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Letter Writing
Third graders write to themselves or to known audiences, share news, explore new ideas, and record notes. They identify that holidays are days that people set aside to recognize a person or event that has made a great impression....
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Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test-- 4th Grade Reading
In this reading worksheet, 4th graders prepare for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test in 4th Grade reading. Students read the tips and helpful information, then read a passage. Students answer 3 multiple choice questions and 3...
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Click! Writing Through Digital Photography
Students take their own digital photographs and scan them onto the computer. For each photograph, they write about them and use the internet to research their subject in the photo more throughly. They are graded based on a rubric and...
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Florida Comprehensive Assessment Tool- Grade 4- Sample Test: The Inverted Pyramid
In this test preparation worksheet set based on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Tool, grade four students practice taking a sample test entitled "The Inverted Pyramid." They a practice the Inverted Pyramid technique of reading a...
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Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test- Grade 4 Reading Sample Test: Florida Panther
In this test preparation worksheet set based on the Florida
Comprehensive Assessment Tool, grade four students practice taking a
sample test entitled "Florida Panther." They a practice reading a non-fiction selection, before answering 4...
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Locating Information Using Keywords
Students use keywords. In this keywords activity students research information on how people lived in the past. They record their findings in their journals.
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Writing in the Math Classroom
Students determine the vertex, y-intercept and direction of a parabola and write an explanation of how to graph a parabola. They collect and graph data using a calculator.
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Science Writing and Review Project
Students create brochures about a science unit. In this science writing lesson, students include information on topics contained in the unit of science chosen such as title page, adaptations and classifying life.
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Internet: Writing Friendly Letters Via Email
Students view a Powerpoint presentation on writing and sending email. After examining a Website about the parts of a friendly letter, they compose and send their own letters via email. Teachers set up an email/pen pal account so...
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Writing a Commercial
Learners create a product and write a commercial to sell the product. They discuss the differences between ads for television and radio and ads for print. They discuss the persuasion techniques used by ad writers.
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Writing Introductions
In this writing introductions worksheet, students read about 4 types of introductions, then analyze 6 examples and interactively write comments about each one.
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Writing with Beans
Students become familiar with the letters in a word by pasting beans on it. In this Bean writing lesson, students make words using navy beans. Students color or paint the beans.
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"The Emperor's New Clothes and Mahler's Ninth Symphony" Writing to Explain, Confidently and Efficiently, Even Physics!
Learners combine their study of physics with their study of best practices when writing to inform. They communicate with experts using e-mail before creating a brochure based on their study of universal gravitation.
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Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test- Grade Four Sample Test: The Crow
In this test preparation learning exercise set based on the Florida
Comprehensive Assessment Tool, grade four students practice taking a
sample test entitled "The Crow." They a practice reading a selection, before answering 3
multiple...
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Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test- Grade 4 Reading Sample Test: Florida Boys
In this test preparation activity set based on the Florida
Comprehensive Assessment Tool, grade four students practice taking a
sample test entitled "Florida Boys." They a practice reading a fictional selection, before answering 4...
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Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test 4th Grade Reading
For this reading worksheet, 4th graders prepare for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test by taking this 15 page practice test. The pages here include instructions, tips, sample passages, questions (both multiple choice and essay)...
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Researching Another country's Holiday: Organizing and Recording Information
Prior to this lesson, 5th graders will have collected notes from several sources. Students extend their note taking to include at least one example each of summarizing and paraphrasing. They record bibliographic information for each...
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Making Decisions Based on Best Information
Fourth graders are introduced to the techniques to determine if the information they gathered was the best available. In groups, they discuss how having the best information can help them make important decisions. They also participate...
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Write My Name With Shaving Cream
Learners write their names using shaving cream. In this write my name lesson, students practice forming letters using shaving cream. Learners follow appropriate conventions of print to convey a message and use spacing and letters...
Columbus City Schools
It's the Heat and the Pressure?
Ready for a change? Give a comprehensive collection of metamorphic materials a try! With the assortment of printables and lab activities, you won't be under pressure to keep things lively. The unit culminates by having...
University of North Carolina
Philosophy
Philosophers ask some of life's biggest questions about the nature of mankind, existence, and time, so what's it like to study the subject? A handout outlines different types of philosophy assignments common in college-level courses. The...
Virginia Department of Education
Types of Variations
Scholars determine how two quantities vary with respect to each other. They complete a fill-in-the-blank activity by stating whether the entities vary directly, inversely, or jointly, create equations that match different variations, and...
Inside Mathematics
Squares and Circles
It's all about lines when going around. Pupils graph the relationship between the length of a side of a square and its perimeter. Class members explain the origin in context of the side length and perimeter. They compare the graph to the...
Polk Country Schools
The Death of Abraham Lincoln DBQ
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln was a pivotal moment in American history, but what were the immediate effects throughout the newly unified country? A document-based question focuses on the consequences of the first...