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Lesson Plan
Prestwick House

Vocabulary in Context: Inside the World of Wizards

For Teachers 8th Standards
Enter the world of Harry Potter and learn new vocabulary at the same time. A high-interest reading passage provides insight into the history of Harry Potter. Follow-up activities incorporate key vocabulary strategies, such as using...
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App
Innovative Mobile Apps

Phonics Genius

For Students Pre-K - 5th Standards
Readers at any level who are practicing phonics will benefit from a highly customizable set of features designed for instruction and practice. The extensive library of phonemes and exemplar words covers sounds from the a in cat to the zh...
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Worksheet
Teachers Pay Teachers

What Kind of Smart Are You

For Teachers K - 5th
Gain insight into the type of learners that fill your classroom. An eight-question survey asks scholars questions about themselves. Using their color-coded answers, they conclude their degree of intelligence in multiple areas—music,...
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Unit Plan
Steinhardt Apps

Kinetic Molecular Theory

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Building off young chemists' knowledge of the states of matter, kinetic molecular theory is the focus of the unit. Eight days of lessons including multiple demonstrations, one lab experiment, directed instruction, and worksheets,...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Mid-Unit Assessment, Part 2: Analyzing an Excerpt from the Narrative

For Teachers 7th Standards
Writing is a craft. Scholars take a mid-unit assessment where they answer questions about the author's purpose and craft in Douglass's narrative. After completing the assessment, pupils look continue with their independent reading text.
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TED-Ed

How Languages Evolve

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Do all languages have a common ancestor? Although no one yet knows the answer to that big question, the narrator of this short, animated video explains how linguists use migration patterns, geological features, and word clues to...
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Assessment
Concord Consortium

Systematic Solution II

For Students 10th - 11th Standards
Up the difficulty level by solving a system of equations with variable coefficients. Young scholars devise a plan to solve for x and y in terms of a and b. They represent their solutions as expressions and explain their process and the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Multiple-Meaning Words

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders answer a riddle to explore multiple meanings in words. After discussing the riddle, they match the definition on their card with another student who has the word. Students use their words with different meanings in...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introduction to the Visual Thesaurus

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine the basic functions of the online Visual Thesaurus, exploring how simple words may sometimes have multiple meanings. In small groups they select words and explore the Visual Thesaurus, and write a short play using the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Riddles Rule

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine words with multiple meanings. In this homonym lesson plan, 4th graders identify words that sound the same and define their meanings. Students create riddles using the homonyms they have learned.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rooting One's Way To Meaning

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students use a thesaurus on the internet to explore the meanings of Greek and Latin roots. They find definitions of given words, draw a concept map for root words, and write four synonyms for each word. Students discover how Latin and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Advanced Synonyms and Antonyms - Multiple Choice - Verbs 1

For Teachers 9th - 11th
In this advanced synonyms and antonyms worksheet, students read the definitions of synonyms and antonyms before answering 12 multiple choice questions. They choose the best synonyms for the verbs in the first 6 questions, and the best...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Advanced Synonyms and Antonyms - Multiple Choice - Nouns 3

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In this synonyms and antonyms worksheet, students complete 6 multiple choice questions where they choose the best synonym for a given word. Next, students complete 6 multiple choice questions where they choose the best antonym for a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Advanced Synonyms and Antonyms - Multiple Choice - Adjectives 5

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In this synonyms and antonyms worksheet, students complete 6 multiple choice questions where they choose the best synonym for each word given. Next, students complete 6 multiple choice questions where they choose the best antonym for...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Advanced Synonyms and Antonyms - Multiple Choice - Nouns 4

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In this synonyms and antonyms worksheet, young scholars complete 6 multiple choice questions where they choose the best synonym for each word given. Next, students complete 6 multiple choice questions where they choose the best antonym...
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Activity
Illustrative Mathematics

Words to Expressions 1

For Teachers 5th Standards
Designed as a follow-up to the lesson plan titled Watch Out for Parenthesis 1, this activity asks young learners to write an equation for the calculation described with words rather than numbers and symbols. The treasure that 5th graders...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Advanced Synonyms and Antonyms - Multiple Choice - Verbs 2

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students complete 6 multiple choice questions where they choose the best synonym for each verb given. Then students complete 6 multiple choice questions where they choose the best antonym for each verb given.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Advanced Synonyms and Antonyms- Multiple Choice- Verbs 3

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this synonyms and antonyms worksheet, learners choose the best synonyms from 5 choices for 6 words. Students then choose the best antonym for 6 more words.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Beginning Synonyms and Antonyms - Multiple Choice - Verbs 1

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
We most commonly look at synonyms and antonyms in terms of adjectives. If something is the opposite of small, it's large. Shift the focus from adjectives to verbs with this practice sheet. The first exercise asks the pupil to find the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Write the Word

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
What a great cross-curricular instructional activity to give to your kindergartners! They get printing practice by tracing the word blue, connecting its meaning by coloring bubbles blue. Finally, they connect the shape of the bubbles by...
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EngageNY

Summarizing Complex Ideas: Comparing the Original UDHR and the "Plain Language" Version

For Teachers 5th Standards
The eighth lesson plan in this series continues the focus on vocabulary and increasing young readers' awareness of academic language. Pairs of learners participate in a short vocabulary review activity called Interactive Words in which...
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Core Task Project

Whatif by Shel Silverstein

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
What a skillful way to incorporate Shel Silverstein, a wonderful author, into the classroom. Composed of three tasks, children are led through a series of text-dependent questions that force them to unveil the meaning of Silverstein's...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Relationships Between Key Scientific Concepts: What Causes Hurricanes?

For Teachers 5th Standards
A storm is brewing in the sea. Scholars complete multiple reads of How Does a Hurricane Form to determine gist, cause-and-effect relationships, and deepen vocabulary understanding.  To finish, they complete graphic organizers to record...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Margie Buys Apples

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
One of the most common, everyday applications of math is dealing with money. This single problem calculating how much change Margie receives is more involved than it appears at first glance. An understanding of how fractions and decimals...

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