School District No. 43
Writing a Greek Myth
Ask your learners to dream up a myth set in modern day. These mythology writing prompts require individuals take on the role of an ancient Greek citizen who just woke up to a totally different world. Through this lens, class members...
ReadWriteThink
Scaffolding Methods for Research Paper Writing
Rome wasn't built in a day, but researchers can be with proper scaffolding. This writing unit has scholars write a research paper through scaffolding of various parts of the process. Learners begin with identifying a topic and crafting a...
K12 Reader
What Happens Next?
While your students may not be psychics, that doesn't mean they can't predict what will happen next in a story. To hone this important reading comprehension skill, young learners read a series of three short passages before writing a...
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Combining Clouds and Art in the Classroom
Get your head in the clouds before teaching cloud types to your mini-meteorologists. The lesson opens with a beautiful PowerPoint presentation of clouds portrayed in different artists' paintings. After viewing artistic renditions,...
Read Theory
Analogies 3 (Level 6)
Positive and negative may be opposites, but what does that have to do with the words clean and filthy? Ask your pupils to consider word relationships as they complete the 10 analogies presented here. Note that the exercise gradually...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Let’s Look Around!: Challenge Activities (Theme 3)
Let's Look Around! is the theme of a unit that offers a plethora of challenge activities. Enhance your scholars' learning experiences and reinforce concepts with activities such as writing a book about farm animals, an imaginary place,...
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Build Your Dream Science Lab
Would your ideal science lab be filled with bubbling beakers and zapping Tesla coils? Or would it contain state-of-the-art computer technology and data analysis? Dream big with an innovative lesson that connects math and language arts...
Breaking News English
The Force Awakens Breaks Pre-Sales Ticket Records
May the comprehension skills be with you! Focus on context clues, vocabulary words, and analysis questions with an article about Star Wars: The Force Awakens and its record-breaking ticket sales.
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Earth Day Acrostic Poetry
In this online interactive language arts worksheet, students write an acrostic poem regarding Earth Day using the letters EARTH DAY. This worksheet may also be printed for use in classrooms.
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Memorial Day: Print and Color
In this word recognition worksheet, students trace the words "Memorial Day May 31st," write the words independently, and color the picture.
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Memorial Day picture
In this Memorial Day worksheet, students color a picture of balloons and trace and write the phrase "May 31, 2010". Students color, trace, and write one time each.
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Father's Day Acrostic Poem
In this online interactive language arts activity, students write an acrostic poem regarding fathers using the letters FATHER. This activity may also be printed for use in classrooms.
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Mother's Day Celebration
In this ESL Mother's Day reading comprehension worksheet, students read a short text about two children who celebrate the day in an affordable way. There are 5 questions to answer and a short essay about Mother's Day.
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Arbor Day Word Jumble
In this online interactive Arbor Day worksheet, students examine 20 Arbor Day-related words in a word bank. Students use the word bank to unscramble 20 sets of letters to match the terms in the word bank. This worksheet may also be...
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Memorial Day Alphabetical Order Worksheet
For this online interactive Memorial Day worksheet, students examine 10 holiday-related words and then write them in alphabetical order on the lines provided. This worksheet may also be printed for classroom use.
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Fathers Day Alphabetical Order Challenge Worksheet
In this online interactive Father's Day worksheet, students examine 16 father-related words then write them in alphabetical order on the lines provided. This worksheet may also be printed for classroom use.
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Flag Day Alphabetical Order Worksheet
In this online interactive Flag Day worksheet, students examine 10 Flag Day-related words and then write them in alphabetical order on the lines provided. This worksheet may also be printed for classroom use.
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Flag Day Word Jumble
In this online interactive Flag Day worksheet, students examine 16 holiday-related words in a word bank. Students use the word bank to unscramble 16 sets of letters to match the terms in the word bank. This worksheet may also be printed...
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Columbus Day Word Jumble
For this online interactive Columbus Day worksheet, students examine 20 holiday-related words in a word bank. Students use the word bank to unscramble 20 sets of letters to match the terms in the word bank. This worksheet may also be...
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Groundhog's Day Word Scramble
In this online interactive Groundhog's Day worksheet, students examine 16 groundhog-related words and then write them in alphabetical order on the lines provided. This worksheet may also be printed for classroom use.
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Tissue Paper Flowers For Valentines Day
Students make a Valentine's Day gift. In this gift giving instructional activity, students make a bouquet of flowers out of tissue paper to give to a love one.
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Inspire Your Heart With Art Day
In this Inspire Your Heart With Art Day learning exercise, students complete activities including reading a passage, matching phrases, fill in the blanks, correct word choosing, multiple choice, sequencing, unscramble the sentences,...
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National Biodiesel Day
In this National Biodiesel Day learning exercise, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, writing...
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International Jazz Day
For this International Jazz Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, writing questions, survey,...