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Mystery Words - Part Two - School Terms
Students increase their vocabularies with the mystery words activity. In this vocabulary lesson plan, students solve the mystery words using clues.
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Study of an Artist
Fourth graders research an artist, write a short report and do an oral presentation.
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Nature and Haiku Poetry
Students compose haiku poems and recognize how cultures value nature and
natural forces through the study of Japanese poetry. This lesson includes a bibliography of resources.
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Past Progressive / Past Tense Practice
In this past progressive verb learning exercise, students change 10 verbs in parentheses to past tense to fit the sentences. Students then change 4 verbs of being to past tense to form questions.
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Exploring Different Types of Written Text
In this text analysis worksheet, students examine different types of texts and identify each one by matching them from a list. Students determine what each text communicates and for whom.
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Ask Personal Questions
In this personal questions worksheet, students practice asking each other questions to complete a profile analysis. Students ask and answer 20 questions.
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Various words: 18
In this various words instructional activity, students choose the correct answer based on number of years, prepositions, and completing sentences. Students complete 7 problems.
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Native Americans
Learners are introduced to the culture of a variety of Native American tribes through literature and related activities.
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Using the News
Students give oral predictions to news articles. They discuss and revise their interpretations of the content material.
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An Opening Time Line Project
Students create a time line of their life starting at birth and each year after that up to their current age. They write and illustrate one important thing for each year, and place their time lines on poster board.
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Social Studies: What Is Folklife?
Students read an essay about folklife and record their thoughts in journals. After discussing the terms associated with the topic, they complete worksheets on types of folklife, pop, elite, and folk cultures. Depending on the age group,...
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Edit a Friendly Letter
In this letter editing worksheet, learners read a letter to "mom," then recopy it on another sheet of paper and correct all errors found.
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Yes But Dialogue Game
Students work cooperatively to explore and practice dialogue improvisation.
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Do a Ditty
Fourth graders work in cooperative groups to create a ditty to teach the characteristics that distinguish literary forms to younger students. The ditty is performed before the class.
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Think On Your Own Feet
Fourth graders have one minute to prepare a one-minute impromptu speech on a topic that is randomly selected. After a lecture/demo, 4th graders give their speeches, and also act as reviewers of their classmate's speeches.
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How Close Can We Get?
Fourth graders guide themselves through the traditional outline structure by reassembling papers, which have been cut into separate sentences. They see how close they've come to the original paper and evaluate their achievement.
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Four Corners Locomotion
Students participate in warm-up activities before physical education class. They read the activities from card that are set up in the four corners of the room.
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Nudging Questions
Students choose one topic to write about. They brainstorm ideas about their topic or incident. They use sensory details to visualize their topic. They answer a variety of teacher directored nudging question to help them describe their...
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I am a Proto-Chicken!
Students exercise their imaginations and use their writing and drawing skills to show what they have learned about Protoarchaeopteryx modesta, the proto-chicken. This is a creative project that is graded based upon originality and...
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Living in the Desert: Reading Comprehension
In this comprehension learning exercise, students read a short selection about sand gazelles, then answer 5 multiple choice questions. Answers provided.
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Paragraph Parts
In this paragraph part worksheet, learners read the paragraphs and then draw an arrow to the start of each paragraph. Students underline a sentence and then find the main idea of the paragraph.
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Pronoun Reference
In these pronouns and antecedents worksheets, students read the sentences and the underlined portions for each example. Students fix the underlined errors in pronoun reference.
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The Birthday Party
In this writing skills instructional activity, students read the first part of a story titled 'The Birthday Party.' Students finish the story by writing the ending on the provided lines.
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The Five Senses Crossword
In this crossword puzzle worksheet, students use their five senses to fill in the crossword puzzle. Students fill in 24 words using their five senses.