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Accept/Except

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this confusing words learning exercise, students review the meanings of the words accept and except. Students then read examples of using the words correctly.
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Exploring Descriptive Language With Different Parts of Speech

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars practice experiencing writing with appropriate language and incorporating the eight parts of speech. They assess that many words have multiple functions when used in different contexts. Each student free writes in response...
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Passive Practice 1 Worksheet

For Students 5th - 6th
In this passive practice instructional activity, students use the given words to write 10 simple present sentences. They realize that some of the sentences are passive and others are not. They read 5 sentences and choose the sentence...
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Synonyms

For Students 2nd
For this synonyms worksheet, 2nd graders color the word with a similar meaning to the word given. Students complete 4 multiple choice questions.
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Making Data Meaningful

For Students 7th - 9th
In this sample mean worksheet, students explore different ways "average" is used. Students use this information to find the sample mean of the height of a large class of students. Students find the mean, median, mode and range of two...
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Worksheet 5. Vocabulary Practice

For Students 4th - 6th
In this vocabulary instructional activity, students choose the correct word from the options in parenthesis that completes the sentence. There are 20 sentences to complete on this instructional activity.
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My Daily Life in Kansas

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use 'Read Kansas' cards to learn about the daily life activities of an Osage boy and a pioneer girl. In this similarities and differences lesson, 2nd graders write a paragraph and draw a picture comparing their daily life...
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Words That Name Feelings

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this feeling words worksheet, students read the words that describe feelings and their definitions from the word box. Students then read the descriptions and write the word from the box that tells how each person is feeling.
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Question Words

For Students Higher Ed
In this ESL worksheet, students focus on words used to create questions.  Students complete 19 fill in the blank and short answer questions using words that are commonly put into question form when asking about photographs.
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Facing History and Ourselves

A Scene from a Middle School Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Citizens in the modern world can't imagine making the same social choices made by many Germans in the 1920s and 1930s, but they don't realize that they actually do it every day by ostracizing others. A case study of middle schoolers...
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Essential Skills Literacy

For Students 5th - 6th
In this essential skills literacy worksheet, students utilize a Thesaurus to look up words that have a similar meaning to the ones in each of the box drawings.
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ReQuest and Motor Imaging with My Side of the Mountain

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders read "My Side of the Mountain." They create a pantomime using vocabulary words from the story. Students create three questions about the reading. They discuss the passage they read and act out words to help them better...
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Phrasal Verbs with 'Take'

For Students 5th - 10th
For this English vocabulary skills worksheet, students answer 6 multiple choice questions regarding the use of phrasal verbs paired with the word "take."
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Online Words

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students use an online dictionary to discover the meaning of vocabulary words. The use of the internet is a skill that is developed for the integration of technology into the curriculum.
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Jambo Means Hello: An Introduction To Swahili

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students gain an appreciation for Swahili as a language spoken in many parts of Africa. They share and illustrate words from their own culture using English and Swahili and others to create a word quilt.
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Online Words

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars define spelling/vocabulary words using an online dictionary. In this Internet resources instructional activity, students learn how to use an online dictionary to look up the definitions of their spelling or vocabulary words.
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Words, words, words

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students discuss words that represent the big ideas in Othello and that recur throughout the play. They are assigned words to track throughout the text, recording which character says the word and in what context.
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Confusing Words

For Students 5th - 6th
In this confusing words worksheet, students complete 30 sentences with the words that are given, using context clues to determine the meaning.
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Dreaming with Marc Chagall

For Teachers 7th
Students scrutinize the early twentieth-century artists who dealt with expressionism and abstraction, especially Marc Chagall. This four lesson unit examines the life and work of Chagall and supports the student creation of works similar...
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A New Word Everyday: The Hobbit

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students record unknown vocabulary they encounter while reading The Hobbit. In this "A New Word Everyday" activity, after students record unknown words, they must use a dictionary to find the correct definition and write it down.
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Word Art with King's Words

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students investigate equality and racism by creating a word art project.  In this civil rights instructional activity, students discover the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and create a word art project using the Internet site Wordle...
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Teaching Tolerance: Taking Action on the R-Word

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the use of derogatory language and labeling others. In this discrimination lesson students research word origins, how different terms came to be used in a negative sense and what it would be like to have a negative label...
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The Word Root "Circ"

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this word root worksheet, students complete 5 sentences, filling in blanks with "circ" words from a word box, then complete a challenge activity, creating a similar activity with 3 additional words.
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Hidden Spelling Words

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this hidden spelling words worksheet, students find spelling words in a word search, answer short answer questions about words, and write questions of their own. Students search for 20 words, answer 5 questions, and write 3 on their...