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Subject-Verb Agreement

For Students 5th - 6th
In this subject and verb agreement worksheet, students review the rules for making a singular and plural subject agree with its verb. Students then complete several activities that help them learn the rules for subject and verb agreement.
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Review of Yes/No Questions

For Students 5th - 8th
In this yes and no questions instructional activity, students read a 2-paragraph news story and then write 5 questions that may be answered with the provided answer statements.
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Idiom Quizzes: Fish, Insects, and Reptiles

For Students 4th - 8th
In this idiom quiz worksheet, students match the correct idiom to the phrase in the sentence with the same meaning. Students complete 10 problems.
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A Serious Question

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this creative writing activity, students read a poem about a kitten called "A Serious Question" by Carolyn Wells. Students rewrite the poem, filling in the blanks with different words on their own.
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Emily Dickinson & Poetic Imagination: "Leap, plashless"

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students analyze the poems of Emily Dickinson and write their own nature poem. In this poetry analysis lesson, students read Dickinson poetry and analyze the use of imagery, sound, and metaphor. Students write their own nature poem using...
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Illinois Entice Spoken Here

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders name a prairie animal when their name is called for attendance each day. They read books about Illinois or related topics. At present we have read Illinois, A Rookie Read About Geography Book by Allan Fowler.
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Guided Reading with Two Sweet Peas

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read the book, Two Sweet Peas. Working in guided reading groups, they discuss moving, making friends, and the differences between poems and stories. They read the book silently and discuss the importance of being kind and...
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Short Story

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders identify the various elements of a short story. After reading Rudyard Kipling's short story, "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," students identify the author's purpose in writing the story as well as the elements that make it a short...
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Adjective or Adverb

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this adjective or adverb worksheet, students fill in the blanks and choose the correct words to complete the sentences with either the adjective or adverb form of the word given. Students complete 35 sentences.
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What a Garden Can Teach

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers read about land and gardening and create found poems from the text. They use the poems to design interpretation quilts of communal text.
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Using Chuang Tzu in a British Literature Curriculum

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students read and compare/contrast translations of Chuang Tzu and "Beowulf." They complete handouts, answer discussion questions, identify themes and symbols, and complete various writing assignments.
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Comparing Patterns In Chinese And American Textile

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create Chinese jacket designs using magic markers and paper jackets as well as knowledge of Chinese and American textile designs and techniques in this upper-elementary lesson.
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Personal Response to the European Ghetto

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars examine the characteristics of the ghettos during the Holocaust. Reading various texts on the subject, they gather important information related to the event. They create a visual project of the ghettos and shares them...
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Database Lesson Plan

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students add themselves in to a story. In this literature lesson, students listen to the story Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry Allard and James Marshall. They pull out certain words in the story and add their own to create a new version. 
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Look to the North: A Wolf Pup Diary

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore the book, Look To The North: A Wolf Pup Diary. They find five facts about wolves and discuss with their groups. Students explore the timeline of a wolf pup and create a food chain for three of the animals found in the book.
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The Princess Easter

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this holiday reading worksheet, students read a short story about the Easter holiday. Students then answer 5 questions about the story.
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Big Blue Spider and Little Red Spider Retold

For Students Pre-K - K
In this reading worksheet, students listen to the fable called Big Blue Spider and Little Red Spider Retold by Ellen Baumwoll. Students draw illustrations or describe what they remembered form the story.
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Fearless Fables: The Lion And the Mouse

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students participate in reading a classic fable about a lion and a mouse. There are no questions on the page.
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Cut and Paste Animals

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this literacy worksheet, students look for the parts that are needed for the completion of each animal. They cut them out and then color each page.
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Third Grade Editing Sentences Worksheet

For Students 3rd
For this writing and grammar worksheet, 3rd graders rewrite each of 10 sentences while making the necessary corrections in editing. They edit run on sentences, capitalize the word I, and correct tenses.
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Pronouns

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate pronoun in parentheses that completes each sentence grammatically correct in twenty sentences.
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English Skills Assignment 6.204

For Students 7th - 12th
In this English skills instructional activity, students complete 12 English skill activities of various topics. These topics include onomatopoeia, word endings, root words, vowels, consonants, parts of speech, anagrams, spelling, and...
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Identify the Compound Words

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this compound words activity worksheet, students examine the 10 sets of words in rows and circle the compound word in each row.
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Using Adjectives

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this adjectives review worksheet, students practice their grammar skills as they identify the adjectives in 12 sentences and use the adjectives in the word bank to fill in the blanks in 5 sentences.