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Nouns in a Story
Young scholars, assessing a variety of formatting tools with Microsoft Word, utilize a bank of vocabulary words to make a personal dictionary of nouns. They classify nouns for people, places, things and ideas and separate them into...
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Packing Nouns
Play a noun game with your class. Put a suitcase in the middle of the room and have each class member, in turn, name a noun that begins with a specified letter of the alphabet. To ramp up the challenge, assign concrete, abstract, proper,...
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Common and Proper Nouns
Identify nouns in speech and writing. Learners find all the nouns in a read-aloud story. Then, they complete a worksheet that reviews the use of nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, and interjections. A list of...
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Pendemonium - The Ink on the Sphinx
Young scholars define and identify nouns. In this nouns lesson, students watch a video and review proper and common nouns before constructing a noun pyramid. They present their noun pyramids to the class and add them to a bulletin board.
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Common and Proper Nouns
In this common and proper nouns practice worksheet, students examine 20 words and determine whether they are common or proper nouns.
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Mapping Your Identity: A Back-To-School Ice Breaker
Identify the unique personal attributes of your class members. Begin by viewing the Visual Thesaurus and discussing displayed attributes associated with famous American leaders. Using these identity maps as models, pupils generate nouns...
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Pendemonium: the Ink on the Sphinx
Students review the forms of nouns through a fanciful video and picture book discussion. They attempt to tell a story about their family without using nouns and then create a noun pyramid of common. proper, plural, and irregular nouns...
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Rooting One's Way to Meaning
Discover the Virtual Thesaurus with your class. They use the Virtual Thesaurus to assist them in an inquiry-based approach to discovering the meanings of some common Latin and Greek roots. Each child then teaches a particular root and...
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What's In A Name? British Surnames Derived from Places
Students study how British surnames were derived from locations. They observe that some of the more common names are still prevalent today.
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Describe Comoon Objects and Actions in both General and Specific Language
Learners are told that they are going to describe the noun and verb in a simple sentence to make the sentence more detailed. They are told that a noun is a person, place or thing. Students are taught that a verb is an action word. They...
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"I Spy": Using Adjectives and Descriptive Phrases
Students define adjectives and use adjectives and descriptive phrases to write a descriptive paragraph. They write a description of a sensory item, and read and discuss a five senses chart. Students then complete a chart using adjectives...
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Keeping Up With Capitals
Students engage in a class discussion where they identify the situations where capitalization is necessary. They complete worksheets embedded in the plan where they capitalize proper nouns such as names, holidays, and special events...
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"Where in the West" Guided Reading Lesson
Students complete a vocabulary chart, review proper/common nouns, discuss and review comparative adjectives and make "self to text" connections before reading. In this language arts lesson, comprehension questions are completed during...
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Prepositional Phrases
There are two types of prepositional phrases: adjectival and adverbial. Gather teaching strategies from this resource to give your learners lots of practice and meet Common Core standards! First, review prepositions by providing a...
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Create a Word
Brainstorm new words for a class dictionary. In small groups, young learners read and discuss an article about how words get into dictionaries. They then develop a new word, use it in a sentence, and share their creations with their peers.
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Surrealist Games
Young scholars engage in a game of Exquisite Corpse. By looking at a painting by Ren?? Magritte and creating their own Surrealist "room," students further explore the Surrealist idea of placing common objects in unusual locations.
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Commonly Mixed Pairs of Words
In this word meanings worksheet, students practice choosing the correct word for the sentence. Students complete fifteen sentences by choosing the correct word for each sentence.
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Punctuation (The Comma vs. The Semicolon)
Explore English by participating in a grammar correcting activity. Elementary and middle schoolers distinguish when to use commas from when to use semicolons. Then they correct twelve sentences by placing commas and semicolons in the...
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Vivid Adjectives
Young scholars review adjectives and play a game where students compete to see who can write the most adjectives for a given noun. They write a story about one topic and try to use a variety of adjectives in sequence tto describe a noun.
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Describing Things (Adjectives)
Describing things using adjectives is the focus of this lesson designed for language learners. Class members play games, draw pictures, and sing songs, adding adjectives to describe animals.
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Descriptive Writing Using the Book Rumpelstiltskin
Use the fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin to teach your third grade class about descriptive writing. Following a teacher read-aloud of the story, the class brainstorms a list of adjectives describing the main character. Students use this list...
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Comic Strip Creations
Students identify nouns, adjectives, and verbs from the newspaper. They create a math story problem, then create a comic strip using dialogue from words found in the newspaper.
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And Then What Happened?
Learners analyze paintings by using verbs, adjectives, and nouns. In this visual arts lesson, students view a painting of a storm and a calm sky. Learners use various verbs and adjectives to discuss the characteristics of each painting....
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Adjectives and Descriptive Phrases
Students examine the use of adjectives and descriptive phrases to improve their written pieces. For this adjectives and descriptive phrases lesson, students look at demonstrative adjectives, common adjectives, and proper adjectives. They...
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