Students practice using their target language vocabulary by completing a crossword puzzle.  In this foreign language lesson, students complete several random tasks based on new vocabulary words in their target language dealing with...

Students practice discussing timely manners in a target language.  In this foreign language lesson, students discuss words that represent frequency such as never or often.  Students create a timeline illustrating how often...

Students read Joyce McDonald's, Swallowing Stones while investigating the literary elements used in the writing. They define a large number of vocabulary words to be applied when reading. Finally, they write a persuasive essay.

Students construct a letter about a classroom issue as a class. They then write a letter individually that requests information, file a complaint or complement, or write a letter to the editor/legislator.

In this persuasive writing worksheet, students determine whether Act II, Scene II of The Crucible should be included in a production of the play.

High schoolers read background information about Rachel Carson found on the listed website links. They analyze and answer questions about her work and how it is linked to science then they research pesticide usage and alternative methods.

Students participate in classroom presentations. In this ELL lesson, students present a poster, collage, or PowerPoint to their partners. The teacher evaluates each presentation. 

Students practice their vocabulary skills. In this language arts lesson plan, students examine pictures and textbook questions in order to expand their vocabulary related to jobs and careers.

Students practice their writing and editing skills by developing a plan for and then writing a grammatically correct description of an item (car or otherwise) that they would like to sell.

Learners write a letter. For this language arts lesson, students play the role of an advice column journalist. Learners respond to a letter asking for advice.

Students participate in a community service project. In this ELL lesson, students complete a project while the teacher takes photos. The students use these photos in a bulletin board. 

Young scholars use present tense verb endings by describing his/her routine daily activities, demonstrating verb endings. They listen to teacher's description, taking notes. They write their own journal entries about their own daily...

Use this handbook to review specific grammar or usage areas, including parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentence structure, and common usage problems. L.9-10.1 Grammar/Usage, L.11-12.1 Gram/Usage Conventions

A treasure of grammar and writing information. Index links broken down to sentence level, paragraph level, and essay level. Site also contains PDF samples of business writing and research papers, PowerPoint presentations, interactive...

An excellent outline of the usage and rules concerning the "period" in English punctuation. Includes guidelines about acronyms, abbreviations, sentence ending, and more.

A very competent look at how to use abbreviations in their proper context. This site also examines the proper use of abbreviations with titles, numbers and phrases.

Information and examples of progressive, stative, and dynamic verb usage in the English language.

This site has information on the tense and aspect of verbs. Includes a short exercise to test your knowledge.

Play this web game and learn about grammar while providing free rice to hungry people around the world through the United Nations World Food Program. There are five different levels of play. L.11-12.1 Gram/Usage Conventions

An excellent review of relative pronouns and adjectives in Spanish. Ample examples in Spanish and English illustrate their usage. Students may test their mastery of this principle with a quiz that follows the lesson.

A large collection of concise explanations of various aspects of English grammar and usage. All topics include exercises that can be done, checked, and corrected online. Solid resource for English language learners at the intermediate...

Overview of nouns and rules for use. Contains information on forming plurals, count and noncount, pronouns, numerals as nouns, and gender. Exercises interspersed in material.

This Skillswise site focuses on formal and informal speaking. Included are a video about how to decide whether to use formal or informal speech, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction. The Skillswise sites from BBC are geared to...

A reading selection which provides multiple-choice questions as assessment, testing students' knowledge of the grammar and usage of the English language. Also includes an interactive format which gives students the correct answers for...