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Sentence Fragments
Have students play a guess-the-hidden-word game as they identify sentence fragments. A fun reproducible maze tests students' knowledge of complete sentence structure. (PDF file)
From Punctuation, Puzzles, and Mazes  4–8
Flag Day
Create a pocket chart for two activities that deal with June events. Activities include poem sentence strips that help teach students about the nation's flag and the advent of summer. (PDF file)
From Month by Month Pocket Charts  K–2
Mini-Books, Activities, and Games
Make mini-books that aid language acquisition for second-language learners with easy to follow directions. Several language-acquisition activities and reproducibles that will bring the books to life are included. (PDF file)
From Easy & Engaging ESL Activities and Mini-Books for Every Classroom  1–4
Clifford's Good Deeds
Create a film strip to reinforce valuable comprehension skills, such as sequence of events and retelling a story. This lesson plan includes a reproducible to help young students reorder scenes from the Clifford story. (PDF file)
From Teaching with Favorite Clifford® Books  K–1
Life-Size Characters
Create reusable life-size characters to use as a study aid in character analysis lessons. A reproducible character graphic organizer accompanies several activity ideas to use with the life size characters. (PDF file)
From Awesome Hands-on Activities for Teaching Literary Elements  4–8
How to Make Mini-Books
Make an original mini-book with step-by-step instructions. This lesson includes a "Teddy Bear" reproducible to photocopy and use as a sing-a-long mini-book.
From Teaching Tunes Audiotape and Mini-Books Set: Basic Concepts  K–1
Making Mini-Dictionaries
Construct a picture dictionary with easy to follow instructions, and sample reproducible pages to get students on their way. (PDF file)
From 15 Reproducibles Cut & Paste Mini-Dictionaries  K–2
Social Studies Activities
Acquire important social studies skills with several fun games and activities while exploring online art tools from KidPix web site. Activities include a state capitals card game, a study of ancient Egyptian artifacts, and a biographical slide show. (PDF file)
From Easy Activities for Using Kid Pix software in the Classroom  1–3
   
 
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