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Rediscovering the Lost Art of Letter Writing

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Writers engage with both past and present experiences to compose a letter during Write to a Friend Month.
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Poetry4kids

How to Host an Open Mic Poetry Party

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Four steps to Open Mic Night! The location, invitations, supplies, and party favors are all part of the process in planning and hosting a fun-filled gathering where scholars read aloud an original poem or one by their favorite author. 
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Monster Party Story Starter

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young writers can contemplate a cartoon zombie's brain while they write a creative story. The theme is Halloween and the issue is that the writer invited real monsters to his or her party. Big mistake! Or was it?
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EngageNY

Revising My Accessing Books Around the World Informative Paragraph for a Hook to Captivate My Reader

For Teachers 3rd Standards
While this is considered optional within the unit it is designed for, pupils would benefit from the listed activities. Working on writing and revising a paragraph about librarians who travel to isolated areas, class members can add some...
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ReadWriteThink

Beyond the Story: A Dickens of a Party

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
It's time to party like it's 1899! Incorporate a research-based celebration of the Victorian Era into your unit on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. After learners read the novella or view a production of the play, they craft a...
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NWT Literacy Council

How to Kit: Readers Theatre

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Immerse your class in a good story with an extensive resource featuring reader's theater techniques. The worksheets are designed for both teacher and student, and carefully explain how to organize, write, and perform stories in a...
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Writing Letters

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners see the difference between business letters and other letters that could be received in the mail, such as bills, invitations, and letters from friends or relatives. They practice writing letters as well as sending them.
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Revising For Parallel Structure Worksheet 3

For Students 9th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students read and rewrite the italicized part of twenty sentences to make each one parallel with the rest of the sentence.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Let’s Count!: Challenge Activities (Theme 5)

For Teachers K Standards
Challenge young scholars with a counting-themed series of activities. Your counters will write invitations to a feast, create books about dinner parties and animals, design posters, draw pictures of their favorite peaceful places,...
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The Birthday Party of My Dreams

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this writing skills worksheet, learners plan their own birthday party by filling in the invitation for their party and draw a picture of the party. Students write a short story about what would happen and who they would invite.
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The Birthday Party

For Students 4th - 5th
For this writing skills worksheet, students read the first part of a story titled 'The Birthday Party.' Students finish the story by writing the ending on the provided lines.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Family Time: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 5)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Support English language development with a family-themed unit consisting of a series of lessons designed to get your scholars moving, looking, speaking, writing, and listening. Conversation topics...
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EngageNY

End of Unit Assessment, Part 1: Text-Dependent Questions and Storyboard Draft: “You Can Do a Graphic Novel” Excerpt

For Teachers 5th Standards
Eyes on the finish line. Serving as the first part of the end of unit assessment, learners answer questions based on a text about how to write a graphic novel. Using what they've learned, they then create a storyboard about the invention...
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Palomar College

Making Yes/No Questions in the Present Tense

For Students 7th - 12th
Does your class need some practice with writing yes or no questions in the present tense? This worksheet offers learners some choice as they pair activities with subjects to form questions. Pupils also write a quick response to each...
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Party, Party, Party!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore social situations by participating in a role play activity. In this student psychology lesson, students identify the different social situations they will enjoy as they grow older including weddings, housewarming...
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K20 LEARN

Do Hungry Dragons Really Like Crunchy Tacos?: Adjectives

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Tacos are the theme of a lesson all about adjectives. Scholars list as many adjectives as possible to describe tacos and play a game of Not Like the Others before reading Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin. Peers guess their favorite foods...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Let’s Look Around!: Challenge Activities (Theme 3)

For Teachers 1st Standards
Let's Look Around! is the theme of a unit that offers a plethora of challenge activities. Enhance your scholars' learning experiences and reinforce concepts with activities such as writing a book about farm animals, an...
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New Year's Eve

For Students 5th - 10th
In this New Year's Eve learning exercise, students complete activities such as read the passage, match the phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, multiple choice fill in, correct the spelling, put text in correct order,...
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K12 Reader

Adjective Antonyms

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Easy or hard? Fast or slow? Invite your class members to practice with antonyms. They identify each adjective and then use provided antonyms to rewrite the sentences.
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The Use of "Because" or "So"- The Dinner Party

For Students 4th - 5th
In this grammar and usage worksheet, students read the guidelines for proper usage of the words "because" and "so." They complete 20 fill-in-the blank examples in a selection entitled "The Dinner Party" in which they use the words properly.
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Revise for Parallel Structure

For Students 7th - 8th
In this parallel structure instructional activity, students revise a set of 20 sentences for parallel structure. Page has links to additional resources.
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EngageNY

Author’s Read: Final Performance Task

For Teachers 5th Standards
Scholars submit their final performance task, a letter to a publisher about an athlete's legacy. As a culminating activity, they share their work with classmates in small groups. 
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Curated OER

ESL Grammar/Time, Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this ESL worksheet on time, students will read two party invitations and then write five complete sentences using time related words.
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Module 8---Things You Can't Live Without

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this necessities worksheet, students choose eight out of ten various necessities to write a definition for utilizing relative clauses. Students read and edit/proof-read an email associated with a party.