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Big Bubble Letter Poster
In this getting to know you activity, students follow the directions to create bubble letters for their names and then fill each letter with information about themselves.
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Beginning Sentence Correction
In this beginning sentence correction worksheet, students determine grammatical mistakes and correct them. In this short answer worksheet, students write six answers.
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Letter Writing With the Jolly Postman
Pupils need to know how to write a greeting letter.
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Writing a Comparison/Contrast Paragraph: Using Vivid Verbs
In this vivid verbs learning exercise, students complete three activities that help them use strong, vivid verbs in the comparison and contrast writing.
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Checking Grammar: Accuracy
Get young writers in the practice of editing their work using this punctuation and grammar worksheet. They first read eight sentences with grammar issues, rewriting or checking off as correct. The sentence errors involve subject-verb...
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Father's Day Acrostic
Fantastic? Friendly? Funny? What adjective will your youngsters choose for the first letter in father as part of this great Father's Day acrostic worksheet?
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Voice
In these writing style worksheets, students practice developing their writer's voice. Students complete three activities that help them with their writing voice.
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Error Correction in a Letter
In this ESL friendly letter correction worksheet, learners read a letter and look for the 20 mistakes. Students correct the errors in the friendly letter.
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Techno Author
Here is a great way to explore language arts by completing a computer activity with classmates. Youngsters read a fairy tale in class and analyze where the beginning, middle and end are. They create their own story using clip art and...
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Write an Equation
In this math challenge worksheet, students read 5 story problems and use their problem solving skills to write equations in order to solve each of them.
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Hiragana - Perfect ~ Writing a Japanese Pictionary
Students listen to a story and view Japanese artifacts. They use the internet to explore the writings known as Hiragana. They create their own Japanese pictionaries and share them with the class.
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Finding the Missing Letters and Sequencing
Students discover missing letters of the alphabet. In this letter recognition lesson, students identify the missing letters in a short alphabet sequence. Students complete a worksheet as an assessment.
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Explore the Written Word with National Postcard Week
Develop writing and analysis skills with a celebration of the postcard pastime.
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Word Perfect
Students explore the value of personal written communication as compared to the use of e-mail or text messaging.
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Proper Nouns: Names
In this recognizing proper nouns worksheet, students read names, in isolation and in sentences, and use capital letters to rewrite them correctly. Students write 13 answers.
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Meet Your New eBuddy
Students are introduced to the eBuddies laptop system. Using the technology, they create a new Word document and practice using a mouse. Opening a new window from Internet Explorer, they view an appropriate site which allows them to...
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Deciding the Mode
Are your young writers having difficulty distinguishing between expository and persuasive writing? Discuss the difference between the two, and how some prompts can be responded to in either fashion. Included here is a simple lesson plan...
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A Visit to Charm City
Students explore U.S. geography by participating in a role-playing activity. In this Baltimore history lesson, students discuss the geography of Baltimore city and complete a worksheet which discusses the "charm" Baltimore is known for....
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Postcards For Your Ears
Here is a great way to have your students make audio postcards to share by recording a message on the computer. They write and revise an appropriate message about an object from home, choose a background, and font colors for the...
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Relations and Graphs
Here is a simple, yet clever lesson on how to teach the important concepts of greater than, less than, and equal to. Pupils write their names down on grid paper - one letter per box. They compare their names and find a name that is...
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Summer Reading Activities
Provide parents with the tools they need to bridge the summer learning gap with this collection of fun activities. Whether it's creating an alphabet poster with illustrations for each letter, playing a game of sight word concentration,...
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Adventures with Alliteration! - Nouns
Create poetry with a instructional activity based on alliterative phrases. After reviewing ten nouns, kids add an adjective to each based on the first letter of the noun. They then rewrite five sentences to involve more alliteration.
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Measuring Angles
Solve and complete 18 problems about angles. First, demonstrate that each conjecture is false by giving a counterexample. Then write the inverse, contrapositive, and converse for the each statement. In addition, write a...
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A Way with Words or Say What?
Students explore the language of Shakespeare. In this literature lesson, students examine words invented by Shakespeare as they interpret their meanings in drawings. Students pantomime the meanings and then write a short story...