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Helen Keller: An Inspiring Life (Biography Mini-Book)

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
Inspire young readers with this printable biography of Helen Keller. Including a timeline, glossary, and realistic illustrations with supporting captions, this is a great resource for not only teaching children about this amazing...
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Letter-Sound Match Cut and Paste

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Develop beginning readers' understanding of letter-sound correspondence with this fun series of cut-and-paste worksheets. With each page focusing on four specific letters, children are able to practice isolating initial sounds as they...
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PreKinders

Syllable Cards for Literacy Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Add a new activity to your literacy arsenal with this collection of syllable cards. Offering colorful pictures representing simple one-, two-, and three-syllable words, this resource can be used in many ways to improve your children's...
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Agriculture’s Lasting Heritage

Apples Around Us

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Apple tasting launches an investigation of the story and travels of John Chapman, also known as Johnny Appleseed. After listening to his story, class members craft a summary of the tale, chart his journeys on a map, and sample different...
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Curated OER

Grade 1 Language Arts: Capitalization 1

For Students 1st
For this capitalization worksheet, 1st graders read 6 sentences and circle each letter in each sentence that should be capitalized.
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Language Arts:Similes That Make Us Smile

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify similes and create their own self descriptions using them as examples. After identifying characteristics associated with pictures of the sun, fish, and other items, they discover how those traits can be used as...
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Language Arts: Guided Reading with Fancy Dance

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students participate in a guided reading of Leslie Johnson's, Fancy Dance and discover how to sequence events. This lesson plan stresses word recognition, suffixes and prefixes, and sentence structure. Cross-curricular activities involve...
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Remembering Waiting

For Teachers K - 2nd
After a close study of the pastel drawing Waiting by Edgar Degas have the class imagine the story Degas may be telling through the body language and clothing of the people in the work of art. Your young writers then create a drawing...
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Appreciation Cards

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Showing appreciation for those who help them is an important skill for youngsters to acquire. This lesson helps them do just that by having them make appreciation cards for people. The card reads...."2, 4, 6, 8....Who Do I Appreciate?"...
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Lesson Plan for "Little Red Riding Hood"

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Grow young performers with storytelling. Elementary schoolers listen to the story "Little Red Riding Hood" by Mike Lockett, highlighting dialogue as they listen, and then act out the story. This is based on a story told by Mike Lockett...
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Guided Reading: Three Little Pigs (Plus Wolf: Javalinas)

For Teachers K - 3rd
Guide your class through reading various versions of The Three Little Pigs. Talk about the traditional story line and then discuss a different point of view: Maybe the wolf was just an innocent bystander! This lesson plan, which has...
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Author

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Youngsters write a story together with the help of their teacher. Use this language arts lesson plan to give your kids a chance to feel like real authors. Begin with the sentence, "Once upon a time, we went to school and found an...
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Long Vowel Phoneme - y

For Teachers K - 2nd
The long vowel phoneme /y/ is the star of this language arts lesson. Kindergarteners share the book, I Spy a Little Fly then brainstorm more words that end in /y/. Since so many of our words end in /y/, this would be a very useful lesson...
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The All About Me Poster

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
First and second graders become familiar with the components of a biography. In this language arts lesson, pupils create an "All About Me" page using components of a biography. They also create an interractive poster, and work with a...
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Physical Education Word of the Week

For Teachers K - 5th
Practice physical education vocabulary in your classroom. Working with language arts teachers, learners use dictionary skills to define and explain a word dealing with a concept in physical education. They also complete a task and have...
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Mixed-Up Meanings--A Homophones Matching Game

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students grasp the concept of homophones and their importance in everyday communication with others. They gather examples of common homophones and fabricate a simple language arts game based on matching two homophones correctly together...
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Alphabet Mix Up

For Teachers K - 1st
In this language arts worksheet, students are to fill in the missing letters. The entire alphabet is presented in lower case letters, with blanks for several missing letters.
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Orange Cut And Paste

For Students K - 1st
The sight word "orange" is the focus of this language arts worksheet. Learners read the sentences, then paste in the pictures that correctly match each sentence. Example: "Fish can be orange." Included is both a full color and a black...
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Green Cut and Paste

For Students 1st
The color sight word "green" is the focus of this language arts worksheet. Learners cut and past pictures of green objects to match sentences about those green objects. A color as well as a black and white copy are provided.
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Illustrated Story: The Greedy Fox

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this language arts worksheet, students read an illustrated storybook called The Greedy Fox.This 7 page booklet has illustrations for almost every word. A left pointing arrow above certain verbs indicates past tense. Students read and...
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The Greedy Fox (Four Page Version)

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this language arts worksheet, students read a 4 page picture storybook called The Greedy Fox.There are illustrations above almost every word; left pointing arrows above verbs indicate past tense. Students read and color the booklet.
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What is a Haiku? How Do You Write a Haiku?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Haiku poetry is explored in this language arts lesson. Yong readers identify the characteristics of haiku and read several examples. Students make connections between their study of Japan and the poetic form of haiku, and they write...
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Compound Word

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners explore compound words. In this language arts lesson, young readers complete a compound word matching activity. They divide compound words and create compound words.
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-ed Word Accuracy

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore language arts by identifying the endings to specific words. In this suffix lesson, 1st graders add the -ed ending to familiar verbs and discuss the change in meaning. Students collaborate in small groups to practice...

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