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Word Roots 7: SPECT, STA, VERT Beginner Context Story 1
Read this paragraph out loud to your class to demonstrate pronunciation of and introduce context for the given vocabulary words. You might also use this as a cloze activity and have class members read each vocabulary word or repeat each...
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Black History Month Cloze worksheet
In this Black History month cloze worksheet, students fill in ten blanks with the correct words from a word bank. Students read the text about Black History month.
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English Exercises: Open Cloze: Why Dogs Bark
In this language arts worksheet, students complete an online interactive exercise in which missing words are filled in to make a text complete. Students read the text about why dogs bark and fill in a word of their choosing in each of...
Germantown School District
Close Reading World Religions: Islam
As part of a close reading activity, individuals respond to three questions and craft two short essays based on a passage about Islam, one of the world most widespread religion.
ESL Holiday Lessons
Mardi Gras
Take a trip to Mardi Gras with a festive reading packet! After class members read an informational article about the history and celebration of Mardi Gras, they think about the structure of the passage by unscrambling words, filling in...
Cleveland Metro School District
Novel Lesson for The Giver
Lois Lowry's The Giver is one of the most engaging and thought-provoking works of literature in the middle school curriculum. Round out your novel unit with a collection of reading activities, comprehension questions, memoir and journal...
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Cloze Activity: Paul Jennings
In this cloze activity worksheet, students use the 2 word banks to help them complete the paragraphs from a Paul Jennings text.
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The Learning Network Fill-In: When the Food Writer Is a Ghost
Introduce your class to ghostwriting while practicing comprehension. From The New York Times' The Learning Network, this article covers the topic of ghostwriting for cookbooks. There are blank spaces and a word bank. Learners can use the...
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Complete the Story
In this cloze activity worksheet, students use 10 Dolch words from a word bank at the top of the page to complete a paragraph. They complete a paragraph about the first day of school.
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Puberty
A simple cloze activity gets learners developing a comfort level with sexual development terminology. For Activity 1, they use 12 terms to fill in 11 blanks in an informational text, including sperm, eggs, sex hormones, puberty,...
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Holey Story
Sixth graders create a cloze activity based on an article of a current event. They switch worksheets and the next group chooses the words they feel are missing and justify their word choices.
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Reading Comprehension - Consolidation
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read and complete a science cloze activity passage and then complete matching and short answer responses.
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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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Open Cloze Worksheet 4
For this grammatical relationships worksheet, 5th graders fill in the blanks in eight sentences by choosing the most appropriate answer (one English word) that best completes each sentence.
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Understanding Cause and Effect
Identify the author's organizational pattern for expressing ideas. After reading an article on the California Gold Rush, middle schoolers determine the author's purpose for writing a passage of informational text. A full list of...
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Jack and the Beanstalk
In these reading comprehension worksheets, students complete several activities to help them learn about Jack and the Beanstalk. Students complete a cloze exercise, a reading comprehension activity, a story sequencing activity, and an...
Teach-nology
Harold Searches for the Book
Practice using context clues with a reading passage about Harold's day. Once kids approach a blank in the sentence, they use the word bank to find the word that fits.
Mrs. Hodges' Social Studies Classes
I Have Rights?!
Do young people have rights in the United States? Your pupils will not only learn the answer to this important question, but will also build vocabulary through cloze activities and gain a thorough introduction to the Bill of Rights.
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Mad-Libbing Your Way Into Modern Poetry
Use a Mad-Libs like activity to create modern poetry! Writers will identify different words and their parts of speech and study "The Red Wheelbarrow" by Williams Carlos Williams. Then, use the sheets attached to craft your own poem! An...
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Ancient Camel History "Cloze" Page
In this ancient camel history worksheet, students complete a cloze activity in which 7 words from a word bank are inserted into a factual text. This is to be used with an information handout that is not included here.
University of North Carolina
Modals
If you could have any job in the world, what would it be? Modal verbs such as could and would express possibility, as the installment of a compilation of informational handouts describes. A series of tables help explain the strength,...
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Vocabulary and Comprehension Packet
In this Junie B. Jones is a Graduation Girl worksheet packet, students will unscramble 15 vocabulary words using text boxes as a tool, search for and circle 15 vocabulary words in a word search, complete 10 cloze sentences using a word...
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Niagara Falls, PodCards Worksheet
In this language arts worksheet, students listen to a podcast about Niagara Falls. Students identify the noun that each of 7 adjectives refer to. They answer 7 comprehension questions. Students complete a cloze activity. The transcript...
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The Berenstain Bears' Soccer Star: Worksheet Packet
In this The Berenstain Bears' Soccer Star worksheet packet, 2nd graders will find vocabulary words in a word search, unscramble vocabulary words, complete cloze sentences, write about their favorite sport, and take a true/false quiz...