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Secret Agent Stan

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students answer time and money questions to solve a mystery. In this time and money lesson, students act as detectives to find Secret Agent Stan's identification number by answering questions from his logbook involving elapsed time and...
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Pre-K Trivia

For Teachers K
Pupils choose a card from a bag which has a previously agreed upon thought written on it. They answer the question on the card.
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The Good Things in Life

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this health worksheet, students fill in a chart describing the good things in life which include favorite people, activities, places to visit, foods, and things that are exciting. They tell how these things make them feel. The article...
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Present Continuous (advanced)

For Students 4th - 6th
In this present continuous activity, students fill in the blanks to sentences with the verbs given in the correct form. Students complete 3 exercises.
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Baby Boomer TV Worksheets

For Students Pre-K
In this crossword puzzle activity, students complete a 22 clue crossword puzzle about television shows that were popular in the 1950's and 1960's.
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Graduation

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students learn to recite poems and songs that they will recite and sing at their graduation for kindergarten. In this graduation lesson, students memorize and practice 5 poems and songs.
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Peer pressure

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students identify ways to cope with peer pressure to use tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs. They use selection from Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain.
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Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders have fun using descriptive words in an expository format to describe a food that they hate. They utilize a planning worksheet that's imbedded in this plan before they begin their drafts.
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Feliz Navidad: A Mexican Christmas Unit

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in interdisciplinary activities related to a Mexican Christmas celebration. They inquire about Christmas in Mexico through story, Spanish language, song, art, and dance.
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You Kiss the Book: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers analyze imagery in Shakespeare's, Romeo and Juliet, and act out the passage to see how the author includes stage directions with his poetry.
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Character, You Say? Prove It!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss character traits, and complete a character map and a Venn diagram for selected characters in their assigned text.
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Valentine Heart Game

For Teachers 1st
First graders clap a rhythm pattern notated on a board, and then make up their own patterns on percussion instruments. They answer addition and subtraction problems.
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Tim and Pat - At the Store

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this bar graphs worksheet, students use the bar graph to add how much time Tim and Pat spend buying candy each week. Students complete the table and answer 3 questions.
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The Excursion

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students throw dice and make their way around a board, answering questions, performing tasks and finding out about the environment as they go.
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Kindergarten Phonics

For Teachers K
Pupils are introduced to the letters and phonemes for C, L, N, P, T, and A. They identify each letter in its upper and lowercase forms. Students differentiate the letters from each other and practice identifying objects and pictures...
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Prefix-Suffix Concentration

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students correctly match prefixes or suffixes with their appropriate meaning. Prefix-Suffix Concentration is a game that allow students to practice and review prefixes and suffixes and their meaning.
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Air Pressure

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students watch a demonstration on air pressure, discuss it, and do a worksheet to reinforce it.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: How to Read Nonfiction Text

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Kids love to read about real people, places, and events. Nonfiction books present real information in engaging and interesting ways. However, most kids read a lot more fiction than nonfiction, so spend some extra time helping your reader...
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Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: Love Is Anterior to Life

For Students 9th - 10th
A poem from Emily Dickinson, "Love is Anterior to Life", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Jena Johnson and can access a printable version of this piece.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Reading List for With Kids Who Love or Dislike Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a reading list with motivational books. Newbery Award winners and Caldecott Award winners make up the majority of the list.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Middle Colonies: City of Brotherly Love Philadelphia

For Students 5th - 8th
Philadelphia was the colony of Pennsylvania forsome time. Read about what William Penn's vision was for the city and why the city became so important.
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Uen: Picture This: Visualization

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
Students will practice the reading comprehension skill of visualizing. Teachers will model the skill with All the Places to Love by Patricia MacLachlan. Then students will listen to Robert Service's poem "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and...
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Read Works

Read Works: "Sonnet 73"

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A sonnet by William Shakespeare about love and the passage of time. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century: 20th Century Theatre

For Students 9th - 10th
Find close readings, critical interpretations, and personal responses to the works of key 20th-century playwrights and practitioners, including Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Shelagh Delaney, and Timberlake Wertenbaker.