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Sentence Combining
Students combine simple sentences into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences. For this combining sentences lesson, students are given short, choppy sentences and combine them into more mature sentences. Students must use...
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Cloze Passage: The Sun
Use this Cloze activity in your science lesson or reading unit. Second graders read two paragraphs about the sun and seasons, and fill in eleven missing vocabulary words. This learning exercise contains an answer key.
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Reading Comprehension 3 - A Lazy Holiday or an Exciting Holiday?- Test Your Reading Skills
For this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a short passage about a young girl's plans for her summer holidays. They write the answer to 10 questions based on the reading.
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Prepositions of Time
On, at, in, since, for, during, within... what do all of these words have in common? They are prepositions and they are all prepositions that are included on this hand-out. This handout breaks down prepositions used when talking about...
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"Tis The Season" Bulletin Board
Students explore a variety of objects which represent the various seasons as a preparation for writing about their birthday and the season in which it is located.
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Gullah Activities
Students study the Gullah culture by watching a video about Gullah, Gullah Island. They discuss the customs and crafts of the people such as basket weaving, food preparation, pottery, and quilt making. While working in centers, they make...
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Greatest Common Factor and Least Common Multiple Story Problems
In this story problems worksheet, students determine whether to find either the greatest common factor or the least common multiple in order to solve the problem.
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Experience This!
What would you do if you had to go to school all day every day? Tillie tackles this problem in Sharon Creech’s A Fine, Fine School. After a discussion of how Tillie got the principal to change his ways, brainstorm with your class...
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Petrified Forest National Park
Poetry Soup, a reading and writing unit constructed by the Petrified Forest National Park, will have scholars hungry to learn about nature. The cross-content unit contains topics related to history, science, and language arts. Content...
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African Pride- Reading Comprehension
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a speech which the President of South Africa delivered. Students answer questions, and write an essay.
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Philadelphia and the Constitutional Convention "Heat Up"
Students explore the Constitutional Convention of 1787. In this U.S. Constitution lesson, students role play the parts of delegates in a simulation of the convention.
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The Life And Times Of The Apple
Learners engage in a study about the biology of apples that includes growth and reproduction. They conduct research using a variety of resources. Students write a description of an apple brought to class by answering several questions....
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Virtual Winter Count
Learn more about the North American Plains Indian tribes and their unusual methods of recording historical events. Learners examine the winter count, a custom by which these groups illustrated information after each winter passed. They...
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Diary of a Part-Time Indian pp 15-31
In this Diary of a Part-Time Indian comprehension check worksheet, students respond to 20 short answer questions pertaining to pages 15-31 of Diary of a Part-Time Indian in order to help them better understand the novel and the author's...
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Topic Sentence
Looking for a simple learning exercise on topic sentences? This one's for you! Learners find the topic sentence for each paragraph by cutting out the paragraphs and placing them in the right order.
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Capitalization
In this grammar worksheet, students proofread, edit, and correct all the capitalization mistakes found in ten sentences. Students share their findings with their classmates.
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Marking Sentences
Test the identification skills of your class! Learners are required to mark 18 sentences for the prepositional phrases, infinitives, subjects, and verbs used in each. Some of the sentences are a little confusing with all of these parts...
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Cloze Instruction And Herringbone Technique
Students sort out important information and create a visual framework for reviewing in the future. They organize a large quantity of information thus helping with learning and remembering details, cause and effect, comparison and...
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Homonyms Worksheet 1
In this grammar worksheet, students underline the appropriate word in parentheses that best fits twenty-one sentences. Students check to make sure each sentence is grammatically correct.
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Words with sh, ch, tch, wh
In this blending of consonants worksheet, 4th graders complete a story by filling in sixteen blanks from a spelling list of words with ch/sh/tch/wh. Students find and circle each of their answers in a word search puzzle.
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Forecast Sunny and Warm
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning instructional activity, students participate in hands-on activities that replicate building a foundation and providing for future generations.
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Little Red Hen
Learners thresh wheat. In this comprehension and comparison lesson, students read the Little Red Hen and retell the story based on the beginning, middle and end. Learners get a wheat stem, predict the number of seeds in their seed head,...
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Calendar
In this calendar worksheet, students learn to use a calendar to find the elapsed time using the dates in the word problems. Students solve six problems.
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It's a bright and beautiful day...Protect Yourself!
Students investigate the cause and effect of skin cancer. They complete worksheets, view presentations and discuss the various types of ultraviolet rays and their impact on human health.