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Final Steps - From Cinderella Project

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students culminate a service project associated with a Cinderella study. In this service project lesson, students write letters to thank donors and sponsoring organizations for their donations of shoes. They practice their presentation...
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A Statistical Study of the Letters of the Alphabet

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners gather appropriate information for simple statistical analysis. Then they will calculate probability working with a piece of literature that makes this lesson ideal for teaching across the whole curriculum.
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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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Acrostic Poetry to Teach Font Changes and Centering

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students engage in a discussion about how to write an acrostic poem. They demonstate the ability to use a word processor by typing an acrostic poem by following instructions. Word processing skills such as, centering text, changing font,...
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Guidance for Creating Phonics Lessons for Dyslexic Students

For Teachers K - 12th
Here is a quick and easy guide to help a new teacher build phonics lessons for students with dyslexia. It stresses the importance of fundamental basics while also providing clear and direct instructional practices that will help you...
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Thinking Ahead to Next Year

For Teachers K - 12th
End your school year in reflection. Ask your class to leave advice for those who follow in their footsteps, or write informative letters to the teachers who teach them next year. This is a great way to gather memories, improvements,...
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Fire Fight

For Teachers 9th - 12th
While somewhat dated (students write letters to President George W. Bush about the Iraq War), this lesson could be a good way to reinforce rhetorical reading and critical thinking. Students examine information regarding Operation Iraqi...
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Personification

For Teachers 7th Standards
Spongebob Squarepants helps teach middle schoolers about personification! After discussing the human characteristics demonstrated by the cartoon character, scholars identify the personification in poems by Emily Dickinson and Langston...
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Xylophone

For Students Pre-K - K
In this word and letter recognition activity, students recognize the letter x. Students follow directions, color and practice writing the letter x.
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Oo is for Octopus

For Students K - 1st
Oodles of fun and opportunities for learning are overwhelming in this Letter O activity series, which features printing practice for letters and numbers, connect the docts, and lots of cute octopi for your learners to color.
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D'Nealian Cursive Writing

For Students 3rd
In this cursive writing worksheet, 3rd graders improve on their cursive writing skills. Students practice their cursive by writing the lowercase letter ten times.
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Where's My Letter

For Students 3rd
In this missing letters worksheet, 3rd graders figure out the missing letter in 15 vocabulary words and then fill in each missing letter in each word.
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Letter Recognition: Confusable Letter Pairs

For Teachers K - 1st
Students distinguish between easily-confused letter pairs such as b and d, p and b, m and w, and n and m. They read and listen to a story that highlights words containing the letter pairs. They use picture clues to aid reading...
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Printing the Letter Tt

For Students Pre-K - K
In this printing practice worksheet, students trace the dotted lines to create the upper case T and the lower case t. Students trace 16 letters.
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Match Uppercase to Lowercase - Letters P, Q, R, S and T

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this matching uppercase and lowercase P, Q, R, S, and T worksheet, students learn to recognize uppercase and lowercase letters as they match 5 uppercase letters on the left to the corresponding lowercase letters on the right.
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Match Uppercase to Lowercase- Letters U, V, W, X, Y and Z

For Students Pre-K - K
For this matching letters worksheet, students draw lines to match upper and lower case examples of letters U, V, W, X, Y and Z.
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Match Uppercase to Lowercase-- Letters F, G, H, I and J

For Students Pre-K - K
In this matching letters worksheet, students draw lines to match upper and lower case examples of letters F, G, H, I and J.
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Letter Formation: Nn

For Students Pre-K - K
In this letter formation worksheet, students trace 4 upper case N's and 4 lower case n's and then write each upper and lower case letter in the blank space provided.
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Reporting in Letters

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate the cultures and politics of different countries and write radio letters to listeners in those countries modeled after Alistair Cooke's "Letter from America."
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Letter Formation Nn

For Students 1st
In this printing practice worksheet, 1st graders use a felt tip marker to trace to large examples of N and n by starting at the star and following the arrows. They trace dotted lines with at pencil to form 4 upper case and 4 lower case...
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D'Nealian Cursive Handwriting Practice Worksheet- Upper Case Letter L

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this D'Nealian cursive L worksheet, students learn to form upper case letter L. Students analyze the sample letter and then practice on ten lines. There are no direction arrows or tracing.
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Learning the Letters

For Teachers K
Students identify the letters of the alphabet. In this letters lesson plan, students use an iPad to play games, draw pictures, and listen to videos about the alphabet. They use pipe cleaners to create their name.
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D'Nealian Cursive Handwriting Practice: letter y

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this D'Nealian cursive worksheet, students practice writing the capital letter Y in D'Nealian cursive. Students complete 10 lines.
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D'Nealian Cursive Handwriting Practice Worksheet: lower case n

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this D'Nealian cursive worksheet, students practice writing the lower case letter n in D'Nealian cursive. Students complete 10 lines.