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Expository Text Features Scavenger Hunt

This worksheet is a scavenger hunt that students can use to learn and relearn the knowledge of expository text features.  In the worksheet, students will find titles of diagrams, titles of charts, captions, keywords, bullet points, illustrations, table of contents, glossary, sidebars, titles, subtitles, and maps.

I use the Scholastic News with this worksheet, but it could work with any magazine type.

Figurative Language: Simple Similes and Meaningful Metaphors

In this activity students take simple sentences and use metaphors and similes to enhance their sentences, making them more interesting, entertaining, and more meaningful. Students will become more familiar with what a simile and a metaphor are.

Student names are in bold so that teachers can easily see them and replace them with their own student names. This makes is more engaging and fun as well.

If you would like to purchase the Google Doc version which allows you to insert your own student names please visit the following link on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Earth Science Salt Crystal Formation Lab

In this 3rd through 10th-grade lab, students will observe the formation of salt crystals. Students will also add food coloring to their dissolved salt solution to demonstrate how chemical impurities can change a mineral's color. If you have enough students doing the lab your class will get to see many different results. This Earth Science lab comes with the student work, student image sample results, and with my own insights and explanations as to how the experiment can work well.

Find more Earth Science labs and lessons at EarthScience.xyz

Don't Talk to Strangers Cloze Reading Worksheet

In this reading activity designed for 3rd graders, students will read a couple of paragraphs with 19 missing words.  Students have a word list they get to choose from to fill in the blanks in order to make the sentences sound good and be accurate.  Many of the words come from Saxon Phonics lesson 6 for 3rd grade.

The reading centers around being careful around strangers and the danger there is when talking to them.

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