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Breaking News English: Average Worker Wastes 2 Hours a Day
In this English activity, learners read "Average Worker Wastes 2 Hours a Day," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Breaking News English: Pentagon Reports on Koran Abuse
In this English worksheet, students read "Pentagon Reports on Koran Abuse," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Breaking News English: Kenya's First Lady Runs Amok
For this English worksheet, students read "Kenya's First Lady Runs Amok," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
Curated OER
Non-verbal Cues
Students distinguish between verbal and nonverbal communication. In this communication series lesson plan, students identify the emotions portrayed by photos shown. They role play examples of good and bad listening skills.
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Sometimes I Feel Love
In this love emotion worksheet, students represent when they feel love by drawing a picture of something the love. Students then check the box for the feeling they like best of all. Their choices are happy, sad, anger, love, laughing,...
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Day of Kindness
Young scholars examine and discuss the different types of violence and anger present in their daily lives. As a class, they share their experiences of violent situations they have been in or witnessed. They develop non-violent...
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What Can I Do?
Here is a good way for children to identify ways to handle conflict. They discuss the connection between feelings and conflict. Everyone listens to a story about a conflict between two friends and they discuss what they could have done...
Curated OER
Debating Ethics with Literature
Use group discussions, analysis, and ethical dilemmas to build critical thinking and an empathetic perspective.
Curated OER
Nathaniel Hawthorne's—The Scarlet Letter
Designed for teachers, this guide to The Scarlet Letter is divided into background information about Hawthorne and Puritan New England, suggestions for teaching various ability levels, and ideas for extensions that include current events.
Curated OER
Sentence Completion 4
Some of these vocabulary words will prove tough for even your juniors and seniors! There are eight questions here, and your scholar must identify the correct answer out of five available multiple choice answers. Help them realize that...
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Definition Poems
“Hope is a tissue, wiping away your problems and fears.” Use a Definition Poem Web worksheet to model for your class how to craft a free verse poem based on an emotion. After brainstorming topics, groups use the sheet to make comparisons...
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Vocabulary 15 Practice Quiz
Focus on some difficult vocabulary words that begin with f, g, and h. First, match the 10 vocabulary words to their definitions, and then decide which sentence each vocabulary word best completes. Example words include furtive,...
Curated OER
Four Immigrant Groups: Their Lives and Music
Fourth graders examine the experiences of four immigrant groups. Class members brainstorm a list of misconceptions of those groups and discuss if these perceptions are still present today. Using maps, groups locate the countries of...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Showing How to Deal With Anger
Molly Bang's book, When Sophie Get's Angry-Really, Really Angry, provides learners with positive ways of dealing with anger. When students explore their own methods of dealing with anger and then talk and write about new ways of...
Committee for Children
Second Step: Grade 1: Lesson 14: Calming Down Anger
For this Second Step lesson, 1st graders will learn how to calm down their anger.
Committee for Children
Second Step: Grade 1: Lesson 14: Calming Down Anger
For this Second Step lesson, 1st graders will learn the Calming-Down Steps that will help them use when they are angry.
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Vanderbilt University: Helping Young Children Control Anger & Handle Disappoint
Strategies are provided that will help students deal with upsetting times in their lives.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Anger as Inspiration by Sami Awad
Sami Awad is the Founder and Director of The Holy Land Trust, a non-profit humanitarian organization dedicated to improving the lives of children, families and communities in the Middle East. The group identifies the cycle of violence as...
Committee for Children
Second Step: Grade K: Lesson 17: Managing Disappointment
In this lesson from Second Step, students will learn how to handle their disappointment constructively.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Teaching Guide: Controlling Anger
A collection of activities and discussion questions to assist young students in learning to control their anger.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Teaching Guide: Controlling Anger (Spanish)
The Spanish version of a collection of activities and discussion questions to assist young students in learning to control their anger.
Read Works
Read Works: Blue Nail Polish
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Molly who learns that it's okay to be angry, but she still has to act appropriately. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Other
Conflict Resolution Network: The Law Series: Lesson 5: Triggers
This resource provides training for students that will help them identify emotional triggers and then handle these triggers in socially acceptable ways.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Dealing With Feelings
Through the exercises presented at this website, students with "Learn that other kids experience the same kids of emotions as they do," "That it's important to understand what we're feeling," and "That we can often benefit by discussing...