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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: All About Money

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the topic of money. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary...
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Article
Scholastic

Scholastic: Investigating Nonfiction Part 3: Independent and Guided Reading

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
This article provides tips for using nonfiction with guided reading and independent reading. The following strategies are shared: ways to help kids select "just right" nonfiction books; lessons to use with nonfiction in guided reading...
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Interactive
University of Manchester

Children's University of Manchester: Word Literacy: English Language Timeline

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
Students move through the timeline to read about the history and development of the English language.
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Figurative Language

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Once in a Blue Moon by Nicola Morgan to learn to identify and interpret the meaning of figurative language in a fiction text. Lesson includes direct teaching,...
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Compare/contrast Genres

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use fiction and nonfiction books from a classroom library to identify the similarities and differences between fiction and nonfiction and to create a Venn diagram...
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Voice

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A set of two lesson plans designed to teach students to describe the author's voice in two poems and compare voice in four short works. Includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Predicting and Gathering Information With Nonfiction Texts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for eight short lessons that introduce nonfiction texts to second grade students. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and...
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Interactive
Other

Match the Memory: Formal vs Informal Language

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Match the Memory Interactive game where players match a word to either formal or informal language.
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Interactive
Arcademics

Arcademics: Extraordinary Elephants

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Determine which word is the synonym of the given word then choose it to feed the elephant.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Welcome Back!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares advice about how to make the first day of school a great one. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Alyssa Wears a Bow Tie

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a fictional narrative about a girl who chooses to show her creativity by wearing a bow tie on the first day of school. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...
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Handout
Other

Smart Words: Famous Idioms and Meaning

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a list of the 50 most commonly used idioms and their meanings.
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Activity
BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Plurals and Spelling Rules

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
The rules for spelling plural words and using them properly in English are made fun and easy with this BBC Skillswise worksheet for students.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 17 (Low Beginning Level) [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the recall of basic verb tenses that are needed in beginning English.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 19 [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the understanding of words associated with jobs, actions, and places.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 17 [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the understanding of words associated with jobs, actions, and time.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 16 (High Beginning Level) [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the understanding of words associated with jobs and places.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 6 [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the words associated with family relationships. Descriptive vocabulary words are also assessed on this quiz.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2 [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess vocabulary words that are adjectives.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 1 (High Beginning Level) [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the words associated with family relationships. Vocabulary words that are adjectives are also assessed.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 1: Level 3 [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the recall of words associated with places and vocabulary words that describe.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 2 [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the application of the past verb tense, a topic covered in Level 2 English.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 2 [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the application of the present progressive verb tense, a topic covered in Level 2 English. Singular and plural subjects are included in the sentences.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 1: Level 2 [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the application of the present progressive verb tense, a topic covered in Level 2 English.