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Narrative Writing: Using Exact Words
Review the narrative writing process with your emerging story writers. They read a sample narrative and identify five vague verbs that could be replaced with a more exact, exciting verb. Then they write a personal narrative making sure...
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Grammar Worksheets: Using Strong Verbs
Strengthen your pupils' writing with this worksheet, which provides a reference guide to using strong verbs instead of forms of is and have. Learners then rewrite twelve sentences to make them stronger. This is a great activity to work...
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Past Tense Irregular Verbs
With this worksheet, youngsters review past tense irregular words and predict the spelling of these words. They complete a worksheet where they fill in the missing letters of irregular verbs. The sheet provides the exact number of spaces...
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Vivid Verbs
Pupils find vivid verbs in the story Thank You for the Thistle, by Doree Durston. They add vivid verbs to an existing story to make it more interesting.
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Phrasal Verb Gap Fill T-Z
In this ESL phrasal verb worksheet, students read 12 sentences that have missing verbs. Students select a phrasal verb from the word bank and insert it into each sentence.
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Predictions by Famous People in History
For this prediction worksheet, students read 5 predictions made by famous historical people. They decide if the predictions became true or if it turned out to be false. They use a word bank at the bottom of the page to aid in comprehension.
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Los participios irregulares: el presente perfecto
Looking for a reference guide to equip your learners with as they explore the irregular past participles in the perfect tense? First there's a chart that contains 12 irregulars and their meaning, and then there are example sentences to...
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Grammar Worksheets: Attribute Words and Ideas Correctly
What is a verb of attribution? Study the description and examples on the first page, and then let your classes attempt the second page. There's a list of verbs they can use to construct the sentences provided.
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Mixed Phrasal Verbs 5
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, learners answer 20 fill in the blank questions regarding phrasal verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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The Search for Delicious: Novel Study
Have you ever gone looking for one thing but ended up discovering something else? That is exactly what happened to Gaylen, a character in The Search for Delicious. Gaylen begins looking for a food to label as delicious, but discoveres...
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Double Quiz: Present Simple Questions/ Trivia
In this ESL online interactive grammar instructional activity, students answer 15 multiple choice questions regarding the use of present simple tense verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Times & Dates in Spanish
Use this information, presentation, and infographic to build several lessons on telling the time and expressing the date in Spanish. The information is broken into topics and includes many examples and exceptions to the standard rules....
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Antonyms 1: Level 7
When is a cow not a cow? When, as a homograph, it is used as a verb to mean to frighten with threats, of course. Studying antonyms is a great way to increase vocabulary and the 10 questions on this antonym quiz will challenge your middle...
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Jabberwocky - A Creative Writing Lesson Plan
Make some sense out of Lewis Carroll's famous nonsense poem "Jabberwocky." After reading through the poem, introduce the word portmanteau and send small groups off to alter the original poem.
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You Tell Me!
A good lesson plan on sentence writing is here for you! Young writers read sentences and determine the word that appropriately completes the sentence. They work in teams to develop their own statements and then exchange with another team.
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Preposition of Time
In this grammar instructional activity, students fill in each blank in eighteen sentences with the appropriate preposition of time that makes each sentence grammatically correct.
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Editing
Are your writers ready to edit their papers? Present them with these editing tips including reading papers out loud, varying sentence openings and lengths, and using action verbs. While the tips are worthwhile, consider supplementing the...
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Show! Don't Tell!
Students write a descriptive paragraph. In this writing lesson, students define elaboration and discuss the characteristics of an elaborate paragraph. Students write a paragraph that contains vivid adjectives, strong verbs and exact nouns.
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Grade 4 Language-Proficient 2
In this grade 4 language learning exercise, 4th graders answer a set of 20 "proficient" multiple choice questions. Answers may be submitted and checked on-line.
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Experience: referring to an activity in the unspecified past
In this past experience worksheet, students refer to activities in the past by filling in blanks to sentences such as was, have been, thought, and more. Students complete 22 multiple choice questions.
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Preposition of Time
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate preposition of time to fill in twenty-four blanks that make each sentence grammatically correct.
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Total English Advanced: Quiz about Progress!
In this key vocabulary worksheet, students respond to 10 short answer questions and 4 multiple choice questions in order to practice and consolidate key vocabulary.
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ESL: Advanced/Proficiency Vocabulary
In this ESL word formation worksheet, students complete each sentence using the proper form of the word or words given in bold below the sentence. They fill in 9 blanks in seven sentences.
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Five Paragraph Essay
Eighth graders are introduced to the mechanics of writing a standard-form essay. They draft, edit and polish a five-paragraph essay about spending the day as an animal of their choice.