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Curated OER

English Vocabulary Skills: AWL Sublist 9 - Exercise 4a

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online interactive English vocabulary skills worksheet, students answer 10 matching questions which require them to fill in the blanks in 10 sentences. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Curated OER

Reflection/Evaluation

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students practice the skills of reflection and evaluation. In this reflection instructional activity, students are grouped together and asked to brainstorm what they have learned during a particular unit. Students decide what they want...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Simple Past

For Students 2nd - 5th
An interactive online worksheet for practicing simple past tense verb forms features cute pictures, and offers a decent challenge with three exercises. First, learners choose the correct form of a verb from a drop-down menu to complete...
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Curated OER

California Suit on Car Greenhouse Gases Dismissed

For Teachers 8th - 12th
After reading an (attached) article about greenhouse gases, students reply to six questions about what they've learned. This activity would fit well into an environmental science class, a government class, or a current events class...
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Curated OER

I Can Write a Poem

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Using an outline, learners write a poem. The poem is focused on highlighting their experiences. This is a great way to combine language arts and an exploration of self esteem.
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PPT
Curated OER

Punctuation

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
As a short review of punctuation, such as the use of commas and semicolons, this presentation could be helpful in an upper elementary classroom. The series of slides defines each term and provides examples.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Pronoun Reference

For Students 4th - 5th
A standardized test-type of worksheet awaits your students. They consider ten sentences which each have portions underlined. Learners look at the underlined portions, and decide if any changes need to be made. If no changes are...
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Identify the Synonym

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Readers are asked to select the correct synonym for the underlined words on this 10 sentence, multiple choice activity.
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Curated OER

Putting Away Your Inner Editor

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Personify your Inner Editor. After making a richly detailed paper doll of your Inner Editor, put him or her in your locker, under your bed or buried in a time capsule in your backyard, but not near where you like to write. Refuse to...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Advertisement

For Students 5th - 9th
Advertisers are out to get your pupils' business, and as consumers, they need to be aware of how advertisements are crafted. After delineating the four parts of an ad, this worksheet presents a sample and readers are asked to identify...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Complex Sentence

For Students 7th - 9th
Develop the writing skills of your middle and high schoolers with this worksheet on complex, compound, and simple sentences. This resource assumes your learners are familiar with simple and compound sentences, so only the complex...
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Novelinks

Lord of the Flies: Themes and Notetaking

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
William Golding's Lord of the Flies is a treasure trove of symbolism and literary themes. Help your kids note the richest passages in the book with a lesson and graphic organizer. The lesson prepares kids to come up with a thesis...
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PPT
Curated OER

What's a Good Job?

For Teachers 12th
Upper graders almost always stress about life after high school. To ease the transition to adult life, discuss how to select a job to meet personal needs. Two writing prompts are included to help learners consider what they'd like to do...
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PPT
Tech Coach Corner

The Hook

For Teachers 5th - 8th
A fishing hook inspires this presentation about different methods for starting a composition. Have class members take notes or edit current drafts while viewing the slide show. The animation is entertaining, but gets repetitive by the...
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Worksheet
Write.com

Avoiding Shifts in Verb Tense

For Students 5th - 12th
Need a quick, but well-designed worksheet that covers shifts in verb tense? Then print out the copies here and get the kids busy. The resource would also work great as homework, or a grammar quiz.    
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Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Adding Specific Vocabulary

For Teachers 6th - 8th
An exercise and activity tackle the struggles young writers have in expressing and adding details and specific vocabulary to their writing. The instructor guides the class with an example paragraph, where the learners discuss what the...
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Activity
Shmoop

ELA - Literacy.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.1

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Understanding, analyzing, citing, linking—the four steps required by CC ELA Literacy Standard RH.11-12.1. Enjoy the humor of the explanations of these steps as you examine the suggestions for Common Core designed activities related to...
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Lesson Plan
Learning to Give

Humphrey The Lost Whale

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
The children's book Humphrey the Lost Whale tells an amazing tale of a community joining together for a common cause. Read this book with your class, making connections between the events in the story and personal experiences of young...
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Instructional Video3:14
TV411

Avoid Mushy Writing: Be Specific

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Replacing, bland, inexact generalizations with specific statement and precise information is the focus of a worksheet that models how to transform general statements into specific ones. After examining four models, learners have an...
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Lesson Plan
Education Outside

Our Water Planet

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Fresh water is a precious resource. Most kids don't realize how little of the water on Earth is actually drinkable. This lesson will help to illuminate them on this important topic. They discus the ratio of water to land, where most...
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Worksheet
Soft Schools

Metaphors: Identifying Comparisons

For Students 2nd - 6th
My mother is a flower. John is a cheetah. Introduce kids to metaphors with a series of sentences that asks them to identify the two things that are being compared.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Areas and Probabilities

For Students 9th - 12th
For this area and probability worksheet, students solve 5 problems where they find the probability of an event occurring. They also use a given photograph of the moon's surface to find the area covered by craters and determine the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Density

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students explore and analyze the relationship between density, mass, volume and ratios. They complete a lab to define mass and volume and then show the density that equals a mass and volume formula. Their lab involves a suitcase,...
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Curated OER

Making a Travel Brochure

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders research the cities in Florida and discuss information about that city.  In this travel brochure lesson, 3rd graders develop a list of attractions, slogan, and find facts about the city they are studying.  Students work on...

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