sentences correctly in the...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Animal Classification

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Present information about the classification of animals. After participating in the teacher-led discussion about scientific names, small groups devise their own way of classifying everyday objects present in the classroom, developing...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

The Rockin' Rock Cycle: Metamorphic Rocks

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students study the formation of metamorphic rock. For this metamorphic rock lesson, students examine how metamorphic rock forms as part of the rock cycle. They review the rock cycle using chocolate chips, conduct Internet research, and...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Simple and Present Routines

For Students 4th - 6th
In this simple and present tense worksheet, students complete activities such as labeling pictures, fill in the blanks, short answers, and writing words in the 3rd person. Students complete 35 questions total.
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Lesson Planet Article
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What’s in an Idiom?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Illustrate the colloquial and literal meaning of an idiom
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Who? What? When? Where? Asking Questions

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders interview Veterans or role play to answer who, what, where, when questions. In this Veteran's Day questioning activity, 6th graders learn about the events in the military service of veterans. Students may simulate...
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Lesson Planet Article
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The Great Eight: Teaching the Eight Parts of Speech

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Integrate grammar activities and review into your daily classroom routine to facilitate practice and reinforcement of this vital skill.
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Halloween Rhyme Time

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Take advantage of Halloween to teach young readers and writers about rhyming words, adjectives, and figurative language. 
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Activity
Scholastic

Bingo Lingo

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Word roots can be great fun when part of a game! Practice a variety of different roots with this nicely put-together bingo game that comes with plenty of instructional ideas.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Forming Plural Nouns

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Everyone knows that a noun is a person, place, thing, or idea - but what happens when you have people, places, things, or ideas? Use this SMART board activity to guide your class through plural nouns. Several activities, including making...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Forming Plural Nouns

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Interactive SMART Board activities provide young grammarians with practice changing singular nouns to plural nouns. Learners then create collages on which they inscribe the singular and plural form of the noun label.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Proofreading: Lesson 2

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Identify and develop strategies for proofreading with your class. They read and identify the grammar rules for capitalization, end punctuation, and commas, correct errors as a class, and complete three worksheets. This resource includes...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Play Ball: A Major League Review Game

For Teachers K - 12th
Apply the game of baseball to a fun review activity. Pupils earn a "base" for each subject question that they answer correctly. This activity can be modified and used for any subject area, including math, social studies, and language arts.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Vowel Sound: ie

For Students K - 1st
Introduce young learners to the various letter sets that make the /ie/ sound. They assess 12 different words, then sort them based on their medial letter pattern. Letter sets focused on are, ie, i_e, igh, and y. An answer sheet is included.
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Activity
Poetry4kids

How to Write an Acrostic Poem

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Acrostic poems are perfect for any topic! A quick tutorial guides learners into writing acrostic poems with the basics and key examples.
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Worksheet
Macmillan Education

Understanding Poetry (Elementary)

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Introduce young readers to poetry analysis with a worksheet that uses Emily Bronte's "Spellbound" to model how poets use word choice, the sounds of words, the repetition of words, and rhyming patterns to create the mood, tone, and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

To Quote or Not to Quote

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Quotation marks are the focus of this resource. In it, youngsters discover how to correctly use punctuation marks. It is meant to be carried out over a three-day period. You could shorten it, but I wouldn't. The activities are...
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Worksheet
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Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

For Students 7th - 8th
Included here is a cloze passage taken from Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury. Copy the included sheet, and have learners read the passage silently. Then, read the passage aloud once. To assess their memory, have pupils complete as many...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: The Cloze Procedure

For Students 8th - 10th
Is your class prepared to read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? Do they have the reading level necessary to truly comprehend the novel? Use the cloze procedure (detailed here) to determine if this text is appropriate for your class. The first...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Hiroshima: The Cloze Procedure

For Students 7th - 9th
What is a cloze passage? The first page of this resource details this procedure and its benefits. To determine if Hiroshima is an appropriate reading-level text for your class, have them read the first passage provided, and then give...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Maniac Magee: The Cloze Procedure

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Fill in the blanks with a Cloze activity based on Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli. After listening to a passage read out loud, kids complete the worksheet by using their memories and context clues.

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