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Secret Life of Bees Research

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Secret Life of Bees provides high schoolers an opportunity to connect the events in the novel to events in America’s history. After choosing a topic from a provided list, individuals research how the event affected the Civil Rights...
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Digital Curation: Life and Times of Mark Twain

For Teachers 7th - 8th
By digitally organizing research, your class leaves a legacy for future students on the life and times of Mark Twain. Before reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, scholars conduct group research projects on one of six (listed) topics....
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Worksheet 2: Lay vs. Lie

For Students 6th - 8th
Review some commonly confused words with your middle schoolers. With this two-page worksheet, they review lay and lie. With each sentence provided, they must choose which one of the target words would best complete the sentence. Then,...
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Reading Comprehension 6: Level 12

For Students 11th - 12th
Although designed as an assessment, consider using this resource as the basis for a lesson on reading comprehension strategies or as a practice exercise. The five multiple choice questions, based on a short passage about stock market...
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Antonyms 4

For Students 11th - 12th
Explore antonyms of advanced vocabulary. High schoolers decide which words are antonyms to the 10 bolded words. Example words are distress, aptitude, concise, and stricken. 
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Antonyms 3: Level 10

For Students 9th - 11th
Identifying antonyms is one strategy for increasing vocabulary and is the focus of a 10 problem, multiple-choice worksheet. In addition to the practice, learners will also benefit from a close reading of the provided answers and...
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Sentence Completion 19

For Students 10th - 11th
Prepare your class for the SATs with this resource. There are six sentences provided, and your learner must select the correct word to fit in each sentence. Some sentences contain two blank spaces. Example vocabulary words include...
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Sentence Completion 4

For Students 11th - 12th
Some of these vocabulary words will prove tough for even your juniors and seniors! There are eight questions here, and your scholar must identify the correct answer out of five available multiple choice answers. Help them realize that...
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A Fantasy Story: Spooky!

For Students K - 1st Standards
This creepy fantasy story needs an ending! Learners use a spooky voice to read a short story ending at an ellipsis...what was in the dark, dark box? They illustrate what they think could have been in there and write a title for the...
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Practicing Circles

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Get your writers ready to print curved letters using this whimsical worksheet. They trace 14 circular elements in an underwater scene, following the arrow and trying to stay on the dotted line. There are large and small circles here to...
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Vowel Sound: ie

For Students K - 1st
Introduce young learners to the various letter sets that make the /ie/ sound. They assess 12 different words, then sort them based on their medial letter pattern. Letter sets focused on are, ie, i_e, igh, and y. An answer sheet is included.
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The ai and ar Sounds

For Students K - 1st Standards
These words sound the same but are spelled differently, giving scholars a chance to practice spelling patterns and rhyming words. First they read that the /ai/ vowel sound can be made with three different spellings. Learners label three...
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Symmetry

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Do these dotted lines indicate symmetry? Some of them do, and scholars determine which ones in 12 different images. Because some of these are tricky, it may be helpful to have large versions of these shapes printed and cut out. This way,...
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Numbers 1 to 20

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Practice writing numbers with fun kites. Kindergartners will rise to the highest height as they match the numbers to their correct written forms: 11 to eleven, 14 to fourteen, etc. Use this resource as a class activity or as a review...
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Symmetry

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Enhance your geometry lesson by working with shapes. Fourth graders follow lines of symmetry to complete ten shapes, most of them currently triangles. Have pupils color each half of their shapes to reinforce the idea of symmetry!
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Active and Passive Sentences

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Work with active and passive voice in several different sentences. Fifth graders learn the difference between active and passive voice, and change nine sentences from passive to active and vice versa. Great practice in your writing unit!
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Commas

For Students 1st Standards
Learning how to properly use the comma is an important writing skill. This worksheet, designed for first graders, gives them some coaching on the subject along with opportunities to practice. There are five sentences which must be...
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Its or It's

For Students 3rd - 4th
What's the difference between its and it's? Clear up any misunderstandings in your third grade language arts class. Practice sentences use its or it's twice, prompting learners to use context clues for each usage. At the end of the...
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Building a Cohesive Learning Community

For Teachers 1st - 6th
A classroom where each person feels important, respected, and accountable provides the foundation for successful learning.
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Reading Connected Text Accuracy (Passage)

For Teachers K
Use some of these 80-word passages to practice reading fluency with your beginners. Project the text so all learners can see it, pointing to each word as scholars recite them one at a time. Warn readers of irregularly spelled words by...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Owen and Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship (Hatkoff & Kahumbu)

For Teachers K - 3rd
The heartfelt true story of Owen the hippopotamus and Mzee the 133-year-old tortoise will have budding readers engaged as they practice vocabulary in the context of Isabella Hatkoff's nonfiction story. Although you could include more,...
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Describe and Compare: Teacher Edition

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Note: This is the teacher's guide to Pimsleur's French lesson called "Describe & Compare." The guide discusses the lesson's purpose, objectives, and designed learning outcomes. It presents information on each of the activities the...
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The Future

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This teacher guide provides several ideas for how to structure a unit on the futur simple. Start by having your class read the short passage provided about  Google. As they read, pupils should categorize verbs by type to highlight verbs...
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Dandelion Wine: Socratic Seminar

For Teachers 9th - 12th
There are “a million things to talk about. . .” in Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine; however, the focus of this socratic seminar is the issue of living and dying. Class members prepare for the discussion by writing about their own views of...

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