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Teaching Grammar in Context: Using Sentence Combining to Teach Subordination
Reinforce sentence styles with this lesson, which prompts young grammarians to build complex and compound-complex sentence structures. They respond to non-print text and identify subordinators as parts of speech procedure. They spell...
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Pumpkin Carving Sequencer
Students arrange illustrations in sequential order. In this text organization lesson, students access a webpage where they must follow the instructions to learn about the steps of pumpkin carving. Students then click and drag...
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Identifying Terms, Factors, and Coefficients
What are terms, factors, and coefficients? This slideshow provides definitions and examples of various parts of algebraic expressions, and provides guided practice problems in writing and identifying parts of algebraic expressions for...
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Add Awesome Alliteration to your Writing
Students practice writing with alliteration, repeating the same letter sound at the beginning of two or more words in a sentence; students also review of adjectives, verbs, and adverbs while creating an alphabet book.
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The Adjective Alphabet
Students paint alliteration pictures. For this adjectives lesson, students select an adjective and noun that begin with the same letter, for example: hairy heart, to represent in a painting.
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A Happy Time
Second graders listen to stories about feelings and identify their own feelings during certain times of their lives. In this a happy time lesson, 2nd graders explore writing elements as a way to communicate with a variety of audiences...
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A Day in the Life
Students research questions related to sports medicine. They write an essay from the questions and create professional email accounts to email a professional in their field of interest. In addition, they interview their professional and...
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Help With Paragraphs: Writing A Paragraph
Young scholars complete exercises to practice writing a paragraph. In this paragraph writing lesson plan, young scholars work in pairs to complete activities that require them to read sample paragraphs, organize sentences in sequence,...
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To Honor All Children from Prejudice to Discrimination to Hatred....to Holocaust, Part 1
Learners analyze different perspectives of the history of the Holocaust. They experience primary and secondary sources along with pieces from literature, documentaries, songs and letters. A commitment of honor and dedication is expressed...
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Theory of Plate Tectonics
In this plate tectonics worksheet, student answer 15 multiple choice questions about plate movement, types of boundaries, collision of plates, continental plates, and the lithosphere.
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The Great Migration
Sixth graders explore the uses of herbal plants. They read the book Pharmacy in the Forest and discuss the vocabulary words that pertain to the structure of a plant. Students create a summary of what they have read and watch a video on...
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English Exercises: Questions
In this online interactive English worksheet, learners respond to 19 fill in the blank questions that require them to use questions appropriately. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Introduction to Nutrition and Gardening
Students examine the different parts of a plant and each ones role. In this exploratory lesson students complete several activities including a game of charades.
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Civil War Newspaper
One photograph can represent so much more than the images on the film. Eighth graders select a photograph from the Civil War era and conduct additional research based on the subject matter from the picture. Once they complete the...
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Sun Protection
Primary graders become sun scientists and conduct experiments to learn about the beneficial and harmful effects of the sun and UV radiation. They also investigate their personal sunburn danger zones and learn about how to protect...
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Alphabetizing Animals- Part Two
Students identify animal names and put them into alphabetical order. In this word study lesson, students recite the names of animals and alphabetize the names. Students complete a worksheet as a follow-up activity.
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A Statistical Study of the Alphabet
Students determine probability by completing statistical study on letters of the alphabet and comparing and contrasting results.
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Decode and Write Words with More Than One Syllable
Practice sounding out multi-syllable words with this scaffolded lesson. Learners decode words by segmenting them into phonemes and combining the sounds. Your lines are in bold here, but you can easily use this simply as an outline...
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Cities and Countries
Part of studying Spanish is learning about the customs, food, and traditions of other countries. Use the links provided (and some of your own) to study Venezuela, Uruguay, Guatemala, and Peru. Elementary learners will get a glimpse of...
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Jazz in America
Students learn where Jazz came from and why it is an important part of America's history.
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The Letter "L"
Students practice using the letter "L." In this letter "L" lesson, students complete a worksheet (not included) on which they identify pictures of items that begin with the letter "L."
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Body Words
Learners use their bodies to form the letters to spell each of the five words that they were given. They must spell the word correctly and the teacher must be able to read the word from left and right on their "baseline." The teacher...
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On the Beat
In this visual thinking instructional activity, learners analyze 7 pictures in separate boxes that depict part of a bigger picture. Students examine a large picture of a girl playing a drum set and match the picture fragments to their...
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Service Learning Project-American Civil War
Tenth graders study the American Civil War. As part of a service learning project, they volunteer to help preserve or promote a local Civil War site. They conduct research and write letters or lobby legislatures on behalf of historic...
