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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Directed Reading Thinking Activity
Guide your pupils through The Adventures of Tom Sawyer with a directed reading exercise. The teacher asks questions as the class reads a chapter to help lead learners toward making well-supported predictions.
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The Carpet Fitter: Reading Comprehension
This online reading comprehension instructional activity provides a short story and related questions. It may be appropriate for practicing for standardized tests as it includes 10 multiple choice questions and has a built-in timer.
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Historical Moments
Here is a lesson designed to be an ongoing task for the entire year. Each day of the week, learners must perform research to answer a simple historical question. This particular lesson covers the month of April, but the template...
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The Diary of a Part-Time Indian pp 199-230
In this Diary of a Part-Time Indian comprehension check worksheet, students respond to 23 short answer questions covering pages 199-230 of Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie in order to help them better understand the novel.
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Questions for Ceremony, p. 179-192
Evaluate your class with questions from Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony. These questions are taken from pages 179-192 and focus on reading comprehension. There is a short comparison review on the second page relating the difference...
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The Dark Is Rising: Guided Imagery
To launch a reading of The Dark is Rising, the second novel in Susan Cooper's award winning contemporary fantasy novel sequence for young adults, class members engage in a guided imagery exercise that asks them to visualize the setting...
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Michael Jackson Tribute
In this Michael Jackson tribute worksheet, students listen to the song "Heal the World" and fill in the missing lyrics. There are 27 words to fill in.
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Lesson 6 - Quotation Marks
Students complete activities with the book Sarah Plain and Tall. In this literature lesson, students read, discuss, and review vocabulary from Chapter 6. They make a list of quotations and review how to use quotation marks.
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Sharing Compliments- King Day
Students research Martin Luther King Jr. In this African-American history lesson, students read the book A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. and discuss how he was a philanthropist. Students use kind words towards each other...
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Say It Loud!: A Celebration Of Black Music In America - Lesson 2
Students identify general business terms such as entrepreneur, corporation, marketing, demographic, promotion and distribution. They identify many Black music industry leaders and their contributions.
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Charlotte's Web
Fourth graders focus on fluency by reading the book Charlotte's Web. In this reading strategies lesson plan, 4th graders partner read, do guided reading, and independent reading to increase fluency. Students use Venn Diagrams, discuss...
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Dubliners Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 13 multiple choice questions about Joyce's Dubliners. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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4 Corners Pre-reading Strategy for A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
High schoolers consider different statements based on the themes from Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, and decide what they think of the statement. They share their ideas as a class and discuss all sides to a idea.
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Henry and Mudge and the Best Day of All
For this Henry and Mudge and the Best Day of All worksheet, students complete six pages of different activities related to the book Henry and Mudge and the Best Day of All. Activities include a word search, crossword puzzle, word...
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Charles Dickens Activity Worksheets Chapters 1-12
In these Charles Dickens worksheets, students complete several different activities that cover chapters one through twelve of the text.
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The Giver Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 14 multiple choice questions about Lowry's The Giver. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things in Books
Students read assigned text about the World War II. In this Holocaust survival lesson, students identify the mass murders associated with Adolf Hitler's Nazi party and read stories of young men who narrowly avoided the death camps....
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Traditional Story Openings
The class evaluates whether or not the provided story openings are traditional or not. However, the creator of this presentation focuses on fairy tale openings as traditional, neglecting the fact that several of the chosen openings could...
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Shapes and Colors
In this shapes and colors worksheet, students analyze a picture of a house that is made with squares, rectangles and triangles. Students follow the directions to trace and color each of the geometric shapes they find in the picture.
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Squares and Triangles in a Picture
In this geometric shapes worksheet, students analyze a picture of a house and trace all the squares and triangles. Students color the shapes according to the directions.
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Uncle Jed's Barbershop
For this Uncle Jed's Barbershop worksheet, students read the book Uncle Jed's Barbershop and complete short answer questions about it. Students complete 10 questions total.
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Conjunctions
In this conjunctions practice learning exercise, students practice writing compound sentences as they read the 3-page selection and use "and, because, and but" to rewrite some of the sentences.
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Quiz: 3B: using-ed
In this grammar learning exercise on tense, students complete a set of 10 sentences, filling in the correct form of the verb, [simple present or simple past].
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Quiz: Using -ed
In this using "ed" worksheet, students complete a set of 10 sentences using the simple present or simple past tense of give verbs. Worksheet is labeled as a quiz, but may be used for practice also.