Syracuse City School District
Capitalization and Punctuation
How many of the pupils in your language arts class can differentiate between a colon and a semicolon? Clarify common conventions, including end punctuation, proper capitalization, and sentence structure, with a series of helpful grammar...
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English Alphabet
In this ESL instructional activity, students form the uppercase and lowercase letters of the English alphabet. The instructional activity includes all letters A through Z.
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Making a Board Game: Macbeth B2
Learners are given a rubic for their project on Making a Board Game. They can see how the points are broken down and what they have to do in order to recieve a great grade. Students are given 6 different categories that they can earn...
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Phrasal Verbs Reversal Game
Students match definitions to verbal phrases. For this English grammar lesson, students work in pairs to match the definition to its correct verbal phrase.
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Pronouns: Personal Pronouns, Demonstrative Pronouns
Which do you use: that or this? Which or where? Me or I? Practice pronoun use with a series of activities that focus on personal and demonstrative pronouns.
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English Alphabet P-T
In this ESL learning exercise, students form the uppercase letters of the English alphabet. The learning exercise includes all letters P through T.
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Grammar Skills
In this grammar worksheet, students complete a table by filling in the correct words. The table is divided into adjective, comparative form, and superlative form.
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Grammar Skills
In this grammar worksheet, students complete a table by filling in the correct words. The table is divided into adjective, adverb form, noun form, and verb form.
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Verb Patterns Pellmanism Game- Intermediate Version
Students sort verb tenses. In this English grammar lesson plan, students work with a partner to sort cards with verbs written on them into 3 piles including verbs with "ing," the infinitive form (meaning "want to"), and the infinitive...
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Fanatically Grammatically Correct
Research guidelines for correct usage, then explore how creative writers employ punctuation as an essential tool in their craft. Secondary classes create board games to teach elementary school students how to properly punctuate. From the...
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Basic Linguistics: Fun Trivia Quiz
Meta-cognition can transform learning. If your syllabus includes linguistics to enhance learners' comprehension and expression in English, here is an interactive online quiz to assess what they have learned. Titled "Basic Linguistics,"...
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Weather and Seasons
Use pictures and manipulatives to develop vocabulary with your beginning language learners. This plan can be used with foreign language learners (although you'll have to provide the vocabulary), English language learners, or a young...
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What I need for School
You can use this lesson with English language learners, a young language arts class, or speakers of a foreign language. The phrases learned are I need and I don't need. The teacher collects several items around the room, and learners...
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Lesson Three: Prepositions
Learning prepositions can be tricky in any language, and English is no exception! Try out the activities described here to help your English language learners grasp the difference between in and on and through and by. After a game of...
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Telephone Game
Students practice their listening comprehension by playing the "telephone" game. In this foreign language lesson, students listen to a story read by a teacher in their target language and try to remember the details by writing 5...
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Learning Verbs 1
In this grammar activity, students complete a table of plural and singular verb tenses for the following verbs: be, go, do, have, see, and eat. The verb tenses to be filled in include: present simple, past simple, present continuous,...
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Jeopardy Game
Students practice discovering a target language by playing a game of Jeopardy. For this foreign language lesson, students utilize their target language vocabulary to answer Jeopardy style questions they prepared the day before....
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Grammar Skills
In this grammar worksheet, students write ten sentences using a list of given words. Each sentence begins with either "There is" or "There are."
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What's Happening?
Young scholars participate in a grammar game. They identify verbs, adverbs and phrases. They complete a quiz at the end of the lesson to determine how much practice they still need.
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A Cat-and-Mouse Story
Students view an animated PowerPoint program that teaches possessive vocabulary in Spanish. They review English grammar. Students access high-frequency verbs and additional vocabulary.
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Multiple Choice Board Game
Students are read a list of statements or questions that illustrate a target grammatical structure. They discuss the statements and questions in groups and decide on an answer or response that they then present to the class.
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My Daily Routine
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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Grammar Skills
In this grammar worksheet, students complete a table by filling in the correct words. The table is divided into adjective, adverb form, noun form, and verb form.
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Daily Language Practice Builds Skills, Test Scores
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.