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Silly Spoonerisms!

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
Looking for a fun activity for your vocabulary lesson? Bring a worksheet on "spoonerisms" to your fifth grade class. Kids decipher seven phrases that have mixed up the first letter sounds of each word. They then think of their own...
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Phrases as Fragments

For Students 8th - 10th
A sentence needs to have a subject and a verb. Although your kids know this, fragments often sneak their way into essays and homework assignments. Give your class a review session with this assignment. First, have them read the...
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Language and Dialect

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Practice listening skills while studying oral story tellers from different parts of Louisiana. Consider the regional dialects and insider language of folk groups with your class. Identify language as part of folk life and recognize that...
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Conquering the Comma

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Thoroughly review where to put commas: after an introductory clause, before a coordinating conjunction, around nonessential phrases, etc. Furthermore, avoid comma splices by adding a conjunction or semicolon or by starting a new sentence...
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Dance Sequences and Phrases

For Teachers 8th - 12th
A series of lessons about dance would be a great addition to your physical education class. Straightforward as well as creative, it teaches the basic skills of dance movement. A rubric helps guide the dancers to let them know what steps...
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Sentence Search: Clauses and Phrases

For Students 4th - 7th
Practice using clauses and phrases with this worksheet. Middle schoolers connect the words using horizontal and vertical lines to form sentences. Use this worksheet as a fun class activity or as a homework assignment.
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Jumbles: Clauses and Phrases 2

For Students 3rd - 6th
Use this activity to reinforce your class's knowledge of phrases and clauses in context. Middle schoolers rearrange the eight sets of words to form eight grammatically correct sentences.
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Noun Clauses

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Review noun clauses with this helpful presentation. Learners practice identifying nouns, phrases, and clauses. The visuals and explanations provide a rich exploration of this topic.
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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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Clerihew Dances II

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore rhythm and quality of word and phrased to that of dance. They move to the rhythm of poetry.
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Sentences

For Students 5th - 6th
Work on sentence variety with this grammar worksheet. Middle schoolers decide if what they are reading are sentences, phrases, complete sentences, simple sentences, compound sentences, or complex sentences. They then complete eight...
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Learning About Phrases To Improve Fluency And Comprehension

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Investigate the concept of phrases and how they are a crucial element for successful reading comprehension. High schoolers identify key phrases in reading selections. Afterward, they engage in writing exercises regarding what they have...
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The Leprechaun's Treasure

For Students 3rd - 6th
Here is a good parts of sentences worksheet that uses leprechauns! Young writers read sentences about a leprechaun's treasure and then circle the predicates, underline the subjects, and double underline the phrases. They do this for 20...
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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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Word List

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
High-frequency words can be used to construct simple phrases. Each of the 99 slides contains a 2-3 word phrase constructed using basic sight words. Could be used for early elementary or ESL.
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High Frequency Phrases

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Review a series of high frequency phrases using this presentation. Examples of phrases are, read a book, good things, and help me out. This resource could be used in an ESL classroom.
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Idiom Workout

For Students 7th - 10th
Teach your students that identifying a phrase as an idiom isn't an insult! Providing an ample definition of the term "idiom," as well as three categories of popular idioms ("get the..." "in a..." and "on the..."), the activity prompts...
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Clauses, Verbs, and Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th
In this grammar learning exercise, students read 23 sentences and mark the noun clause, adjective clause, or adverb clause. They read 20 sentences to find a noun phrase, verb phrase, or prepositional phrase. 
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Chinese New Year Song and Dance

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars identify phrases within a song. In this Chinese New Year lesson students listen to a story about Chinese New Year and "Song of the Dragon". Young scholars each write a phrase from the song on a slip of paper and as a class...
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Talking about your name in math terms

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students talk about mathematical language.  In this talking about your name lesson, students use the letters in their own name to review math vocabulary and concepts.  
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Interactive Sentence Quiz

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this interactive sentences learning exercise, students read 15 sentences about euthanasia then complete an interactive quiz where they determine the type of sentence or phrase used.  Choices include, phrase, incomplete sentence,...
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Word Phrases And Picture Card Matching

For Students K - 2nd
In this language arts worksheet, students use 16 phrase cards and 16 color picture cards to play a matching game. Students read the phrase on each card and find the picture card that illustrates it. Example: a cat on a bed
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Simple Phrases

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Use this resource as a way to review common phrases, start a discussion, or as a writing prompt. On each slide, there is a common phrase, such as, if I find . . . A teacher could use this resource as is, or alter it provide more guidance...
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Discussion Starters

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Use these common phrases as part of a writing activity or discussion. Learners can use the prompts such as, I have a . . ., to come up with a sentence. This could even turn into a more in-depth writing activity.