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Endangered Species
Students research the issue of species endangerment by exploring threatened animals, their habitats, and the environmental challenges associated with them. They explore the relationships between living things and their environment....
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No Title
Fourth graders, after brainstorming a list of things good friends do for each other, apply prereading strategies to the book, "Be A Friend to Trees," and create similes and metaphors utilizing content ideas. They also sketch an...
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Stylistic Aspects of Composition
Students explore verbs. They list and demonstrate verbs. Students discuss words that connote different meanings. They write paragraphs based on their word selection. Students share their paragraphs with the class.
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Civil War: Daily Life
Pupils explore life during the civil war. While viewing selected clips of a movie, students observe the era of slavery, politics in New York during the Civil War. They compare and contrast life in New York today with that of life...
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Poems in Sections: The Mosaic Format
Students explore poetry. They examine metaphors. Students discuss and write examples of "figurative" and "literal" language. They read mosaic poetry. Students write a poem in mosaic format.
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Storytelling
Students explore, as a basis for their poem, their own personal observations and understandings of a specific person's character which might include exploits, actions, mannerisms and personality. They write a brief poem that tells a story.
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A Simile and Metaphor Lesson
Students use their knowledge of similes and metaphors to analyze poetry. In this poetry and language lesson, students read examples of similes and metaphors and write their own examples that describe their city, television, or an era in...
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My Special Day
First graders explore I Went to the Zoo, an online personal narrative presented in a slide show format. After viewing the photographs and reading the accompanying text, they will draw story ideas and write their own personal narratives.
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Emlyndo Word Search Puzzle
In this literacy instructional activity, students look for the words in the puzzle that are related to the theme of the word search. The vocabulary and spelling are emphasized.
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Adjectives 6
In this adjectives activity, students enhance their understanding of adjectives by selecting an adjective from the word bank to best complete the sentence.
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Adverbs Sentence Maze
In this adverb worksheet, students connect words in sentences found along a maze path to find their way from the beginning of the maze to the end, focus is on adverbs in sentences.
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Parts of Speech
Fifth graders examine the use of parts of speech. In this parts of speech lesson, 5th graders review the parts of speech in a teacher led activity that uses a song (not included). They color code the give parts of speech on a worksheet...
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Tour + Workshop = DESIGN: Presenting Information
Students develop a business card to market them. In this developing a business card to market them lesson, students design a business card to represent them. Students create a logo or graphic design that is professional and...
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Stretch the Sentence with Articles, Nouns and Pronouns-Pretest
In this sentences worksheet, students answer 10 multiple choice questions about extending sentences with nouns, articles and pronouns.
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Water: to the Last Drop
Students research how water played an important role in US history. In this social studies lesson, students make a mock newscast from one of the events they researched. They present their newscast to the class.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Vivid Verbs W.5.3.d
This lesson engages students in analyzing word choices. Students will write descriptive paragraphs about interesting magazine pictures and ensure that they are using vivid words in their writings.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Strong Verbs
This tutorial provides a PowerPoint presentation that defines strong verbs, gives examples, and explains why to use them. It also offers a YouTube video of a teacher setting up a "fight" between strong verb and weak verb. The tutorial...
CommonLit
Common Lit: What Your Most Vivid Memories Say About You
A learning module that begins with "What Your Most Vivid Memories Say About You" by Susan Krauss Whitbourne, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Strong Verbs
This tutorial focuses on replacing weak verbs with strong verbs in writing. It offers a video of robots Peter and Lucy discussing his need to fix the weak verbs in his writing. This information is summarized in a slideshow that follows:...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: More Than One Way to Create Vivid Verbs
Contains plans for three lessons to help students use vivid verbs in their writing. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Using Vivid Adjectives
This upper elementary lesson focuses on the use of vivid adjectives to enhance student writing. Students will explore vivid adjectives in a variety of activities including thesaurus use and story development software.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Learning to Recognize and Use Strong Verbs
In this activity, students will listen to stories and determine the meaning of the word by using sentence-level context clues. They will think about the verbs that are used and think about how that verb appeals to their senses, giving...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Using Strong Verbs: Lesson 1
A slideshow explaining how to use strong verbs. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Using Strong Verbs."
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Sophia: Using Strong Verbs: Lesson 4
A video lesson explaining how to use strong verbs. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Using Strong Verbs." [6:27]
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