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Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading
Over the course of five periods, scholars create a poetry portfolio. They begin with a reading of the poem, Firefly. With a focus on vocabulary, learners reread the poem then look for sight words and other skills.
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Simile and Metaphor Lesson Plan
Similes and metaphors are the focus of a poetry lesson complete with two exercises. Scholars read poetry excerpts, underline comparative phrases, then identify whether it contains a simile or metaphor. They then write five similes and...
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Nouns Verbs: Write it Both Ways
A worksheet gives scholars the opportunity to take five words and use them as a noun and a verb. Changing the verb tenses and making nouns singular or plural work to compose a grammatically correct sentence.
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Nouns Verbs: Use It Two Ways
Scholars show what they know about nouns and verbs in a worksheet that requires them to read five words then use them in two sentences—as a noun and a verb.
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Find the Abstract Nouns
A instructional activity challenges scholars to read 20 words then identify and circle the 11 abstract nouns.
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Find the Collective Noun
Scholars read eight sentences in order to identify then underline the collective noun in a part of speech practice page.
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Create a Collective Noun
A worksheet requires scholars to think up 10 collective nouns for singular words such as snowflakes, cups, basketballs, and more.
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Collective Nouns: Animal Match
Discover the collective nouns of 10 animals with a worksheet that asks scholars to match a singular noun to its corresponding plural form.
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Missing Nouns
Scholars use nouns from a word bank to complete sentences in a fill-in-the-blank worksheet that tells a tale about the California Gold Rush.
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Change the Nouns to Adjectives
A 10-item practice page requires scholars to change nouns to adjectives by adding the appropriate suffix.
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Plurals: S or ES ?
A worksheet made up of six words and kid-friendly pictures challenges scholars to turn singular words plural by adding s or es.
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Replace with Proper Nouns
Three paragraphs make up a practice page all about proper nouns. Young grammarians choose from 12 words to fill in the blanks and complete sentences with the correct part of speech.
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Alphabet Collection: Nouns
A practice page challenges scholars to think up and list 26 nouns each starting with a different letter of the alphabet.
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Guess a Noun
Can you figure it out? A activity challenges grammarians to read 28 descriptions and guess what noun each one is describing.
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Nouns Verbs: Write it Both Ways
A five-item worksheet challenges scholars to write two sentences using the same verb in two different ways—as a noun and a verb.
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Color the Nouns: Turtle
A joyful turtle comes to life when scholars take yellow crayon to paper as they color all shapes containing a noun the color yellow.
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Color the Nouns: Tulips
Colorful tulips fill a worksheet designed to reinforce parts of speech. Scholars identify and color shapes that contain nouns pink.
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Color the Nouns: Octopus
An octopus has eight arms—but how many nouns can your learners find on this instructional activity? A color-by-grammar instructional activity unveils a smiling octopus when scholars color all nouns green.
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Change the Verbs to Adverbs
A 10-item worksheet challenges scholars to change verbs to adverbs using their knowledge of adjectives and suffixes.
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Alphabet Collection: Adverbs
Finish the assignment happily, quickly, and thoroughly! A one-page instructional activity challenges young grammarians to list adverbs in alphabetical order.
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Six tasks make up a lesson plan designed to reinforce comprehension and language skills using the poem "The Pied Piper" by Robert Browing. Scholars discuss and define unknown words, identify adjectives and onomatopoeia, review complex...
Super Teacher Worksheets
Accept and Except
Accept and except: although these two words sound similar, their meanings are very different. With a 10-question worksheet, grammar enthusiasts prove their understanding of the two commonly confused words by reading sentences and filling...
Macmillan Education
Slang
A four-part activity challenges scholars' knowledge of American, Australian, and British slang. Learners use context clues to decide which country a slang word is from, complete sentences, decipher a conversation, and answer questions.
McGraw Hill
Study Guide for Bridge to Terabithia
Bridge to Terabithia is a story about friendship that brings magic into ordinary life. Study guides may not be magical, but the guided questions, graphic organizers, extension activities, vocabulary, and discussion questions help...