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Beginning Sounds - Kindergarten Reading

For Teachers K
Students practice the use of beginning sounds to improve their emerging reading skills. For this beginning sounds lesson, students review beginning sound of words before participating in a "Bingo" type game that has them use the sounds...
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Computer/Grammar: Dinosaurs

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice computer skills while visiting a dinosaur Website. They write sentences there beginning with assigned letters, circle the beginning capital letter, and underline the ending punctuation.
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Fish, Fish: Teaching K Students About Things That Live in the Sea

For Teachers K
Students participate in activities designed to help them connect the words to the animals they are studying. Octopus is reinforced through playing a game, "Octopus Tag." Students play a cooperation game of passing bean bags from student...
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Secret Codes

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars practice writing and decoding secret messages before discussing DNA and its role as a code for making proteins. They translate DNA into RNA and identify the sequence of amino acids to find a secret message. An...
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Connect the Dots: The Letter Pp

For Students Pre-K - K
For this dot to dot worksheet, students connect the numbered dots that trace the capital letter P and the lower case p. The objective is to advance students' letter recognition and printing skills.
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Kelly's Kindergarten: The N Ending

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Never fear, N is here! Practice matching words that end in the letter N with their corresponding pictures. Kids glue the words onto the sails of a ship that include each picture.
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Make a Word: Long U by Starfall

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore language arts by participating an on-line grammar activity. In this letter U lesson, students discuss the uses for the letter U in the English language and the different sounds that can be made from the vowel. Students...
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Editing a Paragraph

For Students 7th - 10th
In this paragraph worksheet, students edit and proofread a paragraph. Students correct all punctuation and capital letter errors.
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Letter L

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will have fun learning about the letter "L" with the activities in this lesson plan. The author suggests reading "Lightning Bug" from the McGraw-Hill reading book. However, you may find other poems that are fitting for this...
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b or d: What do you see?

For Teachers 1st
First graders often mix up the letters b/d, making them pronounce words incorrectly because they are identifying a b or d when they should be pronouncing the opposite letter. They are exposed to the two letters in a variety of ways...
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Searching For Letters, Words, and Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st
This simple lesson is designed for K - 1 students. They are introduced to individual letters, words, and sentences. A game is played where they try to collect one example of each. For practice, students complete a worksheet which is...
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The ABCs of Coins

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study alphabet books to see the many creative ways these books can be put together. After picking a format, the class creates an alphabet book about coins.
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Simulation: Norse Scratchings

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars discover the meaning of a Norse runic message as they study a Vikings unit. In this Norse alphabet lesson, students decode a runic message as a part of a study about Vikings. Young scholars earn the letters to decode the...
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Initial Sounds (1)

For Students Pre-K - 1st
For this early childhood initial sounds worksheet, students examine 6 pictures and identify the letter that begins the words represented. Students also draw 2 objects that begin with the letters s and h.
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Words Ending in -Un Cards

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this u words worksheet, students cut out the u words given to them and match them to the definitions on the cards. Students complete 12 matches total.
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Balkan Basics Country Profile T-chart

For Students 7th - 9th
In this country comparison worksheet, students complete the graphic organizer that requires them to respond to 7 questions that address 2 Balkan nations that they choose to compare.
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Loving Letter "L"

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify the grapheme and phoneme for L. They practice writing the letter L and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /l/. They associate the phoneme /l/ with its letter representation and identify it in various...
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Super Hero Coloring Sheet

For Students K - 1st
In this letter recognition coloring instructional activity, students color the picture of super hero and create their own super hero based on the first letter of their name.
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Rabbits

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, learn about the letter r, and eat carrots all to learn about rabbits. In this rabbits lesson plan, students also do the bunny hop and make rabbits out of play dough.
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Clowns

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars read books, learn about the letter c, and eat with clown noses on to learn about clowns. In this clowns lesson plan, students also have a parade where they dress like clowns.
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Ladybugs

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, learn about the letter l, and eat bug crackers all to learn about ladybugs. In this goldfish lesson plan, students also color pages and decorate ladybug cookies.
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Pigs

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, learn about the letter p, and eat pigs n mud all to learn about pigs. In this pigs lesson plan, students also dance with pink ribbons and make pigs out of construction paper.
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Properties of Lines - Parallel and Perpendicular

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders identify parallel and perpendicular lines in the alphabet. In this line properties lesson, 6th graders use the letters of the alphabet to show parallel and perpendicular lines. Students open a Geogrid Mat on the computer...
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Sesame Street Letter Recognition

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students study the letters of the alphabet, explore different shapes, rhyme, and listen to the different sounds of the alphabet to help them sound out words and begin elementary level reading.