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Spark (A Variation on Sparkle Spelling Game)

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students participate in a game in which they practice their spelling words, in which each student adds another letter to the word. They are given the chance to rejoin the game if they miss a letter.
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Cookie Crisp Howl

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students are introduced to the vowel pattern that produces the /oo/ sound in words. Through matching, listening, and spelling activities, students recognize the phoneme /oo/ and it's placement in words. They write a message using words...
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Aaa! A monster

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners practice the strategy of phonemic awareness to become better fluent readers. They grasp the concept of short vowels and identify the sound of /a/ in reading and spelling words. A letterbox is utilized within this instructional...
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CTBS Spelling Practice #5

For Students 9th - 10th
In this spelling practice worksheet, students identify the correct spelling out of five multiple choice options. Students answer forty two questions.
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Self-improvement Spelling List

For Students 8th - 11th
For this spelling worksheet, students practice self-improvement skills for checking a weekly spelling list for fifteen weeks straight. Students correct each word spelt incorrectly.
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Writing Quiz

For Students 6th - 7th
In this writing instructional activity, students complete a 9 question on-line interactive exercise about correcting errors in sentences. Students correct one misspelled or misused word in each sentence.
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Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island: Lesson Plan 1

For Teachers 4th Standards
As a practice writing test, fourth graders use the West of the West's documentary Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island and two print resources as source materials for an informative article that identifies information that is...
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Placing a Fire Hydrant

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Triangle centers and the segments that create them easily become an exercise in memorization, without the help of engaging applications like this lesson. Here the class investigates the measure of center that is equidistant to the three...
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Short Story Planning Guide

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
A short story is only as strong as its characters, development, and conflicts. Encourage the young authors in your class to plan their stories based on the elements of narrative writing, all provided in brainstorming graphic organizers.
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Beginning Consonant Digraph "wh"

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this beginning consonants worksheet, students unscramble six words that contain the beginning consonant digraph "wh". Students print the words on the lines. Note: A word is misspelled in the directions.
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Building Your Vocabulary

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students read a book and write down any words that they do not examine. They also look up the words in a dictionary and write down the definition and a sentence for each word.
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My Name is.....

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students utilize available technology to create, produce, and publish an alphabet pattern book. Students use publishing, multimedia and word processing for their writing. They create their own A My Name is Alice Class book based off the...
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Past Tense Activities - Regular Verbs

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Here is a supplemental lesson plan regarding past tense verbs for English language learners that is a great tool for the classroom when you are teaching grammar exercises.
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Spell Check - Live!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create vocabulary words and a variety of spelling exercises, using the H.I.P Pocket Change website.
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Spell Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students work on their spelling skills by spelling a word to get unfrozen if tagged.
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Kid-Code: Developmentally Appropriate Spelling

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Carefully balanced, developmentally appropriate spelling lessons and expectations can keep young writers focused!
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Spelling Detective

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
Put on your Sherlock Holmes hat and become a spelling detective! Scholars hunt down the spelling errors in a short passage of a high-interest current events text. Here is a great way to develop editing and reading skills.
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Lesson Planet Article
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Inspire the Imagination with a Poet Study of Shel Silverstein

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Captivating prose opens wondrous doors to critical thinking and language development.
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For the Love of Publication!

For Teachers 7th - 12th
What is a ‘Zine? Although the referenced PBS video that launches this study of self-published magazines is not available, the activities detailed and the step-by-step directions for creating ‘Zines would engage young writers. This...
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Spelling Proofreading Worksheet

For Students 7th - 9th
Looking for a quick spelling activity to use as a quiz or warm-up? This resource provides a paragraph of eleven sentences, all of which contain a spelling error. Young learners list the mistakes on the lines below. Make a game out of...
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It’s Your Birthday! – Conventions: Revision and Proofreading

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Happy birthday! Celebrate everyone's birthday with this writing activity, which prompts seventh graders to research historical events in a country at the time of their birth to create an essay. Working in pairs, they proofread each...
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Background for The Outsiders: the 1960s

For Teachers 8th
As background for a reading of S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, groups rotate through four stations (video, music, website, information) to gather information on the 1960s. In addition, they interview family members about the 1960s and...
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Peer Editing Checklist

For Students 7th - 11th
A handout to guide peer editors, this checklist delineates common problems with paragraph structure and specific proofreading items to check. It also provides encouragement about the collaborative part of the writing process. Formats...
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Lunar Myths

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the phases of the moon. In this moon instructional activity, 4th graders research myths regarding the moon and create a PowerPoint presentation to share their findings.

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