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Tutorial World: Primary 4 English
This site is for teachers looking for worksheets for fourth-grade language arts students. Includes vocabulary, grammar, sentence construction, comprehension and revision.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Elementary School Transition Words and Phrases
This article focuses on transition words and phrases including how to explain them to children and providing lists of transition words and phrases by types such as Time and Sequence, Cause and Effect, and Conclusion. It also provides a...
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Your Dictionary: Reading Activities and Games for Vocabulary
This article focuses on developing vocabulary through reading activities and games. The more a person reads, the better their vocabulary; this article provides ideas for teachers and parents to promote more reading for fun.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: What's the Word? Shapes
In this game, students identify shapes by choosing the words that fit the pictures. Links to other games are provided.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Using the Five Finger Rule
Students identify text features in nonfiction, as they continue to study cells' function as building blocks of organisms, and summarize the requirements for cells to live.
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Better Lesson: W.3.1b: Provide Reasons That Support the Opinion
Links to 27 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.1b: Provide reasons that support the opinion.
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Better Lesson: W.4.3c: Use a Variety of Transitional Words and Phrases
Links to 4 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.3c: Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events.
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Better Lesson: W.4.2d: Use Precise Language and Vocabulary
Links to 27 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.2d: Use precise language and domain specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
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Education.com: W.4.2.d Worksheets: Use Precise Language and Vocabulary
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 4 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.4.2.D: Use precise language and domain specific vocabulary to inform about or...
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Better Lesson: W.4.2c: Link Ideas Within Categories of Information
Links to 4 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.2c: Link ideas within categories of information using words and phrases (e.g., example, also, because).
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Better Lesson: W.4.2b: Develop the Topic With Facts
Links to 40 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.2b: Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic.
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Education.com: W.4.2.b Worksheets: Develop the Topic With Facts
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 11 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.4.2.B: Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details,...
Indiana University
Indiana University East: Writing Center: Transitions: Understanding Signal Words
This resource page provides nine lists of signal words and what they mean. Covers words that show time, addition, contrast, comparison, illustration, location, cause and effect, conclusion or summary, and emphasis or clarification.
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Education.com: W.4.3.e Worksheets: Provide a Conclusion for a Narrative
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 7 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.4.3.E: Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
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Education.com: L.4.3.a Worksheets: Choose Words and Phrases to Convey Ideas
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 16 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard L.4.3.A: Choose Words and Phrases to Convey Ideas.
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Education.com: Sl.4.1.b Worksheets: Review Key Ideas and Express Own Ideas
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 6 lessons that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard SL.4.1.D: Review the key ideas expressed and explain their own ideas and...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Personal Storytelling With Accordion Books [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, young scholars use the structure of an accordion book to identify parts of an essay: introduction, three supporting details, and conclusion. They then compose a personal story using events from the past school year...
ICT Games
Ict Games: Tell a T Rex
Read these silly sentences and decide which ones make sense. Perfect practice for reading for comprehension.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Phrases: Fluent Phrasing [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students work together to read segmented sentences out loud. Printable materials are provided.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Activities for Teaching Vocabulary
This article focuses on the importance of teaching vocabulary and how to teach it effectively. It lists concepts that need to be considered when preparing to teach vocabulary such as prior knowledge, dictionary use, context clues, and...
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Eastport Elementary School: Mrs. Donahue's Site: Identifying the Main Idea
Information, examples, and practice passages to use while learning how to identify the main idea of an informational text.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: We're in a Pickle
A hands-on instructional activity in which children work together to discover adjectives, write a descriptive paragraph, and apply math principles to produce a bar graph interpreting results from the instructional activity.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Word Displays
This strategy helps students understand vocabulary as the read and refine their language skills in support of writing about texts.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Semantic Mapping
A strategy for developing students' vocabulary by representing the concepts of words graphically. This helps refine their understanding of vocabulary to meet expectations in reading and language.