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Charlotte is Wise, Patient, and Caring: Adjectives and Character Traits
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Charlotte is Wise, Patient, and Caring: Adjectives and Character Traits
Students find examples of adjectives in a shared reading. Then students "become" major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters, using powerful adjectives.
Spelling Cheerleading: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations
Grades
K - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Spelling Cheerleading: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations
"2-4-6-8, students will be spelling great" in this lesson that teaches the y rule for adding suffixes through cheering the spelling of words aloud, word sorts, and writing stories.
Identifying and Classifying Verbs in Context
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Minilesson
Identifying and Classifying Verbs in Context
The interactive read-aloud in this lesson helps students to identify and classify the three verb types—action, state-of-being or linking, and helping verbs.
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Rooting Out Meaning: Morpheme Match-Ups in the Primary Grades

In this lesson, students use morphemes—English words that have been formed by combining common word parts—to explore word meanings.

Time Magazine launches its "Tom Swifty" contest today in 1963.
Grades
5 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Author & Text
Time Magazine launches its "Tom Swifty" contest today in 1963.
Students have fun with language by creating a special kind of pun with its origin in a literary source.

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