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Curated OER

Context Clues

For Teachers 9th
Work on context clues with your ninth graders in this lesson, which focuses on identifying and analyzing clues to define unfamiliar words. They identify context clues in a passage to recognize words they haven't seen before, and then...
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Curated OER

Phonics Monster Game Suggestion: Change It

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students play the game "Change It" and practice making words from phonic monster cards. In this "Change It" lesson, students read words and phrases that are used as functional print with visual cues. Students respond to icons, pictures,...
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Curated OER

Long I Words Matching Game

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this long I activity, learners cut out a set of long I words and pictures to play a matching game. A reference web site is given for additional activities. 
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Curated OER

Old friends, New game

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create characters from a book. In this Language arts instructional activity, the students act out the story by role playing.  The students learn how to articulate correctly, by working together to arrive at the same destination.
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Curated OER

Sounding Out Accuracy: Word Swatter Game

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore word fluency by participating in a language arts game. In this vocabulary identification lesson, students collaborate in two small teams, each armed with a fly swatter, in order to swat vocabulary words spoken by their...
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Curated OER

The CopyCat Game 1

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this language arts worksheet, students read a sentence, then choose an answer which agrees with the first sentence. Example: I drive a Honda. (So do I.) There are 10 examples to do on the page.
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Curated OER

Fifth Grade Language

For Teachers 5th
In this language arts worksheet, 5th graders complete multiple choice questions about parts of speech, subjects in sentences, compound sentences, and more. Students complete 25 questions.
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Curated OER

You Can Count on Spelling

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Here is a cross-curricular activity that is suitable for virtually any grade level! Learners calculate the mathematical value of their spelling words using the letter tiles from a Scrabble game and identify the spelling word with the...
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Curated OER

All About Homophones

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
Put the fun back in reading fundamentals with an interactive set of lessons about homophones. Learners of all ages explore the relationships between words that sound the same but have different meanings, and complete a variety of fun and...
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Activity
Curated OER

Express Yourself Lesson Seed 3

For Teachers 6th Standards
If you're looking to set your class up for writing effective arguments, try out this idea. While originally created with freedom as a guiding idea, the activity could easily be adapted for other themes. As a class, create a chart of...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Vocabulary: Morphemic Elements, Root-A-Word

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
In pairs, scholars draw cards, read the word, and identify its root. Learners place the card on a tree-themed worksheet to sort words by their roots.
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K12 Reader

What Happens Next?

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
While your students may not be psychics, that doesn't mean they can't predict what will happen next in a story. To hone this important reading comprehension skill, young learners read a series of three short passages before writing a...
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Curated OER

Reinforcing Alphabet Names/Sounds

For Teachers K - 1st
Getting comfortable with the sounds associated with each letter is crucial in a young learner's path to becoming literate. This lesson provides a terrific way to reinforce this skill in an engaging and fun manner. It's a game that the...
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Perkins School for the Blind

Hat Game

For Teachers K - 6th
Sometimes the simplest ideas foster a lot of different skills. To boost social skills, group participation, identifying others by name, and dressing skills, learners play the hat game. They take turns wearing a hat while singing a song...
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Curated OER

Feelings and Emotions

For Teachers K
Students discuss and write about different feelings they or someone else may have. In this feelings lesson plan, students discuss different ways they express their feelings. Then they get a picture with someone who is demonstrating a...
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K12 Reader

Questioning Adverbs

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
How do adverbs enhance the meanings of verbs? Use a worksheet that prompts kids to identify what question adverbs are answering: when, where, or how.
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K12 Reader

Playground Antonyms

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
There are opposites all around you, even at school! Using an antonym word bank with playground-themed words, young learners complete sentences opposite in meaning from the ones provided.
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Pearson

Object Pronouns Grammar Activities

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
Young grammarians put a sentence together with the help of a short, straightforward grammar worksheet. Learners match subject and object pronouns before unscrambling the parts of five different sentences.  
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K12 Reader

Using Collective Nouns

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
What do you call a group of soccer players? Or a bunch of bees? Young grammarians review eight sentences and add the correct collective noun based on the context clues they observe.
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Activity
Curated OER

The Old Man and the Sea: Magic Squares

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Review the vocabulary from Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea with a magic squares activity. To find the magic number, readers match the numbers on a grid with the words and definitions from the novel.
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Teaching Channel

Storyboard Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Good books are accessible through a variety of literary lenses. To consider how the same story can be seen in different lights, groups develop a storyboard for a movie teaser that would focus on one of six concepts found in Suzanne...
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Prestwick House

Divergent

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Veronica Roth's popular young adult novel shows a vivid dystopian system in an action-packed, thrilling storyline. Revisit Divergent with a crossword puzzle that features characters, plot, and important quotes from the book.
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Interactive
Arcademics

Turtle Dash

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Vowel digraphs are the focus of a turtle-themed learning game. Players race against three others, filling in the blank space of words with a double vowel spelling pattern. 
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

All Together Now: Challenge Activities (Theme 1)

For Teachers 1st Standards
For scholars who need a challenge in the classroom, here is a unit for you. Learners explore topics such as animals, sports, helpers at home, the past, and funny things that have happened in their lives. Youngsters also engage in writing...

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