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Excessive Nominalizations

For Students 7th - 9th
Eliminate unnecessary nominalizations from your middle schoolers' writing! After reviewing a reference page for the -tion ending (and when it can be excessive in writing), students rewrite eight sentences to change nominalizations to a...
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Pronouns and Antecedents

For Students 8th - 10th
When should you use a singular antecedent to agree with a collective pronoun? Give this review sheet to your class to clear up this common grammar mistake. Twenty questions challenge young readers to identify the correct pronoun using...
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Literacy Design Collaborative

The Art of Persuasion: How Rhetorical Devices Influence Audiences

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Scholars analyze a variety of text to identify the development of claims and persuasive techniques writers use. In each text, pupils determine the argument and the persuasive techniques and complete a task introduction worksheet. The...
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EngageNY

Grade 10 ELA Module 4: Unit 1, Lesson 5

For Teachers 10th Standards
Learners prepare for the end-of-unit task by evaluating previous homework and writing sentences with parallel structure and various phrases. Scholars do this by closely examining E.B. White's Death of a Pig. They examine the structure of...
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Jabberwocky Lesson Plan

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students complete a review of the parts of speech using a jabberwocky poem format. In this parts of speech and poetry lesson, students read a jabberwocky poem and identify parts of speech in the poem. Students list adjectives, verbs, and...
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Delivering a Persuasive Speech

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students demonstrate the appropriate classroom public speaking and listening skills that would be necessary to influence or change someone's mind or way of thinking about a topic. They define the elements of persuasion and recognize the...
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English Skills 6.206

For Students 7th - 12th
In this English skills worksheet, students complete 12 English skill activities of various topics. These topics include alliterations, rood words, vowels, consonants, parts of speech, anagrams, word meanings and proof-reading. Students...
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Interactive
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English Exercises: Test Exercises 2

For Students 4th - 10th
In this online interactive English worksheet, students respond to 62 fill in the blank questions regarding the use of gerunds, infinitives, questions, conditionals, comparatives, passive voice, reported speech, and prepositions. Students...
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Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream"

For Teachers 10th
Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech provides the text for a study of how to analyze a speaker’s content, delivery and attitude. Visual learners identify specific lines that reveal King’s purpose and point of view while...
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What is a Preposition?

For Students 7th - 9th
Where and when should you use prepositions? A handy instructional activity provides examples and instructions about prepositions and prepositional phrases, as well as eight practice sentences. Learners underline the prepositional phrases...
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Road to Grammar

Five Presentation Tips

For Students 6th - 12th
Talking in front of others can be intimidating, especially when you aren't speaking in your native language. Put your English language learners at ease before a class presentation. They can follow these tips to give relaxed and effective...
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A Speech for the Sneetches

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Learners write a speech using Dr. King as an example and the characters from a Dr. Seuss book. In this speech lesson plan, students read the 'I Have a Dream' speech and use it as a guide to help them write a speech based on the book...
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English Skills Assignment 6.204

For Students 7th - 12th
In this English skills worksheet, students complete 12 English skill activities of various topics. These topics include onomatopoeia, word endings, root words, vowels, consonants, parts of speech, anagrams, spelling, and proof-reading....
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Text Analysis

For Students 7th - 9th
In this text analysis worksheet, students list and sort words by parts of speech and translate them, and write the phonetic pronunciation of certain words as an aid to studying text.
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Preposition Man

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young scholars practice using prepositions by writing on the tracing of a human.  In this parts of speech lesson plan, students create a giant poster using the tracing of a classmate's body and fill in the outline using prepositions in...
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Interactive
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English Exercises: Verb Tenses

For Students 5th - 10th
In this online interactive English worksheet, students respond to 11 fill in the blank questions that require them to use parts of speech appropriately. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Informative Speech Preparation Worksheet

For Students 9th - 11th
In this informative speech worksheet, learners evaluate the effectiveness of their speech and make sure that their central idea is clear and well-developed.
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International Debate Education Association

Speaking Across the Curriculum

For Teachers 6th - 12th
With the focus on 21st century skills it is even more important that all teachers incorporate listening and speaking activities into their curriculum. Here's a packet of practical ideas appropriate for any classroom.
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PPT
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Visible Speech: What is a Sentence?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Use this straightforward presentation as a basic guide to your grammar unit. With explanations of the parts of a simple sentence (subject, verb, direct object), the slideshow is a good way to reinforce students' prior knowledge about...
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World can't wait, students say

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Learners create a lesson to present to the rest of the class about current laws, including expressing killing the president as a joke. Students research past events and current laws. Learners present to the class using mult-media, oral...
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Interesting & Interested, etc.

For Students 7th - 9th
While just a quick review of word usage, this ten question activity could be a great filler activity. Learners could hone their vocabulary and spelling skills using this quiz which can be done both online or as a worksheet.
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Simple or Progressive

For Students 7th - 9th
Proper verb usage is reviewed in this worksheet. Students fill in the blanks in 10 multiple choice questions relating to verbs.
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That & What

For Students 7th - 9th
Providing a review of that and what, this worksheet can be a quick and easy way to have students review this concept. The ten questions in the activity can be answered either online or on a worksheet.
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To & For

For Students 7th - 9th
Using the words to and for is covered in this activity. Learners can practice important skills by identifying the correct word for use in each blank on the 10 question quiz.

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