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Unit Plan
Core Knowledge Foundation

Unit 4: The Renaissance

For Teachers 5th Standards
The Renaissance is the theme of a five-week unit designed to boost reading comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, and expository writing skills. Scholars listen to and discuss daily readings and engage in skills practice activities...
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Unit Plan
GLSEN, Inc.

Ready, Set, Respect!

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Instill the importance of respect in your classroom with a comprehensive unit that focuses on positive behavior in and outside of school. Three parts, each separated into four grade-specific lessons, cover bullying, bias, name-calling,...
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Printables
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BW Walch

Daily Warm-Ups: Grammar and Usage

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
If grammar practice is anywhere in your curriculum, you must check out an extensive collection of warm-up activities for language arts! Each page focuses on a different concept, from parts of speech to verbals, and provides review...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Chesapeake Bay in Captain John Smith's Time

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
When Captain John Smith visited the Chesapeake Bay in the summer of 1608, what types of animals and habitats did he encounter? Your young historians will analyze primary source documents to answer this question, as well as compare the...
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Organizer
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Scholastic

Super Sentences & Perfect Paragraphs

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
An extensive collection of lessons and activities includes many writing, grammar, and proofreading exercises. With templates and worksheets that cover several steps in the writing process, from sentence to paragraph to essay, this...
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Activity
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Scholastic

Narrative Writing

For Teachers 5th - 9th Standards
If you're looking to start a unit based around narrative writing, make sure to consider this resource while you're planning. This book covers five topics: writing personal narratives, writing narratives about others, writing narratives...
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Activity
Andrews McMeel Publishing

Charlie Brown and Friends

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Charles Schulz' Charlie Brown and Friends, a collection of Peanuts comic strips, provides young readers with an opportunity to engage in full-class discussions, work in groups to examine how Schulz develops his characters, and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Preposition House

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Identify and use prepositions to describe how objects relate to one another. Each child draws a house and then draws items in, around, on, and under the house to demonstrate different prepositions. Written descriptions accompany their...
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Lesson Plan
California Department of Education

What’s the Market for My Labor?

For Teachers 5th Standards
A lesson showcases how knowing about Labor Market Information (LMI) supports searching for future job opportunities. Following a review of the concept and other vocabulary terms, scholars research occupations and answer questions on a...
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Lesson Plan
California Department of Education

Learning About Myself

For Teachers 5th Standards
After completing an interest survey, peers group together based on similar likes. They work collaboratively to create a poster that highlights their interests. Groups share their finished products with the class. 
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Unit Plan
Purdue University

Food Waste Solutions

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Easy doesn't always mean better. In an era with pre-packaged everything, learners consider the environmental impact of the convenient trend. They critique the packaging of food and how waste impacts cost and then look for solutions.
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Unit Plan
Purdue University

Food Waste and the Environment

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Out of sight out of mind can be a dangerous habit. Learners investigate the life of food waste after it leaves people's homes and its impact on the environment. They complete a series of three activities that involve building a mini...
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Nouns Verbs: Write it Both Ways

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A worksheet gives scholars the opportunity to take five words and use them as a noun and a verb. Changing the verb tenses and making nouns singular or plural work to compose a grammatically correct sentence. 
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Nouns Verbs: Use It Two Ways

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Scholars show what they know about nouns and verbs in a worksheet that requires them to read five words then use them in two sentences—as a noun and a verb. 
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Activity
Newspaper Association of America

Celebrating Women’s History Month

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Examine the lives of four women—Blanche Stuart Scott, Madeleine L'Engle, Margaret Evans Price, and Sybil Ludington—in a 23-page activity packet. Each profile comes with a set of vocabulary and reading comprehension questions. Further...
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Correlating Conjunctions

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
A worksheet on correlating conjunctions could be used as either a check for comprehension or as a homework assignment. Whether or not conjunctions are their thing, the activity will not only engage young grammarians, but also teach them...
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Nouns Verbs: Write it Both Ways

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A five-item worksheet challenges scholars to write two sentences using the same verb in two different ways—as a noun and a verb.
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Writing with Interjections

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Challenge young writers to craft original sentences using interjections from a list provided on a colorful worksheet.
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Mild and Strong Interjections

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
 Whew! This worksheet is tough! Unless, of course, young grammarians know the difference between mild and strong interjections.
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Interjections in Dialogue: Tom Sawyer

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Mark Twain is a master of using interjections in his dialogue. A grammar activity focused on interjections features the passage from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in which Tom tricks Ben into taking on the job of whitewashing Aunt Polly's...
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Find the Interjection

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Yikes! Young grammar sleuths must find the interjections that add the oomph to a series of sentences.
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Add an Interjection

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Wow! Here's a worksheet about interjections! After reading a brief definition of this part of speech, young grammarians select an interjection from the provided word bank to add to a sentence.
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Which Is It: Subordinating or Coordinating Conjunction?

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
To demonstrate their understanding of the difference between subordinating and coordinating conjunctions, learners identify and label the conjunctions found in 10 sentences.
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Spot Them! Correct Conjunctions

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Young grammarians demonstrate their understanding of conjunctions by identifying sentences on a short activity that use conjunctions correctly.