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Vocabulary Building Activity
In these vocabulary building worksheets, learners complete several activities to help them learn how to spell and use the words mail, gain, contains, fair, daily, airline, and maintain.
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Lizards
Fourth graders recall lizards from the text and report their important traits. The teacher adds the information to the map. They watch the map expand while it organizes all of the lizards and their characteristics.
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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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Research Project
Eighth graders research a project of their choice in relation to a career they may want. In this language arts lesson, 8th graders create a bibliography of references used both print and online sources. Students make an outline of their...
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A Map Mystery
First graders solve a mystery by following map clues. In this map clues lesson plan, 1st graders follow a computer program called Neighborhood Map Machine. In this program, it gives students directional and spatial clues in order to...
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Famous People Research Project
Fourth graders research a famous person in Michigan history. They will use at least three different resources including technology to conduct their research. They then will use various forms of technology to create individual research...
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Philanthropy in Song
Learners discover the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students define the word philanthropist through song.
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Miles Of Smiles
Young scholars investigate basic mathematical properties to solve multiplication and division problems. They solve word problems that are part of the instructional activity. Students are required to give written or oral justification for...
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Soaring Through Space With a Kid Pix Slide Show
First graders create a slide show on Kid Pix about space. In this space lesson plan, 1st graders will explore the earth, sun, moon, and planets. After exploring their motions and locations around the sun, they create a 4 page slide show...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Colorful Desert
In this lesson plan, The Colorful Desert, written by Audrey Wood, is used as a mentor text for sentence fluency. The content focus of the lesson is about how sentences build through a "building on" book. Young scholars will use sentence...
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Writing Fix: Oh, Messy Cheetos!
In this lesson plan, sentence fluency is the focus. The mentor text entitled Mrs. Wishy Washy is used to help students explore how using repetition techniques can enhance the meaning of a story. After reading the text, students will...
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Writing Fix: We Saw Him at the Zoo
For this lesson plan, the mentor text utilized is Deborah Guarino's book, Is Your Mama a Llama?, with the focus of sentence fluency. Each student will think of an animal that that has the same initial sound as his/her name. Using the...
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Class Flow: Writing With Pizzazz Sentence Fluency
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives the students some statements and examples for them to look at and evaluate sentence fluency.
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Writing Fix: Revision Checklists [Pdf]
Walk your students through the writing process with this revision checklist. Students review their idea development, organization, sentence fluency and word choice. Click on appropriate grade-levels to get the desired checklists....
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Sophia: Sentence Openers
This tutorial focuses on variety in sentence openers; it includes a slideshow about adding variety in sentence fluency and length, and why and how to add variety to sentence openers with examples. It also offers an audio clip with...
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Kim's Korner: Six Trait Analytic Writing Model
Check out this comprehensive website featuring ideas for teaching writing based on the six trait analytic writing model.
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Writing Fix: Different Ways of Looking
In this instructional activity students will use the sentence structure from Wallace Stevens' "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."
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Grammarly Blog: Sentence Emphasis
An explanation and examples of various techniques that can be used in order to emphasize important sentences within a text.
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Writing Fix: The Post It Writing Process
Based on Northern Nevada's 6-traits of writing, teachers can use a post-it note as a template for students to check their work throughout the writing process. Links to the 6-traits are included.
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Writing Fix: The Who/what/where/when Game: Wild Weather Sentences
In this instructional activity, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this instructional activity. Brave Irene, written by William Steig, is used as the mentor text of this instructional...
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Writing Fix: I Caught It!
In this lesson plan, students read the book I Was Walking Down The Road by Sarah E. Barchas and Jack Kent and study the predictable rhythm and rhyme pattern. Then, students write their own sentences to mimic those patterns.
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Writing Fix: Showing With Participial Phrases
Young scholars will learn how to combine sentences by utilizing participial phrases
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Writing Fix: How Do I Love Sonnets
In this lesson students will learn the meter and rhyme of a sonnet and they will write one of their own using specific word choice.