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Mysterious Plot Problems

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
Your readers explore plot patterns in mysteries by identifying problems first in Two-Minute Mysteries by Donald J. Sobol and then in  The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. To gain access to the worksheets, graphic organizers and riddles...
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Narnia Trivia Challenge

For Students 3rd - 8th
C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series transports readers to a magical land. An interactive trivia game tests their knowledge of the series through multiple-choice questions. The game features one question per book.
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School News

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Compile a school newsletter with your budding journalists! Use the school calendar to assign each learner a specific even to cover! Possible events include the science fair, sports games, concerts, talent shows, etc. This is a project...
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Gingerbread Baby's Point of View #8

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Read the story Gingerbread Baby and use these various activities to connect to grammar, art, and point of view. In one activity, learners create character masks. They practice writing verbs on the back of the masks to tell what each...
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Oops!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
A sweet lesson on social behavior is here for you and your very young learners. Pupils discuss embarrassing things that have happened to them at school, and how it made them feel to be teased about them. After deciding how to deal with...
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Animal Syllables

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Animal names are a great way to practice syllables with words your young scholars will be familiar with! Using images, students examine 7 animals and color in the number of paws that correspond with the number of syllables in that animal...
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Participles Used As Adjectives

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Is a movie interesting or interested? Use context clues to decide which participle would be the most appropriate in each of ten sentences.
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Phonics Endings --ar: Worksheet #2

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Six colorful pictures all contain words that end in -ar. One space is left in front for learners to fill in the correct consonant or two. Turn this into a quiz or game to challenge your young writers!
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Baseball Challenge

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
While a nifty idea, this presentation is slightly difficult to follow and use. The PowerPoint involves an exploration of the parts of speech, including the use of nouns and adjectives, using animation, music, and interactive elements....
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"101 Amazing Earth Facts" Game

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students read for comprehension, work cooperatively to learn "101 Amazing Earth Facts," and compete as teams in a Jeopardy-like game.
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It's Just a Game?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider their attitudes toward concrete and abstract violence in the media before developing hypotheses that assess the effect of gender and age on people's attitudes toward such violence and designing a survey to test those...
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When Turtle Grew Feathers

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the Choctaw Native American tribe.  In this cross curriculum literacy and U.S. history lesson, students locate where the Choctaw Indians lived on a United States map.  Students listen to When Turtle Grew Feathers and...
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Olympic Continent

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read "Team Ethiopia Dazzles in Going the Distance" from The New York Times and discuss the impact these athletes have had on their country. Students work in groups to research different African nations that have participated in...
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Gauging Beijing

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the responsibilites of country's chosen to host the Olympics. After reading an article, they discuss how China is preparing for the 2008 Summer Games. They focus on the country's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities...
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It's How You Play the Game

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students assess and explain the qualities that they believe are possessed by great professional athletes. They examine whether or not getting away with breaking a rule in a sport is considered cheating or gamesmanship.
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Getting In the Game

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore how interactive Web sites support live sports programming, and then design Internet sites that provide interactive support for a favorite television program. They present their mock ups to the class.
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My Childhood Portrait

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students practice descriptive writing by viewing auto-portraits of young children.  In this art analysis lesson, students examine an auto-portrait of their teacher as a young child and ask him/her questions about their youth.  Students...
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Past Lives from The Troy Game

For Students 7th - 10th
Ten multiple choice questions test readers' understanding of basic plot developments in Sara Douglass' historical fantasies Hades' Daughter and God's Concubine, the first two books in a four-part series.
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Giving Game-Put It on the Card!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore credit cards and how they are used in purchasing goods and services. They participate in a game called the Giving Game.
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The Fly Swatter Game

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars are placed in small groups to participate in the "Fly Swatter Game" to reinforce phonetic sounds of letters.
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Idiom Games

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students identify idioms as groups of words with special meanings that paint a mental picture for the reader.They compete in a game in which they draw and interpret pictures of idioms.
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Grade 3 Language Review

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this language practice instructional activity, students correct sentences, find subjects, pronouns and verbs.  A web site reference for additional activities is given.
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Gingerbread Baby Board Game #10

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners are read the book "Gingerbread Baby". They examine the journey the baby traveled in the story and in turn create a game board. They draw pictures along the board to show different parts of the story.
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Card Games

For Students 6th - 8th
In this literacy worksheet, learners find the words that are about card games. The answers are found at the bottom of the page.

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