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Strategy 3: Using Graphic Organizers Implementation Guide
Whether or not you are new to using graphic organizers with informational or expository text, the materials in this guide will prove useful.
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Using Drama to Examine Communities: Walking in Others' Shoes
Encourage your readers to make connections between texts with this resource. After compiling notes for each text read (you choose the texts), groups craft skits in which major characters from each text meet. There is a rubric for the...
First Stage
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Charlie Brown may not feel the Christmas spirit this year, but your elementary students can use the season to practice important cross-curricular skills! A set of worksheets and activities based on A Charlie Brown Christmas guide...
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Synthesizing from Informational Texts: Main Idea and Key Details from Promises to Keep (Pages 8– 10)
Learners determine the main idea of a timeline on pages eight and nine of the text Promises to Keep. They use the timeline to complete a Main Idea and Details note catcher and then share their thoughts with the class. To finish,...
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Tobacco Free Teens
Clear the smoke about cigarette use with an engaging application. Comic strip animation and games teach learners why they should never try smoking in the first place, and how to quit this lethal habit if they have already been lured in.
K12 Reader
Conjunctions: Or
Flower or tree? Rabbit or goat? Hamburger or hot dog? Young grammarians practice connecting nouns with conjunctions in a worksheet that focuses on using the word or.
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Using Metaphors
Learners rewrite seven sentences using a metaphor to express the concept presented literally in the originals. One example is provided. What I like here is that the sentences presented fuel thinking about comparisons to support kids'...
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Can You Get the Signal?
What is a signal word? Recognizing these words is an important step in both reading and writing formal text. Review a list of signal words (provided and organized into specific categories), and then have your class play a game to...
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Essential Words- Second 100 Essential Worksheet
In this language arts activity, students fill in the missing letter in each word in a table of 100 essential words. They write the correct word in the box directly to the right of the word with the missing letter. They complete these...
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Word Problem Primer
For this word problem worksheet, students are given directions and guidance as to how to solve word problems. They are given the variables used in word problems, the math codes, how to change letters into formulas and 5 steps to solving...
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Vocabulary Building: -aw, -au Words 3
In this recognizing -aw and -au words worksheet, students write from dictation, unscramble, and create sentences using the words paw, straw, August, taught, law, and crawl. Students write eighteen answers.
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Revolutionary War Word Search
In this word search worksheet, students use the word bank to find the names of battles of the Revolutionary War. Students find 24 words.
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Directional Terms
Students identify and demonstrate various locational terms, and examine how a globe is a model of Earth. They repeat words and movements for various finger plays to demonstrate locational terms, play directional words games, and sing a...
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Globe Lesson 4 - Intermediate Directions
Students explore the concept of intermediate directions. In this geography skills lesson, students use map skills in order to identify intermediate directions as they complete a map activity.
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Globe Lesson 3 - Cardinal Directions - Grade 6+
In this cardinal directions worksheet, students read a 2-page review of cardinal directions and use a globe to respond to 5 questions.
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Using a Computer to Write a Letter – Verbs (Sequencing)
In this sequencing learning exercise, students will cut out sentences about how to write a letter using a computer. Then students will rearrange the sentence strips in chronological order.
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Winners Never Quit: Vocabulary words
For this Winners Never Quit worksheet, students read the book Winners Never Quit and then use the vocabulary words in a sentence. Students use 8 words in sentences and put the words in alphabetical order.
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Writing a Word Fib Poem
Students write a word fib poem using different word starters and different number of syllabled lines. Students write 6 lines in the poem.
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Word Construction #2
In this word construction worksheet, students use the 6 letters on the page to form as many words as they can in 5 minutes. Each letter can be used only 1 time in each word, and there are 16 blank spaces for students to write the words on.
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Word Construction #3
In this word construction worksheet, students use the 6 letters on the page to form as many words as they can in 5 minutes. Each letter can only be used once in each word, and there are 16 blank lines for students to write the words on.
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Word Construction #5
In this word construction learning exercise, students use the 6 letters on the page to form as many words as they can in 5 minutes. Each letter can only be used once in each word, and there are 16 blank lines for students to write the...
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Word Construction #7
In this word construction instructional activity, students use the 6 letters on the page to form as many words as they can in 5 minutes. Each letter can only be used once in each word, and there are 16 blank lines for students to write...
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Word Construction #6
In this word construction worksheet, students use the 6 letters on the page to form as many words as they can in 5 minutes. Each letter can only be used once in each word, and there are 16 blank lines for students to write the words on.
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Word Construction #4
In this word construction worksheet, students use the 6 letters on the page to form as many words as they can in 5 minutes. Each letter can only be used once in each word, and there are 16 blank lines for students to write the words on.