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Beginning Reading: The Letter B
In this printing practice worksheet, students read that "B is for butterfly" and practice writing both the upper and lowercase letter B four times. There is one example available for them to trace.
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Connect the Dots
How do you create a butterfly garden? Focus on reading comprehension with this packet. Young readers use the step-by-step instructions to answer five multiple-choice questions that follow. Vocabulary, comprehension, and the main idea are...
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Vowels: The Long and Short of It
These nicely-illustrated slides should help young learners associate short vowel sounds with words that use them. For example, the short o slide has pictures of a frog, a rocket, and a comet. The short u slide has pictures of a bus, a...
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My Mini Book About...
Elementary learners complete a mini book on polar bears. The resource contains four pages, each a quarter of a page, including one title page with a picture of a polar bear and a space for kids to write their names.
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Paragraph Review
Writers are asked to examine four sentences that contain details and craft a topic sentence for a paragraph that encapsulates the main idea.
PreKinders
Insect Picture Word Cards
Creepy crawly insects! Learn the names of 12 different insects, including ladybugs, cicadas, and katydids. Each card features a picture of the insect as well as its name in large letters.
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The Beautiful Butterfly: Reading Comprehension
In this comprehension learning exercise, students read a short selection about the butterfly, then answer 5 multiple choice questions. Answers provided.
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Printing Practice: Butterfly
In this printing practice worksheet, students practice tracing and writing the word butterfly, then color a picture. Worksheet has links to additional activities.
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Signs of Spring
Students identify the first signs of Spring. They track birds and butterflies on their journey North.
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Cloze Activity: Mini Worlds
For this butterflies, moths, and caterpillars cloze procedure worksheet, students review a brief selection that is missing 10 words and then attempt to fill in each blank with a word they think the author might have used. A word bank is...
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Life Cycles
Using computers, Students work in small groups and progress through the roles of Explorer, Researcher, Designer, and Evaluator as they study the life cycle of plants, insects, butterflies and frogs.
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Imagine That! Analyzing Imagery
Poems by O. Henry, Marion Dane Bauer, Monty Roberts, and Langston Hughes provide the text for a study of symbolism, hyperbole, and imagery. Employing the “think-pair-share” strategy learners generate definitions of these terms and locate...
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Symmetry in Butterflies
Students design butterflies. In this symmetry lesson plan, students examine butterfly pictures, discuss the symmetry of their wings, and create their own symmetry patterns.
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Lifecycle of Painted Lady Butterflies
Students make a chart of the life cycle of the painted lady butterflies that the class observes over a period of several days.
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Butterflies
In this butterflies worksheet, young scholars answer 6 short answers dealing with what butterflies look like, sound, live and eat. Students write what they would do if they were a butterfly and list what kind of butterflies live near them.
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Metamorphosis
Looking for an insect unit that addresses multiple skill strategies? Young entomologists explore multiple life cycles of insects that go through metamorphosis. The brainteasers and mobile activity spark learner interest before guiding...
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Very Good Facts About Very Good Books
Students identify the characteristics of fiction and non-fiction texts. In this genre study lesson plan, students read the books A Butterfly Alphabet Book and I Wish I Were a Butterfly. Students develop a graphic organizer to compare and...
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Spring Activities
For this Spring worksheet, students read a poem about a butterfly. Students color an illustration and underline rhyming words. Students also write the rhyming words and compose their own Spring poem.
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Valentine Centers
In these Valentines related center worksheets, 1st graders will read and follow directions, complete a sequence of events, compare using a Venn diagram, and make a Valentine Butterfly.
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Test Your Vocabulary Skills: More Common Idioms 2
In this language arts worksheet, students discover that idioms are spoken or written sentences where the meaning is not obvious from the individual words used. Students read 10 idioms and match them to their meanings.
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English Skills Assignment 6.204
In this English skills worksheet, students complete 60 exercises in grammar, spelling and language. Included on this page are: onomatopoeia, word endings, root words, word chess, missing vowels and consonants, parts of speech, spelling,...
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Literacy: Slowly, Slowly, Slowly Said the Sloth
Students explore language arts by analyzing a children's book in class. For this vocabulary lesson, students read the book Slowly, Slowly, Slowly... by Eric Carle. Students identify the characters, setting and plot of the story before...
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B Is For Butterfly
In this letter B worksheet, students analyze a picture of a large butterfly with various upper and lower case alphabet letters. Students circle all the letters that are B.
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Spring Word and Picture Matching
For this matching worksheet, students match words and pictures related to Spring: flowers, rainbow, butterfly, ladybug, groundhog, caterpillar.