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Planet Cryptogram
In this science worksheet, students answer six clues about the solar system. Students use their answers to complete a table with corresponding numbers for each letter.
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Crossword: Batteries
In this science crossword puzzle, students fill in 12 answers to science clues. All pertain to batteries and circuits, and assume prior knowledge, as there is no word bank.
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Confusable Letter Pairs
Students practice distinguishing between pairs of similar-looking lowercase letters, such as b and d, p and b, m and w, n and m. They distinguish between easily-confused letter pairs by reading and listening to a story that highlights...
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Tooth Crossword
In this crossword worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle by solving clues about healthy teeth. For example, "Base of the tooth below the gum."
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Thanksgiving
In this holiday learning exercise, students answer the clues to eleven Thanksgiving hints and then fill in the answers in a crossword puzzle with answers going both across and down.
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Word Family Memory Match
In this word families matching activity, students cut out 24 word cards. Students place beginning sound cards face down in one group and word family ending sound cards face down in a separate group. Students turn over cards to make...
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Memorial Day
In this Memorial Day activity learning exercise, students use the 18 clues to identify the words missing in order to complete the crossword puzzle.
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Walking Down Main Street: The Changing Times of a Railroad Town
Students explore the historic district via a scavenger hunt. In this community history lesson, students complete a scavenger hunt using historic postcards and clues as guides. Students create a timeline demonstrating changes of the area...
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Back to School Crossword
In this crossword puzzle worksheet, students use the word bank and clues reading across and down to complete the puzzle about returning to school. Students write 10 answers.
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Word Structure
Young scholars infer the meanings of unfamiliar words using context clues and knowledge of prefixes and suffixes. They identify vocabulary words as nouns or adjectives using context clues and suffixes. In addition, they decide the...
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Jargon
Eighth graders investigate the concept of jargon and how it is used in different contexts in relation to the study of vocabulary. They practice interpreting jargon by concentrating on the comprehension strategy of using context clues.
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A Tale of Two Men
Theodore Roosevelt and the Marquis de Mores were both born in 1858, and both came to the Dakota territory in 1883, but they influenced the developing country of America in different ways. Elementary and middle schoolers apply written and...
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Inference in Literature: The Wizard of Oz
We're off to see the wizard! Practice making inferences in literature with two sample paragraphs from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Each passage provides questions about the pleasantness of the place it describes, and kids...
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Halloween Leftovers
Halloween isn't fun for everyone — but playing together is! Read about Esme and her space pirate friend with a short reading passage, accompanied by ten short answer questions.
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Dinosaurs Before Dark
In this paleontology matching learning exercise, students match clues related to dinosaurs to scrambled words. Twelve words and clues are given.
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That/Which/Who Game
Third graders play a game to practice speaking the target language (English). They are divided into teams. One student from each team sits at the front of the room. One student reads a clue (in English)-there team receives one point for...
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River Valley Civilizations
In this river valley civilizations crossword puzzle worksheet, students use the 20 clues to help them correctly complete the word puzzle.
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Word Search
In this finding words written across, backward, up, and horizontally worksheet, students use words and phrases defining the words and shaded letters showing the first letters of the words to find the words in the crossword. Students...
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Winter Spelling
In this spelling the word "snow" worksheet, learners apply the clues to determine the word snow to color and write the letters s, n, o, and w. Students complete 8 answers.
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Computer Mysteries
Who has been messing with my trampoline? Young writers choose local events as the basis for their own “Who Did It?” mystery. They then devise a plot, problem, and cast of characters and write an introduction explaining the problem and...
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Word Search Game
In this word search worksheet, students read 7 clues and circle the answers in a word search puzzle. The shaded letters are the first letter in each answer. There is no word bank.
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Fishing for El Nino
Students explain why fish are in their usual location from the perspective of a worker on a fishing boat. They use clues clues, research, and a fake letter from their friend in North Carolina to determine the cause is El Nino.
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Christmas Word Search
In this Christmas word search learning exercise, students name the pictures and fill in the verbs at the bottoms to give them clues to the words to look for in the word search. Students name 11 pictures and fill in 4 verbs.
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Mythology Mystery
In this literature worksheet, students read 6 clues. Each clue is a description of a hero, god or goddess from Greek mythology. Students write the name of the character, then self-check by circling every 3rd letter in a letter grid.