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Context Clues and Idioms

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Kids practice using five types of context clues (definition, synonym, antonym, example, and general) to decode idiomatic language.
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Poetry4kids

How to Write an Alliteration Poem

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Learners follow five steps to compose an alliteration poem. They choose one consonant and brainstorm as many nouns, verbs, and adjectives they can think of to create rhyming sentences that come together in a poetic fashion. 
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One Stop English

A Lesson on Register

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
The classroom might not be the best place for informal language, but it's a great place to teach middle and high schoolers how to identify the correct language register for their audience. A short lesson on formal and informal language...
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ESL Library

Beginner Level Thanksgiving ESL Lesson Plan

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Thanksgiving is a cherished tradition in the United States and Canada. Introduce the beginnings of the Thanksgiving celebration with a resource that features reading comprehension activities, vocabulary exercises, and a short...
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Road to Grammar

100 Ice-Breaker Questions

For Students 6th - 12th
What if you could ease your English language learners into class with engaging questions? You can do just that with these questions. The questions, designed to prepare learners for working with English, are grouped by topics, such...
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nubak

The Verb Tenses

For Students 4th - 8th
Imagine 36 pages of verb tense exercises. Although designed for English language learners, the worksheets in this packet would provide lots of opportunities for grammarians to progressively perfect simple past, present, and future...
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Curated OER

Let's Go Exploring!

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Use a Courbet painting of a cave or tunnel opening to reinforce the importance of descriptive writing. Writers of all ages use sensory details to describe what the scene depicts as they pretend to be in the painting. Then they imagine...
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Road to Grammar

Shopping

For Students 6th - 12th
Talk about what you bought last weekend with plenty of activities centered around the theme of shopping. English language learners have the opportunity to listen, speak, write, and read over the course of these exercises. The resource...
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Curated OER

10th Grade Poetry Unit

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Immerse your students into the wide world of poetry with this presentation, which opens a poetry unit. By first introducing the art of poetry and then providing examples of poems with figurative language, the presentation guides students...
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Curated OER

Lesson: The Gift of Giving

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Giving gifts has been a part of the human experience since modern man walked the earth. Upper graders explore the culture of gift giving in Mayan times through an artistic analysis. They analyze gift giving and palace life as seen on an...
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Curated OER

Go Free or Die

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Groups of older elementary learners begin their study of figurative language by visiting a website and completing the exercises detailed there. They then apply what they have learned by finding examples in several poems. Finally, they...
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Curated OER

Further Improvements of Writing Skills

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Improve writing skills by finding a personal writing style, using descriptive language effectively, and using precise language. Middle schoolers discuss individual style in writing and formal and informal language. They utilize figures...
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Curated OER

A Monster of a Metaphor

For Teachers 7th - 12th
What do Jeep advertisements and Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath have in common? They both employ the art of the extended metaphor! Using the Six-Trait Writing model, learners begin to work on their own extended metaphors. Development...
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Curated OER

The Art of Advertising

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Get your class thinking about advertising with this lesson plan. Over the course of 15 days, your class will discuss advertising techniques, study the concepts of pathos, logos, and ethos, and analyze the persuasive techniques of...
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Curated OER

Persuasive Writing Skills Worksheets

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
What makes you want to buy that new car? Or vote for that popular politician? Study the persuasive techniques commonly found in advertisements or argumentative writing, including repetition, exaggeration, and fact vs. opinion.
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Curated OER

Humourous Head Planter Spike: Ceramics Lesson

For Teachers K - 8th
What a great activity. Kids create humorous ceramic character (heads) spikes to enliven a planter. Modern art is full of expressive and exaggerated forms and your class gets to create them out of clay. This would be a lovely activity to...
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Curated OER

Tense Consistency Exercises

For Students 6th - 7th
In this language arts worksheet, learners study subject/verb agreement in sentences by reading and looking for errors in 12 sentences. Students then insert the correct verb tense indicated in 10 sentences. Learners also read 3 paragraphs...
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Curated OER

Story Development through Japanese art

For Teachers 7th
A classic Japanese print is attached to this lesson and its up to your class to write a story about it. Pretending the image is an illustration, they use what they know about Japanese mythology to compose a short story describing the...
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Crime Issues

For Students 6th - 10th
In order to build discussion skills, English language learners use a activity with several questions regarding crime and punishment in the justice system. They interview fellow classmates, noting how each feels about a given topic. They...
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Curated OER

English Grammar and Usage: Short Answer Quiz/Review

For Students 6th - 10th
This comprehensive assessment tool covers parts of speech, transitivity, punctuation, common usage errors, and verb tense. Your budding grammarians demonstrate knowledge of an array of discrete points of correct usage in English. I'd use...
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Curated OER

English in Mind Unit 9: Grammar Practice

For Teachers 6th - 7th
In this English grammar worksheet, students complete sentences in the correct verb tense, identify the best verb to use in a sentence, rearrange words to create a sentence, and complete a paragraph with the negative imperatives of...
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Curated OER

Hillbilly Feud:Language Arts Game

For Teachers 4th - 7th
English language learners or native elementary schoolers will enjoy practicing their parts of speech with this interactive grammar game. Set deep in the backwoods of Tennessee,  the class splits in two to join either the Hartfields...
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Curated OER

Passive Voice: English Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Here’s a great idea: Have your class members create presentations about a grammar issue! “English Project” is a colorful, student-produced PowerPoint focused on passive voice. The presentation could be used as a lesson and as a model for...
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Curated OER

"Pray, Why Speakest Thou Thusly?"

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Examine popular language and slang and how they have changed over the course of American history. Conduct Internet research, use an online interactive Colonial House website to translate 17th century language into 21st century language,...

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