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Controlled Narrative Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine a short story and add possible adjectives. They re-read the story and add adverbs. They also add other information to make the story interesting.
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Bringing the Line to Life

For Teachers 3rd - 11th
Students use different types and lengths of sentences. They write with an insight of the stylistic aspects of composition. Students use precise language including adjectives, adverbs, action verbs and specific details that convey the...
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Descriptive Words

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students use descriptive words in writing. In this descriptive words instructional activity, students learn to show instead of tell. Students enter into a discussion of adjectives and adverbs, then add descriptive words to sentences to...
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Adjective Lesson Plan

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Pupils view a PowerPoint to introduce them to adjectives and complete a quiz. In groups, they travel between stations in which they work individually to correctly identify the adjectives in a sentence. They also create a list of...
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Tending to the Greenhouse

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students investigate global warming through discussion of the growing season caused by warmer temperatures. In this greenhouse effect lesson, students define 'global warming' and work in groups to research the causes, effects, and...
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Word Categories

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this word categories learning exercise, students choose words to go into language arts categories including adjectives, nouns, and adverbs. Students put 12 words into categories.
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Language Arts: Introduction to Nouns

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders discover how to differentiate types of nouns through interactive group work by using packets of manipulatives and completing worksheets. After discussing the characteristics of common and proper nouns, they open the packets...
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Future Tense Looking Forward

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this verb learning exercise, student read a selection about the past, present and future verb tenses. Students change the verb tense in 8 sentences to make them future tenses and write a paragraph using at least 5 sentences about...
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Georgia Performance Standards Framework for ELA Unit 3-7th Grade

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore persuasive writing using the city life and the country life as focus topics. In this persuasion lesson, 7th graders read "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" in an attempt to determine the pros and cons of both...
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Jabberwocky - A Creative Writing Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Make some sense out of Lewis Carroll's famous nonsense poem "Jabberwocky." After reading through the poem, introduce the word portmanteau and send small groups off to alter the original poem. 
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Polished Poetry: Strange Zoo

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use an online word list editor and software to create opening lines for a poem. They select and edit these into a complete, polished poem about an animal. They investigate parts of speech and alliteration.
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English in Mind Unit 12 Grammar Practice

For Teachers 5th - 6th
For this grammar practice worksheet, students match adjectives to the correct adverb, practice using too and very, and ing ending. Students complete twenty seven fill in the blank and matching questions.
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Interactive Conjunction Quiz #2

For Students 6th - 8th
In this grammar worksheet, students read the sentences and decide whether the underlined word is a coordinating conjunction, subordinating conjunction, or a conjunctive adverb. Students complete 20 online exercises.
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Alphabetizing Words Beginning with R and S

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars alphabetize words that begin with R and S. In this alphabetizing lesson, students complete a worksheet in which they alphabetize words that end with R and S. After a classroom discussion about how to alphabetize, young...
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Stretch the Sentence with Articles, Nouns and Pronouns-Pretest

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this sentences worksheet, learners answer 10 multiple choice questions about extending sentences with nouns, articles and pronouns.
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Red, White, Blue, and Who?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders are introduced to pronouns and provided practice in use of singular and plural personal pronouns.
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Presidents Acrostic

For Students 6th - 8th
In this writing worksheet, middle schoolers choose adjectives and adverbs that begin with the letters of the word Presidents and list them next to each letter to create an acrostic poem.
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Pronunciation: Practicing Stress and Intonation

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners improved pronunciation by focusing on the stress-time nature of spoken English.
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The Scientific Method

For Students 7th - 10th
In this scientific method worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle given 21 clues about the steps of the scientific method. Topics include observations, hypotheses, variables, inferences, results and conclusions.
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Summer Bridge Activities 4-5

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this cross-curricular worksheet, students complete various activities. They complete a crossword puzzle dealing with electricity, change mixed numbers into decimals, subtract fractions, identify adjectives in sentences, solve money...
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Precise Vocabulary

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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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ARC Writing Lab Worksheets: Parallel Structure

For Students 7th - 9th
In this parallel structure worksheet, learners read about parallel structure within sentences and between sentences, then complete a practice sheet of exercising, rewriting sentences. An answer key is given.
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The Verbal Trio - Learning about Verbals

For Students 6th - 9th
Do you know what a gerund is? Use this grammar instructional activity to help emerging grammarians learn about using different verbs (infinitives, gerunds, and participles) in sentence writing. They then use what they read to answer the...
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Reading Fiction - Character

For Teachers 4th - 5th
The goal of this lesson plan is to have learners understand how character is created through a combination of what they say and do, and what others say about them. In pairs, learners construct a short dialogue between a parent and child...

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