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Grammar Exercises

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore grammar by completing numerous exercises in class. In this parts of speech activity, students discuss the differences between comparatives, superlatives, possessive pronouns, adverbs and other types of words. Students...
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Curated OER

Meet Your Neighbor: Action Verbs

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Get your kids moving on the first day of school! This action verb activity doesn't have to be used as an ice breaker, but it sure will work as one. Simply place pairs of cards face-side down on the carpet, each with an action verb...
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ESL Kid Stuff

Describing People (Adjectives)

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
As part of a series of lessons focusing on the parts of speech, language learners engage in games and exercises that encourage them to use adjectives to describe people.
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ESL Kid Stuff

Adverbs

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Run quickly. Walk slowly. Jump high. As part of their study of English parts of speech, language learners engage in a series of activities designed to introduce them to the descriptive power of adverbs.
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Poetry Workshop: Fixed Form Poems

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Encourage the poetic genius in your young creative writers with a poetry workshop. Fix form poems (cinquains acrostic poems, octopoems, hello/goodbye poems) provide a framework and encourage vocabulary development as well as an awareness...
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Scrutinizing Stand-Ins: Working With Nouns and Pronouns

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Use the Schoolhouse Rock episode, "Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla," to introduce a study of pronouns. Learners consider antecedents, cases (nominative, objective and possessive), as well as types of pronouns, and then craft sentences using...
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EngageNY

Mid-Unit 3 Assessment, Part II: Organizing Notes for a Public Speech

For Teachers 5th Standards
It's all a matter of opinion! Pupils take Part II of the mid-unit assessment, in which they continue organizing their notes in preparation for writing an opinion speech. Using the resource, they add reasons, evidence, and a concluding...
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EngageNY

Final Performance Task: Critique and Revision, Part II

For Teachers 5th Standards
Stop ... grammar time! Pupils complete worksheets to practice using the correct verb tense and identify correlative conjunctions. Next, scholars apply their new grammar skills to edit their draft opinion speeches.
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Perky Prefixes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
First graders create games of their choice to be played with the class to reinforce their knowledge of prefixes. This six-day lesson plan includes an excellent worksheet and assessment. I like the use of educational games!
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Shakespeare Uncovered

Henry IV, Part I: Does Father Know Best?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
“Yea, there thou mak’st me sad and mak’st me sin/In envy that my Lord Northumberland/Should be the father to so blest a son--.” Henry IV, Part I, provides the text for a series of exercises that ask class members to examine the...
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Compound Words: Worksheet 3

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young writers create compound words by matching a word in column one to a word in column two. They create a list of written words they have formed. Students will create 20 words on this one-page worksheet. An answer key is included.
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Have Fun Teaching

Noun Town

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Welcome to noun town where you will meet a number of different people, places, and things! Have kids practice identifying nouns by completing a great set of worksheets. There are 13 worksheets in the packet and each one provides practice...
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Appetizing Adverbs

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Have your class construct an adverb wheel. Learners brainstorm adverbs to modify the verbs they use to describe how they will eat a doughnut hole. They then use the wheel to help them write creative sentences.
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Curated OER

When Is a Noun a Verb? Examining Double Duty Words

For Teachers 6th - 9th
The New York Times' Learning Network provides great lessons! This one uses articles from the paper to help readers understand homonyms like mail (verb and noun). It also includes an exercise in reading informational text. Links to the...
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EngageNY

Reading Closely and Introducing Rhetoric Toolbox: Unions as Agents of Change—Part 1

For Teachers 7th Standards
Scholars explore the question of whether labor unions are the agents of change as they continue reading César Chávez's 1984 speech, "Address to the Commonwealth Club of California." They discuss rhetoric in Chávez's speech and discover...
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EngageNY

Speech Structure: Unions as Agents of Change— Part 2

For Teachers 7th Standards
Scholars continue reading César Chávez's 1984 speech, "Address to the Commonwealth Club of California." Working with partners, they complete graphic organizers to determine a claim that Chávez makes about the UFW. 
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EngageNY

Speech Structure: Part 2 of the Commonwealth Club Address

For Teachers 7th Standards
Scholars continue reading and analyzing César Chávez's 1984 speech, "Address to the Commonwealth Club of California." Working with partners, they answer text-dependent questions about how governments and consumers affect working...
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K20 LEARN

Trigger Warnings - Intellectual Rights and Responsibilities: Banned Books, Censorship Part 1

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
"Warning: Conducting this lesson may be harmful." Such statements, called "Trigger Warnings," are the focus of a two-part lesson that looks at censorship, especially the pros and cons of trigger warnings. Class members read two articles,...
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Free Speech or Hate Speech?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students see the difference between protected and prohibited speech as guaranteed by the First Amendment. They explain why free speech is essential to a democracy and consider how best to deal with speech they find offensive.
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EngageNY

Analyzing a Thematic Concept: Becoming Visible Again, Part 2 (354–380)

For Teachers 8th Standards
Scholars take a close look at the life of Louie in Unbroken. They discuss events considered turning points in their life and use several graphic organizers and guides to help direct their thinking. After thinking about their responses,...
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Reading the Play

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Do figures of speech enhance a play or story? In small groups, learners locate and describe figures of speech they find while reading a reader's theater play. After making predictions, they describe how the figures of speech make the...
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iCivics

I Can’t Wear What?

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Can schools ban t-shirts picturing musical groups or bands? Your young citizens will find out with this resource, which includes a summary of a United States Supreme Court case from the 1960s about a similar dispute over students wearing...
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Noun-mania

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students study nouns and verbs. In this parts of speech lesson, students use laminated pattern letters and write out as many nouns to spell out the word "n-o-u-n." They then repeat the activity with verbs.
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Vivid Verbs

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore parts of speech by collaborating in groups. In this verbs lesson, students examine several boring sentences with their class and define verbs which can spice the sentence up. Students collaborate in pairs to enhance...

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