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The Passive/Active Form
In this passive and active voice worksheet, students rewrite 18 sentences changing the verb in each one from an active voice verb to a passive voice verb.
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Word Formation
In this online interactive forming words activity, students complete 15 sentences online by typing in the correct form of each word in parenthesis.
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Comparison Practice
In this comparisons worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 4 sentences with the words "like" or "unlike". Students then change the form of the adjective provided in 10 sentences that compare two things.
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Past Events
In this recognizing past events instructional activity, students change present tense verbs to the past simple of regular verbs, write a simple narrative of past events, and turn interrogative sentences into past tense statements...
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Comparative Adjectives
Provide practice for your class transforming adjectives into comparative and superlative forms using -er and -est. Learners do so, first with 11 adjectives, then for 10 more that end in -y, so they must...
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Worksheet-Subjunctive vs. Infinitive
How do you teach the subjunctive? This sheet, intended for learners who already know what the subjunctive is and how it is formed, builds learners' understanding. First they'll simply change the verb from the infinitive to the...
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Irregular Formal Commands (Mandatos)
How do you form irregular formal commands in Spanish? Now that your class has learned how to form the Ud. and Uds. commands, review some of the irregular formal commands. First encourage learners to study the charts at the top of the...
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Structure Practice: The Passive Voice
Use this online interactive learning exercise in an ELD class or for younger native speakers. They practice using simple past tense verbs in the passive voice. Many of the constructions are not straightforward, nor often used by early...
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Putting Together Ten
Groups explore sets of 10 items in two varieties (i.e. 3 white buttons and 7 black ones, or 5 bears and 5 bunnies). They brainstorm about their objects, write math sentences to represent what they have, and report their discoveries...
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Commonly Misused Words
After reviewing two pages of commonly misused words: effect/affect, accept/except, there/their/they're, etc., learners must choose the proper word in ten different sentences. Note: Answers are listed at the bottom of page three.
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Listening for Main Idea and Supporting Details
Did you hear that? It's the main idea! Teach your class listening and note-taking strategies for determining the main idea by following the steps provided in this plan.
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Rules For Using Irregular Verbs
Add to the grammar toolboxes of young scholars with this comprehensive resource on irregular verbs. Offering clear instruction with the help of numerous examples, this reference document is perfect for upper-elementary English...
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Out of the Dust: Questioning Strategies
Bloom's Taxonomy is a great way to address the many levels of comprehension. With explanations and examples of each level, you can create questions that focus on knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
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Adele's ESL Corner: This-These, That-Those
In this ESL this/these/that/those worksheet, students type the plural and change the verb form of given sentences. Students may click on a "check answers" link.
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Questions
In this ESL questions and answers activity, students read 8 answers. Students write a question that could be answered in this way. Students then read 10 groups of nonsense words and put them in order to form a coherent sentence.
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William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury": Narrating the Compson Family Decline and the Changing South
High schoolers read "The Sound and the Fury" and consider the changing narrative structure and voice throughout the novel. They trace the decline of the Compson family.
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Answering Questions in Spanish
When the perspective changes in a question, the verb form has to change, too. Give your learners this PowerPoint print-out, and identify questions that have a perspective change. The last slide asks the learner to change the verb forms...
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Excessive Nominalizations
Eliminate unnecessary nominalizations from your middle schoolers' writing! After reviewing a reference page for the -tion ending (and when it can be excessive in writing), students rewrite eight sentences to change nominalizations to a...
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Adjectives in Spanish
Un presentación instructivo demonstrates proper Spanish grammar when adding adjectives in a sentence. Middle and high schoolers practice connecting adjectives to nouns with conjunctions, paying close attention to the...
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Grammar-Active and Passive Voice
Use this activity to reinforce the effect of passive and active voice in writing. First, middle schoolers write several sentences, and then use the attached worksheet to identify whether the sentences are written in active or passive voice.
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Comparative & Superlative Practice
When should you use more and most when writing adverbs? Practice comparative and superlative adverbs with a review worksheet. After reading through the information at the top of the page, kids decide if they should use the...
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Regular or Irregular: Two Kinds of Verbs
The two kinds of verbs, regular and irregular, are the focus of this language arts worksheet. After a thorough, two-page description of both types, young grammarians fill in the present tense verb given the simple past and past...
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Identify Healthy Food and Lifestyle Choices
Poll your scholars about their choices on food they eat, or don't eat, and on maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Topic statements such as "I ate breakfast this morning" start a discussion on what are healthy choices and what are unhealthy...
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Module 9--Future Society
In this making predictions worksheet, students write nine sentences about various areas making predictions about their lives. Students read a text about recent changes in Ireland and Dublin and decide what type of word might fit...