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Do Not Open Until May 2000!
Students create a time capsule. In this time capsule lesson, students collect and record data about themselves to be stored in a time capsule that will be opened at the end of the year.
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River Reading Circle
Students participate in a reading circle as a means of studying river-related poetry. They meet in small groups to discuss provided poems about the Mississippi River and use written or drawn notes
to guide their part of the discussion.
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Reading Comprehension
In this reading comprehension instructional activity, students read a passage called The Law of Life and answer multiple choice questions about it. Students complete 24 questions total.
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Grade 4 Elementary Level Science Test (2004)
In this science assessment worksheet, students complete a 41 question multiple choice and short essay science test on all grade 4 skills.
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Word Reference Materials
A class discussion on reference materials opens up a activity on how to use these important resources. They discover that dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauruses are called word reference resources, and they practice using them. The...
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New Shoes for Sylvia
First graders explore reading comprehension by analyzing a story in class. For this story structure lesson, 1st graders read the book New Shoes for Sylvia and discuss the character and her dilemma in the story. Students answer study...
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Do We Have to Do This?
Learners conduct Internet research, and read articles about education to determine why particular educational practices are used, and why they are important in terms of No Child Left Behind. Students create PowerPoint presentations...
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The Miracle of the First Poinsettia
Connecting to literature and learning how to infer are two great reading strategies everyone needs to know. Here, the class will read along with the story The Miracle of the First Poinsettia, review folktales as a genre, and make...
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There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves Storia Teaching Guide
There was an old lady who swallowed some leaves? Little learners read a new version of the old swallow story with a fall twist as they try to answer the big question; Why is that lady swallowing all that weird stuff? The teacher's guide...
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Right Place, Right Time
In this right place, right time activity, students read train timetables and apply the information to answer math word problems. Students solve eight word problems.
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Our Green City
Students practice beginning reading while exploring an environmental theme. For this our green city lesson, students create their own published books, examine phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, comprehension, and vocabulary.
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I'm Heading To the Rodeo
First graders read a realistic fiction book entitled "I'm Heading To The Rodeo." They predict what may happen in the story from observing the picture. After reading the book, 1st graders discuss the story and connect it with their own...
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Bedtime Fun
Students use picture clues to sound out the beginning of words. They apply this story to them actually going to bed. At the end, students should be able to follow a story line to a conclusion. To engage students, the teacher asks...
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The Dashiki
Students read verbs with different forms and endings, sequence events, gain knowledge of cause and effect and learn to use a glossary. They read the book, "The Dashiki" in small groups with the teacher focusing on how students decode an...
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Kama's Lei
Students read a book entitled "Kama's Lei" and "El Lei De Kama." They discuss the meaning of the word "lei" and predict what may happen int he story. Students explore strategies for decoding unfamiliar words. They explore the sequence of...
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Silent Sam
Students engage in a lesson plan to investigate the children's book Silent Sam and they strengthen the skills reading with expression, concept of print, and recognizing the correct sequence of a story. They practice reading narrative...
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Cooperative Learning Groups Cooperate
Students apply Bloom's Taxonomy to reading selections. They prepare questions for each level of Bloom's Taxonomy and exchange them with other groups to answer. They answer another group's questions and report to one another.
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The Goat Goes To Town
Students read a book, "The Goat Goes to Town." While reading the story, students predict what they think may happen. A teacher led discussion explores strategies students can use when they see a unfamiliar word. Students answer questions...
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I Make Clay Pots
Students read a book entitled, "I Make Clay Plots." After observing the cover, students predict what they believe will happen in the story. They review sight words and discuss methods of decoding unfamiliar words. Students answer...
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Pop Pop And Grandpa
Young scholars develop various skills needed to perform the best examples of reading comprehension for the purpose increasing literacy. They make cognitive connections to the sequence of events in the story and make comparisons as events...
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Meat Pies: Teacher's Guide
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Amelia's Road. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have discussions, and more.
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Laundry Day
Students read a book entitled, "Laundry Day." They discuss where people do the laundry and what clothes go in the washing machine and dryer. Students predict what may happen in the story. They discuss familiar words and strategies to...
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Make A Turkey
Learners read a book entitled, "Make A Turkey." After observing pictures in the book, students predict what they expect will happen in the story. Learners discuss events from the story. They decode unfamiliar words. Cross curricular...
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Ruby's Whistle
Students investigate the children's book "Ruby's Whistle" in order to practice skills of reading comprehension. They make connections with the text while reading that include sight word recognition, putting together contractions, and...