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Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Rhyme Closed Sort
A rhyming activity challenges scholars to sort picture cards according to their rhyme. Four picture cards line up across the top of a pocket chart. Learners take turns choosing from a face-down stack of picture cards and sort them...
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Organizing Research
Before sending your third graders to the library, help them build a solid foundation for their research with this plan. Following the "I do, we do, you do" method, the teacher starts by modeling how to create a research question and...
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Count the Images!
Based on a selection of images, learners create a bar graph depicting how many of each image is shown. There are two graphs, each with three images to chart. After they are finished, scholars can analyze the data and draw conclusions. To...
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Vocabulary Extension
Group words into categories to promote word meaning associations and connections. There are 20 words and four categories. Scholars sort them into their respective lists: farm, weather, foods, and clothes. Once they've done this, consider...
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How Many Fish in the Pond?
How many fish are in Mills Pond? Learners examine an image with 17 fish. There are four types of fish, each of which is displayed on a data chart. Focus on collecting data and counting as scholars record the number of each type in its...
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Sorting into Three Groups
First graders discuss categorizing items into different groups. In this language arts lesson, 1st graders read a story, chart three categories from the book and describe examples from the book that fit in each category.
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The Pronunciation of the Past Simple and Past Participle of Regular Verbs
In this words with -ed endings worksheet, students put words with -ed endings into categories. Students classify 33 words into 3 separate categories.
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Sorting in More than One Way
Sorting, categorizing, and classifying are skills learners must master for many different reasons. The class will work in small groups to list, classify, and sort a stack of familiar books. The neat part about the lesson plan is that the...
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Trash Check
In this trash worksheet, students keep track of all the trash they accumulate in one day. They categorize the trash into groups including recycled, reusable, hazardous waste and food scraps. They brainstorm as to how they can reduce the...
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Categorizing Data and Bias
In this categorizing data and bias worksheet, 9th graders solve 10 different problems that include various types of qualitative or quantitative data. First, they determine if the problem stated is univariate or bivariate data. Then,...
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Fishing For Fun
Second graders categorize fish crackers into groups by color and compare the two groups using the symbols <, =, and >. They use concrete objects to solve number sentences with equalities and inequalities.
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Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 1: Adding to Sorted Groups
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to sort items into existing categories using the book My Big Animal Book by Roger Priddy.
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Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 2: Sorting Into Predetermined Groups
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to sort items into existing categories using the book My Big World Book by Roger Priddy.
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Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 3: Creating Groups and Sorting
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to sort items into student created categories using the book My Big Truck Book by Roger Priddy.
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National Center on Intensive Intervention: Identify and Sort Common Objects
This individual or small group activity helps teach the common core standard of sorting common objects into categories to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. Materials and detailed instructions are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Dress Up Time
Match and categorize colors and patterns with Elmo and Abby Cadabby in this fun dress-up game.
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Read Works: Endangered Animals at a Glance
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about four endangered animals that are increasing in population, the gray wolf, the bald eagle, the grizzly bear, and the Sumatran rhinoceros. A question sheet is available to help...
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Read Works: Earth Rocks
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about three different types of rocks: sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Read Works: The Sounds Spring Brings
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes Students read spring and its sounds and sensory imagery. A question sheet is...
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Read Works: Fit for Life
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage includes the information about how to stay healthy for life. This passage is intended as a guided passage to instruct students how to classify and categorize information.
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Read Works: Animals Get Ready
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how different types of animals prepare for winter. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Read Works: Classify and Categorize 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on classifying and categorizing through which students learn how to categorize information to answer research questions and then to organization that information into an outline....
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Read Works: Classify and Categorize 2nd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to classify and categorize items, characters, and information. The third activity is based on the book Splish! Splash! Animal Baths by April...
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Read Works: Classify and Categorize 4th Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson plan unit on classifying and categorizing through which students learn how to organize research into an outline, use text features to locate information, and write a research report....