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Every-Day Edits
Teachers use these daily practice printables to build skills, cultural literacy, and test scores.
Animals A to Z
Grades 2-4
Every-Day Edits
Grades 3-8

5-Minute Fillers
Forty volumes of fun learning activities for those moments when teachers have five minutes to fill.

News
For Kids
These weekly news stories are written with your students in mind. The teacher's guide helps you lead classroom discussions and reinforce skills based on the news.

Writing Bug
Story-starters grouped for special days, special themes, and anytime. (Grades 1-5)

Early Childhood Teaching Themes
Our early childhood editor, Sue LaBella, offers hundreds of activities on dozens of classroom teaching themes. Check out our archive today.

Tech Lesson of the Week
Easy ideas for integrating technology into your classroom curricula.

Learning
Game
Of the Week
Dozens of games for making learning fun. Check out a new game each week for use across the grades and the curriculum.

Math Cross Puzzles
Build a wide variety of math skills with these math "crosswords." (Grades 3-12)

Hunt the
Fact Monster
Build reading comprehension, cultural literacy, and Internet searching skills. Two levels: Primary (Grades 2-4) and Ele-Middle (Grades 5-9).

Mystery State
Share a clue a day to help students identify the Mystery State. (Grades 4-8)

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Holidays and
Special Days
Whether youre looking for lesson plans to help you teach about the holidays, the seasons, or special events such as Book Week or Black History Month, youll always find plenty of ideas and resources in Education Worlds holiday archive.

More Lesson Plan Themes
If lessons for special times of year are not what youre looking for, you will find more great every day lesson ideas in our Lesson Plan Archive. There you will find lesson ideas for teaching dozens of themes, like these and many others...

  • Celebrate Books: A Week of Fun
  • Review Games = Learning + Fun
  • Math Fun: Volume 3
  • Spotlight on Spelling
  • A Puzzle a Day: Practice That Pays

    Lesson Plan
    Of the Day
    A new lesson posted every weekday! Search our archive of hundreds of Lesson Plans of the Day by subject too.

    Teacher-Submitted Lesson Plans
    Hundreds of lessons from teachers just like you. Search our Teacher Lessons by grade level or subject.

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    Readers
    Theater
    Scripts
    Two dozen printable scripts free for classroom use. Scripts for the holidays, teaching lessons about getting along, sharing old tales, much more.

    Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks:
    Math Games With Joanne and Jane
    A new game each week from the masters of math games, Joanne Currah and Jane Felling.

    Friday Fun
    Do your students deserve a special break after working hard all week? These lesson and project ideas will fill the bill for Friday afternoon fun and learning.

    Bulletin Boards That Teach
    Timely bulletin board ideas grouped by month. Great anytime bulletin boards too.

    Show-Biz Science
    Our resident scientist presents a weekly show-stopping activity that will make teaching science the most fun you've ever had in the classroom.

    Vocab-u-lous!
    Build a fab vocab with these printable activities from A to Z and then some. (Grades 5-up)

    From the Math Machine
    If youre looking for games and other resources to help teach and reinforce all types of math skills, our labor-saving machine -- The Math Machine -- should be your first stop. New in 2008! The Reading Machine.

    BEST BOOKS FOR TEACHING ABOUT...

    Best Books for Teaching About
    Each week, Education World presents our Editors Choices for the best books for teaching about popular classroom themes. Check out our choices and add your own recommendations to the Readers Voices section of this weeks themed booklists:
    Best Books for Teaching About..


    The Alphabet
    April Fools!
    Comuunities
    December Holidays
    Friends
    Games
    Grammar
    The Human Body
    Manners
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    Money
    The 100th Day of School
    President's Day
    The Senses
    Spelling
    Words
    Writing Stories
    Plus many more themes...

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    Geography A to Z
    Learn about world geography one letter at a time. (Grades 4-8)

    Where in the World Is Mrs. Waffenschmidt?
    Can you figure out where she is this week based on the clues she provides? (Grades 3-8)

    Sudoku Puzzles
    These popular puzzles build critical thinking skills. Thirty-six puzzles in all. (Grades 3-12)

    It All Adds Up Math Puzzles
    Challenge students to put their addition skills to work. (Grades 3-6)

    Phonics Word Search Puzzles
    Thirty-six puzzles teach and reinforce phonics and spelling skills.

    Backpack-tivities
    These @Home learning activities involve students and parents together. (Grades Pre-K-8)

    Coloring Calendars
    Use these calendar templates to build student skills and for many other purposes. (Grades Pre-K-12)

    Work Sheet Library
    Hundreds more printable work sheets from our partners, including Teacher Created Materials and Highlights for Children.

    Make Your Own Work Sheets
    Use these timely templates to create your own activities for any subject. (Grades Pre-K - 5)

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    Just for This Month!
    See our December Month of Fun, December Word Search, and December Coloring Calendar. PLUS! Create your own work sheets for this months timely themes.

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