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Vocabulary Skills 2
In this vocabulary skills worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 12 sentences by selecting the appropriate words to complete the sentences.
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Vocabulary Skills
In this vocabulary skills worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 11 sentences by selecting the appropriate words to complete the sentences.
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Sight Words - Word Search
In this sight words worksheet, students look at the list of sight words (at, big, can, funny, get, help, me, we) and locate them within the word search puzzle.
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Sight Words - Word Search
In this sight words worksheet, students look at the 8 sight words: fly, for, here, is, look, that, they, and what. Students find the words in the word search puzzle.
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Places 2 Word Search
In this places word search worksheet, learners use their problem solving skills to unscramble 15 words and then locate and identify them in the word puzzle.
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"fl" Words
In this consonant cluster worksheet, students practice their language skills as they use the 5 "fl" words in the word bank to fill in the blanks in a paragraph. Students use the same 5 words to fill in the blanks in 5 sentences.
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Acrostic Poetry to Teach Font Changes and Centering
Students engage in a discussion about how to write an acrostic poem. They demonstate the ability to use a word processor by typing an acrostic poem by following instructions. Word processing skills such as, centering text, changing font,...
K12 Reader
Color the Christmas Adjectives
'Tis the season to be joyful, merry, beautiful, and red! Test young learners' knowledge of parts of speech with a festive coloring activity. As they identify which words are nouns and which words are adjectives, they color each part of...
Missouri Department of Elementary
Color Your Destiny
Class groups bring feeling words alive by creating a poster that illustrates with images and colors, but not words, the feeling conjured by the word. The posters are then combined into a mural for the classroom wall.
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Thinking Spelling
An etymology resource is packed with suggestions for activities designed to build phonological, visual, morphemic, and etymological spelling skills.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Zebrafish and Skin Color
You may not know if that zebrafish in your fish tank is a model citizen—but it is definitely a model organism! What can we learn about ourselves from a tiny zebrafish? Discover more about the polygenic trait of skin color through a...
Missouri Department of Elementary
What Color is Your Apple?
Build your classroom community with an activity that uses apples to examine oneself and their classmates. Participants draw four large apples on blank paper then exchange them within a small group. Group members write a character trait...
Novelinks
Words by Heart: Guided Imagery
Sad, depressed, miserable, inconsolable, forlorn: so many synonyms have a lot of variety with their connotations. Through the guided imagery activity, writers explore the use of connotation and its influence on imagery and description by...
Appalachian State University
Glory: Motion Picture Study Guide
This is an excellent resource for teachers to use for incorporating the motion picture Glory into the classroom! Breaking down the film into particular noteworthy and telling scenes, the guide offers important considerations for...
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The Root of the Problem
Identifying root and base words is an important skill. Using this activity, learners practice identifying Greek and Latin roots. However, this resource is incomplete and should be augmented to provide a complete experience.
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A Positive Spin
Study word choice and connotation in advertising. Readers examine campaign ads, both negative and positive, from the 2006 mid-term election before discussing an article and analyze a campaign of any candidate they choose. Finally,...
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Faster, Faster!
Students practice reading faster, smoother and more expressively by exercising the strategy of reading and rereading text to become more familiar with word recognition. They participate in reading a page or two of "Pen Pals" to...
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Fun Phonics: Trace and Match, Letter "a"
In word recognition and printing practice worksheet, learners trace 7 words. Students then match the traced words to the appropriate pictures. An example is included.
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On Rainy Days
In this early childhood word recognition worksheet, 1st graders cut out the 3 words on, rainy and days. Students then arrange them to create sentences.
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Thanksgiving Feast Word Scramble
In this language arts worksheet , students unscramble 12 words pertaining to Thanksgiving and write them on the lines provided. There is no word bank.
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Vocabulary Building: Words with "OR"
In this spelling words with the "or" pattern worksheet, students write words using definition clues, unscramble letters, and write sentences using the words or, for, more, before, and color. Students write fifteen short answers.
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Word Processing With Pizazz
Young scholars use a word processor and some of its tools to create an exciting and visual autobiography. They download a sample letter and then create one of their own.
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Digraphs: Ch, Sh, Th and Wh
In this digraphs learning exercise, learners look at 20 pictures and then circle the letter or letters underneath each picture that spells the word in the picture. Students write each word in the space provided below each set of letters.
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Letter Ll Pictures
In this letter and word recognition worksheet, learners study the various images and color the pictures that start with the letter L. Students color the images of the ladybug, lion, lobster, lamb, lamp, lighthouse, lock, ladder, and leaf.