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Recognizing Reference Sources

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate five different reference sources in the Media Center: Atlas, Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Card Catalog (Look Up Station), and the Internet. They decide which is the BEST source to use to answer specific questions.
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Acrostic Poems: What's In a Name?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students find words that begin with the letters in their own names, using a variety of sources including word banks and online dictionaries. They create an acrostic poem. Pupils revise poems as needed, for meaning and conventions. ...
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The ABCs of Getting and Keeping a Job

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore qualities necessary in keeping a job. In teams, using each letter of the alphabet, students brainstorm important job skills and attitudes. They associate skills in getting a job with skills in keeping a job. Team...
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Analogies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this analogy worksheet, learners answer seven questions using their problem solving skills and vocabulary skills to discover how words are related to each other. Students are encouraged to use dictionaries.
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Analogies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this analogy instructional activity, students answer seven questions using their problem solving skills and vocabulary skills to discover how words are related to each other. Students are encouraged to use dictionaries.
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20 Dream Holidays for the 21st Century

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students practice detailed reading and study holiday vocabulary. They practice comparatives and superlatives.
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The Secret School

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders make predictions and go over vocabulary for the story The Secret School. In this reading lesson plan, 4th graders use comprehension skills as they read the story and have to read to them.
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Your Favorite Wild Animal

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this research skills worksheet, students select a wild animal and then respond to 5 short answer questions regarding it. In addition, students draw a picture of it and define 6 habitat terms.
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Synonym Crossword Puzzle

For Students 5th - 7th
In this synonym crossword worksheet, students use a dictionary and/or thesaurus to help them solve the crossword puzzle. There are 10 words in this puzzle.
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Using a Thesaurus--Antonyms

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this antonyms worksheet, learners utilize a dictionary or thesaurus to find the most appropriate antonym for the following four words: exceptional, passive, prepared and fast.
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JET SET Reading and Writing

For Students 4th - 5th
In these reading and writing worksheets, students complete this packet that helps them with their reading comprehension skills and their writing skills including using correct grammar and punctuation.
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Is It Hot or Not?

For Students 6th - 8th
In this research skills worksheet, students read 20 statements regarding the temperature in world cities. Students mark them as true or false and provide evidence for their answers.
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Daily Routines

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students describe the daily routine of a person using a different language.  In this foreign language vocabulary lesson, students discuss the different items people use to get ready every day and practice using those vocabulary terms....
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The Wind in the Willows

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this study guide worksheet, learners read the book The Wind in the Willows and write summaries, use vocabulary, write questions, and more. Students complete 7 activities.
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Vocabulary Zoo Game

For Teachers K - 8th
Students participate in an activity which is focused on new vocabulary words and their definitions. They study vocabulary that will be used in an upcoming read aloud. They make an animal sound each time one of the vocabulary words is read.
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Partition of Africa Questions

For Students 7th - 12th
In this colonial Africa worksheet, students study a map of Africa from 1885-1914. Students then respond to 9 short answer questions based on the information presented in the map.
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Research Skills

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this research activity, students answer 25 questions about the World Cup 2006. For example, "What position does Luis Figo play and for what team?"
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Bryant Creek Watershed Project - Making a Karst Dictionary

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students explore the definitions relevant to Karst topography. They develop a Bryant Watershed Dictionary of the special words and terms that are used to talk about the topography and hydrology of the area they live in.
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Test Your Spelling Skills- Anagram Challenge !

For Students 4th - 6th
In this spelling worksheet, students use the given letters to complete an anagram challenge. They make as many words as possible with the letters A, J, B, M, T, E, N, P, L, and S. They must be able to verify the words with the dictionary.
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Abridged and Unabridged Dictionaries

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students perform research into the history and formation of the English Language. The use of multiple types of activities is used for application of the theory of Multiple Intelligences.
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A Case Study of Racial Prejudice and Discrimination

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners participate in a simulated form of discrimination as they divide into groups of blue-eyed and non-blue-eyed students. They reflect on their experiences during the role-play and compare their observations to the former system of...
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Increasing Vocabulary Skills

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars explore new words through the reading of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. In this literature lesson, students write down the words that they do not know as they read the book. Young scholars look up the words in the...
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Nouns (2)

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this nouns worksheet, learners think of a noun that begins with each letter of the alphabet and write them on the lines. A dictionary may be used for help.
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WHALES: GIANTS OF THE DEEP

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars study humpback whale migrations, feeding, social organization, population, scientific investigations and compare humpback whales , research to explore a specific type of whale, and create their own replica of a whale.

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