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Home Spelling Practice: Latin Roots urb, public, reg, civ, doc, dom
Use this spelling activity to help your learners master root words. All 20 words have a Latin root: "urb," "public," "reg," "civ," "doc," or "dom." Middle schoolers write each word one time. There are additional at-home activities...
EngageNY
Mid-Unit 2 Assessment: On-Demand Informational Writing
Lesson 7 focuses on building academic vocabulary and writing an explanatory letter with supported textual evidence. For the first five minutes of the instructional activity, the educator reminds the class of how to read and refer to the...
DK Publishing
Sliding Snails: Count by 10s
Even snails can move quickly when working through this assignment! Youngsters match written number words to their numerals (ten to 10, for example), and then decipher what numbers are covered by snail slime in a number sequnce. All of...
Curated OER
Writing Numbers
A multi-faceted approach to place value! Third graders write four-digit numbers, as well as interpreting the written forms of large numbers. Use the resource as a unit assessment, or in parts as a warm-up activity throughout the week.
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Writing Numbers
How many letters? Budding counters determine and record the number of letters in five messages trailing behind planes. The write down both the numeral and the word form; the highest number here is 19. Next, pupils fill in two blank...
EngageNY
Reading for Gist: “Middle Ages” Excerpt 2
Read and repeat. Scholars repeat the strategies for digging deeper into text from lesson two. This time they focus on Middle Ages Excerpt 2. Learners write unfamiliar words in the word catcher and use details from the text to add to the...
Student Achievement Partners
Eleven
Turning 11 comes with a range of emotions. Explore those emotions by reading the short story "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros. Readers analyze the main character's reactions to the events of her day. Then, they write an essay describing what...
Curated OER
Numbers and Operations as Words
Teach numbers in word form with this activity. In this numbers and operations activity, learners solve 22 problems in which numbers are written in word form. Students solve the problems and write their responses in word form. Example:...
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Who Wants to Win Millions - Number Words
Use this math game to help learners review how to write numbers one to fifty in words. However, the words aren't correctly spelled on each slide. Correct the mistakes before using the resource!
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Addition Word Problems #2
Expose scholars to the ways addition is constantly used through 15 word problems. Many of these have more than two addends, and several involve money math and adding numbers with decimals to the hundredths place. Learners also must use...
Illustrative Mathematics
Assessing Writing Numbers
Can I say a number by its name, and can you write it for me? Working in small groups or with the whole class, give your kindergartners a piece of 1-inch graph paper and have them write numbers 0 to 10 and 11 to 20. Next, pass out blank...
EngageNY
Mid-Unit 1 Assessment: Human Rights Vocabulary and Common Prefixes
Here is a mid-unit assessment for a group of lessons studying the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The first half of this instructional activity calls for several forms of review. Your class will review the content of the...
Curated OER
Integers - Practice 11.1
In this identifying integers activity, students determine whether or not the numbers are integers, if they are, they write the opposite, and if they are not, they write the word no. Students write thirty-two answers.
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Writing Interesting Sentences
Help your class build their own 20-word sentences with this step-by-step guide designed to enhance sentence depth, interest, and variety in the work of young writers. They complete five basic SVO sentences using a given word bank. Then...
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One Variable Word Problems
Here is a one-variable word problems worksheet in which learners complete word problems dealing with all four operations and one variable. They complete a total of 18 problems.
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"Knot" the Whole Truth: Writing a Modern-Day Story with a Tall Tale's Voice
Beyond Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, tall tales can be a great way to teach young writers about word choice and voice in their writing. Using Jerry Spinelli's Maniac Magee and the Six-Trait Writing process, they begin to write their own...
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Lesson Plan 10: Writing Really Good Dialogue
Boring dialogue can run a great story into the ground; get your novelists using dialogue as a tool to move their story into deeper and more developed territory. As part of a larger writing series, this lesson has a worksheet that can...
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Word Choice: Descriptive Verbs
In this word choice worksheet, learners will read a 5 paragraph essay about an igloo hotel. Then students will replace 10 verbs with more descriptive verbs. Next, learners will use strong verbs from a word bank to complete 14 sentences...
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8th Grade Spelling: Latin Roots
In this 8th grade home connection spelling practice worksheet, 8th graders examine 20 spelling words that feature Latin roots. Students write the words 1 time each.
Maths Blog
Make 20
There are quite a few ways to make the number 20 through addition. Learners fill in missing addends to reach the sum of 20 then answer additional related questions. This is a good resource because it has the class both add to 20 and...
WakeGOV
Plastic Sight Words
Plastic math? Have young learners count and name the number of plastic items in their centers. Kindergartners match sight word cards to the number of plastics in a given group, while learning that plastics come in all different shapes,...
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Word Game!
Early finishers beware! Here is a fun word game creative thinkers will really enjoy. They attempt to make as many words as they can using the word transport. Strict rules make this task a real challenge. Tip: Also great to use in a fun...
Millard South Patriots
Trait Practice: Sentence Fluency
Do your young writers need a little help varying their sentence structure? Have them work on common errors, sentence fluency, and writing patterns with a series of language arts activities. The resource includes reading passages as well...
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The Definite or Zero Article Exercise
Learners fill in the blanks with a choice of a word or phrase either containing the article the or not to complete the sentences and then list them in the categories Zero Article or The. Students write 31 answers.