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Verbs & Tenses

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars illustrate known tenses with tense clue words. They select a range of verbs. Teachers divide the class into teams. The idea is for each team to make the longest and perfectly constructed sentence. Words and scores are...
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Consonant or Vowel

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discover what the teacher has revealed about them after leaving the room for a few minutes. A scenario is set up to which if the question ends with a vowel they answer "yes" or if it ends with a consonant they answer "no." After...
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"Julie of the Wolves"

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research life in Alaska and compare life there to their lives in this lesson. They read "Julie of the Wolves." They research through the novel and other reference books facts about the Alaskan climate and geography. They...
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Samuel's Choice - Social Studies Using Children's Literature

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders read a book about independence, freedom, and slavery. Students create a story map of the book. They research the causes of the Civil War. Students write a newspaper article from the point of view of an American colonist.
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Language Arts: Word Recognition and Mental Images

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read short stories containing Dolch sight words and describe the scenes and answer comprehension questions. After relating the stories to their own experiences or observations, they draw pictures illustrating a scene from the...
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Autobiography

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders identify key components of an autobiography. They plan and draft an outline of a summer school mini-autobiography and employ peer evaluation in revision step of writing process. They explain difference between revision...
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KG Lesson Plan

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore the four major components of an autobiography. As they discuss the major characteristics of an autobiography, 8th graders list the advantages and disadvantages of traditional, word of mouth, tales. Individually,...
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Stylistic Devices

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students review connotation and denotation and stylistic devices in poetry. They read the lyrics to a song as it is being played and then discuss the meaning of the song. As a class, students read poems, share their thoughts, and...
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Predicting Story Outcome

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students participate in the reading of an online story in an attempt to increase reading comprehension. Before reading the class looks at the cover and pictures in order to make predictions about the outcome. They read the story and have...
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American Folktales and Tall Tales

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the elements of American folktales. They discuss how they are passed on from generation to generation, how they use exaggeration, and how they convey a message or make a point. Students identify common elements...
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Vivid Mental Images

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students listen to a chapter of "The Tale of Despereaux" while creating vivid mental images. They discuss the images before listening to the next chapter and illustrating those images. Each day, they repeat the exercise and add to a...
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About Me

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students develop their English and technology skills by having them write about themselves--their family, their home and neighborhood, their interests and hobbies, their education, and their future plans. They produce an electronic text...
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All About My School

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students construct a website with several links to pages they create. The site weaves logo titles, photos, animation, and textured backgrounds created and edited in PhotoShop into pages created using Dreamweaver software. The project...
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Claymation Video

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students photograph important landmarks in town, write descriptive articles, and share them with other students through the school newspaper and web site. They also create a documentary-style video that speaks to an organization within...
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Publishing With Photos!

For Teachers K - 5th
Students create books with photographs as illustrations. In this book making lesson, students create books for different subjects to accompany what they are learning. They take photographs to match what they have written. 
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Job Transition -- The Great Adventure

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review how to use a digital camera. Individually, they document their work related experience and gathering new skills by taking pictures. To end the activity, they put the photographs into a portfolio to show their progress in...
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read and discuss the book, "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom." They participate as a group in performing the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom play and complete a variety of activity cards that deal with different avenues of the book. Adjectives...
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More Words Commonly Misspelled By Fourth Graders- Word Search

For Students 6th - 8th
In this literacy worksheet, learners find the words that are commonly misspelled and the answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Jeffrey Cannot Wait

For Students 4th - 5th
In this language arts activity, students find the answers to multiple choice questions for the 5 problems after reading the short story.
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Teddy Bear Reading Comprehension/ History

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this reading comprehension and history learning exercise, students read about the history of the teddy bear before answering 5 multiple choice questions.
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Miz Fannie Mae's Fine New Easter Hat by Melissa Milich

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In this literature worksheet, learners read and analyze the short story "Miz Fannie Mae’s Fine New Easter Hat" by Melissa Milich for key terms and mastery of comprehension. Students fill in seven sentences with the correct word to...
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Bible Activity-- Mark 8:27-38

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this Bible worksheet, students study the story and lessons in Mark 8:27-38(the disciples and Peter). Students complete activities on 7 pages including crosswords, codes, coloring, mazes, and word search.
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Some or Any? (Part 2)

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this some or any worksheet, students choose the correct adjective, some or any, to place in ten sentences to make each one grammatically correct.
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Test Your Research Skills-- You Either Know It Or You Don't! 6

For Students 5th - 6th
In this research instructional activity, students use Internet searches or a reference book to answer 15 questions on a variety of topics.

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