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Eliminating Weak Essay Material
A strong essay eliminates weak or unnecessary material. Determining what information contributes to an essay and what information should be deleted is a skill readers and writers of informational text must develop. Class members practice...
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Example of a Description of Action
Read the descriptive paragraph (included) with your middle schoolers, and have them study the stylistic elements included. They'll look for vivid verbs, alliteration, assonance, similes, and personification. Before writers craft their...
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Fast Fact-Finding
Ever wonder why the sky changes color so often? Readers examine an informational excerpt from John Farndon's How the Earth Works. They underline key points as they read and then answer five response questions. Prompts review main...
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Fairy Tale Book Report Form
Motivate you class with this resource. Learners read a fairy tale and then fill out this book report. They identify the name of the fairy tale, the author, the illustrator, and the setting on each of the blank lines. Then, they fill in a...
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Media Literacy and Health: What’s the Truth?
In this personal health media literacy worksheet, students use the eight questions on this sheet to evaluate a health news report on television. Students write paragraphs the determine whether the reports are valid sources of information.
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Manatee
For this reading comprehension about Manatees worksheet, students read a paragraph and answer questions to demonstrate their understanding. Students write 4 answers.
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Written Response: Jewish immigration to Palestine
Examine Jewish and Arab sovereignty as it relates to the control of Palestine. Pupils read a passage explaining the history of the conflict, then write a 10-sentence paragraph describing what they would do if they were a member of the...
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Nov. 17, 1973 | Nixon Declares 'I Am Not a Crook'
Connect events of the past to events of today. Budding historians read an eight paragraph passage describing the Watergate scandal. They then connect the Nixon scandal to sex scandals of recent times. There are six critical thinking...
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Singular Adjectives Worksheet 3- Mi novio es/ Mi novio no es
Who is your boyfriend or girlfriend? Have each learner choose a friend to describe with the use of adjectives. Basic information includes where he or she is from, the high school they attend, and basic traits they do or don't have....
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En Mi Casa
Yo estaba en mi casa cuando Juan...me llamó! Sing this catchy tune with your young Spanish speakers, and have them say the words along with you to practice oral fluency! Consider extending this activity by asking your class to write a...
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Reading Comprehension: Thor and Sif
Expose your readers to the fascinating legends of Norse Gods Thor and Sif. They read a brief introduction about traditional stories and myths then read several paragraphs on these figures, marking unknown words as they go. Learners look...
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Whose Home Is This?
After reading a short and informative paragraph on animals and their environments, learners look at pictures of four animals, and write a short description of how each one has adapted to its environment. A suggested activity is that each...
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Weather and Plans
If the weather is nice this weekend, what are your plans? Review weather vocabulary when practicing the future tense with this four-page packet. Learners will identify the correct future tense for several sentences provided and write...
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Reading Comprehension: A Spring Day
Test the reading comprehension skills of your beginning and intermediate Spanish readers. First, they read the short paragraph about Claudia and her grandmother, and then they complete the two exercises that follow. The first is a...
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"How Do I Love Thee?" Supporting Ideas
Show your class what poem the famous line "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" comes from. Class members read Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem and respond to one question with a short paragraph. The question asks learners to use...
Mathematics Assessment Project
Fearless Frames
Show class members how to connect algebra to geometry. A high school assessment task has pupils determine volumes of two different containers given limitations on material for box frames. Pupils then write a paragraph on...
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Remembering Jackie Robinson
A four-paragraph informational text details the life of the famous baseball player, Jackie Robinson. A prompt challenges scholars to write or discuss a time in their life when they were not included and how that made them feel.
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"Size 6: The Western Women's Harem" by Fatema Mernissi
Intended for a mature, advanced placement audience, this set of questions accompanies an essay by Fatema Mernissi regarding clothing size and the possible implications for not fitting in with what is considered the norm. A very...
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Memory: -ed Endings
In this grammar worksheet, learners will sort 12 verbs into the correct column by the sound the -ed makes at the end of the word. Then students will write a paragraph about how 2 friends have changed over the last 10 years.
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I Am, Am Not! Project
Get your class writing with this project idea. Kids choose two pictures of objects that are like them and two pictures of objects that are not like them to entice their readers. Then, they write an informative paragraph describing each...
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Language Arts
In this literacy worksheet, 5th graders find the main idea, put the words into the correct sentences, and read the paragraph to increase reading comprehension.
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Fix the Story with Antonyms
Readers correct a paragraph, providing antonyms for words printed in bold print so that the paragraph makes sense.
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Total English Elementary: Which Ones?
A reading paragraph to correct, and nine questions related to possessive pronouns awaits your budding grammarians. This two-part worksheet includes a page for the class and one for the teacher. Don't you just love teacher notes?
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Notes on the Screw
In this notes on the screw worksheet, 5th graders read 3 paragraphs about the screw, its history and uses, then write the main points of each paragraph in the right hand column.
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