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Unit Plan
Santa Ana Unified School District

The Giver

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Wouldn't it be great to live an a community without pain, without danger? Such a society is the goal of the community in The Giver. Using Lois Lowry's dystopian novel as the core text, class members read primary source materials about...
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Lesson Plan
K20 LEARN

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie: Conditional Statements

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
If, then, Else is not only a basic programming language command, it is also the basis for conditional statements used in writing. Middle schoolers try to craft conditional statements with a card sort activity and then collaborate on a...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Mid-Unit Assessment: Single Draft Narrative

For Teachers 8th Standards
Put it in your own words. Scholars work independently on their mid-unit assessments by responding to a writing prompt. They write about Miné Okubo’s life and the moments when Okubo became visible again.
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Worksheet
Worksheet Web

Interrogatives and Auxiliary Verbs

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Interrogatives—who, what, where, when, why, and how—are the focus of a grammar worksheet that reinforces writing questions and using auxiliary verbs. 
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Curriculum Corner

8th Grade ELA "I Can" Statement Posters

For Teachers 8th Standards
Eighth grades can master the ELA Common Core standards! Show your learners the connection between classroom activities and assignments and the standards with this set of "I Can" statement posters. Each standard has been rewritten as an...
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Curriculum Corner

8th Grade ELA Common Core Checklists

For Teachers 8th Standards
How close are your eighth graders to mastering the ELA Common Core standards? Keep an eye on progress with these charts, which include every eighth grade identifier and full standard text. As you move through the year and teach, reteach,...
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K12 Reader

Special Singular Pronouns

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
As everybody knows, pronouns must match their antecedents. Except for those special ones like everybody, neither, one and several others. These exceptions are the focus of a short learning exercise that first models the irregularities...
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K12 Reader

Pronoun Agreement: Spot the Error

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Young grammarians locate pronoun agreement errors, in number, gender, and/or person, in a series of sentences, and then re-write the sentences correcting the errors.
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Oxford University Press

Language Focus: Present Continuous, Imperatives

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
What will your class do in the future? What won't they do? Practice the present continuous form for future arrangements (or future progressive tense) with several fill-in-the-blanks and sentence reordering activities. 
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Oxford University Press

Language Focus: Imperative Sentences, Future Progressive Tense

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Finish your homework! Kids work on imperative sentences with a grammar worksheet, which also focuses on future progressive tense (going to). After they use a word bank to write instructions for a person going on a trip, they fill in the...
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Oxford University Press

Language Focus: Imperatives and Going To

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Study the future progressive tense and other ways to express what will (or won't) happen. After completing affirmative and negative sentences in the imperative form, kids work on different exercises with going to and will or won't.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Verbal Moodswings

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Finally, a handout that accurately describes the difference between indicative, imperative, and subjunctive verb tenses! Complete with sentences, examples, and even some humor. Never be confused again!
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K12 Reader

Pronouns as Indirect Objects

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Pronouns used as indirect objects are the focus of this short activity that asks learners to fill in the correct pronoun.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Verb Tense Practice Worksheet

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
Reinforce the indicative, negative and interrogative verb tenses with this straightforward worksheet. Middle schoolers use three parts of a sentence to construct new sentences in each verb tense. A reference section provides exmaples of...
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Interactive
Curated OER

First Conditional Verbs

For Students 6th - Higher Ed Standards
Helpful as a print-out or electronic worksheet, this verb tense worksheet prompts middle and high schoolers to fill in 20 missing first conditional verbs in sentences. They can check their answers and receive hints. The activity would be...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Verb Forms: Second Conditional

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Which verb tenses can you use when writing with the conditional tense? Clear up the common mistakes with this second conditional activity. Young writers choose the correct verb tense to complete a sentence. They choose from four possible...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Conditional Tenses (Part 2)

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
What is the conditional tense? English language learners choose one of three multiple choice options to complete a sentence in the conditional tense. There are 10 questions, and an answer sheet is provided.