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Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later)
In this Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later) worksheet, students read the book and answer short answer questions about it. Students complete 13 questions total.
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Digging Up The Facts
Students research environmental issues. In this environmental lesson, students use the Internet to research an environmental problem and list ten facts about it. Students write a summary of facts.
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BigMama
In this BigMama worksheet, students read the book BigMama and answer short answer questions about it. Students answer 10 questions total.
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Dinner at Aunt Connie's House
In this Dinner at Aunt Connie's House worksheet, students read the book Dinner at Aunt Connie's House and answer short answer questions about it. Students answer 9 questions.
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Comprehension Questions for Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear
In this comprehension questions for Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear worksheet, students read the book, then answer 12 comprehension questions
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Comprehension Questions for Cousins
In this comprehension questions for Cousins worksheet, students read the book then answer 18 comprehension questions about it.
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When Jessie Came Across the Sea
For this literature worksheet, 3rd graders refer to the book entitled When Jessie Came Across the Sea. Students respond to 11 short answer reading comprehension questions.
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Frog Metamorphosis
Learners play 20 Questions with animal characteristics and then view an animation of how a tadpole changes into a frog. They consider the importance of camouflage to frogs and write out the story of a frog from tadpole to adult.
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Coming Home from the life of Langston Hughes
In this Coming Home from the life of Langston Hughes worksheet, learners read the book Coming Home from the life of Langston Hughes and answer short answer questions about it. Students complete 10 questions total.
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Uncle Jed's Barbershop
In this Uncle Jed's Barbershop worksheet, students read the book Uncle Jed's Barbershop and complete short answer questions about it. Students complete 10 questions total.
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Missing May
In this Missing May activity, students read the book Missing May and answer short answer questions about it. Students answer 17 questions.
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Comprehension Questions for Stitching Stars
In this comprehension questions for Stitching Stars worksheet, students answer 30 comprehension questions after reading the book about quilts made by slaves in the 17-19th centuries.
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Always My Dad
In this Always My Dad worksheet, students read the book Always My Dad and answer short answer questions about it. Students answer 10 questions total.
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Comprehension Questions for The Best Way to Play
In this comprehension questions for The Best Way to Play worksheet, students read the book, then answer 11 comprehension questions about the story about video games written by Bill Cosby.
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The Mysterious Tadpole
Second graders examine books written by Steven Kellogg, looking for similarities in his illustrations. They also look at images found on the Internet. They listen to a read aloud of The Mysterious Tadpole up to the point where the eggs...
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Ancient Mesopotamia
Students locate ancient Mesopotamia on a map. They examine the religion, government and the development of writing. They write and draw pictographs and cuneiform writing. They create a class book based on their investigations.
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Christopher Columbus
Take some time to focus on Christopher Columbus, his three ships, the purpose of his voyage, and the new land he discovered. Pay special attention to the included additional materials, they are the real value in this resource.
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An Introduction to Nutrition
Whether you need a new textbook for your health class, or a few exercises and passages for your lesson on nutrition, you'll find what you need with a thorough nutritional science resource. With 15 chapters that cover elements of...
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During Reading Strategy for Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations
Readers create a literary scrapbook for one of the characters in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and fill it with mementoes, journal entries, letters, etc. A great way to get kids to think about characterization.
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The Phantom of the Opera
It's no masquerade! If Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera is part of your curriculum, check out this three-page packet loaded with suggestions for before, during, and after reading activities.
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Pronouns: Personal Pronouns, Demonstrative Pronouns
Which do you use: that or this? Which or where? Me or I? Practice pronoun use with a series of activities that focus on personal and demonstrative pronouns.
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Civil War Literature Circle
Historical fiction can be a valuable asset when learning about the past. Integrate several novels written about the Civil War into your social studies unit, with groups of four working collaboratively to comprehend the novel from...
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Decoding Propaganda: J’Accuse…! vs. J’Accuse…!
Reading snail mail is a great way to go back into history and to understand others' points of view. The resource, the second in a five-part unit, covers the Dreyfus Affair. Scholars, working in two different groups, read one letter and...
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Mayan Mathematics and Architecture
Take young scholars on a trip through history with this unit on the mathematics and architecture of the Mayan civilization. Starting with a introduction to their base twenty number system and the symbols they used, this eight-lesson unit...