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"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
In this "The Tell-Tale Heart" worksheet, learners write an essay about how Edgar Allan Poe keeps the reader in suspense. The worksheet helps students construct the essay through eleven different scaffolding steps.
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Keyboard Buddies in my Community
Second graders utilize Microsoft Word to create stationery and letters to send to other children in their school building, expressing experiences in their daily lives. As the unit progresses, they create documents to send to other second...
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Time Frequency - "How Often ...?"
How often do you ride a bike? Time frequency words are featured in a lesson designed for ESL/ELD classrooms.
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Fragments
In this grammar worksheet, students read about fragment sentences. Students are instructed to watch out for no verb fragments and misplaced periods.
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Integrating Past Continuous
Students recognize the situations in which the use of the past continuous would be beneficial in writing. They focus on the use of the past continuous as a descriptive tense when something important occurred.
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Raiders 1 Lesson Plan
Students review vocabulary words on the Internet. They watch a movie in order to sequence events.
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The Passive Voice
Use this resource to introduce the passive voice. The first box highlights important information on the passive voice. The second box contains a short assessment. Are your middle schoolers understanding how to use it?
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Using Reciprocal Pronouns
In this using reciprocal pronouns worksheet, students read about the definition and usage of reciprocal pronouns. They underline the reciprocal pronouns in 6 statements.
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English Exercises: Parts of Speech Exercises
In this online interactive English instructional activity, students respond to 14 fill in the blank questions and complete a word search. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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This Land is Your Land
Students use a popular American song to learn the past and present continuous tenses. They complete a web quest about the song "This Land is Your Land" and discuss it.
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Spelling It Right
In this spelling worksheet, students will read about the word endings -er, -or, and -ar. Students will learn how to know which spelling pattern to use when writing a word with one of these endings.
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Writing Thesis Statements in Sociology
Students discover methods for writing strong thesis statements. In this writing skills lesson, students follow the steps their instructor outlines to review the strengths and weaknesses of their sociology thesis statements.
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Introduction to Adverbs
Students categorize a list of words into various categories of their choosing. They notice patterns in the lists and discuss -ly words and adverbs. They practice adding adverbs to sentences.
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Speaker, Speaker: Using Pronouns to Show Person
In this pronouns worksheet, learners fill in 12 blanks completing 7 facts about pronouns, read 8 sentences and determine if the underlined pronoun in each sentence is told in first, second or third person.
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Vocabulary Tables
Students view a sample vocabulary table based on words related classical music. After students have had a chance to view the table, they break up into groups and create their own vocabulary tables based on a certain subject.
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Movie Crossword
In this adjective worksheet, pupils employ the crossword clues to help them determine which adjectives listed in the word bank accurately describe the types of movies presented.
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Pronouns Anyone?
In this pronouns instructional activity, students fill in 3 blanks to 3 facts about pronouns, rewrite one sentence using a pronoun, rewrite 6 sentences using fewer words with pronouns and fill in 3 blanks with an appropriate pronoun in 3...
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ACE Expert English Homework Week 4- May 31, 2006
In this ESL instructional activity, students complete the activities on 9 pages that pertain to emotions and adjectives that describe feelings. Included are matching, multiple choice, and short answer questions. These are geared toward...
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Grammar Quest
Students participate in an activity that helps them to explain parts of speech and distinguish between them. They also use different locomotor skills in a variety of ways.
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The South Wins Gettysburg!
Young scholars explore American Civil War, hypothesize that the Union Army was defeated at Gettysburg by Lee's army, and write an essay describing how different North America would be today if the South had won the Civil War.
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Guess the Word - Pat
In this guess the word worksheet, students build on the word "pat" and change letters to form new words. Students complete 9 problems.
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Parts of Speech Review
Students need to know how to correctly use words in their writing and speaking. By reviewing parts of speech with hands-on activities, students retain and enjoy studying sentence structure.
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ESOL Obtain Employment
Students discuss the items needed to be prepared for a job interview. They generate a list of action verbs needed to prepare a resume of their own. They construct a cover letter and match it to an ad in the newspaper.
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Adverbs - 6 Foolproof Steps
Students review rules of grammar, specifically those that help find adverbs in a sentence. They practice finding the adverbs in a worksheet of sample sentences.