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Pookie's New Home Reading Comprehension
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a selection entitled, "Pookie's New Home" before answering 6 multiple choice questions.
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Independent - To Be or Not Top Be - Day 2, Lesson C: Freedom of Speech
Fifth graders explore the following questions: What is it? What is it like? What is an example?
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It's That Time of Year
Fourth graders research and collect information about Florida colleges, then devise a system for organizing and displaying it.
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In Summary
Fourth graders read selections from library books and summarize what they read. They listen to a summary and guess which paragraph the student is summarizing.
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Challenges in Changing the Face of a City
Learners examine a video in which people want to change the city of Oakland, California. They decide on the best course of action.
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How To Change Your Life In 7 Steps by John Bird
Students read, analyze and discuss the book, "How To Change Your Life In 7 Steps," by John Bird. They evaluate what the author states as one begins to get started, taking each of the steps one by one, learning to change and how to make...
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Fluency Station Directions
In this fluency station directions worksheet, students discover their expressive reading score through timing one another and calculating their words they read per minute.
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Short Sound of A Maze
In this short A learning exercise, students help the cat get through the maze by following the path of words that have the short A sound. Students also alphabetize the words from the maze that have the short A sound.
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What's Fit to Print?
Students evaluate how newspapers are constructed and evaluate the extent to which newspapers serve their readers' interests.
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Independent - To Be or Not Top Be - Day 1, Lesson B: To Arms!
Fifth graders explore the verbal and non-verbal parts of an oral presentation.
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Folktales: Fables
Learners access a variety of resources on the Internet regarding folktales, fables, tall tales, and fairy tales. They read and compare/contrast the elements of fables, and complete various handouts.
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Listen to the Pin Drop
Learners practice reading silently. The class discusses the benefits of reading silently and several methods for reading silently, including cross checking and chunking. Working in groups, they silently read a leveled text and discuss...
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The Big Lie
Fifth graders create poems and other forms of writing.Then working in groups they share writing with each other. The opinions would be gathered and students would revise writing according to the comments.
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Photo-Based Reading Projects
Learners practice using a digital camera and identify the various parts. As a class, they review recent vocabulary and signs used in their community. In groups, they take pictures of various items and write complete sentences describing...
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Community Connections
Eighth graders with a number of disabilities visit people and places in their community while using digital cameras to record their visits. They take digital pictures which they include in books, posters, and other publications which...
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City's 50th Anniversary: A Snap Shot in Time
Students watch a video on the history of the city they live in. Individually, they take pictures of their community and identify the reasoning behind the picture. To end the lesson, they vote on their classmates photographs to be...
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Vocabulary Practice: Fill in the Blanks
In this vocabulary instructional activity, students correctly complete sentences, filling in blanks with words from a word pool at the top of the instructional activity, 12 sentences total.
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Worksheet 6: Chief Seattle: Definitions
In this definitions worksheet, students read 18 sentences that each refer to a line in Chief Seattle's speech. This speech is not included here. Students find a word that means the same as the word in bold in each sentence.
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The Fastest Dinosaurs
For this sentence completion worksheet, students read the text 'The Fastest Dinosaurs' and select the correct word to complete the 16 examples for the online activity.
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Finance and Responsible Lending
High schoolers learn the characteristics of economic systems through problem solving, communication and representation. In this financial lending lesson, students use math to solve problems dealing with the economy today, to work with...
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Death at Jamestown
Students investigate deaths at Jamestown. In this history instructional activity, students research the high mortality rate at the Jamestown settlement as they write a position paper supporting or disputing the theories of Dr. Hancock.
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Property: Ownership, Respect, and Responsibility
Students learn to respect others' property by rating the severity of a variety of damaging acts. Students use a tag board "thermometer" to rate the severity of statements describing situations where a person damages the property of another.
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WHY DOES MONEY HAVE VALUE?
Students learn that money has value by examining the history, meaning of money. market structures and pricing. In this analysis lesson plan, students use exchange rates to find the cost of an item different currencies.
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Murals in my Neighborhood
High schoolers use rubrics to grade murals in their city. In this mural design lesson, students learn about the design of murals and explore their city to find murals. High schoolers grade the murals based on design and representation of...