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Architectural Letters
Have your class construct their own architectural letter. This art project focuses on architecture, or the art of building. You can connect this activity to a biography activity. Your class can decorate their initial to reflect their...
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Cursive Creatures
Students practice their cursive writing skills in a large format. They create reversed prints of their names or initials, and then draw an imaginary animals incorporating the shapes of the prints. Students improve their confidence in...
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Earthling Names
Young readers learn from this presentation the proper ways of capitalizing and punctuating "titles," such as: Mr., Mrs. Ms. Capt., etc. The last slide has four titles of people that students must correctly capitalize and punctuate.
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Quizzes - Initials
In this online interactive English language skills instructional activity, students answer 25 multiple choice questions regarding the use of acronyms. Students may check their answers immediately.
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Rock N Roll Philosophy
For this philosophy worksheet, students identify the names of songs when given the first letter of each word. This one-page worksheet contains 28 clues. Answers are provided at the bottom of the page.
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Animals and Initial Sounds
First graders explore animals and initial sounds. They create a slideshow by clicking and dragging background pictures, letters, animal pictures and sounds to accompany each slide. Students search for animals whose name is the same sound...
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The Idiom Connection
Users can search this list of idioms and their explanations either alphabetically or by subject matter, such as Food Idioms, Business Idioms, or Animal Idioms. There are also quizzes on each category of idiom so students can test their...
English Club
English Club: Abbreviations: Initialisms
This EnglishClub tutorial defines the term initialism, a type of abbreviation, and then provides several examples of initialisms.