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Making Your Sentences Work: Subject-Verb Agreement

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Review subject-verb agreement with your class. Demonstrate the different verb forms when the subject is singular, plural, compound, and an indefinite pronoun. Not too long, this presentation is nonetheless thorough, especially for...
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Lesson Plan 18: Cleaning It Up

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Careful proofreading is an important step in the writing process.  After guided practice using a provided worksheet that details common grammar concepts, young writers refer to the worksheet as they proofread their own work. Although the...
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Preparing for the New SAT

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Read the College Board's explanation of changes in the SAT for 2005, including essay and grammar questions, use College Board's suggestions for ways to study, practice sample questions, and explore other sites with practice tests.
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A Lesson in "Comma Sense"

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young grammarians punctuate an unedited letter to give it meaning. They explore how misplaced and erroneous punctuation can result in giving text a completely different meaning than intended. The lesson is a fun way to reinforce basic...
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My Daily Routine

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Foreign language learners work in pairs to translate the daily routine of celebrities or everyday people, presented in daily planner format, into English. They then illustrate and record their own daily routines in storyboard (film...
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Burns' Night and dialect

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars explore poetry and dialect. They research Burn's Night and how people celebrate it. Students examine the Scottish dialect and its similarities to English grammar. Young scholars write their own poetry.
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Phrasal Verbs Reversal Game

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students match definitions to verbal phrases. In this English grammar lesson, students work in pairs to match the definition to its correct verbal phrase.
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Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Made Easy

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Middle and high schoolers check their writing for pronoun-antecedent agreement. After identifying the pronouns in their writing, they then complete a table with the pronouns and corresponding antecedents, making revisions as necessary.
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Daily Language Practice Builds Skills, Test Scores

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students develop their proofreading skills. In this daily language practice lesson, students improve their writing skills as they edit passages. The editing work encompasses capitalization, punctuation, and grammar.
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Day Two: Greeting and dialogues

For Teachers K - 12th
Learners practice greetings and dialogues in English. For this ELL lesson, students watch a silent video with people greeting one another and make predictions about what they are saying. They write dialogues and share them with a neighbor. 
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Day One: Dinner foods and beverages

For Teachers K - 12th
Young scholars learn English vocabulary for dinner foods and beverages. In this ELL lesson plan, students create a list of healthy foods and discuss good food habits. They discuss healthy activities and exercises. 
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Grammar Lesson Plan Focus on Paired Conjunctions

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students engage in a lesson which is a straight forward, teacher centered, grammar lesson focusing on written and oral production of the target structure. After a lecture/demo, students work individually on an exercise imbedded in this...
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Who Speaks Modern English and Where ?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars predict the widespread effects of the English language and consult on-line charts and text to verify their findings.
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The Pigman: Problematic Situation

For Teachers 7th - 12th
What would you do? To prepare readers for the death of Mr. Pignati, one of the characters in Paul Zindel's The Pigman, individuals complete a problematic situation worksheet and then compare their responses to others in their group.
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Race and Crime in the United States: Are We Victims of Discrimination or Antiheroes?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Using methods adopted by Public Policy Analysts (PPA) class groups define a social problem, gather evidence to document the existence of the problem, identify causes, evaluate existing policies designed to deal with the problem, develop...
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My Antonia: During Reading Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Home in on the quote on this page to explore setting, the author's and character's voices, and plot in Willa Cather's My Antonia. Pupils draw a picture of what is described in the quote, discuss the content, and make connections to their...
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Mississippi Trial, 1955: Culminating Writing Project (Multi-Genre Final Portfolio)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Designed as the final project concluding a study of Mississippi Trial, 1955, readers select a character from Crowe's novel and craft a portfolio of six entries that reveal not only aspects of the character, but similarities between the...
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Advertisement Storyboard

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Lessons about advertising slogans are GR-R-REAT! Using the resource, pupils engage in an interactive activity to match advertisement blurbs with their corresponding product names. Next, they discuss famous slogans and identify where to...
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Spanish Drama: Latin America

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore Hispanic countries.  In this Hispanic culture and language lesson plan, students choose an Hispanic country to research.  Students explore given websites and prepare a dramatization incorporating the facts they find....
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Substance Abuse

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify and define the symptoms of differently forms or substance and self abuse. They formulate opinions as to why people engage in these types of behaviors. Students create an action plan to help an individual who may be...
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Mi Dia

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students photograph themselves doing everyday activities.  In this foreign language lesson, students write grammatically correct sentences for a story board to tell about daily activities and then input into the computer in a movie or...
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Ethnic Humor

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students define ethnicity and ethnic group in their own words. In groups, they view comic strips and identify how the strips relate to their family life. Individually, they write their own comic strip about their own ethnic group. To...
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Please, Take A Message

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers identiry which information is important to capture when dictating a telephone message. In pairs, students practice dictating and recording telephone messages using a dedicated telephone message pad. This lesson is...
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History of the English Language - Who Were the Anglo Saxons?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the Anglo Saxon world view, preparing them to fully explain Anglo Saxon literature.

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