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ESOL Obtaining Employment

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students discuss what experience is needed for each job on a list of careers. They discuss skills needed for each job on the same list. They identify verbs in both the past and present tense associated with each skill. They work in...
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What's Your Thing? Self-Esteem, Peer Support

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Learners explore their personal strengths. After participating in group discussions, students list verbs that describe their talents. They observe a commercial describing characteristics and talents. Learners create their own mini-talent...
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Parts of Speech Review

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students practice the parts of speech using index cards to label words in a sentence.
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Adverbs and Adverb Phrases

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore adverbs and adverb phrases. They practice writing adverb phrases describing the action in a selected sports picture. Students discuss the definition of adverbs and adverb phrases. They practice writing several...
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For/Since: indicating a quantity of time vs. a specific time

For Students 5th - 10th
For this for or since worksheet, students fill in for or since for sentences about quantity of time and also fill in expressions after the words for or since. Students complete 15 sentences.
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Pizzazz!...Basket Stories

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students discuss the use of connectors and sequence words. They discuss common story endings and beginnings. Students brainstorm ideas for a creative story and compose a story for the rest of the class.
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Participial Adjectives

For Students 7th - 9th
In this participial adjectives worksheet, students respond to 10 questions that require them to fill in the blanks in the sentences with present of past participial forms of the verbs in parentheses.
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"So" phrases

For Students 5th - 8th
In this sentence completion worksheet, students complete sentences with phrases with the word "so" in them. Students complete 20 sentences.
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Vocabulary Tables

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
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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Integrating Past Continuous

For Teachers 7th - 9th
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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Gingerbread Baby Language Arts/Grammer #6

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners are read the story "Gingerbread Baby". They draw and cut out the characters from the story and create a mobile to hang from their classroom ceiling. They write a sentence using a verb on the back.
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Movie Crossword

For Teachers 5th - 6th
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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Conditional Sentences

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this conditional worksheet, students use words in the conditional tense to complete sentences about the pictures. Students complete 6 sentences total.
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"Robin Hood"

For Students 7th - 8th
In this "Robin Hood" instructional activity, students, with a partner, discuss the differences in meaning between rob and steal, match eight words associated with Robin Hood and match six words/phrases with their proper definitions.
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Worksheet: Azar: Understanding and Using English Grammar, Chart 11-8

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this past or present participial worksheet, students use the present or past participial form of the word given in parentheses depending on the meaning of the ten sentence.
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The Passive Voice in Spanish

For Teachers 6th - 12th
The passive voice was mastered by Spanish learners. Your class members can find out all about how to create the passive voice in Spanish using ser, past participles, por, and the impersonal se. Examples are provided for each situation.
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The Sequential Teaching of Writing Skills at Grade Eight

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders are introduced to the techniques to write properly. As a class, they practice writing complete sentences and discover how to avoid run-on sentences. In groups, they review action and state of being verbs and practice...
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Characters' Feelings Or Motives

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use the text, "Fair's Fair" to examine how characters' feelings and motives are built throughout a text through descriptive phrases. They look at what a character does and says to record on their writing frames. Finally,...
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Parts of Speech Review

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
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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Parts of Speech

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this parts of speech learning exercise, students read about the different parts of speech including past, present, future, singular, plural, and more. Students complete a quiz on the parts of speech where they answer 10 multiple...
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Using Conditionals: If and Unless

For Students 5th - 6th
In this using conditionals:  if and unless worksheet, students read the explanations and examples, then interactively complete 12 sentences with immediate online feedback.
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Sentence Structure Subject Noun Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this nouns worksheet, students use the nouns from the list to complete the chart. Students write the words into person, place, or thing chart sections.
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Business Texts: Business Minutes

For Students 9th - 12th
In this vocational instructional activity, students write short answers to fifteen questions about meetings and minutes terms. They also rearrange eight meeting steps and describe them in their own words.
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Noisy Nora, Studious Students: Story Elements

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Alliterative adjective nicknames generate stories inspired by Rosemary Wells' book Noisy Nora (also a thematic complement to any class with children who make a ruckus to get attention). Class members explore basic story elements --...