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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Words, Fast Match

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Here is an interesting take on the old timed-fluency activity. In pairs, learners work together to see how fast they can read two sets of high-frequency words. Peer one reads a word from his list; peer two works fast to find that word in...
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Printables
Egmont

H.O.R.S.E.

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Extend your lesson on Christopher Myers' H.O.R.S.E with a series of activities about basketball. After kids read the book, they match basketball terms with their definitions, find as many words as they can with the letters H, O, R, S,...
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Lesson Plan
British Council

Alphabet

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Here's a packet filled with suggestions and activities for teaching the alphabet.
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Lesson Plan
ESL Kid Stuff

Zoo Animals

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Let's go to the zoo! Take a pretend trip to the zoo with a lesson plan about animals that live at the zoo. Kids sing, match animals, practice animal sounds, and read about Sammy the Snake's birthday party.
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Printables
Curriculum Corner

Inferencing

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Inferencing is a necessary reading skill to uncover non-explicit messages in text. Use the set of resources as a way to guide learners toward becoming expert inferrers through reading prompts and literature with text and without text.
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Handout
Curated OER

Poetic Elements

For Students 9th - 12th
Poetry is all about sound and rhythm. The sound of the words, the rhythm of the lines, and the emotional atmosphere created by these elements and the literary devices poets use, compress whole stories into a few stanzas. The specialized...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Vocabulary: Morphemic Elements, Rooting for Meaning!

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Scholars work with root and meaning cards to build vocabulary skills. Playing with a partner, learners read a root, locate its meaning, and cover it with a counter. The first player to cover their board wins.
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Interactive
ABCya

Christmas Word Search

For Students K - 5th Standards
Can you find the mittens? What about the reindeer—or Santa? Try an online Christmas-themed word search to add some festive language arts fun to the classroom this year.
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Website
University of North Carolina

Latin Terms and Abbreviations

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
N.B.. cit., n.b., viz., sc., inf. e,g,—these abbreviations frequently appear in academic papers and on works cited lists, but what do they mean? Part of a larger series to improve writing skills, the handout on Latin terms and...
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Lesson Plan
Book Units Teacher

Skill Lessons – Prefixes and Suffixes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Sometimes the best way to understand a concept is to break it down. Young vocabulary pupils work with word parts in a hands-on activity that prompts them to connect flash cards with affixes to their root and base words. Additionally,...
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Reading Resource

/ar/ Word List

For Students K - 3rd Standards
The tart dart left a hard scar on the large shark. Here's an exercise designed to help readers develop the phonemic awareness skills needed to detect the vowel sounds in words. The exercise, the third in the series of 16 and featuring...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ben Franklin's Game

For Teachers 4th - 6th
A reading of What's The Big Idea, Ben Franklin? provides an opportunity for class members to practice paraphrasing, quoting, and citing sources. An exercise on how to avoid plagiarizing is also included. 
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Handout
Curated OER

The Language of Love

For Students 5th - Higher Ed
In this language arts worksheet, students learn that there are many ways to express love using words. Students read 20 sentences which show different ways of expressing affection. Example: "You are in my heart." There are no questions...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Westing Game: Chapter 17-20

For Students 10th - 11th
In The Westing Game chapter questions instructional activity, students complete a series of short answer questions for chapters seventeen through twenty to advance their understanding of the text.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Westing Game: Chapters 1-4

For Students 10th - 11th
In The Westing Game chapter questions worksheet, students complete a series of short answer questions over chapters one through four to advance their understanding of the text.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Westing Game: Chapters 13-16

For Students 10th - 11th
In The Westing Game chapter questions worksheet, students complete several short answer questions over chapters thirteen through sixteen to advance their understanding of the text.
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Organizer
Curated OER

Letter Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood letter recognition game worksheet, students color the 2 sets of alphabet letter circles, cut them out, and use them to play a matching game.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Create a Game

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students create their own physical education game and then teach it to their classmates. They construct directions for the game which incorporates writing into this activity. They include catching and throwing skills along with involving...
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Organizer
Curated OER

Paint Brush Color File Folder Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this paint brush color file folder game worksheet, students match the colors on 12 paintbrushes to the appropriate color words.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Halloween Vocabulary Game

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this Halloween vocabulary worksheet, students use the Halloween pictures and words to play a game like bingo and recognize new words.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Rhyming Pairs Game

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this rhyming words game learning exercise, students cut out 36 rhyming cards and place them face down. Students take turns to turn over 2 cards. If they rhyme, the player keeps the cards and has another turn. The player with the most...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Shamrock Color Match File Folder Game

For Students Pre-K - K
In this early childhood color match game worksheet, students match the loose shamrocks of a color to those the same color that are laminated in a file folder.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Dipthongs-3 in a Row Game

For Students K - 2nd
In this vowel dipthong learning exercise, students say dithongs written on cards, and if said correctly cover that same combination on a game card, trying to get "3 in a row."
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Spelling Free Throw (Elementary, Games)

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students run to the chalk board to spell a given word, pick up a basketball, dribble to the hoop and make one shot, run the basketball back to their starting place to score points for their team.

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