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Volcanoes
Students explore the formation of volcanoes. In this earth science lesson, students build their own volcanoes in the lab using different materials. They identify the different types of volcanoes.
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Reading Comprehension Strategy Ideas
Young scholars participate in pre-reading activities, journal keeping, vocabulary lists and other reading comprehension boosters. These activities can be applied to many genres.
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What's So Good About Popcorn?
First graders use a thinking map to organize a paragraph. They write and edit their paragraph about popcorn and type the final copy on the computer.
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BUGS-INSECTS
Young scholars participate in a theme study while teaching primary students basic skills according to Individual Education Plan (IEP) goals in Reading, Math, and Writing. The instructional activity is concerned primarily with the concept...
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Classic Storytelling with a Technology Twist
Students use technology to improve their knowledge of literary terms, math, and technology skills. In this technology storytelling lesson, students learn about character, plot, and setting in various stories by using technology like...
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Citizens for Responsible Change
Third graders write a petition to a school figure, get signatures from other students, share the petition with the appropriate authority, and then work as leaders to carry out the group's solution.
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Sign Language Tag
Students work on their sign language skills using yarn balls to tag with and cones for boundaries.
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Journalism - The Attention Grabbing Topic Sentence
Students act as journalists to grab audience attention with the topic sentence for their writing. They write paragraphs in quantities appropriate to grade level.
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Divulging in Detail
Students rely on their senses to write descriptions of an object within their view. They incorporate different parts of speech in their descriptions. They write a descriptive paragraph about their object.
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The Class Garden Essay
Fifth graders use a class garden as inspiration for a specific writing assignment. They conduct research into different types of flowers in photo images taken with a digital camera. Students write a creative essay and draw a picture to...
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Learning About Trees
Students identify the parts of a tree. In this earth science lesson, students draw a tree on construction paper and label the parts of the tree.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Word Families
Find over seventy different word families with common spelling patterns, and lists of elementary level words for each family.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Irregular Word Activities
This extensive site has links to games and activities that teach students to read 30 high-frequency irregular words. There are over 20 activities and games at the bottom of the site in additional to sequenced irregular word activities....
ABCya
Ab Cya: Spelling Spree
Are you ready to join the Pinata Party and burst into the Spelling Spree? Join the fiesta in "Arcade" mode by tapping/clicking on the correct spelling of the word and using the slingshot to make the pinata burst open. Play "Practice"...
ICT Games
Ict Games: Dj Cows Spelling Patterns
A library of word searches for practicing vocabulary and spelling. Each word search focuses on a family of words with a similar spelling pattern.
Other
Your Dictionary: Commonly Misspelled Words [Pdf]
A printable table of commonly misspelled words for intermediate readers.
ICT Games
Ict Games: Dinosaur's Eggs: High Frequency Words
Choose from a list of high frequency words then listen to the word and choose the correct egg that spells that same word. When finished, receive a certificate with words you know well and others you need to work on. Perfect practice for...
ICT Games
Ict Games: Dinosaurs Eggs Phonics
A game for students to practice elementary vocabulary and spelling. Choose from a list of patterns. Listen to the word and choose the egg that correctly spells the word that was said. Receive a certificate with words you know well and...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Phonemic Activities
Come and learn more about these awesome phonemic activities for the preschool or elementary classroom.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: How to Babysit an Orangutan
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is based on the story, How to Baby-sit and Orangutan. Focus on the spelling words, vocabulary, some geography of the location of orangutans. This is a fun flipchart that your students are...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Allie's Basketball Dream
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is based on the Harcourt Series - Allie's Basketball Dream. Explore the Vocabulary words, Main Idea, Spelling Word Activities, Synonyms, and story plot.
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Class Flow: The Talent Show
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is based on the story The Talent Show from the 3rd grade Harcourt reading series. Practice with spelling and vocabulary words from the story.
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Class Flow: Little Grunt and the Big Egg
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is based on the Harcourt Series, Little Grunt and the Big Egg. There are excellent vocabulary activities, spelling practice, and Language arts skills to practice.
English Club
English Club: Esl Games: Matching Homophones
Follow links to 46 different homophone matching games. Links are divided into elementary, intermediate, and advanced. Answers can be checked when completed, and a percentage scores are displayed.