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Worksheet
Curated OER

Sight Words and Letter Sounds

For Students K - 2nd
Is your elementary class learning letters and letter sounds? This take-home sheet provides a week's worth of practice for your learner at home. The repetitive nature helps learners remember! 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Creative Writing - Research and Letters

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Here's a fresh approach that combines research, business and personal letter writing, and creative story telling. Student groups research different decades in the life of a famous Japanese astronomer. They then craft a decade fact sheet,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Planning to Parent, Day 1: Infant Health

For Teachers 9th - 10th
What do infants need? What are parental responsibilities? Why breastfeed? What are the pros and cons? When do infants sit-up, roll over, crawl, talk, get teeth, eat solid foods, and sleep through the night? So many questions, and this is...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Blogging to Create a Community of Writers #1: Setting Up the Blog

For Teachers 6th
Writer's workshop is an idea that's been around for years. Students write, read, and comment on each others writing in an authentic and thoughtful way. Here is a 21st century twist, 6th graders will use the class blog to create a...
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

How to Make Homework Meaningful

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Enrich classroom experiences and engage young learners by assigning purposeful, student-centered homework activities.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

March Answer Key

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this Easter worksheet, students read a letter to their parents. The 10 words in italics can also be removed in order to create a fill-in-the blank exercise.
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Handout
Super Duper Publications

Welcome to Kindergarten: Handwriting without Tears

For Teachers K
Do your kindergartners become frustrated when learning about handwriting? Use a guiding chart to show your learners the most efficient ways to form each lowercase letter. Additionally, it provides methods to remember how to write numbers.
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Encoding and Decoding, Make-A-Word

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Little learners place a picture card on a magnetic board, say the name of the object on the card, then sift through alphabet magnets to find and spell the word they said.
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Activity
PBS

Heart to Heart

For Students 3rd - 7th
Study heart health and math in one activity. After measuring their resting heart rates by finding the pulse in their wrists, learners build a stethoscope to listen to their heart rate, and note the differences between the two methods.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Letters to Parents and Caregivers

For Students 8th - 9th
In this sample letter worksheet, teachers are provided with a sample letter to parents/caregivers that describes an upcoming assignment and requires a signature of acknowledgment.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing a Letter to Johnny Appleseed

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders write a letter to Johnny Appleseed describing how they use technology in their daily life and the advantages and disadvantages of using technology.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Father Knows Best, Write a Father's Day Letter

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students write a Father's Day letter. For this friendly letter writing lesson, students brainstorm a list of parent responsibilities, then write three specific ways their fathers care for them. Students share learning experiences they...
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Printables
Curated OER

Star Student of the Week Letter

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Honor each individual in your class by setting aside a week for each learner. Send out a copy of this letter and the materials listed in it each week to the parents or guardians of a particular pupil.
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Lesson Plan
Greater Good Science Center

Nurturing Gratitude From the Inside Out: 30 Activities for Grades K–8

For Teachers K - 8th
Teach the importance of showing gratitude at any age with a teacher's guide comprised of thirty activities. Browse the extensive table of contents to find the array of exercises designed to meet the needs of your learners. Scholars take...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Write-a-Letter-to-the-Teacher" Book Report

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners practice writing a friendly letter to the teacher as a method of reviewing a book. They write a three paragraph report on a book that they read in friendly letter format.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Exploring Parent-Child Relationships Through Letter Writing

For Teachers 7th - 12th
The PBS film, Bronx Princess, launches a study of complex parent-child relationships. Using the provided reading guide, viewers respond to clips from the film and compare Rocky and Yaa’s relationship to other parent-child relationships....
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Handout
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

What Parents Need to Know About Marijuana Use and Teens

For Parents 7th - 12th
The teenage years find adolescents yearning for independence—and often isolating their parents from their everyday lives. Educate parents on the warning signs of marijuana use, including its effects on the brain and the likelihood of...
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Activity
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Brockman Elementary School

Living History Timeline

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
As part of a living history research project, learners research a chosen historical figure that they will study and physically represent in a gallery walk. This resource includes a project description, letter to parents, rubric, and...
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Laura Candler

ABC’s of Me!

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
Young authors share all about themselves with this printable autobiography resource. Including 26 different sentence frames, one focusing on each letter of the alphabet, students write about everything from an adventure they would like...
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Activity
PBS

Around the Block

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
Arthur and his friends help children explore the concepts of family, community, and diversity in a fun series of activities. From performing peer interviews to mapping out the different places students have lived or visited, this...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Friendly Letter Writing and Sentence Structure

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Explore communication through writing by analyzing individual sentences with young writers. They practice writing compound sentences and identifying sentence fragments. The next step has them learn the five parts of a friendly letter....
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Activity
Curated OER

3-D Cell Model

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Life science laureates choose a plant or animal cell to construct a model of as an at-home project. This handout provides guidelines, suggested materials, and a grading rubric for their reference. A full-page letter to parents is also...
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Lesson Plan
Oklahoma Ag in The Classroom

Bee Smart Bee Happy

For Teachers K - 2nd
Here is a wonderfully designed lesson on bees and pollination designed for early elementary learners. After a class discussion on bees, pupils pretend to be a bee by picking up nectar off of "flowers" in the class. The flowers are...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fill In The GAPP

For Teachers K - 1st
Youngsters discover what recycling is and identify things that can be recycled. They use both video and Internet resources to aid them in their study. This is a well-designed lesson with excellent activities and a nicely-written letter...

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