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I Can...
In this ESL word and picture matching worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict children in action. Students match these with sentences containing the verbs that describe them.
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Transportation
Here's an interesting instructional activity that combines elements of language arts, sociology, and a study of the many ways that people use transportation to get from one place to another. The eight-page plan includes worksheets and a...
San José State University
Adverbs
While designed for college students, this review of adverbs could be used in a high school classroom as well. The learning exercise begins with a detailed overview of adverbs which is followed by a six-question activity.
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Revising Pronouns and Antecedents
Students choose better pronouns to use in their writing. In this pronouns in writing lesson, students identify pronouns in their writing, then replace second person pronouns to improve their writing.
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"Contraction Action"
Students read and spell common contractions formed from a verb paired with the word not. They read and spell common contractions formed from a pronoun paired with a verb.
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Verb Masquerade: Verbals Don't Act Like Verbs
In this verb learning exercise, students read 6 sentences, look at the underlined words in each one and decide whether each underlined word is a gerund, infinitive or participle. Students use the word jump to write a simple sentence for...
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Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
In this grammar worksheet, 4th graders focus on the parts of speech. Students complete the given table, filling in the spaces for 17 adjectives, nouns, verbs, and adverbs.
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Subject/Verb Agreement
Young scholars recognize the relationship between singular and plural subjects and verbs as they relate to developing stronger writing skills. In this writing lesson, students write and organize their thoughts and feelings while using...
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Phrasal Verbs With "Turn"
In this prepositions worksheet, students fill in the blanks in ten sentences with prepositions from a word box. Each preposition is combined with the verb "turn" to create a phrasal verb. This worksheet is intended to be used with...
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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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Animal Actions: Can and Can't
In this ESL activity worksheet, students respond to 12 questions pertaining to animals using the verbs in the provided word bank.
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Animal Actions: Can and Can't 2
In this ESL activity worksheet, students respond to 12 questions pertaining to animals using the verbs in the provided word bank.
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Describe Comoon Objects and Actions in both General and Specific Language
Students are told that they are going to describe the noun and verb in a simple sentence to make the sentence more detailed. They are told that a noun is a person, place or thing. Students are taught that a verb is an action word. They...
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Nouns-Possessive
In this possessive nouns worksheet, students determine whether phrases are "natural" or "not natural." Some phrases need possessive nouns.
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More Verbs
In this ESL verbs worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict people in action. Students match these pictures with the verbs that describe them.
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Are You Writing?
In this oral and written language activity, students practice asking and answering questions with "ing" verbs. Students collaborate in pairs. One person chooses an action from the word bank and mimes the action. The other person asks,...
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Tom Swifties
In this algebra word problem, students are given the first and last two letters of each word. They must figure out it the word is a verb or adverb and decipher what the meaning of each sentence is. There are 15 questions with an...
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Worksheet 14: Vocabulary Review, Page 1
This basic vocabulary activity could be used in upper elementary and ESL classes. After reading short sentences, learners identify the meaning of a word in 10 questions.
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Revising for Clarity: Characters and Their Actions
This handout offers a three-step process for revising sentences for clarity: diagnose, analyze, revise. After reading an example sentence revision with a detailed explanation, learners complete three sample sentences using the three-step...
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Multisensory Grammar Activities
Meet your scholar's individual needs with four activities designed to address auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning styles to reinforce the concept of subject and object pronouns.
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Personal Pronouns: Putting It All Together
In this personal pronouns learning exercise, students fill in 10 fill in the blank answers about personal pronouns and choose which multiple choice pronoun in parentheses correctly completes 8 sentences. Students practice using the...
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Jeopardy! The Eight Parts of Speech
Thrill your class with the daily doubles and increasing points of Jeopardy! Complete with sound effects and visual cues, the game focuses on parts of speech, including nouns, prepositions, and conjunctions. Each point square links to a...
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Avoiding Double Negatives
What double negatives are, and how to avoid using them, is the focus of this language arts learning exercise. After a review of what double negatives are, students address 15 problems that have to do with double negatives.
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The Direct Object
What exactly is a direct object? Use this resource to introduce direct objects to your middle and early high school classrooms. The section at the top explains the part of speech, and then there are 20 sentences below for learners to...