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April Fool’s Day Vocabulary Lesson
Quandimonium will ensue when the class discovers you will be grading this April Fool's Day vocabulary activity, complete with made-up words and definitions, although the truly perspicacious will remain axomachilliax.
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Happy April Fool's Day!
Grab students' attention with these lesson and activity ideas on April Fool's Day.
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How to Incorporate April Fool's Day into Your Teaching
Celebrate the merriment of April Fool's Day without the mischievousness.
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April Fool's Day
Students explore tradition and the month of April by participating in practical jokes. For this United Kingdom holiday activity, students discuss the birth of April Fool's day and what it means to the people of England. Students research...
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April Fool's Day
For this April Fool's Day worksheet, students read or listen to a passage, then match phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct words, unscramble words and sentences, write discussion questions and conduct a survey about this day.
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What is April Fool's Day?
Students explore humor by creating their own practical joke. In this April Fool's Day lesson, students read different situations in which practical jokes were taken too far. Students discuss their reactions to the jokes and identify when...
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Zany April Fool's Day
In this creative writing and spelling worksheet, students write a short story about the funniest thing that they did on April Fool's Day and read words using a mirror. Students write 1 essay.
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April Fool! Scavenger Hunt
In this April Fool's Day worksheet, students utilize the Internet to access one specific website to find the answers to five short answer questions about the history of April Fool's Day.
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April's Fools Day
Students examine the activities associated with April Fool's Day. They read and explain the jokes and hoaxes from around the world using their own words. They create their own jokes that could be used on April 1.
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Backwards Day
Learners create ways to do things backwards. In this cross-curriculum lesson, students participate in various backwards activities for an entire day. Learners recite the alphabet backwards, spell their names backwards, and read stories...
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Fun At Work Day
In this Fun At Work Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, matching phrases, fill in the blanks, correct word choosing, multiple choice, sequencing, unscramble the sentences, write questions, take a...
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Fools Following the Fools
High schoolers read "The Winter's Tale" in Foole Upon Foole to determine the qualities the author used for a fool. Students role play the character to determine how volume affects the way a character is perceived. High schoolers...
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Spring Crossword Puzzle
In this spring vocabulary worksheet, students read ten words in a word box that pertain to the season of spring. Students analyze clues and fit the correct words in a crossword puzzle.
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Spring Alphabetizing Worksheet
In this alphabetizing worksheet, students read 10 words in a word box that pertain to the season of spring. Students alphabetize the words. Some begin with the same letter.
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Unit of Time Cards/Important Dates and Time Facts
In this reading and recording time instructional activity, students will cut out and match 48 unit of time flashcards. Then students will match 15 date and time facts cards with their missing half.
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Phrasal Verbs with Take #1
In this language arts learning exercise, students read a sentence that contains a form of the verb "take." Students choose a synonym for this verb and circle the answer from 3 choices. Example: Let me take you around the office (show)....
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Some British Festivals and Holidays
In this British holidays worksheet, students complete a 15 question on-line interactive exercise about festivals and holidays in Great Britain. Students read a date and tell what holiday is celebrated on that day.
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Avoiding Run-On Sentences (II)
Polish the writing skills of your emerging writers by eliminating run-on sentences in their work. Discuss the ways to correct run-ons before releasing your class to work on this 20-sentence worksheet independently. An answer sheet is...
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Commas
In this commas worksheet, students correctly insert commas into paragraphs into the appropriate spots and answer short answer questions about the sentences they corrected. Students complete 7 activities.
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Read Works: April Fool's Day
[Free Registration/Login Required] An acrostic poem about April Fool's Day. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.