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Analyzing Atmosphere: Macbeth Murder Scene and Dagger Speech
Shakespeare's Macbeth (Act II, Scenes I and II) lacks explicit details of the murder of King Duncan, yet the author creates an atmosphere that allows us to visualize the event. Readers interpret the "Dagger Speech" by writing stage...
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Reading Response Log
In this reading response log worksheet, learners choose a reading strategy to respond to what they have read. Students select 2 of the 6 sentence starters to help them begin.
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Cowboy Reading Log
In this reading worksheet, students keep a log of the books they read. Ten lines are given for book titles. A picture with a cowboy congratulates students for reading a particular number of books.
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Reading the Rainbow
In this reading worksheet, students keep a log of books they read. Students write the titles of each of the books on the bands of the rainbow. This worksheet is presented in color.
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First Grade, First Grade, What Do You See?
First graders read the book "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?" by Bill Martin, Jr. and work cooperatively to create an online book about their geographic region. Books can be posted on the internet with other books from around...
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Hidden Picture: Back-to-School "Puzzle"
In this language arts worksheet, young scholars examine a detailed picture of a school and playground with 17 hidden pictures. Students locate the objects that are hidden by reading a story with highlighted words that give clues about...
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Have Respect
Students learn the value of respect. For this Clifford the Big Red Dog lesson plan, students read the story, discuss respect, and experience a mini-international festival.
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Little Cloud
Young scholars create "little clouds" after reading the story "The Little Cloud" by Eric Carle in this cross-curricular Art and Language Arts lesson for the early-elementary classroom. The author suggests using this with a "Raindrop...
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President Abraham Lincoln Word Jumble
In this online interactive Abraham Lincoln worksheet, students examine 20 Lincoln-related words in a word bank. Students use the word bank to unscramble 20 sets of letters to match the terms in the word bank. This worksheet may also be...
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A Pumpkin Surprise: Connect-the-Dots Game
In this math instructional activity, students count from 1 to 50 as they connect the dots in a Halloween picture of a cat and Jack O'Lantern. Students color their picture.
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Surf's Up, Dude - Coloring Page
In this coloring page, student color a picture of a beach scene. They color a beach ball, and three surf boards that are leaning against a palm tree at the beach.
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Novel endings
Students explore writing techniques. They investigate stories and their endings. Students discuss good ending tips. Students write a story about a main character overcoming a problem and write a good ending.
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Little Green
Students explore how to make the color green by mixing the two primary colors, blue and yellow.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Irregular Word Activities
This extensive site has links to games and activities that teach students to read 30 high-frequency irregular words. There are over 20 activities and games at the bottom of the site in additional to sequenced irregular word activities....