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Egyptian Gods and Goddesses: Anubis

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Anubis was god of funerary practices and mummification in ancient Egypt. Young scholars show what they know as they fill out a description of the god, what he ruled over, and his importance to ancient Egyptians. Tip: Find or make more...
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Grammar Worksheet: Lie vs. Lay

For Students 6th - 8th
To do something to someone or something or not to do something to someone. That is the question. And it is the source of the confusion between lie and lay. The strength of this worksheet is in the clear, cogent explanation for the...
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Essay Outline Template

For Students 7th - 9th
The strength of this essay outline template is its specificity. By the time your young writers fill in the requested information, they are well on their way to compiling their multi-paragraph essay. Learners craft topic sentences,...
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Poetry Reading: Analysis Worksheet

For Students 7th - 9th
Explore poetry by reading the poem "The Walloping Window Blind" by Charles E. Carryl, and completing an analysis with your class. The worksheet provides the entire poem, a graphic organizer to help with summarizing and paraphrasing, and...
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Property of Equality

For Students 7th - 10th
Learns will name the property of equality demonstrated in each example. Problems include addition, multiplication, subtraction, and division properties of equality.
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Dialogue Practice

For Students 6th - 9th
Hola! Distribute this short dialogue to your beginning Spanish speakers. They have to read the entire dialogue before inputting the missing words. Then, in the second section, they read a short dialogue between two characters before...
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Food Translation

For Students 7th - 9th
Practice translating a series of sentences using food and shopping vocabulary. There are 10 short sentences to translate, and a short essay question is also included. For the short essay question, writers describe what they eat and drink...
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Los números

For Students 7th - 9th
A clever way to review numbers in Spanish! First, learners write their phone numbers in Spanish. Then, after writing a series of numbers in Spanish (ranging from 9-1492), they write a group of math problems in Spanish. For example,...
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Tener Translations

For Students 7th - 9th
Work with the Spanish verb tener and encourage translation practice with this activity. Eleven sets of sentences are provided in English, and beginning Spanish speakers translate them into the target language. A few possibly unknown...
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Colors Quiz

For Students 7th - 9th
Colors, colors, colors! Quiz your beginning Spanish class on color vocabulary. There are five short exercises included in this quiz, but question numbers four and five are particularly interesting. In question number four, learners...
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Making 'em plural?

For Students 7th - 9th
Pluralize it! Pupils take 10 subjects in English and write them plural in Spanish. Then, in the second exercise, they re-write a series of sentences (already written in Spanish) to make the subjects plural. 
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-ER and -IR Verbs

For Students 6th - 8th
A large part of learning a foreign language is learning how to conjugate the verbs in that language. Focus on -er and -ir verbs with this resource. In the first exercise, pupils conjugate the verb in parentheses to complete each of 15...
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Food and Friends Quiz

For Students 6th - 8th
If you're looking for a basic quiz to cover food and restaurant vocabulary, this could be it! Learners match Spanish food names with their correct descriptions, describe foods they like or dislike, and name three condiments, fruits,...
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Writing to an Author

For Students 5th - 8th
Provide your young readers with step-by-step directions for crafting a friendly letter to their favorite author. After drafting and revising their letter, class members illustrate a favorite scene in the book and mail their letters to...
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Family Letter

For Students 6th - 9th
Middle schoolers, working with their parents, calculate and complete five word problems associated with multiplying and dividing decimals. Students research the current Federal minimum wage at the library or on the Internet.
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Past Tense Weather Worksheet

For Students 7th - 9th
What was the weather like yesterday? Using the past tense, describe the weather conditions. Through four different exercises, language learners will review weather-related vocabulary terms and the pretérito indefinido and pretérito...
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Food Questions

For Students 6th - 8th
Do you like meat? What about seafood? Answer the questions provided with your best Spanish. This activity could make a quick bell-ringer activity or even an exit card. 
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¿Cuando?

For Students 7th - 9th
When do you get up? When do you eat lunch? Use the series of sentences included to practice using vocabulary such as de la tarde or de la noche. For each phrase provided, beginning Spanish pupils write a complete sentence describing when...
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Student Opinion: What Small Things Have You Seen and Taken Note of Today?

For Students 7th - 12th
An interesting and unusual topic for a news article, this resource from the New York Times website asks learners to take a moment and consider all the things they notice during a typical day. Based of the editorial piece "Things I...
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Student Opinion: What Are You Afraid Of?

For Students 7th - 12th
A great resource for informational texts as well as writing topics, the New York Times website provides writing prompts about various news articles through The Learning Network. This particular worksheet provides a very short...
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Beginning Short Stories w/ Questions - An Adventure

For Students 3rd - 9th
This activity, which could be used in the lower grades for reading comprehension practice or with older students as part of an ESL lesson, has learners read a short story and answer six comprehension and vocabulary questions. As part of...
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Political Cartoon Analysis Guide

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Political cartoons are very clever, and often have deep meanings. This worksheet has learners consider a political cartoon. Next, they answer four questions regarding the cartoon. A very clever and effective teaching resource.
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Interpreting Photographs: Part One

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Photography is a wonderful artistic medium used to express feelings, historical events, and nature. This worksheet provides three critical-analysis questions that require learners to take an in-depth look a photograph both physically and...
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Music Composition

For Students 6th - 12th
Are your learners ready to compose their own music? If so, this activity will help them do it. The sheet is broken into several staffs where they write the tune, riff, and chords. They can put them together to create a unique piece. Tip:...