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Are You Happy?
In this language arts worksheet, students practice writing answers to common questions. Students read 32 questions and write short answers. Example: Are you happy? (No, I'm not.)
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The Puffed Up Pig Reading Comprehension
In this comprehension worksheet, students read the 3 page story The Puffed Up Pig and answer short answer and multiple choice questions about it. Students answer 5 questions total.
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Reading Comprehension Worksheet
In this reading comprehension learning exercise, students read and answers questions. Students read a short passage and answer five questions about what they just read.
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Reading Strategies
In this reading strategies worksheet, students review several different ways to improve their reading skills and reading comprehension.
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Reading and Responding: Lesson 3
Eighth graders practice reading a nonfiction selection. They read for details, read for cause and effect, and practice the process of elimination. They use these strategies when answering multiple choice questions in tests.
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Men in Black
In this Men in Black worksheet, students answer seven questions about the Men in Black movie relating to UFOs, time capsules, characters, vocabulary, and themes. Students answer questions in short answer format.
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Vocabulary Practice
Sentence comprehension is the focus of this language arts worksheet. Students read 8 sentences and choose which multiple choice sentence means the same as the first sentence written.
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Pilot Takes Off in Kid-Built Plane
Young scholars read a current events news story an answer vocabulary and comprehension questions. In these real world lessons, student use the internet to watch video clips, read blogs, and research pertaining to the planes and pilots....
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Reading Comprehension: Two Sisters and a Cat
In this reading comprehension learning exercise, students read a three paragraph story, "Two Sisters and a Cat", and answer 8 multiple choice questions about the selection.
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Question Marks
In this punctuation learning exercise, students read a sentence and circle "yes" if the sentence needs a question mark, or "no" if it does not. There are 15 questions on this page.
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Women in Afghanistan
Students investigate the role and status of women in Afghanistan. They listen to Laura Bush's radio address, complete a Webquest, explore various websites, answer discussion questions, and read newspaper articles about the status of...
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Cultivate Active Discussion of Assigned Texts
A flexible and adaptable method for opening learners up and engaging every individual in on-topic conversation.
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Great Expectations: DRTA Strategy
A Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) strategy for Great Expectations scaffolds and guides readers as they begin Dicken's novel. Step-by-step directions are provided, as are chapter one pair-share questions, a prediction worksheet,...
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Clothing
Review clothing vocabulary and the translation skills of your Spanish language learners. For each of 32 questions, they read the Spanish sentence and identify its correct English translation in a list of possibilities. Great practice! If...
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Frankenstein: The Consequence of Creation
Famous as a horror story, as the first science fiction novel, Frankenstein is also a tale of ambition, a warning about unbridled science, and responsibility for actions. Readers consider what the tale says of the consequences of creation...
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Whodunnit?
Want to create an exciting mystery activity? Investigators will identify the elements of a mystery, review mystery stories, then write their own mysteries. They engage in forensic science experiments related to mysteries and learn to ask...
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The War of the Words
“Who’s This Guy Dylan Who’s Borrowing Lines From Henry Timrod?” The basic question in this instructional activity from the New York Time’s Learning Network is whether artists and authors who use the words of others are stealing from that...
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Mirandy and Brother Wind Questions
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students complete the eleven short answer questions based on the book Mirandy and Brother Wind.
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"Akira Takes a Test" Reading Comprehension-Short Stories
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a passage about a girl taking a geography test at school. Students then answer 10 multiple choice questions.
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Fourth Grade Reading
In this reading worksheet, 4th graders read 3/4 page passages and answer multiple choice questions about them. Students read 8 passages and answer 25 questions.
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A Separate Peace: Chapter 8 Reading and Study Guide
In this study guide for chapter 8 of A Separate Peace, students 6 vocabulary definitions, 2 literary term definitions, and 10 short answer questions. Lastly, students respond to a given passage.
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Place and Character in Poetry
Students examine how place in poetry helps give clues about character. In this poetry lesson, students read a poem while focusing on the descriptions of the room that is being described and predict what type of person would live there....
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Philanthropy in A Christmas Carol
Students explore philanthropy in literature. In this cross curriculum literacy and character development lesson, students read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and note charitable acts described in the story. Students relate story...
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"you Shall Not Crucify Mankind Upon a Cross of Gold!": The Issue of Bimetallism in the Late Nineteenth-Century
Students investigate the monetary system during the late 19th-century. They view a video, answer discussion questions, read and discuss text, and write an essay justifying either the pro-silver or pro-gold standard side.