Florida Center for Reading Research
Vocabulary: Morphemic Elements, Meaningful Affixes
Invite learners to determine which affix and base word combinations create new words. This activity allows pupils to play around and create words that match specific meanings.
Museum of Tolerance
Immigration Journeys
Through the journey of four stories of immigration, scholars complete graphic organizers and apply knowledge to create a visual representation of their findings on a large poster. Third and fourth readers write a letter to their family...
EngageNY
The Graph of the Equation y = f(x)
Math language? Set notation is used in mathematics to communicate a process and that the same process can be represented as computer code. The concept to the loop in computer code models the approach pupils take when creating a solution...
CK-12 Foundation
Whole Number Multiplication: Multiplication Map
How many miles did a car travel if it traveled at 55mph for three hours? What are the factors for this multiplication sentence? These are the questions young mathematicians must solve using a multiplication map.
EngageNY
Mid-Unit 3 Assessment, Part I: Short Constructed Response and Organizing Notes for a Public Speech
It's time to put pen to paper. Scholars complete the first part of the mid-unit 3 assessment, writing a short constructed response about international aid following a natural disaster. Next, pupils use informational texts and note...
Curated OER
How Do Adjectives Improve Writing?
Using adjectives to create vivid descriptions is the focus of exercises in this resource. A cloze reading activity asks class members to add missing adjectives to passages from Mark Teague's The Lost and Found. They then read Teague's...
Curated OER
Homophones and Homonyms
Whether or not your class has heard of homonyms, they'll herd together to complete a language instructional activity! With examples of both homophones and homonyms, the instructional activity prompts learners to come up with additional...
Scholastic
Lesson 1: What Are Barriers?
Scholars discuss the concept of a barrier with a short passage on Jackie Robinson. The writing process begins with a paragraph and several other sentences about Robinson's unique traits that made breaking a barrier possible.
Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin
Lesson 7 - Letter Combinations
Individually, letters have their own sounds, but when combined with other letters, those sounds completely change. Introduce letter combinations with a lesson that asks learners to search for combinations in familiar words and use oral...
Curated OER
Folk Tales for ESL Students
Using the folk tale "The Man, The Boy, and The Donkey" (linked in the instructional activity) and a SMART board, teachers can help pupils access multiple skills. Reading the story allows learners to create a timeline of the sequence of...
Curated OER
English in Mind Unit 9: Grammar Practice
In this English grammar worksheet, students complete sentences in the correct verb tense, identify the best verb to use in a sentence, rearrange words to create a sentence, and complete a paragraph with the negative imperatives of...
Curated OER
Creating Transitions
Fourth graders analyze the use of transitions in text. In this transitions instructional activity, 4th graders determine how and why a transition is used at a specific time in a piece of writing. They show transitions by using movements...
Curated OER
Pizza Possibilities
Students create and interpret line plots, bar graphs, and circle graphs. The lesson assumes mastery of conversions from fraction to decimal to percent, construction of angles, and at least an introduction to graphs displaying data.
Curated OER
QUIZ 1A: Nouns Used as Adjectives
In this grammar quiz learning exercise, students respond to 10 questions that require them to complete sentence starters with nouns that modify other nouns.
Curated OER
Who, What, Where, When, Why?
For this creating information questions and answers worksheet, students write who, what, where, when, and why questions write answers in complete sentences, and complete a dialogue. Students write 19 short sentences.
Curated OER
Create Flash Cards
In this flash cards learning exercise, learners create flash cards with their vocabulary words on them. Students create 10 flashcards total.
Curated OER
Idiom Ideographs
Students explore idioms. They divide into groups of three. Each group is given an idiom and three sentence clues. They discuss the meaing of their assigned idiom. Students create a new sentence using their idiom and dramatize the idiom.
Curated OER
Create Your Own Coded Language
Students discover and identify cryptology used in everyday life. They decipher or crack codes. Students create their own secret writing or coded messages, and develop a dictionary of eponyms. They discuss how they have already...
Curated OER
Reviewing Facts Through 10
Manipulatives are always fun for children to use. They use connecting cubes and blocks to solve addition and subtraction word problems with numbers up to 10. They then play a math game and use their cube to create number sentences....
Curated OER
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: Vocab Squares
Creatively develop and reinforce new vocabulary from the book, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, using these vocabulary squares. Each square is divided into four quadrants asking scholars to input the word, a picture,...
Curated OER
Voice Lessons
Students visualize examples of sentence structure by creating patterns with Lego blocks. They apply terms of voice and syntax by critiquing others' writings as well as revising their own writing pieces. Revision is the key within this...
Curated OER
Grammar Practice: Parallel Structure
Help your young writers improve the clarity of their sentences by showing them how to create parallel structures as they construct sentences. Two exercises give kids practice identifying the correct parallel structure and crafting...
Curated OER
Fill in the Dice: Addition
Your young scholars aren't too young to balance equations! These simple addition number sentences are represented by dice, and require one part of the equation to be filled in. Learners create dots to complete and balance the math...
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Collective Nouns
Explore collective nouns with this worksheet. Learners discover what collective nouns are and describe groups of animals by using the word bank to fill in the blanks in 9 sentences. Class members are also encouraged to create their own...