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Egyptian Mummification
Students explore Egyptian mummification and burial practices. They conduct research on gods, goddesses, afterlife, and mummification. Students dissect and mummify a frog "pharaoh and create a tomb wall for their frog "pharaoh."
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We are the World - Writing about our Earth
First graders write facts about the Earth. In this Earth instructional activity, 1st graders discuss natural resources, recycling, and how to keep the Earth clean. They work in groups to create a small book with 3-5 facts about the...
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The Social Skill of Communication
Fifth graders explore communication by analyzing manners. In this social skills lesson, 5th graders review the different forms of communication and how to present yourself in a phone conversation, face to face meeting, e-mail, etc....
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Trucks and Community Workers
First graders identify community helpers and their roles. In this transportation lesson, 1st graders complete a series of lessons integrating technology and literacy. Students decode sounds of short u, c/s/ and g/j/ words and improve...
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A Christmas Carol Reaction
Eighth graders explore writing in voice. They read and discuss A Christmas Carol and the trait of voice in writing. They write a bio poem about one of the characters and his traits, feelings, attitudes and reactions. They write their...
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The Great Chase
Students use the text "The Great Chase" to explore characters, views, and using words and phrases from the text. They write character profiles that describe the characters in the story. Students use key words and phrases from the story.
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The Polar Express Writing Report
In this grade 2 writing prompt worksheet, students are give a writing prompt from the book The Polar Express about using their senses to write about going on a trip around the world with Santa Claus. Pages include a rubric and teacher...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Punctuation Practice
Students have a tough time differentiating between punctuation marks when writing and especially when reading. It is important that we give students explicit instruction on punctuation to allow them to become more fluent in using them...
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Better Lesson: Write the Room Punctuation
Using a "Write the Room" activity to identify punctuation motivates students to practice this new skill. Students will place punctuation marks in the proper place using clues from signs around the room. Included is a video of the lesson...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing: Editing: Punctuation
A learning module that teaches students about the rules of punctuation in six mini-lessons: Introduction, Terminal Punctuation, The Common Comma, Apostrophes and Quotation Marks, Semicolons, and Your Turn.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Full Stop Game (Beginner)
This reading game is designed to teach young readers about how and where to place periods at the end of sentences. They are to click on and drag a snail to where the period belongs; the snail spins and turns into a period.
Other
Project l.a.: Possessive Nouns
Designed for elementary students, this Internet viewable slide show explains how to form possessives, then provides practice sentences. At the end are links to an online practice quiz and a printable worksheet.
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Better Lesson: What Makes a Sentence?
This lesson will help students recognize that spoken sentences are represented in written language by specific sequences of words, beginning with a capital letter and ending with a punctuation mark. This lesson is short but it allows...