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Illustrate the Constellations

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore space science by participating in a star identification activity. In this astronomy lesson, students identify different star patterns and discuss the movement of stars across the sky as the seasons change. Students...
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Descriptions

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students describe things using sensory words.  In this adjective lesson, students practice conversations describing items they touch.  Students use words to describe properties of items such as size and texture.
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Curated OER

Grammar Galore: Word Search

For Students 7th - 8th
In this word search worksheet, students search for 54 descriptive words. Many of the words are used commonly, but a few are not.
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Handout
Nosapo

Family Titles, Pronouns, Writing about a Person

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
How is your grandmother related to you? How is your cousin related to your grandmother? Learn about family relationships and pronouns with an activity that guides pupils to write two short narratives about members of their families.
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Metaphor: Parts of the Body

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this metaphor--parts of the body worksheet, students participate in describing parts of the body by utilizing metaphor phrases for a stronger description of key terms.
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Describing Traditional Christmas Foods

For Students 7th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students read and guess what type of traditional Christmas food is being described in sixteen descriptions of different types of foods.
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Adjective? What's an Adjective?

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Mount a variety of pictures (fantasy, rustic, portraits, action) on large sheets of paper and post them around the classroom. Groups rotate from poster to poster, adding adjectives to describe each of the pictures. Writers use these word...
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Presentation Delivery Skills

For Teachers 6th - 12th
This is a very general description of steps to follow when helping learners to improve their digital presentation skills. It allows for 10 minutes to revise the presentation; a 40-minute practice period in small groups; and a 10-minute...
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Guessing Game

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students participate in a set of activities designed to help ESL students become familiar with the English language through description, group work, oral reading, and question/answer sessions.
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Building Character Adjectives Vocabulary

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars practice conversation skills while also focusing on improving their command of refined character description. They use a worksheet imbedded in this plan that has them select adjectives that describe their best friend.
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Traveling and Going Places

For Students 5th - 8th
In this travel key vocabulary worksheet, students complete 8 sentence starters and evaluate 3 descriptions of holidays in order to write about their ideal companions for each.
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Present Simple Verb Form Worksheet

For Teachers 5th - 7th
In this present simple verb and occupations worksheet, students fill in 15 blanks using the verbs given in the key. They fill in the missing words and verbs in a paragraph. They match descriptions of occupations with the proper word and...
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ESL: Practice Using Present Progressive Tense

For Students 4th - 7th
Small, cartoonish pictures of people expressing emotions and actions (blowing his nose, holding her head and frowning, dancing, smiling) provide the basis for writers to describe the feelings and experiences taking place. Help your ESL...
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle: Problematic Situations

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
When is it okay to go against authority and what can happen if you do? This is the leading question in this activity to accompany your classroom reading of The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi. After reading chapter eight,...
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Nosapo

Shopping for Clothing

For Students K - 8th Standards
Let's go shopping! A series of activities focus on vocabulary words related to articles of clothing and shopping for clothes. Additionally, learners complete sentences using how much and how many.
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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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Writing a Speech

For Students 7th - 8th
In this writing a speech instructional activity, students will read two paragraphs from a speech, then match 16 descriptions of parts of a speech with a phrase or sentence in the speech by drawing a line from the description to the text.
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Whispers in the Graveyard

For Students 6th - 7th
In this Whispers in the Graveyard activity, students answer questions for each chapter in the book relating to grammar and writing. Students answer two hundred questions relating to adverbs, descriptive writing, adjectives, and other...
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Parts of Speech--Adjectives

For Students 6th - 8th
In this parts of speech worksheet, students review adjective as they read a brief description and underline all of the adjectives in 15 sentences. In addition, students create 2 of their own sentences using adjectives.  
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Jungle Adventure

For Students 4th - 8th
In this present perfect and present continuous verbs worksheet, students complete 8 sentences using the correct tense of the verbs in parentheses and write a descriptive email using the words listed in the word bank.
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Kandinsky on Computers

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate expressionist art by researching Wassily Kandinsky. In this abstract art lesson, students utilize the Internet to visit a web museum which showcases Kandinsky's compositions. Students analyze the artistic lines and...
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University Center for Learning Assistance

Commas

For Students 5th - 9th
How well do your pupils know comma rules? Clear up confusion with this document, which includes an abundance of information about how and when to use commas as well as a practice exercise. Note: The answers are on the bottom of the page....
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The Lightning Thief: Vocabulary Strategy

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Take an in-depth look into the vocabulary from the novel, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. With a list of words to choose from, scholars discover the definition, origin, stories associated with the...
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The Lightning Thief: Problematic Situation Strategy

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
In the novel, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, Percy is faced with a major decision. After reading, chapter 19, discuss the decision-making process Percy took, what he decided to do, and what your...

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