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EngageNY

Introducing Promises to Keep and Drawing Inferences: Who Is Jackie Robinson and Why Is He Important? (Promises to Keep, Pages 6–7)

For Teachers 5th Standards
Scholars take a picture walk through the book Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America. They make predictions and complete a Notice/Wonder/Inference note catcher. They then define and analyze words on pages six and seven of...
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Worksheet
Noyce Foundation

Candy Fractions

For Teachers 6th Standards
While examining fractions and ratios, your leaners get to read about one of their favorite subjects: candy! There are four word problems on this instructional activity. Learners consider situations in which "for every x caramels there...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

The Stamp Collection

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
By using language like "half of the stamps," children are exposed to patterns in arithmetic that requires solving a two-step word problem. This type of language opens a new door for transitioning learners toward understanding fractions...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dining Out With Fishes and Birds of the Hudson

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
While this lesson focuses on the birds and fish found on the Hudson River, it could be adapted for use in any classroom. Using a vocabulary list, learners explore the meaning of words like adaptation, habitat, barbel, and more. Then,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Reading Comprehension 7: Level 12

For Students 9th - 12th
A passage about the changing role of home economists provides the text for a reading comprehension strategies worksheet. Learners must summarize, draw inferences, identify the main idea, and use context clues to determine the meaning of...
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Handout
Rock A Lingua

Medios de Transporte/Means of Transportation

For Students 5th - 12th
Make sure your pupils know how to get where they want to go! Learners can practice their Spanish vocabulary by completing these worksheets, which focus on modes of transportation and some grammar phrases for expressing going from one...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Reading Comprehension: Voice of Nature

For Students 4th Standards
Understanding a text can be a very interesting task. Fourth graders read a passage describing the origin of an Aboriginal myth. They answer 11 comprehension questions that require them to pull key details, use context, and think...
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Printables
The New York Times

Anatomy of a Scene

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Casting, setting, context, frame, camera angle, lighting, soundtrack. Every choice a writer or director makes is conscious. Here's a worksheet that asks readers/viewers to examine these choices and consider how they are used to to create...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Vocabulary Building

For Teachers 1st - 4th
A fabulous language arts lesson has readers focus on the vocabulary in the key words, expand and build new vocabulary, and practice three grammar concepts. They recognize key words as they relate to communicating at work. Pupils build...
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PPT
Curated OER

Fractions XIV - Multiplication of Fractions

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Knowing how to multiply fractions is an important skill. Knowing when you should multiply fractions is equally as important. This impressive presentation covers both topics quite nicely. Along with slides that present explanations, there...
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Workbook
School Sparks

Christmas Worksheets for Santa's Little Helpers

For Students Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Just because children aren't in the classroom over winter break, doesn't mean that learning has to stop. Intended as a resource for parents, this eBook provides Christmas-themed worksheets and activities that engage children in...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

My Antonia: Magic Squares (Vocabulary Strategy)

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Help your pupils discover the power of context clues by teaching the this vocabulary strategy. Designed to go with words from Willa Cather's My Antonia, this exercise focuses on having individuals use their own words to define new...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

All Summer in a Day Vocab

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
While working with Ray Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day," take some time to consider vocabulary. This exercise lists eight sentences from the story in which Bradbury uses words in interesting or different ways. Pupils read the sentence...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Peter and the Starcatchers: Magic Squares

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Engage your class in vocabulary from Peter and the Starcatchers with this exercise. Learners match words to their definitions to determine the magic number. 
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Interactive
Curated OER

TAKS Quiz-Word Meaning

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this TAKS quiz learning exercise, students take an online quiz focused on word meaning similar to an underlined word. Quiz may be graded online by clicking a link.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Words with Two Meanings

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this words with multiple meanings worksheet, students find two definitions of 7 different words and then write a sentence for each meaning.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Reading: Expressions Using the Word Hot

For Students 4th - 5th
In this word meanings worksheet, students explore idiomatic expressions with the word hot. Students read a passage and then match six expressions to their proper meaning.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Word Stress and Sentence Stress

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students use the correct stress in words and in sentences to correct their pronunciation. In this pronunciation lesson plan, students are provided many words and sentences to practice the stresses correctly.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introduce -s = /s/, -s = /z/ Words

For Teachers 1st
First graders study language. In this plural words lesson, 1st graders discover how words that end in -s are either pronounced with a /s/ sound or a /z/ sound. They work as a group to determine how various words are pronounced. This...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mesmerizing Multiple Meaning Riddles

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students write and illustrate riddles using context clues to define multiple meaning words that they compile into a book. They read the book, Miss Nelson Has a Field Day, and observe the many different multiple meaning words used in the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Words With Multiple Meanings #7

For Students 1st - 4th
For this words with multiple meanings #7 worksheet, students use 4 pairs of words with multiple meanings in a vocabulary game.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Meanings From Context

For Students 4th - 5th
In this word meanings from context activity, students read 4 short paragraphs and analyze the unfamiliar word that is underlined. Using context clues, students choose the correct meaning from 4 choices.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Draw a Line to Match Words That Mean the Same

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this synonym worksheet, students practice matching the words with similar meanings as they draw a line from a word in the left column to a synonym in the right column.
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Curated OER

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: Vocab Squares

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Creatively develop and reinforce new vocabulary from the book, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, using these vocabulary squares. Each square is divided into four quadrants asking scholars to input the word, a picture,...

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