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Life Science: Living Things
Have your class build their vocabulary bank by studying life science terms. Basic terms like organism, cell, unicellular, and vertebrate are included on the definition sheet provided. Demonstrate how to identify different life science...
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Here's an Instant Activity for November 19, 2007
An instant spelling activity, that's what it's called. Learners practice their spelling skills with consonant and vowel -y ending words. They use a word bank to help them sort the words into consonant and vowel-y ending words.
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Things That are Pink
Pretty in pink! Share the color pink and build word recognition skills with your special-needs or autistic students. This resource includes nine different items to recognize, their corresponding words, and five questions which prompt...
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Spider "How To" Make a Spider
Young chefs follow the set-by-step instructions of a recipe and use their prior knowledge of the body parts of a spider to make edible spider cookies. After completing a pre-writing graphic organizer they then write a "how to"...
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High Frequency and Spelling Words: 25
Using their readers, learners answer questions, compose sentences, fill in the blanks, and compare two stories. Each activity is intended to build high frequency vocabulary and spelling proficiency, and is scheduled for a different day...
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Landscape Picture Map
Students identify a neighborhood on a Landscape Picture Map. In this geography lesson, students discuss the characteristics of their neighborhood and identify their neighborhood on a Landscape Picture Map. Students use post-it notes to...
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Dream Houses
Learners explore different types of homes and how the environment effects the types of houses people construct. In this houses lesson plan, students learn about environmental factors and cultural factors that play in to why people build...
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Build-A-Horseshoe Crab
Students discover many facts about horseshoe crabs. Students identify the main body parts of horseshoe crab. They explore the habits of the horseshoe crab and their importances to the ecosystem. Adaptations for younger students are...
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Vocabulary Building: Final e Rule
In this final e rule worksheet, students write words as they are called out, unscramble words, then use the words in sentences.
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Vocabulary Building: Unusual short u
In this short u instructional activity, students write 6 words as they are called out, unscramble words and use them in sentences. All words have short u in an "unusual" way.
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Vocabulary Building: ow and ou
In this ow-ou worksheet, learners write 6 words as they are called out, unscramble words and use them in sentences. All words have the ow or ou combination.
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Vocabulary Building: Short a
In this short a instructional activity, students write words as they are called out, unscramble words, then use the words in sentences.
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Vocabulary Building: Short i
In this short i worksheet, students write words as they are called out, unscramble words, then use the words in sentences.
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Vocabulary Building: Short e
In this short e worksheet, students write words as they are called out, unscramble words, then use the words in sentences.
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Vocabulary Building: Short u
For this short u worksheet, students write words as they are called out, unscramble words, then use the words in sentences.
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Vocabulary Building: Short o
In this short o activity, students write words as they are called out, unscramble words, then use the words in sentences.
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Vocabulary Building: Short o
In this short o activity, students write 6 short o words as they are called out, unscramble them and use the words in sentences.
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Vocabulary Building: Short i
In this short i worksheet, students write 6 short i words as they are called out, unscramble them and use the words in sentences.
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Vocabulary Building: Short a
In this short a worksheet, students write 6 short a words as they are called out, unscramble them and use the words in sentences.
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Vocabulary Building: Short e
In this short e activity, students write 6 short e words as they are called out, unscramble them and use the words in sentences.
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Building Bridges for Young Learners - Self
Students explore self analysis by investigating other cultures. In this personal characteristics lesson, students utilize the Internet to read about a child from Niger, and many other students around the globe. Students compare their own...
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La Familia
Young scholars identify at least one country where the Spanish language is spoken, describe similarities and differences between Spanish, Mexican, and Puerto Rican families, and practice speaking the Spanish words for several family...
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Creativity Exercise - Describe the Sky
Scholars stretch their writing muscles with an exercise that asks them to describe the sky using similes and metaphors.
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High Frequency Words
Phonemic awareness might not be a skill all autistic children will understand, but pattern and sight word recognition may prove to be more effective means of building strong reading skills. Use this set of twelve high frequency word...