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Credible Sources on the Internet: What to Trust, What to Dismiss and When to Cite a Source
Wait, you mean researchers don't all use Wikipedia? Teach your class about intelligent research with a lesson about evaluating digital sources. The lesson starts with a quickwrite and includes vocabulary exercises and several...
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ESL Asking Questions About Family Fill in the Blank Worksheet
For this ESL writing questions about families worksheet, student fill in the blanks with questions that can be answered with the given statement. They complete 8 examples using the clip art pictures that accompany each one.
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Translation Lesson to help Students Improve Vocabulary and Writing Style
Students translate an entire Internet page from English into a target language. In small groups, they create a short story or document in their native tongue or find an Internet page in their own tongue that they translate into English.
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International Dance Day: Reading and Activities for ELD
A brief passage about International Dance Day, April 29, is accompanied by an array of language activities based in sound ELD practice: cloze exercise, phrase matching, word jumble, multiple choice, sequencing, interview, group...
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Money
Work on money-related vocabulary with this practice worksheet. With words such as "auditors," "mortgage," and "bankrupt," the activity prompts ESL students to choose the correct term based on the context clues of the sentence. These ten...
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Worksheet 9: Reading: Global Warming
Using an interesting reading passage about global warming, learners answer true and false questions related to the topic. This 6 question activity could be used in upper elementary or as part of an ESL lesson.
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Count and Noncount Nouns
As part of a review of vocabulary specific to measurement, this activity has students fill the right word in the blank. This 8 question activity could be used to review nouns, words used in measurement, and cement reading skills. It is...
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A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing!
In this language arts worksheet, pairs of students brainstorm as many "clothes words" as they can and complete a variety of activities associated with clothing and clothing idioms. An interesting language worksheet.
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Worksheet 8: There Is/Are
This simple worksheet has students practice comprehension and vocabulary skills. Learners also review the use of there is and there are in the 11 true and false questions. This activity would be appropriate for lower elementary or ESL...
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Exploring Descriptive Language With Different Parts of Speech
Learners practice experiencing writing with appropriate language and incorporating the eight parts of speech. They assess that many words have multiple functions when used in different contexts. Each student free writes in response to a...