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This Land is Your Land

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars use a popular American song to learn the past and present continuous tenses. They complete a web quest about the song "This Land is Your Land" and discuss it.
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Running on Faith

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students listen to the song, "Running on Faith" by Eric Clapton. They listen for the present perfect verb tense used in the song and then practice writing sentences in this verb tense and others previously studied.
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Write A Description

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice composing sentences that pertain to the description of a picture. They use critical observation skills in order to derive the best details. The sentences are required to follow the correct subject and verb pattern.
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Going West

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars examine the lives of early pioneers who traveled west for better opportunities. They listen to story "Josafina and the Story Quilt", and discuss hardships encountered by traveling families. Students then complete research...
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Jamestown Colony

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore cooperation between British settlers and Native Americans in the Jamestown Colony. They describe how the colonists and Powhatan Indians depended on the environment for their survival. Students write a report on the...
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Scrabble Laps

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students access that the purpose of this activity is to integrate physical fitness with spelling of core vocabulary words used in science and social studies. Students play the Scrabble Lap Game.
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Travels With Charley

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders engage in a literature study that uses a variety of texts in order to maximize their exposure to different reading situations. They examine each book in order to practice skills of reading comprehension. They recognize the...
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Interesting Beginnings: An Autobiographical Sketch

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students discuss the characteristics of an autobiography. Individually, they complete a graphic organizer and a timeline of events about their life. In groups, students brainstorm ideas for an interesting sentence and write an...
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15 Common Grammar Mistakes in Written and Oral Work

For Students 4th - 12th
In this grammar worksheet, students will read 5 of the 15 most common grammatical errors in written and oral work. There are 2 examples of each mistake and 2 examples of the corrected mistake.
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The Importance of Punctuation

For Students 5th - 6th
In this writing worksheet, students participate in a variety of punctuation activities. For example, rewrite a text using correct punctuation and unscramble words to create sentences.
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Adjectives and Descriptive Phrases

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the use of adjectives and descriptive phrases to improve their written pieces. In this adjectives and descriptive phrases lesson, students look at demonstrative adjectives, common adjectives, and proper adjectives. They...
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Discovering Our Legacy of Giving

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders examine the characteristics of philanthropists.  In this cross- curricular lesson, 7th graders evaluate the character traits of people from a film. Students write a metaphor about responsibility to community.
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Yummy for my tummy!

For Teachers 1st
First graders read the story Tops and Bottoms and identify vegetables that are eaten from the stem, root, and leaf of a plant. In this vegetables lesson plan, 1st graders learn vocabulary about different vegetable parts and write journal...
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Seeing Seattle

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students read an article from English Teaching Forum to learn about Seattle, Washington. In this Seattle research lesson, students make words from the letters in Seattle, Washington. Students read a fact sheet about the city and find...
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Using Capital Letters

For Students 1st
In this using capital letters worksheet, 1st graders find the capitalization mistakes in five sentences and re-write them correctly.
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Scrabble Laps

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice spelling. In this scrabble laps lesson, students divide into teams and complete laps around a track to earn letters.  Students use letters earned to form as many words as they can using random letters given for...
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Sentence Scramble

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this grammar instructional activity, students use cards with words on them to arrange correctly to make complete sentences. Students do this in teams and are timed to get points.
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Grammar-Mechanics Session #1/Parts of Speech

For Students 9th - 12th
As part of a grammar lesson, use these sentences to identify parts of speech. There are no directions, but parts of speech are available. The resource contains ten sentences in all.
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Phonics lesson for -ick family

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Kindergarteners and first graders develop phonemic awareness for words that contain -ick. Each learner gets a stack of cards with different -ick words, highlighting the target sound as they review each one. 
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Teaching Grammar in Context: Using Sentence Combining to Teach Subordination

For Teachers 3rd - 11th
Reinforce sentence styles with this lesson, which prompts young grammarians to build complex and compound-complex sentence structures. They respond to non-print text and identify subordinators as parts of speech procedure. They spell...
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Peer Editing Form

For Students 9th - 10th
Save time by downloading a template for peer editing. Included, you will find a one-form-per-page format and a four-forms-per-page format.
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Good vs. Well

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use the Smart Board to enhance learning.  In this vocabulary lesson, 4th graders practice using context clues to fill in missing words, learn the difference between using the words good and well, and practice what they've...
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Recognizing the Undocumented

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider the plight of undocumented workers. In this immigration lesson, students examine multimedia sources about the role that undocumented workers play in the American economy and conduct further research about the...
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The Adjective Toad

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students listen to the story Toad, then the story is reread without any adjectives. The class discusses the importance of details in a story. Then the class creates a collaborative book following the same story pattern.

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