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Tricky T
Students practice the corresponding phonemes associated with the letter and sound symbol to T. They identify the letter, write it and also identify pictures that display it's beginning sound. Students also interact with the book,...
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Slithering Silly Snake
Students practice letter recognition for the /s/ sound in both lower and upper case formats. They listen as the book, "Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp," by Carol Shields is read to them and then they complete a worksheet containing...
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Shh! I am Trying to Read!
Students explore the advantages of being able to read silently. They then review a "stuck on a word" strategy using context clues to determine meanings of unknown words. They then practice reading silently and the teacher assesses for...
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Fluency is Freedom!
Students read orally in groups of two to increase reading speed and fluency in this lesson. They read provided books which emphasize the short vowel sounds. The pairs time each others reading and offer encouragement and support as they...
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Droopy Dog says....
Young scholars study the /d/ sound by making the sound and determining where their tongue is when the make it. They repeat a tongue twister while emphasizing the /d/ sounds. Next, they identify the sound in words as the teacher uses a...
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The Broken Car
Pupils recognize the phoneme /b/. Through listening and matching activities, they discriminate the phoneme /b/ from similar looking letters and phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
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Sammy the Slimy Snake
Students engage in a emergent literacy lesson with the intention of improving reading comprehension. The goals of the lesson include recognizing both upper and lower case S, to create an awareness of the mouth movement and the phoneme...
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Insects
Students, through books, videos, and readings, explore characteristics of insects. In groups, they choose an insect to research. Students discover their insect's diet, how they move, and where they live. Afterwards, they use the facts...
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ESL Adjective Word Order Worksheet
In this adjective word order worksheet, students read each sentence before placing the adjectives in the proper order for correct English. They order them based on the factors of nationality, size, material, opinion, and use.
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Mini Book: Halloween Night
In this mini book worksheet, students read a simple story about Halloween Night and make a mini book. Story focuses on rhyming phrases.
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Punctuating Sentences
In this punctuation worksheet, students insert the correct punctuation at the end of 11 simple sentences. Sentences are interrogatives and declaratives.
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Animal Artists
Students read a current events non-fiction article and answer vocabulary and comprehension questions about it. In this animal artists paint for fun lesson plan, students also work on dictionary skills, geography, and creative thinking by...
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Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
In these commas splices and fused sentences worksheets, students read the sentences that contain commas splices and fused sentences. Students then select from the options the correct way to finish the sentences.
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Beginning Analogies 8
In this analogies worksheet, students study the pairs of words and choose the answer that best expresses a relationship similar to the original pair. Students complete 12 problems.
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Halloween Word Jumble
In this Halloween instructional activity, students unscramble a set of 20 Halloween related words; words are given in a word box beneath the scrambled versions. Worksheet has links to additional activities.
Other
Big cats.com: Learn to Identify the Big Cats
A pictorial gallery of the big cats found around the world! Brief text accompanies amazing photographs of these beautiful creatures.
TES Global
Tes: Big Cat Holidays: Reading Assignment
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will analyze a tourism brochure that features the big cats of Africa. This assessment can be use used as a formative or summative performance assessment.
Other
Big Cats Online
A comprehensive site that provides information on the evolution, behavior, and conservation of Big Cats. This site also has an informative fact and figures section that contains answers to frequently asked e-mail questions.
Read Works
Read Works: Saving Big Cats
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about jaguars, tigers, and other big cats that have become endangered species. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Lions for Kids: Learn About the Big Cat
The lion rules the land with it's hunting prowess and roar. Study the lion the second biggest of the big cats on this site.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Animals: Wild Cats
Learn the names of some of the biggest wild cats. Each page has one word and a photograph. Includes audio narration in 6 additional languages with text in English.
Other
Big Cats Online: Jaguar (Panthera Onca)
Learn about jaguars, including their description, hunting capabilities, threats to survival, and more.
Other
Big Cat Rescue: Ocelot Facts
This thorough resource provides a general overview of the ocelot and delves into size and appearance, habitat, distribution, reproduction and offspring, social system and communication, hunting and diet principal threats, and endangered...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Zoo: Facts About Great Cats
Learn about the great cats by linking from this introductory page to a photo gallery, to fact sheets about specific cats, to conservation and science information, and more.