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Winter Olympics
In this winter Olympics worksheet, learners fill in the blanks to a paragraph that talks about the winter Olympics. Students fill in the blank for 24 winter Olympic words.
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Roberto Clemente
Have your class explore the life of Roberto Clemente using this lesson. After reading the story Roberto Clemente by Jonah Winter, learners answer cause and effect questions, classify ideas, make comparisons, and write a news article.
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Rhythm and Improv, Jazz and Poetry
Connect the ideas of jazz improvisation and art to writing poetry. Learners collaborate and write different lines of poetry, imitating the jazz styles of improvisation and freewriting. Take a close look at the poems "Tenebrae" by Yusef...
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A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale quiz
Check students' understanding of A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale, the clever spin-off that borrows characters and ideas from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Plenty of detailed questions keep scholars on their toes. Answers...
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Shakespeare Play Summaries in Four Words
This online interactive quiz on 10 Shakespeare plays is unlikely to be useful for your class; however, you could use it as a basis for your own assignment that asks class members to come up with four words to describe an entire work. An...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
Students study the biography and work of F. Scott Fitzgerald. They learn how the author used autobiographical elements in writing his stories and they try a hand at writing a Fitzgerald-style story with autobiographical elements of their...
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Language Arts: Ready, Set, Write
Learn that stories have three parts by paralleling the introduction, the body and the conclusion to the life of an athlete competing in the Winter Games.
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My Antonia: Guided Imagery
Willa Cather's novel My Antonia is full of vivid imagery. Encourage your pupils to visualize and translate images from the text into original writing with this guided imagery activity. Learners listen to an excerpt, take a moment to...
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How to Say “I Ruff You”
Who says you need a human to be your valentine on Valentine's Day? Give your dog-loving readers an inspiring perspective on how a sister givdes her brother a valentine from the family dog. They then answer 10 questions thatd involve...
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The Birchbark House: Chapter 11
In this The Birchbark House comprehension check worksheet, learners respond to 25 short answer questions covering chapter 11 of "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich in order to help them better understand the novel.
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Diary of a Part-Time Indian pp118-134
In this Diary of a Part-Time Indian comprehension check activity, students respond to 18 short answer questions pertaining to pages 118-134 of Diary of a Part-Time Indian in order to help them better understand the novel and the author's...
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Women in Shakespeare's Plays
Readers match the name of a female character from a Shakespearean play to the correct play that woman is in. Strong, mostly central female characters are covered.
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Willie and Friends: Overcomers in the Land Stories by Faith Ringgold
Students use puppets and plays to examine the role of African Americans throughout history. After being read a story by a puppet, they respond to each one in writing. Individually, they write a story about a place they have wanted to...
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Old Bear
Students explore different aspects of nature through a bear. In this lesson about Old Bear, students understand nature and how it all works together. Students read the story and then participate in answering discussion questions about...
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The Prelude by William Wordsworth
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 15 multiple choice questions about The Prelude. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Phrasal Expansions
In this grammar worksheet, students add creative phrasal expansions to sixty sentences following the patterns shown as an example for each set of sentences.
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Who am I
In this Road Dahl character worksheet, students use clues to guess the names of four characters from the books of Roald Dahl.
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Ethan Frome Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 12 multiple choice questions about Wharton's Ethan Frome. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Why do we Dream of a White Christmas?
Students examine a reading selection on how the idea of a white Christmas was developed. In this ESL lesson, students share a class discussion about the article then complete several assignments to reinforce what they learned, including...
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Quiz: 3B: using-ed
In this grammar learning exercise on tense, students complete a set of 10 sentences, filling in the correct form of the verb, [simple present or simple past].
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Quiz: Using -ed
In this using "ed" worksheet, students complete a set of 10 sentences using the simple present or simple past tense of give verbs. Worksheet is labeled as a quiz, but may be used for practice also.
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Native American Legends, Folk Stories and Tales
Students write an Indian tale explaining a natural event, an animal characteristic,
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Invent a Holiday
Pupils compare their own special holidays and traditions and then use their imaginations to create their own holiday.
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Topic Language- "what Do I Do?" -exploring Verbs
In this verb learning exercise, 3rd graders read a selection on verbs and a short story. Students circle all of the verbs in the short story and sort them into a graphic organizer using present, past and future tense.