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Precise Vocabulary
Students complete acting exercises as a part of a precise language activity to help them build vocabulary and improve their descriptive writing skills. In this theatre and writing instructional activity, students create and act out a...
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Scribbleboy
Fifth graders are introduced to the text, SCRIBBLEBOY, discussing the cover page for clues to the genre. They discuss the ordinary surroundings contrasted by the graffiti and the words and phrases used to provide information about the...
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Gingerbread Baby's Point of View #8
Read the story Gingerbread Baby and use these various activities to connect to grammar, art, and point of view. In one activity, learners create character masks. They practice writing verbs on the back of the masks to tell what each...
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The Sentence Contest
Young writers complete work with sentence structure. Theys go over the definition of a sentence before deciding whether given groups of words are sentences. They view and identify the sentences on a teacher made chart.
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Playing with Adverbs
Kids demonstrate their understanding of the different types of adverbs by using the clues provided to add a how, when, or where words to sentences.
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The Daily Routines of Monsters, Zombies, Ghosts and Aliens
Students practice writing and speaking about routines and using action verbs. Students create a poster based on their writing about monsters and zombies.
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Parts of Speech
In this parts of speech review worksheet, students read over definitions and examples of adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, articles, nouns, and verbs.
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Introduction to Adverbs
Students develop a definition of the role/function of adverbs. Specifically students articulate that adverbs modify verbs by telling how something is done, when something is done, where something is done, or modify adverbs or adjectives.
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Few and Less: A Confusing Pair
In this grammar worksheet, students learn the difference between the words "few" and "less" as well as adverbs and adjectives. They then answer the 14 questions on the page by inserting either few/fewer or less in the blank.
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Tricks of the Trade A Collection of Concrete Poems-for writing concrete poems
Students explore concrete poetry. In this lesson about poetry, students read A Poke in the I, by Paul B. Janeczko, and are introduced to concrete poems. Students read several different kinds of concrete poems including single-word, and...
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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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What Are You Doing?
Young scholars use current time indicators while learning to talk about on-going action. In these vocabulary lessons, students works with power point presentations, games, flashcards, worksheets and video slides.
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Making Instant Whip (Recipe)
In this language arts worksheet, learners practice sequencing, finding action words and following directions as they make Instant Whip ( a dessert). Students cut picture cards and sequence the steps, then read the recipe and make the...
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Subject-Verb Recognition Practice #1 Natural Order Sentences
In this subjects and predicates practice worksheet, middle schoolers read an informative lesson. Students then respond to 10 questions that require them to write down the complete subjects and complete predicates and then identify the...
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Adverb-Adding to the Verb
In this adverb worksheet, 3rd graders must identify the adverbs in each sentence. Students read 5 sentences, writing the adverb in each on the line provided.
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Adverb - Adding to the Verb
In this adverb usage worksheet, learners review the definition of an adverb and some examples. Students then read the sentences and the question. Learners write the adverbs on the line.
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Sequence of Tense
For this grammar worksheet, students read about the six basic tenses. The tenses include simple present, present perfect, simple past, past perfect, future, and future perfect.
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Passive Voice
The definition of passive voice is given along with tips to identify whether a sentence is written in this form. With one slide for the title and one for the end, the remaining four slides include the definition and a different tip on...
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Teacher of the Year
Now is the time to identify the great teachers in your school! Discuss the characteristics of persuasive writing and analyze an example. Then, each pupil chooses a teacher who they feel should be named teacher of the year. They plan and...
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Nounmania and Verbmania
Students illustrate as many nouns and verbs as they can in a limited amount of time. Students review all the words that they came up with. They help each other figure out which ones were right and wrong. Students make a new list of nouns...
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Will and Would
In this modal auxiliary verbs worksheet, students read about how to use the verbs "will" and "would". Students make 2 sentences for each modal auxiliary verb.
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Language Arts Review Quiz #6
In this language arts review worksheet, students complete 6 exercises: students correct 2 sentences with errors, circle action words, circle words that go together, write 3 words in the 'ick' family, and put words in alphabetical order.
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A Unique Circus
In this vocabulary learning exercise, students chose the word that will best fit in the sentence from the word bank. Students will chose between, verbs and nouns to complete their learning exercise.
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ESL Writing Practice
In this ESL writing practice worksheet, students trace and write a set of 20 words naming a part of the body or an action verb. A reference web site for additional activities is given.